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The Morning Report — 9/ 1 /26
Good morning kids. Wow, welcome to September, but am I alone in being confused in that today is not Labor Day? Alas, for some bizarre reason it was moved to the second week in September. But be that as it may, there's lots of ground to cover, so Lez-be-on our way...
Well, I'm sure you'll all be relieved at this news:A Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, bringing an end to one of the most infamous unsolved murders in hip hop.If only he had formed a band with Meatloaf, they could've been the Tupac Aday men. But, all seriousness aside, the now decomposing and Kaput Tupac was related to this evil, vile, degenerated fiend
Was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List in the early 1970, Murdered NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973, Escaped from prison in 1979, Had been a fugitive in Cuba since 1984 * Icon of the Black Lives Matter movement. . .Shakur was the godmother and step-aunt of the famed rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a 1996 drive-by shooting. Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025 in Havana, Cuba. According to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, her death was due to “health conditions and advanced age.”So why is this relevant today, well look what's running for the Senate in Florida1!
Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member who is vying to be the next senator of Florida, is still pulling quotes from Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur, although conveniently leaving out the origins of her words now that she secured her nomination and is trying to appeal to general election voters. . . “I’m gonna open this up for questions, but I’m gonna leave y’all with these words of a famous freedom fighter before we open it up: Assata Shakur,” Nixon said of the Marxist cop killer who at one time appeared on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of “most wanted” terrorists.“‘It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains,’” Nixon continued.And so are there enough spawn of Beelzebub and Pazuzu in Florida to actually drag this freak over the finish line? But what of the rest of the nation?!
“The Democrat Party is becoming the party of socialism. Fifty-eight percent view socialism positively. 50 percent view capitalism negatively. I’m a proud free market capitalist. This is lunacy,” posted Senator Fetterman (D-PA) on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month in reference to a similar poll, which revealed that Democrats have a more positive view of socialism than capitalism. . . However, while it is clear that support for socialism and communism has grown within the Democratic Party, far-left ideologies remain widely unpopular. For instance, despite New York City’s election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is a member of the DSA, a poll published earlier this month found that only 30 percent of people in New York state support the organization.And yet, and yet, and yet...
There is something redolent here of the seeming takeover of the Democrat Party half a century ago by a younger generation of voters and activists opposed to the Vietnam War that resulted in the nomination of George McGovern in 1972 and had a continual influence on elected Democrats and policymakers through most of the 1970s and 1980s. That came from a protest movement incubated on college and university campuses, centered on Vietnam but also influenced by tomes such as Charles Reich’s 1970 “The Greening of America.” Similarly, the great motivating cause of DSA-adjacent Democrats seems to be statehood for Gaza, opposition to Israel, and, in very many cases, hostility toward Jews.And speaking of "And yet" This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA...
HE'S RUNNING: "They believe in defunding the police, letting prisoners out of prisons, opening the borders, eliminating the Pentagon," former Barack Obama advisor and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Fox News Sunday, denouncing his party's Democratic Socialist rivals. Emanuel continues testing the waters for a presumed 2028 presidential run.For those unaware, not only is Rahm a Jew - by birth since his entire life is wholly unholy and antithetical to Judaism, America and civilization, but I believe his lineage is Israeli so you can multiply no shot in hell by orders of magnitude right there! With that, and speaking of steak knives... I'll leave you with this lovely local crime story as I begin to plan my trip back to my old hometown...
A maniac was shot dead by police in the heart of Times Square Monday after she stabbed two people, one fatally, and confronted cops while wildly waving two knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD said. The caught-on-camera mayhem erupted in the Crossroads of the World after Pamela Cisneros, 49, randomly knifed a man and a woman in a 20-second span near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue just before 4:30 p.m., cops said. . . Cops spoke to the woman for four minutes and gave her “numerous commands” to drop the knives, but she refused, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Monday night. “I’m not dropping anything, I would rather kill both of you. I will kill you,” Cisneros told cops during the encounter, Tisch said. Officers discharged several tasers at Cisneros, but they “proved to be ineffective,” and she continued charging toward officers with the knives, according to Tisch. . . Two officers then opened fire, striking the Cisneros, who had a known history of mental illness with the department. She was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.Well, too bad that Rahm lost a potential voter!!! Not that being dead is a deterrent to ever casting a ballot for a Democrat, as we know all to well...But sadly and frighteningly there are thousands more just like this now mercifully ventilated psychopath who will go after any and all of us at the drop of a hat, because we're Trump voters, Jews or just normal Americans... And with that I bid you all to... Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The West has mastered the technology of civilization but embraced the politics of barbarism, creating a modern medieval world where progress and regression coexist.
Progressive Regression and the New Medievalism
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- “He and I are already working together. We are already meeting monthly to plan. Republicans can block my subpoenas in the Senate with a filibuster.”
Sen. Whorehouse Threatens Supreme Court Probe if Dems Take Senate
- Cooper praised the controversial task force formed in the aftermath of George Floyd's death as a 'tremendous success'
Roy Cooper Appointed Violent Ex-Con Gangbanger to 'Racial Equity in Criminal Justice' Task Force, Gushed Over Group's Proposals To Weaken Police
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - The agencies are cracking down on fraud surrounding the illegal migrants receiving CDL’s, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Monday.
Sean Duffy: Feds Shut Down 270 Truck Driving Schools After 239 Deaths
- Maybe Democrats haven’t learned their lesson on immigration, but hopefully Americans will remember theirs.
Democrats Openly Admit They Don’t See Unlimited Illegal Immigration As A Problem
- Democrat authorities in sanctuary state Virginia have released a convicted illegal alien sexual assaulter who targeted teen girls a little early, although they did — unusually — allow federal officers to take him into custody.
Virginia Authorities Release Convicted Illegal Alien Assaulter; ICE Nabs Him
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - Oil prices in the markets increased on Monday by around 3 percent in reaction to the strikes.
Trump threatens to blow Kharg Island 'to smithereens' after Iran hits US airbases in Jordan ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - The UN has admitted that it does not always independently confirm every detail before publication of its reports.
The Latest Big Lie About Israel Is ‘Settler Violence’ - He ought to be replaced at once.
Tom Barrack Accuses Israel of ‘Baiting’ Turkey and Risking ‘World War IIl’ DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - “Today’s decision is no victory for the separation of powers.”
Supreme Court Drops 5-4 Ruling In Trump Ballroom Fight
- Washington State has had a Democrat trifecta for the last eight years but still blames its problems on Republicans.
Cooking The Books In Olympia: Deficits, Taxes, And The Phantom Trump Slump FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Far-left streamer Hasan Piker dismissed criticism that he and Michigan Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed hate America as “laughable” in an August 2026 clip, despite a separate clip circulating since at least 2022 in which Piker explicitly declared, “I do hate America.”
Hasan Piker Claims He Doesn’t Hate America, then Gets Busted with ‘I Hate America’ Clip: ‘I Say it with My F**king Chest’
- Now that Trump is trying the sanctions route, the paper insists they are futile
On Iran Sanctions, New York Times Makes a Dramatic About-Face
- What he shows - and what he hides.
The Trusted Palestinian New York Times’ Gaza Photographer
- Christian Toto: Cyrus Nowrasteh reveals pressure to bury 'Path to 9/11' Then and Now
Revealed: ABC’s Far-Left Activism Isn’t New at All* * * * * - Trump sticks to his guns despite the political toxicity of the data center issue.
Trump Warns Americans Are About To ‘Kill The Golden Goose’
- Build American AI announced Monday it will spend millions of dollars on advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin to shape state and local policies on data center construction.
Build American AI Launches Ad Campaign Supporting Data Centers in Battleground States
- America must not let legitimate political and social concerns reduce our access to the computing power of AI—and the enormous benefits it holds for humanity.
What the Data-Center Backlash Could Cost Us
- Today, according to Forbes, the tech oligarchs make up a remarkable nine of the world’s 10 richest people, most of them in California. But for all their money and technical skills, our state’s ultra-rich are peculiarly naïve about politics and public relations.
The ‘progressive’ movement rebels against the tech oligarchs who funded it
- The objective should be to make American defenders faster and better without making American innovation unnecessarily slow.
Cyber’s New Problem: Robots Are Finding Bugs Faster Than We Can Fix Them WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - This is nothing more than pandering, and it’s an utter disgrace.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul Dons Hijab for Event at Muslim Organization OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - “Another internal FBI review concluded the memo “almost explicitly states that RTC ideology is violent and extremist without offering any evidence.”
DOJ Report: FBI Targeted Catholics Over Traditional Beliefs
- "Sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people"
Michigan AG Urges Jews to Sacrifice “Survival” to Elect Abdul El-Sayed SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - “This illegitimate president — I look forward to going into the office of the attorney general every day, suing him, and then going home,” she said.
NY Prosecutor Blows Whistle on Letitia James’ Office: We Were Ordered to Target Trump AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - Johnson said public exposure may be the most significant form of accountability because criminal prosecutions would be difficult. He accused officials of avoiding written records and destroying emails that could have documented their actions.
Exclusive – Sen. Ron Johnson Seeks ‘Covid Reckoning’: ‘I Want to Make Sure That Anthony Fauci’s Reputation Is Completely Destroyed’ CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - There’s nothing lawyers for this monster won’t try.
Satanic Ritual Killer’s Lawyers Claim Death Penalty is Against Her Religion
- The killing took place against the backdrop of several overlapping rivalries.
Jury Reaches Verdict In Tupac Murder Trial 30 Years After His Death
- The unprovoked stabbings and subsequent shooting all occured in roughly 20 minutes and sent panicked tourists and commuters scrambling for safety.
NYPD shoots, kills knife-wielding woman who stabbed two people, one fatally, in Times Square EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - For parents preparing to send their children back to school this autumn, the administration’s approach in Kansas is the blueprint for a major victory.
Trump Admin Cracks Down On School-Enforced Trans Madness In Kansas
- Documents from the UC Berkeley law journal show how editors use personal statements to bypass bans on affirmative action
Inside Cal Berkeley Law Review’s Admissions Team, Where 'Diverse Life Experience' Matters More Than 'Editing Abilities'
- Grade inflation, along with dumbed-down curricula and tests, persists throughout U.S. schools.
De-grading America’s Children
- A fresh, new, innovative approach to education and success after it: Student dress codes and punctuality requirements.
Tuskegee University refuses to follow the herd on dress codes -- and its president won't back down THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - “They basically allow anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There’s nobody in government that is checking to confirm you’re a citizen…”
U.S Attorney Essayli: California Voter Rolls ‘Vulnerable’ After Non-Citizen Arrested
- The Elections Commission will discuss the primary night ‘error’ at a special meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Monday morning.
Wisconsin Commission Takes Up ‘Screwy’ Milwaukee Elections Debacle BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS - “I never went broke,” Biden boasted on the “Dopey” podcast, after describing a two-month-long bender at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, Calif., where the former first son said he tried to “go out with a bang.”
Hunter Biden admits he used cushy Burisma gig to fund crack cocaine addiction DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - William Lawrence, an ‘organizer and social movement strategist,’ chuckled on a podcast with Marxists about how to surreptitiously keep the Green New Deal alive
House Democrat Candidate Called for ‘Destroying the American Way of Life’
- "It is very difficult to see a first-generation Chinese-American woman"
Democrat Runs in Primary to Replace Malig-Nancy Pelosi by Accusing San Francisco of Racism and Sexism
- The California Post obtained surveillance footage of the Aug. 15 encounter.
Moment disgraced Eric Swalwell is surrounded by FBI agents at San Francisco airport — and his incognito outfit
- Roughly 90 percent of Eileen Laubacher’s donations come from donors who live outside her district
Colorado Dem House Candidate Who Says Her Opponent Has ‘Forgotten’ Her District Gets Most of Her Campaign Cash From Outside the State
- "The guy who slapped me at a baseball game is running for Congress?" said Bob Rzepka, whom Ohio's Brian Poindexter allegedly slapped at a Cleveland Indians game in 2013
Ohio Democrat Congressional Candidate Arrested For Attempting to Swallow Crack Cocaine, Slapping Stranger at Baseball Game GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITES — RINO SCUM SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - Sometimes the GOP establishment is fairly crafty at hiding its disdain for voters. Other times, not so much.
Senate GOP Would Rather Surrender Texas To Dems Than To Its Own Voters POLITICS - . . .still pulling quotes from Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur, although conveniently leaving out the origins of her words now that she secured her nomination and is trying to appeal to general election voters.
WATCH: DSA Senate Candidate Angie Nixon Again Pulls Quote from Marxist Cop Killer While Campaigning in Church
- The most dynamic and dominant force in America's oldest political party.
Socialists Shove the Resistance Aside in Florida
- Can Trump's solid numbers within GOP give boost to the party's candidates in midterm elections?
Trump’s Approval Stays Strong With GOP, But Weakens Among Indie Voters: I&I/TIPP Poll
- “The Democrat Party is becoming the party of socialism. Fifty-eight percent view socialism positively. 50 percent view capitalism negatively. I’m a proud free market capitalist. This is lunacy,” posted Senator Fetterman (D-PA) on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month in reference to a similar poll, which revealed that Democrats have a more positive view of socialism than capitalism.DATA: Majority of Voters Alarmed by Rise of Socialism and Communism in America.
- "They believe in defunding the police, letting prisoners out of prisons, opening the borders, eliminating the Pentagon," former Barack Obama advisor and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Fox News Sunday, denouncing his party's Democratic Socialist rivals. Emanuel continues testing the waters for a presumed 2028 presidential run.
HE'S RUNNING: This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - The “sacred struggle to liberate the occupied cities along the Atlantic Ocean"
PM Sanchez Defends Moroccan Invasion, Blames Israeli ‘Misinformation’
- This revelation followed widespread reports that the Chinese government had censored some of the most horrifying videos of mudslides destroying entire communities, roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure in Nepal and Tibet, leading critics to accuse Beijing of trying to hide the scale of the devastation in occupied Tibet.
China Starts Erasing Tibet Flood Videos, Punishing Citizens for Alleged ‘Misinformation’
- The vote ends any immediate prospects of Iceland joining the EU, preserving its sovereignty. The EU demands that members surrender management of certain policy areas to central control, such as tariffs and fishing, with the latter being extremely important to Iceland. Icelanders. Prior to Brexit, EU management saw the British fishing industry contract significantly, as the bloc distributed quotas for a majority of Britain’s fisheries to foreign trawlers from countries such as France and Spain.
Another European Country Has Voted Against EU Membership in a National Referendum. DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - AP reported the departure of the youngest-ever army secretary. No reason was given for the decision to leave the position he has held since February 2025.
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Steps Down After 18 Months in the Post BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH - Remembering the biggest American foreign policy disaster in a century. (Allowing China to go Communist and Iran fully Islamic were bigger disasters - jjs)
The Biden Afghanistan Disaster’s Bitter Legacy HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Vaccination rates for Pennsylvania kindergartners dropped by nearly 2% during the Biden [so-called quote-unquote] presidency.
Josh Shapiro Says Vaccination Rates Are Falling Under Trump. His State’s Data Say Otherwise.
- No cause-of-death evidence has ever been produced. The message blaming him was loaded before the evidence was in — poll-tested by two operations running on separate DARK-MONEY...
Measles, Captain Ahab, and the White Whale
- The new data follows a report from earlier this month that the parasite had spread to three more states: Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. This represents an increase from the previously reported 11,458 cases. The report’s emphasis on Ohio suggests that the parasite has managed to gain a foothold in the wider Midwest.
‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Parasite Confirmed to Have Sickened 17,000 Americans, Over 500 Hospitalized.
- Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that is commonly used as a low-calorie sweetener and sugar substitute, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is often used in higher amounts to sweeten foods, drinks, chewing gum and dental care products.
Popular sugar substitute linked to increased heart attack and stroke risk
- Trump announced the deals with Alcon, Astellas Pharma, BeOne Medicines, BridgeBio, CSL, Kyowa Kirin, Sun Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and UCB on Monday in the Oval Office while flanked by pharmaceutical executives.
Trump Reaches Deals with Nine More Pharmaceutical Companies to Slash Drug Prices ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - “There’s no reason we can’t put a honeymoon hotel on one of those legs.”
Lift to the future First ‘space elevator’ — a 66,000-mile cable to the cosmos— closer than ever before after scientific breakthrough
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Democrats feel an opportunity to advance. The riots, grooming, and race wars are sure to follow.
Communists Destroy Statues Then People. In Virginia, They’re Running Out Of Confederate Statues
- The darkness in American culture.
PragerU Video: The Lindsay Clancy Trial
- Has-been Rosie O'Donnell is making more claims that might just get her sent permanently to Ireland. Remember, Rosie. It's your friends in Hollywood who like trafficking kids.
Hey, Rosie! Thought You Left For Ireland?! HITHER & YON - As governor, DeSantis has championed economic freedom, parental rights in education, election integrity, and a robust defense of individual liberty — delivering results that have made Florida one of the freest and most economically vibrant states in the nation.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Speaking in Chicago Sept. 3 at Benefit Dinner for The Heartland Institute
- Thoughts on two recent deaths.
Goodbye, Dolly; Farvel, Harald
- Quantifying in dollar terms the toll taken by a horrific event and its many consequences
The Staggering Financial Cost of 9/11
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2026 07:33 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at September 01, 2026 07:34 AM (2CeDH)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:35 AM (/k3in)
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Not just KABOOM
no no
KABLOOEY!
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:35 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:35 AM (/k3in)
They are going to wait until 2028 to try KSM. This is what swift justice looks like.
Posted by: Guy who always says at September 01, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:37 AM (/k3in)
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There's pandering, and then there's putting your lips right up against the asscheeks and dropping a big wet kiss
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2026 07:39 AM (GXElQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 01, 2026 07:39 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)
Not enough to win as Floridians may be scum but they know a clown when they see one.
Posted by: Zombie Alcee Hastings, Class Clown at September 01, 2026 07:42 AM (+iYtA)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 01, 2026 07:42 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:43 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: El Borak at September 01, 2026 07:44 AM (BSNnK)
Not enough to win as Floridians may be scum but they know a clown when they see one.
Posted by: Zombie Alcee Hastings, Class Clown at September 01, 2026 07:42 AM (+iYtA)
Well, they did block that asshole Gilliam and gave us Meatball Ron!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 01, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 01, 2026 07:44 AM (kmSxS)
(Almost socked this as "Lorena Bobbit")
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:44 AM (O7YUW)
Maybe in small software projects or home remodeling there is Capitalism but everything else out there is about 30% Socialism and Maybe 50% Capitalism.
The other 20% regulations, rules, and taxes really move our system closer to a Socio-Controlled Semi-Market that forces consumer into a Trade Off world.
And the Four Pillars of US Social Spending; SS, Medicare/Caid, and Food Stamps are basically
50% socialist public benefits
25% graft and greed
and
25% regulation and paperwork.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)
Bull. Shit. Fauci, Birx and Pence need to be exposed completely and the politicians, media lickspittles, and bootlicking sycophants that supported them need to be shunned by society.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 01, 2026 07:45 AM (3Ope8)
Why would any woman who is not a Muslim do that? I have met with Muslims, not in a mosque Thankfully nobody asked me to do that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:45 AM (xPsv8)
Fast reflexes banning Paul. Way to go. Thank you.
May you and yours have blessing of good health.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
Behold my field of f*cks, and see that it is barren.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 01, 2026 07:45 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:47 AM (/k3in)
Traditional Roman Catholics wouldn't have been a problem for Obama and Biden if they'd only supported him. That's the whole crux. If your not with them and supporting them, you're against them, and will feel the full force of Gov't go after you, even if you were only engaging and expressing your God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:47 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM
Always sage advice, NaCly.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 01, 2026 07:48 AM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 01, 2026 07:48 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 07:48 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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for votes
to curry favor
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (ZxPkt)
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"But not me," she continued.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)
Behold my field of f*cks, and see that it is barren.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 01, 2026 07:45 AM (9Q+nP)
There was a kids show called "Hip Hop Harry"...it wasn't as filled with gang violence as I expected...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (l3cgK)
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪
Well, this is good news, in a way. Thanks for posting it.
A rational analysis is stated in public by erstwhile Iranian leaders. Favoring the Iranian people.
Alas, the IRGC wants No Surrender. They have the guns and power. For now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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for votes
to curry favor
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:49 AM (ZxPkt)
for money
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 07:51 AM (IkLDu)
Yes; it was more an expression of incredulity on my part than not knowing why the politicians are doing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:52 AM (xPsv8)
Going from the US to Cuba is like going to a bigger, more open jail. I hope her life sucked with no power and only Commie TV. Any cats were probably eaten by neighbors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
This is like the story of the chicken and the pig...
Chicken says, "The farmer has been so good to us, we should make him breakfast! Bacon and eggs!"
The pig replys, "For you, it's a donation; for me, it's complete dedication..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)
Laws and Regulations only apply to Citizens.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 07:52 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Bulg at September 01, 2026 07:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 01, 2026 07:53 AM (2GVsD)
The lust for power has twisted their very souls.
Sad.
Fortunately, you preach a path of redemption to your flock.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)
"We sacrifice tomorrow to have what we want today. We borrow from our children, our grandchildren, people who will never have a voice in the decisions being made at their expense. Then we point to everything that borrowed money purchased and call it prosperity. It is not prosperity. It is consumption financed by somebody else’s future."
https://tinyurl.com/vdny2cja
Posted by: gp at September 01, 2026 07:53 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 01, 2026 07:54 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 01, 2026 07:54 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 01, 2026 07:55 AM (sBAAu)
Does that mean her husband can beat her with a small diameter stick? And be one of four wives?
She is married, two kids.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:56 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Klaus Trophobia at September 01, 2026 07:56 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 01, 2026 07:57 AM (CYBB0)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2026 07:57 AM (U0c5a)
Yeah, it's terrible. My son turned 18, had drivers license, got a ballot the very next election. No checks, just ballots and voting material sent through the mail. What could possibly go wrong?
The first year they did this, my ballots did not arrive...I contacted them, and later I got my ballots. To this day I don't know if my legitimate ballots were thrown away due to the ones "lost" being counted instead. I don't know if any of my ballots have been counted since they started this f'd up system...even though I *do* get texts saying they received my ballot...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
You know the real reason the UK can not stop the islamics from crossing the Channel?
France wants them out of their country. They provide transport.
The UK can not produce enough power for the country. They import a big percentage of electrical power from France. So France wins, with nuclear power.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
And it's not just a socialist party, it's a NATIONAL socialist party...now, how to insert "workers'" in there somewhere...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)
In both Iran and Indonesia the Muslims used the Left to seize power, then killed the Leftist helpers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 08:00 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Klaus Trophobia
Lowest bid doesn't help things.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2026 08:01 AM (GXElQ)
Beautification of America continues apace.
Posted by: Anna Puma
___________
She only covered her hair, not her hideous mug.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 01, 2026 08:01 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 08:00 AM (u82oZ)
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I didn't say they were the most forward thinking...
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 01, 2026 08:02 AM (CYBB0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
I actually remember (I’m sure you do too) standing in line in Cali to vote (how quaint)! I remember the line being particularly long for the 2004 prez election (W vs Kerry)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 01, 2026 08:03 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Wow. Embarrassing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2026 08:04 AM (GXElQ)
They hate us. And him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 01, 2026 08:04 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Klaus Trophobia
Lowest bid doesn't help things.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2026 08:01 AM (GXElQ)
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There's at least one science fiction story that I know of (can't remember the name of it) where a space elevator experiences catastrophic failure.
As it collapses, it proceeds to wrap itself around the earth a few times.
The destruction it causes is basically an extinction-level event.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2026 08:04 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 01, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)
The destruction it causes is basically an extinction-level event.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Thank you for allaying my fears.
Posted by: Klaus Trophobia.. at September 01, 2026 08:06 AM (JM9I6)
Assata Shakur is Joanne Chesimard. Tupac Shakur is Parish Crooks. But Shakur be revolutionary , yo
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2026 08:06 AM (rNkEQ)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 01, 2026 08:06 AM (aJQbY)
I guess I sometimes see you as a wide-eyed innocent amongst all these mooks and skels
Posted by: Don Black at September 01, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)
gooderer economy and country
100 AI data centers
baderer economy and country
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 08:08 AM (/+uur)
Chinese won't give a fk...China is asshoe.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 01, 2026 08:08 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Jim, I'm sure they received your ballot. I'm also sure that if you didn't vote the way they needed, they promptly circular-filed it.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 01, 2026 08:08 AM (aJQbY)
Daily Tech News 1 September 2026
Top Story
- I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years. Then I didn't code. (About Amazon)
If you count code generators, my LOC count is in the tens of billions. Shipped to production. And I wrote those code generators.
- Speaking of retarded people, California. (Linuxiac)
Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.
Tech News
- Database, programming language, standard library, extended library, and now another database.
Then the actual applications.
Not sure how much code I've "written" in the last couple of weeks, but I did build an entire new programming language and then create 42,000 lines of code in that new language.
- Broadcom has pledged to lock down open source Python and Java libraries. (The Register)
Broadcom now owns VMWare. VMWare owns RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ has myxomatosis.
- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire. (The Register)
Basically, yeah.
- The safest job from AI may be writing. (Murat Buffalo)
Press X to doubt.
- Asus has announced an RTX Spark laptop. (Notebook Check)
Y tho.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Glitter is the Devil's bath salts.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 04:57 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (/aZwr)
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (/aZwr)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Going for a walk now. Going to be very hot later. September coming in like mid July in Babylon DC.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2026 04:58 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 05:02 AM (NIsaq)
Posted by: the country place that no one knows about at September 01, 2026 05:03 AM (LOZbR)
I want to yank the CPU and replace it with anything else that will fit.
Does Tonka make chips?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 01, 2026 05:06 AM (HwKLm)
Posted by: Accomack at September 01, 2026 05:07 AM (/Chlc)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 01, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)
You have got to be kidding me.
Posted by: pawn at September 01, 2026 05:12 AM (c/R9o)
I am enjoying learning about it but glad my career is at a stage where I’m almost phased out anyway.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 05:15 AM (L+WVi)
Press X to doubt.
I want to believe! But this is the second time I've tried to read that piece and to me it is unreadable. Oh, the irony, maybe.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)
Tiu's Day. Trudge, trudge, trudge.
A fedora hat I've had for sale on eBay for months has finally sold, and I have to get it into the mail today. Whatchoo up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)
Ain't easy to groom it either. Uh, spell-check, anybody?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:24 AM (wzUl9)
Good morning. all!. I am glad that your hat sold. I have always thought it would be a good idea to sell things on the Internet, but I'm not sure how to do that.
I am teaching a Bible study today with the seniors at the nursing home today. I don't know how many will show up because several of the dear ones are not well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:29 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: pawn at September 01, 2026 05:30 AM (c/R9o)
https://tinyurl.com/48zwxphy
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 01, 2026 05:37 AM (HwKLm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026
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Good morning, Fen,
No, it's not difficult to sell on eBay, though I suppose if you had lots of items (a "store"), it could get tough to keep it all straight. You take pics of the item and get them on your computer, write up the description, then sign in to eBay and follow its "How to sell" instructions. It will tell you the fields to fill out and when to upload the pics. I kept it simple with the hats: No returns, honest descriptions. You estimate the weight of the package when it is mailed -- put it into its box and bring it to the post office to be weighed, or go to Office Depot. EBay calculates a range of shipping prices for you based on that weight and your zip code.
When it sells, you print out a prepaid shipping label, which deducts some money from your payout (but the buyer paid for it), package it up, and ship it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)
This is an amusing line where Rooster Coburn is talking about whiskey, and a brand he says is very good and recommends it to help Mattie's cold:
"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains," she says.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:40 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)
Thanks. That is very helpful.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:41 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)
"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains," she says.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026
***
Used in the 1969 film, as was a great deal of Portis's dialog. Except for its ending, the John Wayne-Kim Darby film is a very faithful adaptation of the novel, almost as much as Polanski's Rosemary's Baby was the year before.
The new movie with Jeff Bridges is faithful too, but it is drab and colorless --"ashen," as one of our commenters said about another film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)
This is evergreen!
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)
We have another 60% chance of rain starting around noon, thanks to the storm off the coast. Just the usual summertime downpour, probably. I intend to be back from the post office and library by then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)
from the Hacker News comments on the "writing" article:
Safest job from AI is also the oldest job.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)
And how efficient and optimized is that code? If the code a human designed and wrote would run in O(n) time, but the AI generated something that runs in O(n log n), or worse yet O(n^2) time, it might look okay on a single instance run but as soon as that thing has to scale up, the time delay is going to make itself felt harshly (the total runtime will be ghastly long.)
I've experienced this personally on a project (way before the days of LLM generated code.) A module written by another project team member was imperceptibly slower on a single call when used by an end-user, but when it was called repeatedly in a large-scale batch processing run, it caused the total run time of the batch to balloon from 2 to 3 hours into days. (He wasn't paying attention to the efficiency.)
It's starting to make sense why they want a ridiculous number of data centers with the obscene amount of processing power. They're willing to lean hard on the hardware layer to make up for code that is generated quickly, but is inefficient, or at least that's my guess.
Ugh. I hope I'm wrong. I fear I'm right.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)
Thanks. I was wondering how the two films compared . I have only seen the original one years ago, which I enjoyed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (W90Ou)
Thanks. I was wondering how the two films compared . I have only seen the original one years ago, which I enjoyed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026
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Oh, the new one is a worthy adaptation, I
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)
*yawns*
*considers going back to sleep vs commitment to walk each morning*
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.
.
*still considering*
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 01, 2026 05:57 AM (aJQbY)
Ain't easy to groom it either. Uh, spell-check, anybody?}
You wound that poor author! Thankfully we can debride that wound...
*ducks and runs*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:58 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)
Have no fear. Agentic code optimization is on the way!
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (EKs60)
Posted by: fluffy at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (V0/Sp)
The newer True Grit is a worthy adaptation, I guess. Bridges is pretty good, though he does mumble a few of the lines; the actress playing Mattie is actually close to Mattie's age; Matt Damon makes a good Texas Ranger, and Josh Brolin a good Tom Chaney. But, like so many movies nowadays, it's filmed in a drab style, and night scenes are so dark you find it hard to tell who's speaking or doing whatever is going on in the scene.
This one does give you the book's ending, though, if that's important. Personally I love the 1969 film's ending.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I actually prefer the more recent version because I always thought Kim Darby as Maddie was terrible casting. Glen Campbell too.
Brolin as Tom Chaney comes across as meaner and maybe a little mentally slow. The scene in the courthouse is great and I liked the music.
The language kept me on my toes like when they came across the hanged man and Maddie asked why they hanged him so high up in the tree and Rooster said "I do not know. Perhaps in the belief it would make him more dead."
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 01, 2026 06:04 AM (l26NL)
Thanks. That was an interesting review.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:05 AM (W90Ou)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)
MATH
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:06 AM (odBC9)
Thanks. It's so interesting to read people who have seen both movies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:07 AM (W90Ou)
Posted by: I'm not drab, you're drab! at September 01, 2026 06:11 AM (R003y)
Google Book Ngram Viewer agrees:
https://tinyurl.com/2vddf73x
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)
Is not that the point of LLM to do large tedious work?
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 01, 2026 05:42 AM (36x1j)
This is evergreen!
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)
NTTAWWT
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:15 AM (odBC9)
Rejoinder: All that glisters is not gold.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 01, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)
Haha!
glister, Ngram:
https://tinyurl.com/yey6mae3
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:17 AM (odBC9)
There were only about twenty-five records that met the condition needed for the report. I set up a relation between the two tables and searched for the condition in the first table, then looked to see if the corresponding record had been found in the second. If so, do some stuff; if not, go back to the first table and search again.
The report ran in a few minutes, and I looked like a genius. (Until I got laid off, that was.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 km/h)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:18 AM (/+uur)
...
Ugh. I hope I'm wrong. I fear I'm right.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
LLMs have even less sense of time than interns.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 06:20 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: The Man from REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at September 01, 2026 06:23 AM (+Gg0A)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:24 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Fenderbender at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 01, 2026 06:25 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 06:26 AM (XfTt/)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/2kf3tdz5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (rHgXV)
"An issue within a core authentication configuration used by multiple Microsoft 365 services is resulting in impact."
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)
The resulting impact has my composition teacher is spinning in her grave.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:29 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)
Gawd I hate Microsoft.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:31 AM (MWfyi)
Like when Pixy poked us.
2 Poke.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 01, 2026 04:57 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 01, 2026 05:39 AM (wzUl9)
Just don't forget to pay your taxes on the sale proceeds.
Posted by: your friends at the tax office at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (x8PQF)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (MWfyi)
On the topic of Microsoft, I was helping do some photo editing with Paint. Win10? No problem. The menu is laid out clearly and editing is simple. Win11 which is on my wife's laptop? The interface is laid out in a way that says "We hate you and want you to die."
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (/k3in)
Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.
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/opens los angeles storefront selling nothing but ancient keyboards
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (x8PQF)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 01, 2026 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:32 AM (MWfyi)
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Are you saying that the accident left an impression on you? Should we send flowers?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 06:35 AM (x8PQF)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:36 AM (MWfyi)
When MFers are stealing billions and billions. There really aren’t any suitable words for people like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 06:36 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:34 AM (MWfyi)
No stars. A quitter. Not a good Ebayer.
Posted by: 0/5 Stars at September 01, 2026 06:37 AM (QHvF0)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 01, 2026 06:39 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:39 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:42 AM (MWfyi)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8rbrkz
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)
>> Is not that the point of LLM to do large tedious work?
Indeed, and the LLM probably found and fixed the bug within seconds to minutes at most.
It’s always amuses me when you give an LLM a task with verbose mode turned on and it’s says, thought for 247 milliseconds and then proceeds to provide the complex code or answer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2026 06:43 AM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8rbrkz
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 06:42 AM (O7YUW)
wow
I have a good friend in Houston.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)
In other news, water is wet.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:46 AM (MWfyi)
National Weather Service
https://www.weather.gov
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)
That site is really old-school-looking.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:48 AM (odBC9)
I'm ok with that. The more backward the better.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 01, 2026 06:52 AM (QuiDg)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 01, 2026 06:56 AM (Ujrb8)
Anyone up for some pumpkin spice carols?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2026 06:56 AM (1Ff7Z)
They decided every seller is like LL Bean, lifetime warranty. I think a buyer has a year to decide “I don’t want it” and demand a refund. Sometimes you’ll see sellers try to say “All sales final. No returns” Doesn’t work that way. In fact it works opposite, they have an option “Seller accepts returns” - this actually protects against that, because return shipping costs are on the buyer in that situation. Weeds a lot of the scammers out that way.
“Used” items can be a minefield to sell. Most people don’t expect a 75 year old antique to be in perfect running order, but that’s what it means to eBay. “For Parts Only” is your friend here. Many minefields on the new and improved eBay. For a while it was nice, apparently. 20+ years ago.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 06:57 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 01, 2026 06:58 AM (bkuEU)
His dissent does not come until page 4 or 5.
He is trying to claim the separation of powers means only congress can spend money, even private money on public things.
This argument makes zero sense as for the entire history of building people make private buildings that have public view or public use.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:59 AM (/+uur)
A Marina Del Rey woman earned a slap on the wrist after she pled guilty to bombshell charges that she paid homeless people on Skid Row to register to vote in a 20-year scheme tied to illegal petition signature collection.
Armstrong in May took a plea deal for one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election. On Monday she was sentenced to 18 months of probation and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)
amazon story just confirms what I've known for months; they're vibe-coding their storefront, and it is losing little bits of functionality here and there. how long until something seriously screws up?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (VyBeY)
Exactly opposite thinking. Build the damned data center and surround it with Section 8 housing to act as a fearsome moat. Ferry the employees in/out using MRAPs.
No protestors, no HOA Karens, and no one effectively screaming about noise and lights.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (9Hs2w)
——
The trick is to find a site that just gives the damned temp & forecast. I don’t need to get a lecture about how my lawnmower is destroying the planet, or how vital sex deviant contributions are to meteorology.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (odBC9)
Windows 10 has a "User Interface" (UI).
Windows 11 has a "User eXperience" (UX).
And yes, that new term makes me stabby because:
"The Stupid. It burns."
(Thank you for using the correct term!)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:02 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 01, 2026 07:02 AM (PbWRL)
GOTV is "community service". The punishment is to continue to do her crimes.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:02 AM (9Hs2w)
——
The trick is to find a site that just gives the damned temp & forecast. I don’t need to get a lecture about how my lawnmower is destroying the planet, or how vital sex deviant contributions are to meteorology.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (IkLDu)
I thought that was a USGov site, and the skeeziness surprised me.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)
Accuweather recommended, on Ozone Action Day, with temps into the triple digits and air quality low to ride a bicycle or walk rather than take a car to travel.
Conclusion: The climate is more important than human life.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:04 AM (9Hs2w)
Probably just a fluke.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 07:04 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 07:05 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2026 07:06 AM (FZ29D)
There's probably some tax revenue involved, but it can't be much - these companies aren't headquartered in the far flung areas where they build them, and the data centers aren't selling products that can generate sales tax revenues at the local level.
They are not building out power infrastructure or paying utilities to do it as used to be the case with most industrial capacity, and the burden of demand is spread amongst customers.
I do not see how a data center can make a big difference in the overall wealth of some community or another. That doesn't add up.
Trymp is bullish on these data centers and he's talking his own book, but this talking point is dumb.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 01, 2026 07:06 AM (BI5O2)
A Marina Del Rey woman earned a slap on the wrist after she pled guilty to bombshell charges that she paid homeless people on Skid Row to register to vote in a 20-year scheme tied to illegal petition signature collection.
Armstrong in May took a plea deal for one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election. On Monday she was sentenced to 18 months of probation and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service by U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)
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How convenient. Most elections are two years apart. So she can serve her eighteen months probation and get right back into the vote fraud business.
Absolutely disgraceful
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 01, 2026 07:07 AM (llBIB)
"The Stupid. It burns."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
I am happy to report that some enterprising soul took it upon themselves to create a site called jspaint that copies the interface for our use in case I change to Linux at some point.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:09 AM (/k3in)
https://www.weather.gov
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:27 AM (odBC9)
That site is really old-school-looking.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 06:48 AM (odBC9)
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It has a certain "AoSHQ" sort of charm to it...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2026 07:09 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:09 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 01, 2026 07:09 AM (bkuEU)
Now say that in the voice of the Indian programmer or help desk clerk and it makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:10 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
So Val-U-Rite Vodka ads are being displayed?
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:10 AM (/k3in)
THIS. When going to manage my "content library" (which contains Amazon purchased books, as well as Documents uploaded via the Send-to-Kindle function), the "Docs" (Documents) portion was completely GONE.
Thankfully there's still a link on the new user interface to the old interface, at least for now, so I can still manage uploaded Documents.
Also, the new interface is missing the page selector, which lets you select a given index page full of books in your library, or simply key it in by number at the end of the URL. "Oh, nobody has hundreds or thousands of books in their library, we can get rid of that, the user can just scroll infinitely until they find their title."
IDJITS. They need to go learn about Chesterton's Fence!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:10 AM (O7YUW)
I'm ok with that. The more backward the better.
Posted by: fd at September 01, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)
no kidding! sign me up!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:10 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 06:59 AM (/+uur)
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Especially because the PDJT argument cites specific statutory language allowing the President to modify, renew, or construct federal buildings. White House not excluded.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:11 AM (N3b7w)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 01, 2026 07:09 AM (bkuEU)
haha!
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2026 07:12 AM (IvPuo)
https://youtu.be/N6uEMOeDZsA?t=26
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:13 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:14 AM (odBC9)
More covevfe.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (N3b7w)
The President is charged with the maintenance and upkeep of the WH and it's grounds.
Renovations seems to be right smack dab in the wheelhouse of maintenance and upkeep.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (XV/Pl)
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The trick is to find a site that just gives the damned temp & forecast. I don’t need to get a lecture about how my lawnmower is destroying the planet, or how vital sex deviant contributions are to meteorology.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 01, 2026 07:00 AM (IkLDu)
yeah, that's what I like about it; very old-school, as in nothing but (mostly useful) information.
ventusky.com is useful for more detailed info.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)
Really? Saying that in front of my wood chipper?
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:17 AM (/k3in)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:19 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:11 AM (N3b7w)
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Which raises an interesting question...Does the Supreme Court really *need* a grand, fancy building?
Or could they make do with something much simpler...about the size of a double-wide trailer in the middle of nowhere?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2026 07:19 AM (FZ29D)
ventusky.com is useful for more detailed info.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (VyBeY)
That looks cool! I'm looking at Texas.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:20 AM (nShWT)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:20 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:20 AM (G7WXk)
The President is charged with the maintenance and upkeep of the WH and it's grounds.
Renovations seems to be right smack dab in the wheelhouse of maintenance and upkeep.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (XV/Pl)
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Rabbits would have been fine with it if Obama had done it. Except the ballroom would have looked like a Nazi gun emplacement from the Atlantic wall
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 01, 2026 07:20 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:22 AM (VyBeY)
Nothing says Communist Brutalism lover like the Obama Library.
North Korea is missing a DMZ guard tower.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)
My adrenaline can calm down now, please.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (nShWT)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (llBIB)
Which raises an interesting question...Does the Supreme Court really *need* a grand, fancy building?
Or could they make do with something much simpler...about the size of a double-wide trailer in the middle of nowhere?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 01, 2026 07:19 AM (FZ29D)
__________
Before 1935, they were located in the Capitol.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:24 AM (u82oZ)
That still implies that the people working there are perfectly comfortable in saying things like that to patients. Invitations to play Screaming Lawn Darts off a rooftop may be required.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:24 AM (/k3in)
Yeah, the unconstitutional part is a world class real-estate developer with a track record of five star properties is freely giving his expertise, has managed to make the construction of this totally private funded (not the bunker part, but no one is complaining about that) and will not personally benefit from the project.
But some uncircumsized Philistine with TDS is having a psychotic episode over it, so therefore its "Unconstitutional".
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:25 AM (PVBkQ)
More covevfe.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (N3b7w)
141 Whew. False alarm, it wasn't my daughter's regular doctor, it was a rando reviewing sonogram results. She works for the radiology department at the hospital.
My adrenaline can calm down now, please.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (nShWT)
The rando working for the radiology department at the hospital, reviewing sonogram results, offered your daughter an abortion?
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:25 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Roberts Is A Chomo at September 01, 2026 07:26 AM (+iYtA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (O0L8i)
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Really? Wow- did not know. Maybe they should be in Texas, or Idaho.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:26 AM (nShWT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
More covevfe.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:15 AM (N3b7w)
At 12 weeks with my last, I got offered one at 12 weeks by a Catholic nurse b/c my resting BP was over 200...I told her that wasn't even in the picture of possibilities...ever...
Just to say this isn't uncommon if mom is sick, even if baby is not...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 01, 2026 07:28 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 01, 2026 07:28 AM (5KN7H)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:29 AM (6UQAR)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:29 AM (u82oZ)
The majority of these problems can be summed up as "I'm not mad that things are being done! I just don't like Trump's tone of voice when he's doing it!"
Posted by: NR Pax at September 01, 2026 07:29 AM (/k3in)
Talk about an absolute destruction of the patient's trust. Can you imagine how into overdrive Mama's protective instincts must have been at that suggestion? That ObGyn is lucky she didn't get a beat-down right then and there.
GTFO and find another ObGyn. Maybe report her to the Massachusetts Board of Medicine as well.
(Yeah, I know, it's Massachusetts, nothing will happen.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:29 AM (O7YUW)
No one does that. Most churches seem like either a Sham Wow infomercial or the Eddie Bauer model on stage is trying to sell you a time share.
I get more Bible theology in one paragraph of Dennis Prager's "Rational Bible" and he isn't even Christian.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 01, 2026 07:30 AM (NzX/y)
Just to say this isn't uncommon if mom is sick, even if baby is not...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 01, 2026 07:28 AM (tOcjL)
Thanks for this info.
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 07:30 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 01, 2026 07:30 AM (3Ope8)
Just to say this isn't uncommon if mom is sick, even if baby is not...
Posted by: Nova Local
Damn.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 01, 2026 07:30 AM (GXElQ)
North Korea is missing a DMZ guard tower.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ
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Everything done there was wrong. Overrode the wishes of the community. Destroyed a huge amount of parkland. Create new traffic problems. Chicago taxpayers ripped off. Ugly. Costly. Not a library. EVERYTHING is wrong.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 01, 2026 07:31 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:32 AM (VyBeY)
...
PS - My spouse was always a gem b/c I was the world's worst pregnant woman...I never glowed!
Posted by: Nova Local at September 01, 2026 07:33 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 01, 2026 07:36 AM (VyBeY)
Sounds to me like someone is practicing medicine without a license by offering medical advice to a patient. Pretty sure that's a crime, or at least a firing offense.
The lawyers for the hospital sure wouldn't be happy with that legal risk she just exposed the hospital to.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 01, 2026 07:37 AM (O7YUW)
I appreciate Dennis Prager, but of course there are churches where one's brain is respected.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:38 AM (xPsv8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 01, 2026 07:42 AM (xPsv8)
The Monday Over Night Thread (8/31/26) The Dental Plan Has Expired Edition (Short)
["Fog Shrouded Falls" - 24" x 30" Acrylic - Mis. Hum.]
Two weeks ago in the midst of writing my Monday ONT my old PC died. The admirable CBD filled in and completed my task. You owe him big time. Thanks CBD.
Quote I Voluntary ignorance is the American condition. In the form of a smartphone, a citizen carries in his pocket the complete Federalist, Madison’s notes on the Convention, every ratification debate, and all of Blackstone, and he uses the device to watch strangers dance. Cicero warned that to remain ignorant of what came before you were born is to remain forever a child. We have raised a nation of toddlers holding voter-registration cards. Joe Wolverton II, J.D.
Quote II "It's been two weeks since he showed me his junk. You shouldn't have to be afraid in your own neighborhood to walk a trail. ... That's what they built it for." Jeanne Wolverton
Your Carry-On Might Be Too Big for the TSA’s New Scanners In an effort to expedite the screening process, the TSA has spent the last several years installing new, highly advanced scanners at airports across the country. But for all the security benefits these machines offer, there’s a potential snag when it comes to carry-on luggage: The bag you’ve been traveling with for years may be too big for the new devices. Here’s what you need to know to avoid this possible headache.
What in the name of Allah is happening in Michigan? The recent statewide convention of
The convention is also being held just a few weeks after Abdul El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel who describes their military actions as "genocide," narrowly edged Stevens to win the Democratic Senate nomination for a crucial seat the Democrats must hold in the midterm elections.So Jewish lesbians aren't secure. What about indigenous lands?
If you are going to blow wet sloppy meaningless kisses at least pronounce their tribes correctly.
Things that make me laugh for $500, please.
Is it sad or is it happy? September.
One of the very first songs of his I heard..................
Just imagine reading the following in Bugs Bunny's voice, "What's up
Dog walker ‘distressed’ after seeing man put carrot up his bum at nature reserve
The Horde is our Jury this evening.
L’Osteria Mondello in Cheyenne had been having an especially busy Friday when someone placed an order for 18 pizzas. “We had like over 40 pizzas in the same time,” owner Dave Agovic told Cowboy State Daily.
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Good thing I had my root canal procedure done last week...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:59 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: mindful webworker - nitter, natter, nutter, moosk at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (PE5pE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:01 PM (4Je4D)
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I'll bet even the dog was a bit freaked out...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:02 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 10:02 PM (01XUU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 31, 2026 10:02 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (PE5pE)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Don't fly.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the world is my no-fly zone at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (ogcfP)
Someone's making big bank on my inebriation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: mindful webworker - nitter, natter, nutter, moosk at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (Cl/mc)
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I've seen episodes of the future documentaries Futurama and Doctor Who that confirm this.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (PE5pE)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Oh, how horrible!
Does that imply more MisHum visitations?
And thank you for the ONT
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 10:04 PM (NnhvP)
Got to give the rabbits some reason to crawl in there.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 31, 2026 10:04 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 31, 2026 10:04 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Teeth? Carpet? Fish Tank?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:05 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 10:05 PM (/hk2L)
Posted by: mindful webworker - cam at August 31, 2026 10:05 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 10:06 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (PE5pE)
That is fantastic news. Now take better care of her.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2026 10:06 PM (CkDaS)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 10:06 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 10:06 PM (sAmhv)
That checks. Sun's down.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)
Drive in a car. Air travel should be the absolute last resort.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Maybe he was trying to dislodge that turnip
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (88C+u)
That probably hurt a bunch.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (01XUU)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)
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You try getting to Seoul in your car.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (77rzZ)
Maybe he was trying to dislodge that turnip
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (88C+u)
Nah. Gerbils gotta eat, same as men.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Here you go ...
https://tinyurl.com/4m666y6a
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I'm sad for the rabbit.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 10:10 PM (NnhvP)
Certainly brighter and more colorful than this morning's Art mud puddle.
Scrolling down, at first I thought it was one of those Moderne Arte paintings, you know, just a red canvas. Turned out much nicer.
Posted by: mindful webworker - red dye #40 at August 31, 2026 10:10 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Oh, how horrible!
Does that imply more MisHum visitations?
And thank you for the ONT
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 10:04 PM (NnhvP)
Nope.
The dental plan expired so you get short content.
But you are welcome!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2026 10:10 PM (CkDaS)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital at August 31, 2026 10:10 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 10:11 PM (/hk2L)
The link is blocked for me. Alternate:
https://shorturl.at/A592f
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2026 10:11 PM (syz1S)
175 She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt)
It wasn't clear to me what her little pendant is, but if it's scissors, Brave AI had this to say:
"Scissor-shaped jewelry is a widely recognized symbol of lesbian pride and identity within the LGBTQ+ community. It references historical codes, such as the "Sewing Circle" of the Hollywood Golden Age, where scissors served as a discreet emblem for lesbian social groups."
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 10:11 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Mexican Bandit #1 at August 31, 2026 10:12 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Mel's Rockpile at August 31, 2026 10:12 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
Wrong end.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 31, 2026 10:12 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (NnhvP)
Whatever happened to Nevergiveup, anyway? He was the Ace backup plan, wasn't he?
Posted by: mindful webworker - won tooth rhee at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (Cl/mc)
That final photo of the sunset is amazing!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (D/6p1)
We have a spacewalk in the morning.
NASA - ISS Spacewalk #284 - Meir & Adenot
International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Date: September 1, 2026
Coverage Begins: 7 a.m. EDT (1100 UTC, 13:00 CEST)
Spacewalk Time: 8:30 a.m EDT (1230 UTC, 14:30 CEST)
https://youtu.be/QcaVdx6Ar9k
Posted by: Joyenz at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (4Je4D)
I base it on the fact that I have no desire to travel overseas ever again. America has plenty for me to enjoy. I'm old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)
uh... so the Supreme Court, who decides what is legal... has their legal judgement overturned by a Journalist headline...
OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Maybe he was trying to dislodge that turnip
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (88C+u)
Nah. Gerbils gotta eat, same as men.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
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God forgive me for laughing...hard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (Rln0i)
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MisHum does it purely for the art.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (4Je4D)
I base it on the fact that I have no desire to travel overseas ever again. America has plenty for me to enjoy. I'm old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)
And... well.. my car once made it from Oahu to San Diego... so...
Yeah, was on a ship but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TRex - downstream dino at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (GVtCz)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: One-armed Violinist at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (JM9I6)
Maybe he was trying to dislodge that turnip
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (88C+u)
Nah. Gerbils gotta eat, same as men.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
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God forgive me for laughing...hard.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (Rln0i)
And Bugs Bunny Opined, 'What a maroon'...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 10:16 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (2GVsD)
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Nah. It's one more facet of CONTROL by our federal government.
I'm guessing the devices are tailored to be exactly 1 cm smaller in every dimension than the most common carry on luggage.
Next year they will make them yet smaller.
This continual shrinkage will persist until even purses and wallets will no longer be allowed as carry-on items.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)
Got to give the rabbits some reason to crawl in there.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 31, 2026 10:04 PM (+9wcF)
Did he forget to add it to the chili he just ate?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (oEZi/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)
Ummm....just who's bum are we talking about here? The man, the dog walker, or the dog.
And now that I consider this, why was the dog walker in a nature reserve?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (5+vyU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:09 PM (4Je4D)
Can I get there on the Soul Train?
(cue "Sounds of Philadelphia" theme song)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (gvBhq)
Posted by: Bum-Stuffer Watson at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (JM9I6)
Good news JohnF... I was going to head to WI today to have someone check out selling Dad's stuff, but Jules got sick so I stayed home. During his last hospitalization I went up to help out and came home to a sick wife who had to go to the ER. She almost died from septic shock due to a perforated ulcer.
Not going thru that again so I stayed home. She's still sick today, flu-like symptoms, so glad I stayed. You have to prioritize things.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (4Qj8V)
How else do you expect me to feed the gerbils?
Posted by: Richard Gere at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)
Tonight is the final night of our RV odyssey. We left our California home Aug 3.Tomorrow we expect to return in the early evening. We made it as far east as the Mississippi, stopping in Hannibal, Mo and Lake Village, Arkansas. We went to three Buc-ee's. Had great steaks at Prime 9 in Dodge City, Ks and Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. We suffered torrential downpours a number of times*, with accompanying howling wind and lightning and thunder, including one storm at Lake Chicot SP which knocked out power for 5 hours overnight and dropped a tree branch h on the camper. On the plus side, it's a beautiful park and we practically had it all to ourselves.
• For context, I can count on one hand the number of times we've had howling wind, lightning and rain in the 45+ years I've lived in So. Cal.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (9uADs)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)
I'm not the one who's so absurd.
Posted by: Al Jourgensen at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (VCgbV)
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They can go build their own ballrooms! With hookers! And blackjack!
Posted by: Bender "Bending" Rodriguez at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (PE5pE)
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Hope you can celebrate her birthday now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)
Years ago, it was obvious to me that the left had a death grip on certain things, and would never really accept a peaceful democratic change of plans, as it were. It’s always their way or the highway. They would go completely scorched earth, was my conclusion. I got that pegged correctly anyway.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (IkLDu)
and introducing...CarrotBottom
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (oEZi/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:09
You watching Gutfeld too OE?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:22 PM (4Je4D)
Don't fly.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the world is my no-fly zone at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (Cl/mc)
So the new scanners conform to the published carry-on bag size of the major airlines. If you have been getting away with a larger bag, time to shape up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:22 PM (1z8ji)
We’ve also been fortunate to have had no major wind events this season, and the fires have been spread out over time rather than simultaneous, keeping resources from getting stretched too thin.
My son is fighting the Timber Fire in Big Sur currently…been on it for a week.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at August 31, 2026 10:22 PM (DzC+b)
Merry Happy HallowThanksChristmas!!!
🎃🦃🎄
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 10:16 PM (VCgbV)
Yep. Fall decor goes up tomorrow indoors and out.
Sure, it's still gonna be over a hundred degrees for a few weeks, but gotta get in the spirit of the holidays.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)
Climate change is caused by orbital mechanics (both local and galactic to some extent) and geology.
We're cooler now than we've been in the last 300 million years. In fact, we're about 18F cooler now than the average over Erf's history.
We are still in an Ice Age.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (Rln0i)
I hope you didn't hurt yourself.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 31, 2026 10:24 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: 496 at August 31, 2026 10:25 PM (G0GDR)
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 31, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
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They won't talk to us anymore.
Because they cannot face up to it. Although to her credit Mrs. F.'s rich lib cousin actually apologized for years of political b.s.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)
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lol, I'm okay.
Just glad I wasn't drinking anything.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:23 PM (w6EFb)
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I suspected the Andromeda galaxy had something to do with it.
It is heading for us on a collision course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (FZ29D)
__________________________
I did it. It was worth the effort. BUT THEN, I read it in the voice of Marvin the Martian, I think Marvin edges out Bugs just barely...especially if you refer to the carrot as a disguised "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator".
Give it a shot. You'll see what I mean.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske)
What you want, are those plastic “Flosser Picks”, which are still probably made in You Know Where, but they work great and aren’t expensive.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 10:27 PM (ZxPkt)
175 She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt)
It wasn't clear to me what her little pendant is, but if it's scissors, Brave AI had this to say:
"Scissor-shaped jewelry is a widely recognized symbol of lesbian pride and identity within the LGBTQ+ community. It references historical codes, such as the "Sewing Circle" of the Hollywood Golden Age, where scissors served as a discreet emblem for lesbian social groups."
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 10:11 PM (ke3zm)
Looked more like a ribbon or bow than scissors.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 10:27 PM (wAvmd)
This film was a very early entry in the CGI realm, and you can tell because the folks doing the effects really went all in to make them terrific. As opposed to CGI in later films where it was some guy took a course. These weren't settlers, they were pioneers and the effects look awesome 30 years later.
Also, this was the film that told me "You must be someone who creates computer animation." So there's that. Somewhere I've got 3D Martians that I built myself.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 31, 2026 10:28 PM (CHHv1)
Reminds me of the meme where the dentist asks the patient when he last flossed and the patient replies, "Dude, you were there!"
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 31, 2026 10:28 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:09
You watching Gutfeld too OE?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 10:21 PM (4Qj8V)
No, just thought about the Richard Gere story. The things some people will do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
The job search continues - the 'interview' today was a screening call, and while the job posting said "A and/or B, C and/or D", I had A and C, and they secretly wanted B and D, they had plenty of people for A and C.
Oh well.
No word back yet from last Friday's interview - which seems like a good fit, from my angle - and no word on the other interview I'm pre-expecting this week. But it's 'only' Monday, I suppose.
If I have a job by then, I may try to attend the TxMoMe, it's closer than I thought.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 10:29 PM (aJQbY)
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Hey, nice goin' Beev!
Posted by: L'Arry Mondello at August 31, 2026 10:29 PM (4Je4D)
Turns out the latest data from Gaia and Hubble has refined velocities. That collision is no longer as certain as it was before. Andromeda may make a close pass, and we do a long dance before merging some time well past 10 billion years from now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
What does a golf course have in common with a communist?
It's an awesome day when you make a hole in one.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (c+HDg)
Lisa Needs Braces!
Goodbye Dental Plan!
Lisa Needs Braces!
Goodbye Dental Plan!
Lisa Needs Braces!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (qwx/I)
We had a genuine Dentist who posted here iirc? albeit a member of the military, who have a certain predilection or propensity for torture.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:31 PM (IkLDu)
96 The Feds should buy the California refineries (at a more than fair price) that are being forced to close by socialist overregulation, then use Pre-emption to overrule the state and run the facilities profitably. They really do have a legitimate national security interest in fuel availability for all their military assets in the area, and in particular the supply for a hypothetical war with a country that rhymes with China.
Posted by: SciVo
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Yes. And,
The Fed will eventually take over greater parts of the West Coast.
It will segregate all Federal properties from the indigenous peoples and their rules. Military presence will increase to insure safety and security of fed properties, which will increase by community petition and acquisition for more bases and import infrastructure. Parks and joined communities will be safe for tourists and communities within the new federal jurisdiction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (ogcfP)
I'm uncomfortable with the creeping distant authority depicted, but if the alternative is losing our ability to project power in the Pacific, pick a dystopia.
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 10:31 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 31, 2026 10:31 PM (HJ5Fv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:22 PM (4Je4D)
Michelle Obama does.
Wide stance.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 10:32 PM (wAvmd)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
That's a relief! One more thing I can stop worrying about.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
OMG we Kami Harris to save us before this happens !!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 10:33 PM (qDw3H)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:34 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:34 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)
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Could we have a Venn diagram to explain this?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:35 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Cicero
Explain it to me in yellow school buses.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:36 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Al Jourgensen at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (88C+u)
Golf clap.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 10:36 PM (/hk2L)
Just glad I wasn't drinking anything.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:26 PM (Rln0i)
Good. I'm a bit short of funds, so I couldn't replace your monitor.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:36 PM (1Ff7Z)
At the stellar and solar system scale, a galactic collision is nothing. Think of two swarms of bees merging together. From a distance, you see two blobs hitting each other.
At the scale of the individual bees, nothing much happens. In the aftermath, some stars get ejected from the galaxy, the big central black holes merge and all that, but for any individual star, nothing much happens.
The view of Andromeda looming large in the sky a few billion years from now will be spectacular.
Of course, life on earth will be gone by then anyway.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
That would be outside my limits.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (/hk2L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)
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Excellent movie.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
That would be outside my limits.
Posted by: tankdemon at
The margins would be forever blown.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (YZ0Fo)
If you’re like me, it’s nice to have something to listen to in the background without commercials. Or at least not modern commercials. Rice Chex! Wheat Chex!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Hon. Clarence Thomas at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:34 PM (YZ0Fo)
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No spoilers! We are recording it to speed through the commercials later. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
I suspected the Andromeda galaxy had something to do with it.
It is heading for us on a collision course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
That's why I can't get homeowners insurance.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)
"up on Wolverton Mountain..."
Posted by: Claude King as recalled by Miklos at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (4RYRd)
Of course, life on earth will be gone by then anyway.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
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For all we know humanity will have transferred over to the Andromeda galaxy and we'll watch ourselves hurtling towards the Milky Way galaxy...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (FZ29D)
We are still in an Ice Age.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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I miss going to the fair's on the frozen Thames.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Miklos is dissappoint at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (4RYRd)
The link is broken. Alternate:
https://shorturl.at/JFO9Y
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
If/when they track down the dickhead that sent in the fake pizza order, they should make him pay for them. With a typical emergency-room markup, so $60000 or so.
Posted by: mikeski, aka juror #6 at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
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But I had plans.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
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We'll still be around.
Posted by: Cockroaches at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Ten billion? Whew, that's a relief. I thought you'd said million.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z)
Drive in a car. Air travel should be the absolute last resort.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 10:08 PM (0aYVJ)
That's a bit problematic for a few of us, anyway.
DH will only fly first class. He doesn't fit in coach and when we get to wherever, it's usually long after the first three hour flight to Seattle, and then he can't move, at all. So, we don't fly much anymore, but may entertain the MoMe every other year or so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 10:40 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Now it makes more sense to get the rear deck rebuilt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:41 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (2GVsD)
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Nah. It's one more facet of CONTROL by our federal government.
I'm guessing the devices are tailored to be exactly 1 cm smaller in every dimension than the most common carry on luggage.
Next year they will make them yet smaller.
This continual shrinkage will persist until even purses and wallets will no longer be allowed as carry-on items.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:17 PM (FZ29D)
In the near future: Airline passengers will be allowed to enter the terminal thru the security checkpoints and board their flights wearing only TSA-issued hospital gowns and carrying nothing else.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)
The Horde is our Jury this evening.
Link-y is nogoodnik-y
maybe this
https://tinyurl.com/48fzu9u5
Posted by: You had Miklos at pizza at August 31, 2026 10:43 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: mikeski, aka juror #6 at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (VHUov
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I took my wife to that emergency room a couple weeks ago. She cut herself between her index and middle finger needed a stitch (one stitch only, Vasily).
The bill exceeded $3k. I'm in the wrong line of work
Posted by: 496 at August 31, 2026 10:43 PM (bWjRF)
It was so nice to meet you!
Unfortunately, TxMoMee isn't in the cards for us this year.
Moving took a huge bite out of our finances, and we have to get ready for winter.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)
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Well, at least our ass will be able to breathe!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:41 PM (4Je4D)
That couple extra years of life sure helps with amortizing the cost!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Key line in The Longest Day at August 31, 2026 10:45 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (FZ29D)
Make the gowns out of gold lame. Twenty-four carrot gold!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)
The bill exceeded $3k. I'm in the wrong line of work
Posted by: 496
Super glue is your friend.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:45 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 10:44 PM (ZxPkt)
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The plane had propellors, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:46 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 10:46 PM (dIske)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:46 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Cicero
Two pizzas make for a pretty tasty Venn diagram.
Three even
Posted by: Miklos Supreme with Extra Cheese at August 31, 2026 10:47 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Is there another alternative for CA?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)
Yes, it was. There were seats that were actually bigger than the average ass. There were arm rests that allowed your arms to rest. And they served food and drinks, instead of charging you a fortune.
And you could check how ever many bags you had, and still carry one on.
Now, it's worse than Greyhound in the air. At least the seats on a Greyhound are reasonably comfortable, even if the clown sitting next to you is not.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (ogcfP)
Neutron bomb?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 10:49 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:45 PM (YZ0Fo)
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No doubt.
Posted by: 496 at August 31, 2026 10:49 PM (Giz+5)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (dEHLq)
They use clown cars now? Wow, what a downgrade.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
This continual shrinkage will persist until even purses and wallets will no longer be allowed as carry-on items.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
In the near future: Airline passengers will be allowed to enter the terminal thru the security checkpoints and board their flights wearing only TSA-issued hospital gowns and carrying nothing else.
Posted by: Count de Monet
In the slightly-less-near future, no checked luggage will be allowed, either, so they can stack sedated passengers in the cargo area like cordwood. You'll fedex your luggage to your destination beforehand.
Coach will be the same. The difference between business class and first class is that first class will still have seats, at somewhat less than the current "coach" size. Business class will be standing-room-only.
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)
Monotone
Posted by: Key line in The Longest Day at August
Jean-Pierre!
John-the guy with the ling moustache-he's reciting Verlaine from his chair against the wall
Posted by: Le Mikleuse at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Flying used to be a treat. People dressed for it etc. it's now just over priced greyhound of the sky. But that's everything. Look at videos of baseball games in the 40s and 50s everyone is wearing a suit.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (YZ0Fo)
The bill exceeded $3k. I'm in the wrong line of work
Posted by: 496
Super glue is your friend.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:45 PM (YZ0Fo)
I fear for the bill for last week's adventures in health care. Ambulance, ER, five staples to the cranium, and heaven knows who all is going to bill us.
I'm always amazed at the bills from ER, Ambulance, Doctor, Nursing Care, Cat Scan Reader, etc.
They are supposed to give you an estimate of costs, but they somehow never manage to do so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 31, 2026 10:51 PM (gvBhq)
Did lots of domestic and int'l flying after that golden era faded, but there was a 2nd golden-ish era just before 9/11, before airlines right-sized (so still lots of excess capacity). The excess capacity met the internet era in the 90s, and again if you knew what you were doing, amazing prices. I once flew RT DC-SD for around $130.
There was a period where you could use the new ticket sites like Orbitz to pretty much determine the minimum fares offered on a given itinerary. Then you could go to Priceline and bid just perfectly to get the lowest fare possible.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 10:51 PM (U/Byj)
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Also, no fatties
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:51 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:50 PM (YZ0Fo)
Managers used to wear suits too. Connie Mack, for one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 31, 2026 10:20 PM (9uADs)
Big Texan was where I had my worst steak ever. We sent Little's prime rib back, as it was undercooked and had a lobe of fat that had no business coming out of the kitchen. I ordered the Texas strip, which I'm pretty sure was previously frozen, and I'm damn sure was served in a pool of beef bullion. Friend of mine raved about the place, but I'll not be back..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 31, 2026 10:52 PM (nbLIj)
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I would love to take credit for this corn life hack, but alas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 10:52 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
1 min ear per side. Air fryer is better tho.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:48 PM (ogcfP)
Engineer a situation in which California cops fire on Federal agents. Declare California to be in a state of insurrection. Send in the Army, declare martial law, arrest all Democrat politicians, and execute them for treason. Without the Cali congresscreeps and senators in the chambers, the SAVE act should easily pass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji)
If you’re like me, it’s nice to have something to listen to in the background without commercials. Or at least not modern commercials. Rice Chex! Wheat Chex!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:38 PM (IkLDu)
"Post Toasties Heap Good Corn Flakes! The Best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it!"
Posted by: Joemarine at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (y171U)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 10:44
Hey SMH, good to see ya here. So you did escape IL, now in MO?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (4Qj8V)
John-the guy with the ling moustache-he's reciting Verlaine from his chair against the wall
Eh,
It's probably nothing
Posted by: Jean-Pierre at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: 496
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Back in the day we had, what you call, GP's (general practitioners), he's sew you up for a twenty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 31, 2026 10:51 PM (gvBhq)
Hm.
Posted by: Dr. Cutts, Chief of Trans Surgery, Massachusetts General at August 31, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Joemarine
Maize
We call it Maize
Posted by: my People at August 31, 2026 10:54 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: scampydog at August 31, 2026 10:55 PM (BmBwv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
"Oh San Andreas, we humbly beseech thee..."
Posted by: Miklos has heard this prayer at August 31, 2026 10:56 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (ogcfP)
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Whatever happened to "walking it off"?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Also, in the days before artificial lights, games during the work day in the big cities were very well attended. According to an uncle that played MLB for the Yankees and others during the 30s and 40s this was due to the fact that the office workers of the day were so inefficient while at work that it didn't hurt the productivity of the firm too much if they weren't there.
I dunno about that but it's interesting to contemplate.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 10:56 PM (01XUU)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 31, 2026 10:52 PM (nbLIj)
I had a fine meal there, back in May of this year.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (1z8ji)
Not just accurate but actually pretty meaningful. Flew for the first time in ages a few weeks ago, and there were two people in the boarding area I feared we'd be next to. Sad. Fortunately didn't happen.
Once on a work trip thru Yurrup our group got the 6 middle seats of a .... DC-10? It was late 90s. We were stuck on the ground for 3 hours by t-storms at Newark. Person on the end had an enormous obese person next to them. Quite a treat for 8 hours.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
1 min ear per side. Air fryer is better tho.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (YZ0Fo)
Slap that shit on the grill, already. Soak it in a bucket, slap it on the grill, husk and smear with butter.
Nothing better.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Braenyard
Even on a house call
Posted by: same as in town at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Formality. Formality is discipline, lack of formality is chaos.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 10:58 PM (PTDkx)
I remember late night flights, waiting until everyone was boarded and switching to an empty row. Then laying down for a nap after takeoff.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 10:58 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: rhomboid
But perhaps that well-upholstered individual was a lively conversationalist with many stories.
Posted by: Miklos in Seat 2B, enjoying his third pre-departure Mimosa at August 31, 2026 11:00 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 11:00 PM (wAvmd)
Posted by: 496
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Back in the day we had, what you call, GP's (general practitioners), he's sew you up for a twenty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (ogcfP)
Once, and only once, was I able to get an injured de Monet spawn to the primary care doc's office before they closed, avoiding the exorbitant ER price list.
Youngest daughter apparently broke a ring finger in PE -volleyball. Primary doc/nurse x-rayed it, confirmed, taped it up and wrote an Rx for painkiller. Went back in 2 or 3 days for a proper splinting. All for the cost of a normal office visit co-pay.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 11:00 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 11:00 PM (XeU6L)
I dunno about that but it's interesting to contemplate.
Posted by: Tonypete
I went to wrigleys first night came as a lil tyke. And after living there and getting to go to games after work I'm not gonna be the Luddite that says night games sucks. But at the same time when I lived there we tried to go to as many day games as possible.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:00 PM (YZ0Fo)
Luckily, I only have to fly every couple of years. Every time I do, it's worse. Last trip I left the plane and there was a line of wheelchairs all the way up the jetway. Everything is gamed by assholes now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:01 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)
They may just wind up under federal jurisdiction, and the feds will tell the CARB and DEQ to go piss up a rope
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)
Or maybe that's "Since commercial aviation has...."
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:01 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ogcfP)
Nothing better.
Posted by: tcn in AK
I prefer grilled corn. But air fryer isn't bad at all.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:02 PM (YZ0Fo)
Quite a bit here. Even though it was cloudy this morning, I knew it was going to be up there, just from the way the air felt.
Sometimes I think I've been here too long.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 11:02 PM (c+HDg)
I’m going to be taking a train from Austin to Chicago next month, in a “roomette”. I expect it will give me a new respect for air travel, but I will be able to say I tried it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:02 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Did that on a red-eye, SF to Atlanta. The three center seats of the center aisle, L1011. ~1977
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 11:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 10:53 PM (4Qj8V)
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Yes we did, bought a rural spread back in June, and Ex-Ex had to get a a new job closer to the house.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:03 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
What, you cryin'?
I'll give you something to cry about
Posted by: Bad Parent Miklos at August 31, 2026 11:04 PM (4RYRd)
So now the carry-on idiocy, which was already stupid and a huge stain on the FAA, became much worse, as people struggled to save $35 by taking everything in carry-on. So now you have comically delayed boarding/deboarding times, along with injuries and disputes. Took 20/twenty minutes to get off a plane in Denver on the way to Miami 2 years ago. No special incidents/passengers/etc, just took that long. Twenty minutes to get off a plane. Used to be 5-10 max in the old days.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:04 PM (U/Byj)
They may just wind up under federal jurisdiction, and the feds will tell the CARB and DEQ to go piss up a rope
Posted by: Kindltot
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That would be the best outcome. Clear the field and get out the way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:04 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
I did Denver to Detroit when I lived in Denver. 4 effing days. I'll take the shitty airplane.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:05 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:02 PM (kYmoU)
Take this advice from Bob Sweet, Vitamin Salesman, the rolling action of the train does something to the ladies. There's a lot of action to be found. *wink wink nudge nudge*
Posted by: Silver Streak at August 31, 2026 11:06 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
FREE CURRY AND EXTENDED FAMILY VISAS
Posted by: Miklos at the rear of the Boarding Area at August 31, 2026 11:07 PM (4RYRd)
On the infrequent occasions that I fly, I check my bags. Paying the money is better than the angst of finding a spot in the overhead because some Experienced Traveler has gotten there first and shoved a grand piano in there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:07 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:02 PM (kYmoU)
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What's the ticket? $4,200?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)
Still remember a good buddy calling me first thing Monday morning at the Senate job, normally asked what I'd done that weekend, and for 20 seconds I couldn't think of an answer, just blanked out. I'd been in LA since Friday night, got back on the redeye hours before. Was funny.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
3x the price and 10x the time what's not to love?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:09 PM (YZ0Fo)
My father once had to take the train from Chicago to Philadelphia. He said he'd rather fly in turbulent weather in an ice storm with an engine on fire rather than take a train again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:09 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: A Very Tired Meme at August 31, 2026 11:09 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
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We'll still be around.
Posted by: Cockroaches at August 31, 2026 10:39 PM (4Je4D)
Will not.
*stomp*
Posted by: Opus at August 31, 2026 11:10 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Bashful Traveler at August 31, 2026 11:10 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Kindltot
It has been mooted that the OilCorps could sell the refineries to FedGov for $1 then lease back for $1/year.
Posted by: Miklos hears things at August 31, 2026 11:11 PM (4RYRd)
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Just don't wrap it in foil.
Posted by: Derek Smalls at August 31, 2026 11:11 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
A long time ago we took the train from Chicago to Detroit ti see friends for a hawks/wings game. The trip there was mostly fine. The return trip took 10 hours.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:11 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:11 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (O0L8i)
This coming weekend, you'll see firefighters collecting money for MDA during their fill the boot campaign. I would encourage everyone not to give their money to this effort. While the money does go to research, some of this money is given back to the IAFF, the firefighter's union. Since 2007, the IAFF has received over $15 million from MDA. It's a kickback scheme for the union. One year I looked at, the IAFF was the second largest recipient of MDA money, only behind John's Hopkins. Don't fall for the "this money only goes to helping kids with MD."
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (J3Cv/)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Not me
Posted by: Gladys Knight on the Midnight Train ooo-ooo-ooo at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:13 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Gladys Knight on the Midnight Train ooo-ooo-ooo at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (4RYRd)
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*fistbump*
Posted by: Ricky Nelson at August 31, 2026 11:14 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (O0L8i)
This unruly behavior needs to be parsnipped in the bud.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:14 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: The Spinners, in the collective sense at August 31, 2026 11:15 PM (4RYRd)
Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense really. It’s mostly a bucket list item. Also I’ve been watching the old Thin Man movies.
I’m betting my roomette is nowhere near the size of theirs.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:15 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Hahahah. No they are not.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:15 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:14 PM (1z8ji)
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Where's Muldoon when you need him to write a limerick about a rutabaga
Posted by: 496 at August 31, 2026 11:15 PM (y5h6+)
Speaking of collisions, a little bugger called the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy has already collided, well passed through the Milky Way disc several times over the last few billion years.
It's a little satellite galaxy of ours, and is/was in a tight polar orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 11:16 PM (w6EFb)
Baseball games were first and foremost cheap entertainment. That’s why day games were well attended.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:12 PM (IkLDu)
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Back in the 30s and 40s, a team that averaged 10,000 a game was doing very well. The 1935 St. Louis Browns had a season home attendance of 82,000.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 11:16 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:16 PM (YZ0Fo)
The train back was over 5 hours late and I had already hitched a ride back to SF.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:15 PM (kYmoU)
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Please to help me with my rucksack?
Posted by: Inge, from Sveeeden at August 31, 2026 11:17 PM (4Je4D)
Still want to take the Trans-Siberian, east as far as Khabarovsk (have done Vladivostok-Khabarovsk). See Baikal. Once the current unpleasantness has passed have lots of boxes to check over there.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:17 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Inge, from Sveeeden
Are you stuck under your bed?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:18 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 31, 2026 11:19 PM (0VjQs)
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I did the bullet train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The "food" was nasty and the train was dirty.
Posted by: Inge, from Sveeeden at August 31, 2026 11:19 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Hahahah. No they are not.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Sleep in the upper bunk, or your head will be next to the toilet.
Posted by: or maybe just put the pillow at the other end at August 31, 2026 11:19 PM (4RYRd)
New bad thing: carrots in assholes
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Don't feed your chili to assholes. Solved.
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 11:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: or maybe just put the pillow at the other end at August 31, 2026 11:19 PM (4RYRd)
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Hey, I remember that from prison!
Posted by: Jelly Roll at August 31, 2026 11:20 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 11:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Cockroaches
Pikers
-Keith Richards
Posted by: BruceWayne
Hey Keith? You'll lighten up in another million years when all you've had to eat are cockroaches and twinkies.
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 11:21 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: 496
Silenced by the rutabaga hate-as
Posted by: of whom Miklos is one at August 31, 2026 11:21 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)
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I traveled to Yaroslavl by rail from Leningrad and it was very creaky and old fashioned they even brought tea in glass.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I took care of this.
Posted by: Il Duce at August 31, 2026 11:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bashful Traveler at August 31, 2026 11:10 PM (JM9I6)
Only when you're flying out of here...
Posted by: Pensacola International Airport (PNS) at August 31, 2026 11:26 PM (R0XxO)
Sold them to Ozzies and Englishters for a very very substantial markup (I think about 1000% or so).
Posted by: Miklos never went at August 31, 2026 11:26 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Miklos never went at August 31, 2026 11:26 PM (4RYRd
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I think he runs my local ER now
Posted by: 496 at August 31, 2026 11:28 PM (v3EFS)
https://tinyurl.com/4r7zfrs5
This is not the Philadelphia I remember, or the NFL I remember, either.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 11:28 PM (c+HDg)
That Sagittarius Dwarf wasn't discovered until the '90s -- It's close on the other side of the Galaxy.
The first pass it made through our disc was around 6 billion years ago. And that likely triggered a burst of star formation, of which our Sun and solar system were likely part of.
So that thing is sort of our daddy or something. It also caused a ripple or wave structure in the disc. If you looked at the Milky Way edge on, you'd see a little wave structure, not just a flat edge.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
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Because of greedy pigs like him, I'll never see Irkutsk.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 11:30 PM (4Je4D)
Next morning - Lvov? - a hilarious Hogan's Heroes scene developed. Our group leader had to deal with the furious dezhurnaya who ran our car (this system also explained why the cars we used were clean). She wasn't letting us out of the station til the things were returned. So the culprits including mois silently passed the things - behind our backs to those standing next to us, til they were gathered by the group leader. He was not happy with us (this was a US professor).
Didn't know I could easily pick up Stalin knick-knacks in Georgia decades later. Still would have been a score.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:30 PM (U/Byj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6GgUG-kho
Posted by: Strelnikov at August 31, 2026 11:30 PM (XeU6L)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
Treasury Department@SecScottBessent
In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.
What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.
To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:31 PM (ogcfP)
https://tinyurl.com/4r7zfrs5
This is not the Philadelphia I remember, or the NFL I remember, either.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Smh. Ya know actual male cheerleaders are strong af and mostly manly. That's just more fagottry
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:31 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:01 PM (ogcfP)
__________________________
Back before I knew any better, and the company wasn't hiring dress-up drama drag queens, I used to drink Budweiser every once in a while. ALWAYS got a headache. I finally figured out that it was because they used rice in their beer (still do). Same with most Japanese beers. I have no problems with regular rice...just Budweiser products.
(Fun Fact: Budweiser can sell their garbage in Germany even though it doesn't pass the beer purity laws aka "Reinheitsgebot" due to the rice, but the EU claimed it was a violation of free trade....but they can't use the Budweiser name because a real beer, Czech Bud uses it. Also called Budvar...best beer on the planet IMO)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 11:32 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:32 PM (ogcfP)
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
Posted by: Braenyard
To be fair she should take a high school evomoce course first.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:33 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:33 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:30 PM (U/Byj)
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I commented this morning about some Russian medical school that was restoring to its former place of honor a bust of Stalin, to join busts of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. What is old is new again.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:34 PM (YZ0Fo)
WTF
The folks who savage *their own* players and throw batteries at Santa at Christmas - male cheerleaders? Glorious, really.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:35 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Miklos points at Risk board at August 31, 2026 11:35 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I'm smarter than you and I'm not afraid to point it out.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:37 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 11:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: PabloD at August 31, 2026 11:39 PM (6oTRF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
twenty wampum
same as in wigwam
Posted by: Heap Big Lizzie at August 31, 2026 11:42 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)
Fire water.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:45 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:45 PM (Y/06r)
I create a web page and embed the videos in it.
Tedious, but I can watch them without joining X. And once I've got a bunch, like all of a cafe's worth, on a webpage, it's easy to go through them all.
When Eloon kills embed viewing, I'll quit watching X vids. Even Ace's cute cafe vids.
What's funny is, before they killed off twitterviewer and twitter webviewer, and the ability of anybody to watch them on x itself, I was seriously considering getting an x account myself.
But needles to say, this means whar!
https://youtu.be/uYrFVJNekes
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - Marvin Musk the Martian out to eliminate Earthlings at August 31, 2026 11:47 PM (Cl/mc)
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Hey yo, CA moving ever closer to a Fed takeover.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 11:49 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 31, 2026 11:50 PM (YaZAP)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 31, 2026 11:54 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:11 PM (YZ0Fo)
Back in the day, before Canada lost its way, we'd go to Montreal to see the Sabres / Habs game at the old Forum. Took ViaRail in Niagara Falls up to Montreal. Great trip, very easy, drink the whole time. Back then their trains ran on time, were clean, and the riders spoke English (or Quebecois).
Thats as opposed to taking Amtrak from Buffalo to Detroit ... that was a fuqing train wreck. No heat, broken door wouldn't close, no booze car. That trip sucked!
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 11:54 PM (oCio0)
Does that mean state employees get those days off with pay?
Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 11:58 PM (5+vyU)
Posted by: browndog says woof
Was delayed to start. Got delayed like 5x on the trip. I was like I coulda filed or drover for less
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 31, 2026 11:59 PM (YZ0Fo)
The record became the highest in the entire statistical series, which began in 2002,
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And all of them are voting for Pedro.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:00 AM (ogcfP)
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Is there something we need to know?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:06 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 31, 2026 11:50 PM (YaZAP)
Woooo! Wait.
Posted by: Nature Boy, Ric Flair at September 01, 2026 12:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
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So, we go into the country, tell all of the existing government and policing authority to step aside while we take care of the welfare of its people.
_Teddy Roosevelt says, man, that's like awesome.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:12 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I took care of this.
Posted by: Il Duce at August 31, 2026 11:25 PM (XeU6L)
When I spent a semester in Italy, I became convinced that it was either sarcasm (meaning he did nothing), or said by people who had never been to neighboring Switzerland and literally didn't know what "on time" means. There is no force on this Earth that can make Italians precise.
Posted by: SciVo at September 01, 2026 12:12 AM (ke3zm)
uh... so the Supreme Court, who decides what is legal... has their legal judgement overturned by a Journalist headline...
OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)
It's a typical MSNOW headwhine.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2026 12:18 AM (qx7Zg)
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A one anna, two anna, three anna four.
It's not genetic its culture.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:20 AM (ogcfP)
No there is no train leaving at that time. Enter another time.
They would have more passengers if they had a realistic
schedule.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:23 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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My wife is a big fan of rail travel, and, now that I'm well.and truly re-tired and don't have to worry about actually being somewhere on time, so am I. If you need to be at the other end of your trip in less than 150% of the total.scheduled time, Amtrak is not for you.
Roomettes are not at all.spacious. They are the width of a first class airline seat, and the length of a dinette in a small RV. If you want to be able to stand in your rented space, get a room -no "ette".
Watching America go by is very relaxing.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 01, 2026 12:29 AM (1QaG1)
Posted by: polynikes at September 01, 2026 12:33 AM (KC5Lt)
details/transsiberian-2008.dvdscr
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 12:40 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Lazy Mary at September 01, 2026 12:47 AM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 12:51 AM (rcENI)
Unfortunately I don't have the money to fly on a private jet.
Posted by: Case at September 01, 2026 12:55 AM (5+vyU)
The current ripe tree is some sort of yellow egg, and it doesn't make decent jam, though it is a wonderful cooking plum.
I take it that you are canning the Italian type plums?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR)
My canning days are over, I think. Well, I dunno-- it's just so much work and now there's hardly anyone left to share the bounty.
I used to can 2 boxes (16-20lb each) of peach halves every summer. Made jam out of the bits n pieces. Had plenty of fam that enjoyed it & they always returned the jars, sometimes even filled with goodies they had made!
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)
Put a ladder up, and caulked some gaps around the south wall kitchen window of the house. Last driving rain with a South wind, water was pouring in at the top of the window. I think the entry points are now sealed off.
And I squirted a whole can of spray foam sealant on the flange of the septic tank. Didn't stick too well. Good thing I bought 2 cans.
Anyway, a busy day, and I am tired. Going to call it a night. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2026 12:59 AM (1z8ji)
I dunno! My wife picked out the tree. The jam is good though.
We planted it maybe 10 years ago. The triple-variety pear tree died within two years. (That same spot has since killed a dogwood and a weeping cherry, and a star magnolia is clinging to its bitter withered life.) The two apple trees do okay, I guess. One of the cherry trees is still mostly a vertical twig with leaves, and the other never produces enough to survive the birds and 7 & 5yo. But the plum tree is a huge success.
The four little ones helped me with everything yesterday, along with two of their friends: climbing the ladder (or just the tree), picking, cutting, etc.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:05 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:10 AM (rcENI)
How are you Horde? I got very tangled up in some of the content tonight, great ONT.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 01:11 AM (ibDUx)
My 11yo got really into canning a year ago when we did some asparagus. I don't think I'd do it if it wasn't a family activity. And I'm blessed to have in-laws in Tacoma who appreciate the gifts. I've been doing a lot of smoked & preserved meats the last 7-10 years, and it feels like there is an affinity with canning there.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:14 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:15 AM (rcENI)
My wife does not can, but my niece wanted help last year making cider, and that was lots of fun.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2026 01:15 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: raimondo at September 01, 2026 01:16 AM (9FAp7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 01:18 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:19 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2026 01:20 AM (rbvCR)
It was fun while it lasted and I always felt a real sense of accomplishment. Mom was glad that she could enjoy the goodies without having to do the labor any more, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 01:21 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 01:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Axeman at September 01, 2026 01:26 AM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 01:27 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 01:28 AM (ogcfP)
We never had many farms or orchards in the town that I grew up in but we did have high bush blueberries that grew in the wilds, those were delicious right of the tree and they made great pies too.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 01:28 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 01:29 AM (ibDUx)
Same here. Just a big black pot with while speckles (what my parents used to call when we lived in Boston "the lobster pot"; wow those were the days!). Still using one just like it. I'm not even sure where to buy lobster anymore. I think Uwajimaya might have them.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:30 AM (rcENI)
Couple years later, Mom gave me her canning set. So now I have double everything. More stuff to pass along.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 01:40 AM (odBC9)
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Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 01:47 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: frammish
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No, that's a plum liqueur.
You want slivovitz, you start with the plums, mash them up and let them ferment. The whitish coating on grapes and plums are a natural yeast, you don't need to add any yeast, they will ferment on their own. The result is plum wine.
Distill it. Viola'! Slivovitz.
One of the world's shittiest boozes.
My wife brought back a couple of bottles of slivovitz from Croatia. I've had better 2 week old weasel piss from a West Virginia moonshine still.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 01, 2026 01:49 AM (1QaG1)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:52 AM (rcENI)
The best thing to do is buy a copy of the Ball Blue Book of canning, and follow the instructions.
I canned potatoes this year, and I will be canning beans. It is just the processing time.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2026 01:52 AM (rbvCR)
Our kids love to point out Oregon Grape! I will have to find a recipe and have them pick some for me.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:53 AM (rcENI)
That's what I get for using a recipe from the Washington Post. :-)
I'm not ready to try distilling my own liquor though, so I'm happy to go with an easy imitation for now.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 01:56 AM (rcENI)
Cook down your Oregon Grapes, at least a dry gallon worth, with just enough water to cover them. Mash 'em up & simmer about 10 minutes. Put into jelly bag and let the juice drain. Should yield 3-4 cups of juice.
Add apple juice (either homemade or bottled) no more than half and half apple:O.Grape, to make enough for a batch of jelly-- follow your favorite "Concord Grape" recipe from there.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)
It was great growing up here, but oh how the state has changed. It makes me sad sometimes, my roots are here, my grandkids are here, and all I want to do is escape to a red state sometime.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 02:02 AM (ibDUx)
I'll look into 'fixing' it, when I go to the county fair & check the County Extension Office booth.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
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I had an Oregon Grape in the corner of the back yard.that I thought was a holly bush until someone pointed out that the berries were purple and not red. There were holly farms all over my neighborhood when I moved in, which is why I thought that. By the time I left, most of them were housing tracts.
I didn't realize that the berries were in any way edible because, after hearing the word "grape", I tried one. Ptooie!
Props for picking them, though. The leaves were just like holly: pointy, sharp and dangerous.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 01, 2026 02:05 AM (1QaG1)
Unfortunately, not this year. With all this going on with Mama, just didn't get a garden in, and if we did, we wouldn't had time to work it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2026 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
I got the salmon smoked and canned before they ripped out that part of the house, thank heaven. And it's a damned good batch this year. Been snackin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:08 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2026 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
It'll be happier next year with the rest.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:09 AM (dEHLq)
Props for picking them, though. The leaves were just like holly: pointy, sharp and dangerous.
Posted by: buddhaha
Oh, yeah! They're not pleasant, right off the bush. And very 'buggy' in these parts. Washing and picking off the stems is a real PITA! Takes a whole afternoon to get one good batch.
The apple juice sweetens it up, dilutes the very strong flavor, and adds pectin.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 01, 2026 02:11 AM (1o8D5)
I think there's still about that much out there, but I have nowhere to put all of it. Got a friend coming to collect a bunch tomorrow, and the contractor takes some home most evenings. I will need to market the damned things next year.
Is there such a thing as raspberry wine? Hmm...
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:11 AM (dEHLq)
They are damned good in pies and smoothies.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:12 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: publius
Understood, publius! You're a good son and Mama needs you right now. Priorities.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 01, 2026 02:13 AM (NFX2v)
Thank you JQ! I will try it and report back. I think there is still time for us to gather some.
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 02:14 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Yes! My parents made wines back in the 70s. The raspberry was my favorite!
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tcn
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If there isn't, there should be.
Find a recipe for blackberry wine (which I have had, so I know that there is such a thing) and substitute.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 01, 2026 02:15 AM (1QaG1)
Posted by: frammish at September 01, 2026 02:18 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2026 02:19 AM (S41Gd)
Does that mean state employees get those days off with pay?
Posted by: Case
Yes, but they can't spend it on pork or alcohol.
Posted by: Mullah Miklos at September 01, 2026 02:21 AM (4RYRd)
Website also says that most vintners up here do a mix of berries with their grape wines, so the raspberry thing might make a good mix. Sounds like a fancy project.
Now, where in hell do you buy grape vines up here?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:21 AM (dEHLq)
publius, I figured as much, you and Miley are doing far more important work this summer.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 02:22 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2026 02:19 AM (S41Gd)
Recipe, please.
Maybe we need a new Horde cookbook, but a booze one. Seems appropriate.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:22 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Peach jam and canning?
Posted by: Miklos got the Good Stuff at September 01, 2026 02:22 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Put me down for QA
Posted by: Miklos probably wouldn't get past page 4 at September 01, 2026 02:25 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 02:27 AM (ibDUx)
https://tinyurl.com/4mr8dw5b
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 02:28 AM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Braenyard
If it's anything like the Statue of Liberty, they'll leave it half finished and stick us with the bill.
Posted by: Miklos also thinks Emma Lazarus was a lousy poet and even worse on immigration at September 01, 2026 02:31 AM (4RYRd)
So many berries-- I made seedless BB jam. Cut the yield (which was fine with me) by half because they're so very seedy. Oh, it was divine.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
So happy to spread the joy!
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 01, 2026 02:38 AM (0vB2I)
Took a whole month and was almost as expensive as buying the real thing.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 02:45 AM (ibDUx)
I'm thinking that the drinks section of the Horde Cookbook would be a good start, but folks here must be vintners of some quality, at least a couple of us. And there's always hard ciders, and whatnot.
I think we could publish the definitive drinks and cocktails manual for members of the Horde. Somebody call Bluebell and get her fired up. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:47 AM (dEHLq)
I swear that apricots were the only thing I ate for *weeks* that summer. Hot, miserable, hungry, poor.... and fkn apricots. *shudder*
Also: ramen and grape koolaid, 5c per pack, once I'd gotten a crappy job.
Never again.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)
We may need a CoBoMoMe to work out the details.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:48 AM (dEHLq)
The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers)."
Posted by: Miklos likes they way this Trump guy thinks at September 01, 2026 02:53 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2026 02:54 AM (WY+aP)
Posted by: raimondo at September 01, 2026 02:55 AM (9FAp7)
Don't go into sugar shock-- think of all the recipes as using stevia or some other sugar-substitute!
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: raimondo's mom at September 01, 2026 03:00 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 03:04 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2026 02:19 AM (S41Gd)
Recipe, please.
Maybe we need a new Horde cookbook, but a booze one. Seems appropriate.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 02:22 AM (dEHLq)
I couldn't tell you how how he made it. I haven't seen him in years. Last I heard he sold his drums. Thats just fucked up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2026 03:04 AM (S41Gd)
Looks like some rain is coming up later this week; I can relax on watering. Yay!
The days will still be warm, or even hot, but there will be reliable relief overnight now.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker
Sad, Bers. But our lives move on...
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 01, 2026 03:10 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
uh... so the Supreme Court, who decides what is legal... has their legal judgement overturned by a Journalist headline...
OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj
Something the previous TEN presidents have wanted done. People have to go outside for their state dinners all because MSNOW is throwing a temper tantrum.
We do not hate the media nearly enough.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 01, 2026 03:11 AM (8HjLl)
PM Carney may well be facing down two separatist movements in his own country by 20 October. All the while his obsessive devotion lives in his head rent free, as well as Premier Ford’s head. And Wab’s.
But he is in Europe, sucking up to the EU, and perhaps wanting to join the EU as he declares the relationship between the U.S. and Canada to be “over” because his programmers in the PRC say so, and because he considers the EU to be the paragon of civilization.
Someone show the blithering idiot a map.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 01, 2026 03:15 AM (8HjLl)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 03:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 31, 2026 10:52 PM (nbLIj)
I had a fine meal there, back in May of this year.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 10:57 PM (1z8ji)
I rather enjoyed The Big Texan.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 01, 2026 03:29 AM (8HjLl)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 03:22 AM (Ia/+0)
My word is the law.
Posted by: Mao at September 01, 2026 03:30 AM (8HjLl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 01, 2026 03:30 AM (8HjLl)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 03:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Perhaps so, but everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 03:32 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)
We have a frost warning tonight on hillside, which means about 1500 feet up the mountains. I put the heat on in the greenhouse today. First frost can happen as soon as Sept 5, so, root crops will be good for a couple more weeks, at least, and the greenhouse with heat can be stretched two more beyond that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 03:35 AM (dEHLq)
I woke up chilled last night, about 4am. Turned on the electric blanket (lowest setting, but still...) so I could get back to sleep!
Glad for modern conveniences.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:43 AM (rdVOm)
Well, Nancy Grace is about 200,000 miles from earth now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2026 03:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:46 AM (rdVOm)
Rain won't stop me, unless full downpour. Just need to keep the place un-jungled, if not tidy. I'm almost beyond GAF. Almost.
Really miss having a functional partner!
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm)
I read Robert's dissent in the Ballroom case. It may just be the stupidest thing from the Supreme Court not written by Kitenji Action Jackson I have ever read - and I am an admitted attorney with over 35 years experience in the law/Insurance and have read a LOT of S. Ct. decisions. The concept that someone simply not liking the aesthetics of an act by the Federal Government is enough to confer standing is, to quote a movie "stupid, stupid, stupid." I cannot believe he authored it. Simply ridiculous. The party with standing is Congress, it has not acted to stop the executive. And, if Congress wanted to, they could pass a law to demolish the new structure and put it back the way it was. Open and shut, no concrete harm, no standing decision is what was called for. Roberts is an *ss.
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 03:52 AM (/aZwr)
https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2)
Could not disagree more. Eratosthenes looked down a well and figured out how to measure the circumference of the earth. If a millennial looks down a well, today, you know that they think? "Huh? What's this?"
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 03:54 AM (/aZwr)
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 03:52 AM (/aZwr)
Just following the age old concept of make shit up BECAUSEIWANTTO. How do you think we got a right to murder babies in the womb?
BECAUSEIWANTTO is a staple of various SCOTUS rulings over the years.
Dred Scot, Row v Wade, Obamacare, and now Trump's ballroom.
Sheesh, didn't they teach this in law school?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 04:15 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:19 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 03:54 AM (/aZwr)
I am constantly amazed at the crap every generation comes up with to "prove" they are the smartest people who ever lived.
It is very much like the old "Dark Ages" theory, that somehow people got stupider during the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire. And yet, somehow, we preserved millennia of written history, science, medical texts, and the Bible throughout that time, invented brilliant things like jurisprudence, the horse collar, fallow field rotation, medicinal herbaria, charitable housing and sustenance, and of course silly things like the scientific method, all while apparently in the "Dark Ages."
Now kids don't even know how to use a slide rule.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 04:20 AM (dEHLq)
Homo sapiens in essentially modern anatomical form have been around for at least 300K years. And I suspect that might get pushed even farther back.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2026 04:21 AM (w6EFb)
Publii!
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:22 AM (odBC9)
lol
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:23 AM (/aZwr)
Homo sapiens means "man the wise". We named ourselves of course....
A more objective classification might say Homo Lamonticus, Man the Big Dummy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2026 04:25 AM (w6EFb)
(There's no "the" in there.)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:27 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 01, 2026 04:20 AM (dEHLq)
I SO agree with this. Also - the "aliens built the pyramids" crowd makes my blood boil. I tend to think that the ancients who did plan and engineer/build them roll in their graves when this is said.
And yes - there are a couple of Publii here - I tend to comment a bit less than the other Publius. Mostly because of the time zone thing (am in Singapore). But have been here a long while - since around 2015
Posted by: Publius Redux at September 01, 2026 04:29 AM (/aZwr)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2026 04:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at September 01, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 01, 2026 06:56 AM (8HjLl)
Monday Cafe
Ben Wolf
A family of bears was rescued from a deep cistern in California.
“They were just scared to death.”
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 30, 2026
California Fish and Wildlife officials are trying to figure out how to free three bears trapped inside what appears to be a water cistern.
The bears were discovered by two cyclists who heard howling and what sounded like animals in distress at… pic.twitter.com/k9FDR7zJsQ
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Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07:29 PM (NnhvP)
If there are cisterns there must also be transterns.
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[golf clap]
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Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (2Drhq)
Really?
https://tinyurl.com/tbe4383r
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Posted by: Delurker
Because then you'd have a bunch of bear carcasses you'd have to haul out of the pit?
Much better to figure out how to get them to climb out on their own.
Then you can shoot them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 07:34 PM (C0Nlv)
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Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:31 PM (LHPAg)
That hussy! She ate our food, ruined my chair, stole my bed, and then we threw her out as a squatter
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM
Did you wear a cowboy hat whilst upon it?
You know, Rhinestone thong cowboy and all ... ;-)
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Posted by: JackStraw
Either a Bengal or a Savannah cat, I think
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Photo. Stupid autocucumber.
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Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)
Poor bears. The low water levels is probably what allowed the bears to find a way in that is usually under water.
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (u73oe)
Come back with a snipe sometime and we'll see if further excursions are necessary.
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Tell us the taco salad contains kale! Lie if you must!
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Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 07:42 PM (Jr5Lq)
Man, you can't travel to any of those tropical-type or exotic places without wanting to rescue an animal.
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It would be a lie! Hydroponic lettuce is the base.
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There is no excuse for this.
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:45 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 07:46 PM (NnhvP)
(Do people still say "kudos"?)
Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos the executioner.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)
Kudos is what they give you when they won't give you a pay raise.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:46 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:47 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:38 PM (PbWRL)
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Yeah, as far as I know.
BTW used your tuscan herb oil to soften the mire poix for soup tonight. Had a little spoonful too, could easily be addictive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:48 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)
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Me too.
Posted by: Lt. Kevin Kyle at August 31, 2026 07:50 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL)
Picked up Dutchess's ashes at the vet's this afternoon. Our merry, star-crossed girl is home for good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 07:53 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:54 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)
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This is an interesting episode, there is little action but the story, directing, and acting are very good.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:56 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL)
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Yes not extra strong or cloying can't wait to try the soup.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 07:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:57 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 07:59 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 07
I think that is a Savannah, but probably an SBT one. Bengals have rosettes, Savannahs have more solid spots. A Savannah should have the spots crossing over the back instead of the stripes, Savannahs should never have marbling, and this one is getting close to that, and the ears should be much larger and more triangular.
But even an imperfect Savannah is a fun cat! And who amongst us doesn’t have a few flaws?
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)
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This is an interesting episode, there is little action but the story, directing, and acting are very good.
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That's one of my favorites.
Another I really like is the one where Abraham Lincoln (no, really, Abraham Lincoln) appears to help Kirk and Spock battle an opposing team of baddies all because some alien entity wanted to study good versus evil.
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 08:00 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 07:53 PM (O0L8i)
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Hoping that brings you and HM some comfort.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:40 PM (PbWRL)
Morning doves?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 08:02 PM (rbvCR)
Cistern. What's the water for?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 31, 2026 08:03 PM (zqeQL)
Just got The Word from Her Majesty. The Big Dummy will return to his Ohio mom for good next month. He performed valiantly this year but can't catch the current #1 Borzoi in the remaining shows. He may have a million-dollar body and a two-cent brain but he's a perfect gentleman and a delightful guest.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:03 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (KC5Lt)
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The elder cat is terrified of the outdoors. I carried her outside once on a sunny day and she started crying. The other one is fine with it, and eldest would take her out to play, but of course bugs love cat fur, so we put a stop to that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 08:04 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:46 PM (LHPAg)
A head knocking? Wow, tough employer.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 08:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 08:05 PM (Cqx++)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 08:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:06 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:06 PM (O0L8i)
I think this gives us a clue to the PLA's operation effectiveness and willingness to take risks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:07 PM (ZOv7s)
May God’s love be upon you, Her Majesty, and the other pups.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:04 PM (77rzZ)
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Amen.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 08:07 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 08:04 PM (IkLDu)
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I imagine he was used to it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:10 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:10 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:12 PM (77rzZ)
Hadrian, any litter in the near future?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:10 PM (PbWRL)
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No, we're too old to make a 10-year commitment. But we will always have dogs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:13 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:08 PM (77rzZ)
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Yes, she's doing quite well. As soon as she has healed up, she will have to do some chemo, but it is mild and of short duration - basically killing off the stragglers. She will also get some drug therapy that says "Fuck you in particular" to that specific type of cancer. She's actually relieved because she was afraid she'd get crushing chemo and the oncologist stressed that she would not be given more than she could handle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 08:14 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:15 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at August 31, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)
>@DailyMail
>>Mistress who turned in treacherous FBI spy Charles McGonigal is mysteriously found DEAD: Her haunting final texts revealed... as grieving dad insists she 'would never' take her own life
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Her haunting final texts revealed... at August 31, 2026 08:17 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 08:18 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:15 PM (PbWRL
If you want to take the cow horse right out of him, you know who to send him too! 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 08:19 PM (Rln0i)
Oddly enough, she might have.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Errorick Errorickson at August 31, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)
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Who is paying that grifter's bills?
I missed the post on MILO but geez, talk about just desserts. That guy's on what, his third reinvention? First he was Breitbart's Magic Homo, but then said the quiet part out loud about teenagers being groomed like he was, and was banished to the Outer Darkness.
He then prayed the gay away, and became Catholic, which is basically the same story arc as C.O., and both of them became obsessed with Jews and other weirdness, but he also for some reason decided to swear allegiance to Iran, so not surprised he was shown the door.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)
>>Mistress who turned in treacherous FBI spy Charles McGonigal is mysteriously found DEAD: Her haunting final texts revealed... as grieving dad insists she 'would never' take her own life
Posted by: JackStraw
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Nothing is as deep as DeepState.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:21 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
One of my cats is a shaded golden Brit Shorthair. His flaw is that the gene that moves the stripes off the tips of the fur isn't strong enough so he has some stripes on the tail and some dusting on the body. He looks like a lion cub.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:21 PM (ogcfP)
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The Paolo agrees, and he has gone the very deep.
Posted by: The Paolo at August 31, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Good morning Miss Dove.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 08:18 PM (Cqx++)
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Good movie.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:23 PM (O0L8i)
Put a ladder down into that cistern, and the bears can climb out. They climb trees very well, after all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:23 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Well, Well, Bud Fell In The Well at August 31, 2026 08:23 PM (JM9I6)
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LOL, I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to find this hilarious. I denounce myself.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 08:23 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Papa Bear, licking his chops at August 31, 2026 08:24 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08
That sounds adorable!
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 08:26 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:26 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August
In between he was MTG’s social media manger and ghost wrote her book. Milo is incredibly intelligent. What a waste.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 08:27 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM (PbWRL)
I then stumbled on him through Catholic sites talking about his conversion and decision to abandon the gay lifestyle. Uh, sure, we'll see how this goes, but also: good for you, God bless, but I don't care.
Latterly it was the weird CPAC blowup about Christian "influencers" doing drugs and banging each other with wild abandon. He drove part of it. Again, not my crowd, but okay. The part that got my interest was that at the same time he was exposing fake Christians, he was DESTROYING Owens, calling her stupid, ignorant, etc. but then he did a 180. That was the curious thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM
Oh my gosh, I was kidding, but am tearing up you actually trust me enough to even consider that! Wow.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Might be high INT... but WIS is clearly his dump stat lately.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (aJQbY)
Sounds like a beautiful dog.
I'm going to bed very early after congratulating him on making it though another month! When you're 105 in dog years, every month is a party.
Snowflake killed a bird and I have remains to clean up tomorrow. It's always a bit weird with her sleeping peacefully on my bedroom chair knowing she killed that day. I hope she comes in soon.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
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The idea is that they have sensors that can tell you not to bother. We don't have that level of tech, so we have to make a good faith try. Also: imagine the trope of Bones doing CPR and it never working.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:26 PM (PbWRL)
Yeah, catching up on the thread. Day late, and a dollar short, I am.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:31 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: The Royal Warrant at August 31, 2026 08:31 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Yeah, I saw that. Wild. And "advising" Kanye - presumably on hating Jews and fish dicks.
He needs to go offline permanently and focus on his soul.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Barney Fife at August 31, 2026 08:32 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)
There sure is somebody or several somebodies turning these dopes. You'd think they would see what the longevity of those who turn on DJT has been these last 10 years. Meanwhile the prototypical white supremacist operator keeps his nose clean for the most part.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 31, 2026 08:32 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
If Milo had been a big cheese, would he have been a whey in the manger?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:32 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:33 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Piper"
I do that sometimes with Bruno's toys and he kicks the bucket over and plays with the bucket.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)
Might be high INT... but WIS is clearly his dump stat lately.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (aJQbY)
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In his third act (exposing influencer Christians), he also offered some pretty bracing commentary on the actual experience of being gay and the toll it takes on one's body. Pretty gruesome stuff. He could turn a phrase, I'll give him that, which is probably why he was a ghostwriter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
When they do have someone in the infirmary who is ill there seems to be an apparatus over them giving the vitals and performing whatever life support they need somehow.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)
We're proud to have gotten a Best in Show on The Big Dummy. Of all the dogs competing annually in all-breed conformation shows, I've estimated that about 0.1% manage a BIS.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:35 PM (O0L8i)
Kinda like Canada.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:33 PM (MWfyi)
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Canadian tricorders say everyone is dead. Cheaper that way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)
We're proud to have gotten a Best in Show on The Big Dummy. Of all the dogs competing annually in all-breed conformation shows, I've estimated that about 0.1% manage a BIS.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Congrats.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:36 PM (E4rtv)
This also why I have a bunch of geriatrics around here.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:36 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)
"What toy do I want to play with... was it this one... or this one... or this one... hey Mommy are you watching? Pay attention to me!"
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 08:36 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
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*** Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has entered the chat... ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Exactly ... I mean no one holds your Kale fetish against you (at least out loud).
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:33 PM (MWfyi)
If Canada had lawyers instead of doctors to assist "terminally ill" people in offing themselves, would that mean you could get LAID in Canada?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Yeah, and they administer hypos or put gizmos on, but I think the criticism is when Mr. Redshirt goes down Bones waves a salt-shaker over him rather than checking his pulse or trying CPR. Again, we do that because we don't have a gizmo that says "Don't waste your time."
He does use his kit to dose people, and sometimes it even works!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper
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Another link in the chain of odd bedfellows.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:39 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM
Aren't they yclept Barristers in Canada, and therefore it would be BAID?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 08:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (1z8ji)
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I am reliably informed by an friend who spent a decade in Toronto that this is embarrassingly easy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper"
I do that sometimes with Bruno's toys and he kicks the bucket over and plays with the bucket.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)
Way back in the day, my toddler son would waddle to the book shelf and start pulling books onto the floor. Gleefully. He would look at me, grinning while doing so. I actually took a photo or two of him in action. I need to find it. Boys are a caution, that's for sure.
I miss having little kids in the house. They grow up way too damn quickly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:38 PM (viF8m)
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No. Not gonna click it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Hah! That would make a great meme. Pic of Bones, with a Maple Leaf logo on his Starfleet uniform, waving his tricorder over a very obviously alive Redshirt. "He's dead, Jim."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (1z8ji)
Congradu..
Kudos to TBD!
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (vTZFs)
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When I played World of Warcraft and was part of a guild, we'd simply say "Grats" in the chat when someone accomplished an achievement (everyone in the guild gets notified).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (FZ29D)
I just put all of Saijo’s toys back in the basket and he is pulling them all out again, one by one
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I put Diana's toys in a box in order to vacuum the house. 1 hour later, they're scattered over the living room.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM
Soon, Mr. Lloyd, soon.
Posted by: A.I. at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 08:36 PM (aJQbY)
The kid is turning it into a game and telling him what toy to bring. He is solid with 3 of them (chicken, Dragon and Penguin), but the others are random guesses on his part, clearly. It’s funny to watch.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)
There sure is somebody or several somebodies turning these dopes. You'd think they would see what the longevity of those who turn on DJT has been these last 10 years. Meanwhile the prototypical white supremacist operator keeps his nose clean for the most part.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Deepstate is getting pretty frantic and probably giving countermanding orders from different factions paying for all this shit. Getting cut off from Uncle Sam's AID tit is probably scrambling issues, Iran and Venezuela going down is affecting more including comms, etc.
And the Eurotrash WEF crowd is getting whipsawed by their own nasty anti growth plans, the restive natives under their thumb, astronomical energy prices combine with China eating their lunch and US rebalancing trade.
It is if we are in the later stages of a chess match where suddenly moves and countermoves pop out in rapid succession.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (E4rtv)
Did I just hear Trump announce we're gonna have a Star Fleet? And an academy for it?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (w6EFb)
He does use his kit to dose people, and sometimes it even works!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)
The salt shaker (or perhaps pepper - yes that is what the prop is) is doing the pulse measurement and other life signs, or the medical tricorder can a more complete sort of analysis. He can mix up or generate a number of medications in the hypo device, sometimes he fiddles with it to adjust it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (uhVAy)
https://tinyurl.com/2n3d6h63
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:38 PM (viF8m)
***facepalm***
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 08:40 PM (0aYVJ)
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I'm glad that the grandkids are doing the grade school thing. Yeah, they were precious when they were crawling and toddling around, but I'm too old to be chasing them. Visits? Sure, but living here has been a chore. They are now to the point where they can do chores and provide a net positive to the household. Thank God.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 08:39 PM (0sNs1)
The "L" stands for "legal", just as the "M" in "MAID" stands for "medical". Parallel construction, what is it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:42 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (E4rtv)
Some of the smaller pawns should just look to their ability to play in these deep games with any hope of success.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (uhVAy)
https://tinyurl.com/2n3d6h63
Posted by: JackStraw
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You missed this:
https://tinyurl.com/4m666y6a
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Piper
She denies it now despite obvious evidence that she was associated with him including pictures, past web posts, etc. That whole crowd of right wing grifters have some puppet master pulling their strings and I suspect it is both globo homo WEF donors and their GOPe allies in the US.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (E4rtv)
He announced when he was in Houston awarding the Space Force medals that he's authorized the founding of a Space Force Academy.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: browndog says woof at August
Oh the flaws i possess! Kale is the least of them.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:43 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:44 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:44 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 31, 2026 07:33 PM (u73oe)
Well, September is the month when they are most active. Usually just after sunset. Holding a big cucumber in your hand can attract them.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (E4rtv)
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Agreed. Making Carny blow up the trade deal was stupid. After three years of choking on Canadian smoke, the Upper Midwest wants to kick Canada in the shins. Again and again.
Alberta is not going to rally 'round the flag but run screaming because the dipshits in Ontario gleefully talked about destroying their entire economy.
It's all Kaiserschlacht all the time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 08:41 PM (w6EFb)
Space Force yes. Funny, I was looking up Spain's military size the other week and their Air Force is their Air and *Space* Force. Not sure when they will be colonizing that frontier.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig at August
He is almost blind, and has some health issues. We will see what happens to him now. And his properties here.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 08:46 PM (Ujrb8)
No. Not gonna click it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Hey, hey, glad the Mrs. is doing OK.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:46 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:44 PM (O0L8i)
They just use maple syrup.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:44 PM (O0L8i)
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If you use a drug "off label" to kill someone, that is the worst thing ever. If you do it to chemically castra a minor, you're being heroic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 08:47 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (uhVAy)
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You know who wrote a book on Spain's military...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat
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I think Iceland just did. Putting kibosh on joining the sinking EU. Norway told the EU to fly a kite on restricting their Barent Sea oil and gas exploration.
Russia appears inching closer to a general mobilization of about 600k troops to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses, China probably has its own plans but for now is destroying the Euro auto business with their cheap electric cars among other things.
Japan is close to a yen crisis. UK lurches from crisis to crisis, Ireland is reaching a boiling point on migrants, and of course Spain where a corrupt leader of a minority government is trying desperately to destroy his own country rather than face jail time with his bride and fellow party members.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:47 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026
My cats play with their toys. But the favorite is this goofy stuffed emoji from a happy meal 10 years ago. The send that thing flying!
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:45 PM (uhVAy)
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Maybe there's a lost space-faring Aztec empire we don't know about...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (FZ29D)
Seriously, Jesse Waters played some clip of Trump speaking to some NASA bunch, and he mentioned the nuclear powered Mars probe in the works, and said we're gonna have a "star fleet" of those things. :-) Or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Ace's girlfriend is from up in your country.
You probably wouldn't know her, though.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 08:46 PM (Ujrb
Not sure if it is a different prop in real life. But the medical ones do different stuff. I think Spock has used a scanner to get elemental compositions in the field with his. Presumably different software, perhaps different types of scanners as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 31, 2026 08:49 PM (5rX7u)
Got the lawn mowed today. Rain is expected tomorrow. Counties to the north and east of Houston may get 10 inches (in a pretty short time) but we may get 1 or less here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:49 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Piper
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Human wreckage from dancing with the devil for too long. The Lord may redeem him but he is now permanently barred from the US and as damaged goods, I doubt anyone serious in the UK is going to take a flyer on him. His former editor at Breitbart indicated he was trouble from day one there.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)
Space Force is really out on its own. They are digital warfighters, and so the usual regimen of marching, small arms proficiency and the manual of arms only tangentially applies. I mean, they should know how to use sidearms, but will they even have security forces, or will the Air Force provide them? Their facilities are going to be on someone else's base.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (uhVAy)
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In the "real" future, people might just download an app to their smart device that does whatever they need at that moment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:50 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Bearded Spock at August 31, 2026 08:50 PM (Ujrb8)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026
My cats play with their toys. But the favorite is this goofy stuffed emoji from a happy meal 10 years ago. The send that thing flying!
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
Cats are strange - it is understandable that an old well loved catnip toy might make them happy because of memories, but I have seen old toys from cats long passed on be found by a new cat and treated like the best toy ever by the new ones. Even ones where the catnip itself was virtually gone.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:51 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (uhVAy)
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I've got a copy of The Making of Star Trek by Roddenberry and IIRC, Spock took a medical tricorder and hot-rodded it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:50 PM (FZ29D)
They also have little attachments to do credit card reading and the like for your phone.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:52 PM (uhVAy)
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Remember you weren't even allowed to *disagree* with Obama on anything, including when he insulted you or the dead or anyone. Remember it was the absolute end of the world. This was of course back when the Left loved to swan dive onto their fainting couches.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:48 PM (uhVAy)
Such tools now exist in the real world. Hand-held instrument that can tell you the bulk atomic make-up of a rock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 08:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:51 PM (uhVAy)
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One of the first toys I ever got for my cats was a gift from a friend. My cat Jasmine loved to play with it.
Now Chloe, my newest cat, also loves to play with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:52 PM (FZ29D)
Alberta is not going to rally 'round the flag but run screaming because the dipshits in Ontario gleefully talked about destroying their entire economy.
It's all Kaiserschlacht all the time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The way that leaders are purposefully burning down their own countries to rule in ashes and enough support from their own citizenry to burn down their own societies to destruction is a mass psychosis that makes those marching off to war in 1914 cheering seem sane. And this is country after country are doing that in the EU. Russia and Ukraine are killing each other to a scale not seen since the 2nd World War or the partition of India.
Madness that makes the Donald look calm, cool, and collected.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:53 PM (E4rtv)
Japan is close to a yen crisis. UK lurches from crisis to crisis, Ireland is reaching a boiling point on migrants, and of course Spain where a corrupt leader of a minority government is trying desperately to destroy his own country rather than face jail time with his bride and fellow party members.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:47 PM (E4rtv)
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France is a riot away from having the Fifth Republic collapse. Germany is adopting the Morgenthau Plan on its own. But we should be ashamed of ourselves because of Trump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 08:54 PM (O0L8i)
I think the Governess of Kansas or someplace like that did this during “Covid”. Since when do elected leaders of a state get to practice Medicine, anyway?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 08:55 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:47 PM (E4rtv)
Think we have propped the Yen up. There was apparently a trick all the bad actors knew where you could buy yen from Japan for no interest and then flip it and generate cash for your shady dealings. The US and Japan are plugging that leak.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:56 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:56 PM (PbWRL)
That "nuclear Mars probe" is Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a test of nuclear-electric propulsion. It will use a constant thrust trajectory to Mars, and deploy the "Skyfall" payload, which is three helicopters to fly around and explore on Mars.
Note this is low thrust, high specific impulse, not Epstein Drive-like high thrust.
Unlike a typical transfer orbit and gravitational-only trajectories, ballistic you might call them, although that's generally not used, it uses a continuous little thrust the whole way.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 08:56 PM (w6EFb)
Now Chloe, my newest cat, also loves to play with it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 08:52 PM (FZ29D)
i wonder if they can smell the love on it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:57 PM (uhVAy)
Got the lawn mowed today. Rain is expected tomorrow.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Of course it is.
Looked at the radar. There's a storm south of LA but it looks doubtful to make Houston area landfall. Straight up the Sabine baby.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 08:57 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Yes absolutely. Poland seems to be one of the few sane countries in the EU. Even the Swiss are going nuts by refusing to put a lid on immigration.
Some group of ne'er do wells in the background have the elected leaders of Western Europe in a gimp suit and a ball gag taking orders while their masters dictate the destruction of Western civilization.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:59 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 08:56 PM (uhVAy)
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Bessent went full bitch-mode on Liawatha about how currency swaps are not bailouts and how the US has an interest in stabilizing the yen.
Japan may actually have turned the corner. They are pushing the muslims out, defending their heritage and arming up. I saw a report that they are getting tactical advice from the Filipinos because their army component is so inexperienced. Strange days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 08:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat
Japan has sailed beyond 300 percent debt to GDP, the only comparable of that size is China and it is about there with regional and national government debt. Both are aging rapidly, Japan's population is declining and I suspect that China's is there or about to be. I also think both China and India's population figures are likely bogus just as the USSR's was.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:00 PM (E4rtv)
Spain where a corrupt leader is trying desperately to destroy his own country
France is a riot away from having the Fifth Republic collapse. Germany is adopting the Morgenthau Plan on its own
So, a buying opportunity coming up?
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: polynikes at
Open door, let out, wish it well insofar as not getting eaten and such. It will come back when hungry.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (sl73Y)
They also have little attachments to do credit card reading and the like for your phone.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026
I have tap to pay on the studio cell phone. No need to even swipe it.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon "
It can tell you the kind of rock? That would be so useful. We have a variety of rocks at our farm, feldspar, quartzite, biotite gneiss, mica and such, among other things, and it would be handy and interesting to be able to do that with a thing that plugs into your cellphone.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (MWfyi)
Being a forensic accountant would be an interesting job. I am amazed at all the places and shell companies the IRGC has money stashed.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:59 PM (PbWRL)
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Strikes me that's a job where if you're asked what you do, you say you're an ice cream salesman.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (O0L8i)
Some group of ne'er do wells in the background have the elected leaders of Western Europe in a gimp suit and a ball gag taking orders while their masters dictate the destruction of Western civilization.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv)
Sane ish. Their government head was installed by the EU in one of their shady backroom deals a while back. They need to be careful that their distrust of Russia doesn't get them turned into a pawn for the EU / UK Russian haters. Because in the final analysis, there's no military oomph behind any of their plans.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Just scan the QR code on your screen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:03 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Interesting fact. You and Oldcat have an eye for strategic details as does Hadrian.
When Elon opened X to Japanese by autotranslation to English and vice versa, I see a lot of Japanese in my feed that are really pissed off at the Muslim invaders and whoever is sponsoring them. Plus their ancient shrines are like churches in the West, mysteriously catching fire.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:03 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 09:03 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026
I have tap to pay on the studio cell phone. No need to even swipe it.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Can you charge other people's cards though?
Yes bluetooth has a funky little interface for tap actions in there, can transfer a snippet of bytes.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:04 PM (uhVAy)
Neither Jaeger or the cats have any interest in toys. One less thing to pick up and put away. I do have to pick up all the dead rats and mice.
Posted by: Ben Had
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My cats play with their toys. But the favorite is this goofy stuffed emoji from a happy meal 10 years ago. The send that thing flying!
Posted by: Piper
MegaRoy has a basket of toys in Junior-ette's room. Every night between midnight and 0400, he'll dig a random one out and drag it into the master bedroom and play with it while 'mrrrp-ing". He has a few repeat favorites, like a plush bunny rabbit he stole from Junior-ette, that get a more frequent turn in the cycle.
Buggy, my triangle headed siamese back in the late 90s had a toddler teething ring he attached himself to. Slept with it, carried it around, etc.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 31, 2026 09:05 PM (QVmho)
For some numbers, SR-1's thrust will be just 3 to 4 oz. Yes, ounces of thrust.
So, just a little extra non-gravitational acceleration. These low thrust trajectories are interesting. Basically, you do a long outward spiral.
SR-1 will actually take a bit longer to get to Mars than usual, but with much less fuel mass than usual. That's what high specific impulse, but low thrust does for you.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:06 PM (w6EFb)
Bessent went full bitch-mode on Liawatha about how currency swaps are not bailouts and how the US has an interest in stabilizing the yen.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Treasury Department@SecScottBessent
In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.
What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.
To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:06 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Auspex
Pain eventually even overcomes citizen fear in the EU of the puppet masters and I think the next two years are going to reveal a lot of ugliness that is being directed by a small cadre of very rich families that are trying to implode Western civilization to rule over the ashes.
They are bringing in the Muslims purposefully to bring capitulation and yet, they have to know that Muslims are fine at terror, not so good as soldiers.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 09:08 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had
A heartwarming book by Jean Shepard. Christmas Story is a chapter in it. The others are just as good. Closest thing to O. Henry, I've read.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:08 PM (E4rtv)
Yow. We're happy to have gotten a BIS on The Big Dummy, but the #1 all-breed dog has 63 as of the end of July.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:08 PM (O0L8i)
Yes bluetooth has a funky little interface for tap actions in there, can transfer a snippet of bytes.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:04 PM (uhVAy)
Yes, they can tap their card or their phone using their digital wallet. Or their Apple Watch, even. I still have the ability to swipe or you can always manually enter a card number as a back up. It connects into my POS on my iMac.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 09:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:09 PM (ogcfP)
When the great EU-Russia war starts, y'all will be grateful for the stout muslum lads in the trenches defending the west.
Guessing the 600,000 man call up was the reason for the CIA to go to Moscow last week.
Bloody mess coming, I fear.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:10 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:00 PM (E4rtv)
China's demo is probably worse than Japan or Korea for that matter. The madcap building of cardboard real estate was a way to fool people into thinking their retirement was covered now that most kids have multiple parents and grandparents all depending on one child. Now that is blowing up in their face.
The recent natural disasters might have modified things a bit since the loss of life is being hugely suppressed by the CCP.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:11 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: whig
That's why the Ottoman Empire's elite troops were abducted/"taxed" European children (Janissaries). As the Muslim immigrants take all normal, legitimate blue collar jobs, the military might be the only option for ethnic Europeans. They get to be slaves soldiers again!
Posted by: Military Moron at August 31, 2026 09:11 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 09:01 PM (MWfyi)
Handheld X-ray Fluorescence Analyzers. Figure on 30,000 bucks or so. But they will become cheaper, I'm sure. If you know bulk composition, and plug in other things like color, crystal habit, and associated minerals, you can probably nail the identity of the mineral under the spot beam.
https://tinyurl.com/zjd85s35
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 09:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bearded Spock at August 31, 2026 09:12 PM (Ujrb8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:12 PM (rFS/C)
Guessing the 600,000 man call up was the reason for the CIA to go to Moscow last week.
Bloody mess coming, I fear.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:10 PM (Y8DZL)
Put a gun in the hand of a musloid, and he will point it at you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)
When the great EU-Russia war starts, y'all will be grateful for the stout muslum lads in the trenches defending the west.
Guessing the 600,000 man call up was the reason for the CIA to go to Moscow last week.
Bloody mess coming, I fear.
Posted by: Auspex
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The muzzies would run like hell from any army conscription and I think the natives would just as soon take allegiance to Vlad as to their vile elected overlords in that case. No one wants to fight for Globohomo is the reality.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:15 PM (E4rtv)
Bloody mess coming, I fear.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:10 PM (Y8DZL)
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There is also a rumor that Russia was going to declare the UK a co-belligerent unless they cut ties with Ukraine. Article 5 doesn't apply if you provoke the war.
I'm just spitballing, but what if Iran really is on the ropes and is calling in all its favors. Russia rattles the sabre, and Carney dutifully provokes a trade war, all in the hopes of blunting what would be a game-changing win for the US.
If Iran comes to terms, that's it for the Dems. Big parade in DC, mullahs vanquished, their defenders humiliated, and the midterms become a blue bloodbath. Abdul Jihadi gets smoked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bearded Spock at August 31, 2026 09:12 PM (Ujrb
I always praised the kitty bringing me gifts, it was the least I could do.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Auspex
Real estate! Homes in Ceuta are at a discount right now, but the Spanish government has already deported all the migrants. Threat's gone, property is still cheap...buy now, and in 6 months, home values will skyrocket. Don't miss out on this easy investment opportunity!!!
Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 31, 2026 09:15 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think the guns are already in the mosques to be brought out. Literally thousands of mosques now in France, UK, Germany, and spreading in other nations as well.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv)
Our main campus downtown had a water pipe burst and destroy all of our elevators. It’s a nine story building. Stairwell is badge access only.
What a mess. I’m supposed to expect patients with back pain to climb the stairs? And what about my patients who just got back injections? Their legs are fucking numb.
What a shitshow.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:17 PM (rFS/C)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:15 PM (E4rtv)
Yeah, they are pampered pets now. Hard to turn that into warriors, even if you have the weapons for them, which you do not. Or the leadership.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:17 PM (uhVAy)
Bif, I saw the message. We can work something out.
Posted by: Ben Had
I figured you had, but are just swamped with daily duties, training world class cow horses, and MoMe planning. I'll probably be back in Diana around Veteran's day, but otherwise am busier than a one armed paper hanger with work. Only home two weekends, and three weekdays this month!
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 31, 2026 09:18 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think the guns are already in the mosques to be brought out. Literally thousands of mosques now in France, UK, Germany, and spreading in other nations as well.
Posted by: whig
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Here too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:18 PM (ogcfP)
Those are cool. Build AI in it and let it figure out the mineral.
You need an x-ray generator so it may be a while before a cell phone can do it.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 09:18 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Possible. That would explain the continuing leaks and Driscoll being forcibly retired. Dems in the nat sec community are getting desperate.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
The recent natural disasters might have modified things a bit since the loss of life is being hugely suppressed by the CCP.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 09:11 PM (uhVAy)
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Japan got rich before it got old. China got old before it got rich. The Tibet-Nepal flooding is really interesting because it shows how the PLA and NAP function in an operational environment. TL;DR version: they don't. They moved assets to the region and then sat there, waiting for everyone to die. Then, three days later, they made propaganda films of guys with clean uniforms calling out for survivors and gingerly shoveling dirt into a pile.
Nepal had helos racing all over the place, guys pulling people out of muck on ropes, heroic rescues galore, more than 7,000 people save. China has saved exactly zero.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat
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My guess is some underpants gnome plan that resembles the Hutus deciding to chop up the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Delurker
I LOVE Bears!!
Posted by: Barack Obama, heterosexual at August 31, 2026 09:21 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 09:21 PM (XuXeR)
Nepal had helos racing all over the place, guys pulling people out of muck on ropes, heroic rescues galore, more than 7,000 people save. China has saved exactly zero.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Looks like you can reuse your title.
Walls of Dead: Chinese Response to Disasters.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)
Did yew FART Tube tw I dey ?
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 31, 2026 09:22 PM (HJ5Fv)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:18 PM (E4rtv)
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The leak of the War Book or whatever is suicidal. That's a desperation move. "See, the generals said it would never wooooork!!1!" is meaningless once Iran surrenders.
The Iranians are screwed and so this is a Hail Mary to try to get the whole thing called off but the WaPo is a dirt rag worth a dollar these days. No one cares.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (2+C8T)
Did I hear aright that the China-Nepal flooding was caused by a geological collapse that led to the glacier breaking away? That Shell executives did not, in fact, cause it?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Braenyard
Difference is we have so many firearms that we could provide almost every European with one if we wished and still have enough left to finish off invaders. In Euroland, apart from perhaps the Swiss and the Finns, a lot fewer people own firearms there.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RI Red
Oh, so you've read Sixth Column by Heinlein.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:25 PM (E4rtv)
Walls of Dead: Chinese Response to Disasters.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)
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I'm actually backing off on my China watching because it's becoming really dark. The bit about delivery drivers lacing their orders with herbicide was deeply disturbing. Supposedly the hospitals noticed the spike, informed the government, which promptly told everyone to shut up because if word got out, the last line of defense for the economy (food delivery) would collapse.
Well, word got out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Did I hear aright that the China-Nepal flooding was caused by a geological collapse that led to the glacier breaking away? That Shell executives did not, in fact, cause it?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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That has been my take from the news.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:25 PM (E4rtv)
Well, word got out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Their elites are every bit as rapacious as ours, just not as traitorous to their own country as ours appear to be.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:27 PM (E4rtv)
Yet you will never see this on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc...
Now if His Highness Sir Barry of Obama were POTUS he would proclaimed the Ruler of the World and Chocolate Moses.
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 09:27 PM (eO806)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)
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There are actually several countries with "gun cultures," Germany among them. France also has a non-trivial rate of civilian firearms ownership. The Czechs lifted a lot of restrictions because of fears of external/internal issues, and Poland is embracing the "nation in arms" concept and encouraging gun clubs as deterrence against Russia.
All the Baltics are planning on Guerilla warfare as well. The arms are not in homes, but in caches to be accessed after the Russians move past.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 09:27 PM (eO806)
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If Sir Barry was in charge, Israel would be a smoking crater.
He would have expedited Iran's nuclear program and given them the go-ahead to use it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:29 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:25 PM (E4rtv)
I had read it years ago, but I had to look it up.
Yes, I will be the pastor and it will be something like Michael Valentine Smith's church.
Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 09:29 PM (2+C8T)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:23 PM (O0L8i)
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That is one theory. The other is that the Chinese were doing yet another ill-considered hydro project and overfilling a reservoir which caused a slope to become unstable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:32 PM (O0L8i)
He would have expedited Iran's nuclear program and given them the go-ahead to use it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:29 PM (FZ29D)
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He did everything in his power to help them short of delivering actual nukes. And somehow, Trump thwarted it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: RI Red
I would, too, but the amount of pork I've put through the grills out back would disqualify me.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:32 PM (Y8DZL)
Way to go, bitch! Wrecking all the nice things.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (0aYVJ)
A huge chunk of glacier broke off a mountain and plummeted down. Don't hold me to it, but IIRC that chunk was about 2000' wide, and it fell on the order of 4000' down. There may have been some rock under it that gave way.
The usual suspects are screaming globull warmmuning of course, but tectonic uplift likely had as much to do with it as melting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
The way to beat Taiwan is by making the US abandon it, because then the fifth columnists could make the case that life is better than death. But Xi figured that Harris would follow, and it would be even easier.
He was wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 08:56 PM (PbWRL)
I wish I could dig up my posts from 2016 and 2017 saying he had the ability to do exactly that, and that's why they had to manufacture Russia to try to ruin him. That was the reason for their nonstop opposition. They knew what he was capable of and had to stop it at any cost. And almost did, several times...
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 09:35 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:27 PM (E4rtv)
On the contrary they're as loyal to their country as ours is... to their country.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 09:36 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
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Global warming did not prevent China from using established protocols to sound an alert as soon as it was detected and give downstream communities more time to evacuate.
Don't trust China, China is asshoe.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Way to go, bitch! Wrecking all the nice things.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Oddly enough my dad hated that cunt with a passion few could conjure, but loved 9 to 5.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 09:37 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 09:38 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: RI Red
I would, too, but the amount of pork I've put through the grills out back would disqualify me.
Posted by: Auspex
"Reform branch?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 09:38 PM (VHUov)
All the Baltics are planning on Guerilla warfare as well. The arms are not in homes, but in caches to be accessed after the Russians move past.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I hope you are correct.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)
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Isn't it romantic?
America, the great siege engine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:39 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: ...
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Heh. Well put.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:39 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
Massive landslides are a regular occurrence in mountainous country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 09:39 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (ogcfP)
APPLE! GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (g47mK)
Instead of "submit", it means '"rise up".
Dihaj is is the requirement to vanquish all foes of the Constitution. Every household will be required to own a minimum of one automatic rifle. Sunday is Church of the Holey Target.
Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (2+C8T)
Posted by: Delurker
Humans are 100x worse. We do nothing but pollute the planet, kill things and lay waste to the oceans and the skies. Is there anything we make better?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:41 PM (+Lnfw)
The amount of money the CCP is spending to direct U.S. politics and policy is greater than can estimated.
They want civilizational collapse. No schools, manufacturing, and a fentanyl addled population.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:41 PM (Y8DZL)
This site can’t be reached
tweetviewer.com took too long to respond.
I am not happy with xwitter, don't want to join.
Posted by: mindful webworker - nitter, natter, nutter, moosk at August 31, 2026 09:42 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
Massive landslides are a regular occurrence in mountainous country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 09:39 PM (1z8ji)
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I blame the quantum weather butterfly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:42 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: The Rocket Man at August 31, 2026 09:42 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:38 PM (E4rtv)
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German and French firearms ownership is around 30%, which is low to us, but much better than the UK. In fact, one could argue that American gun culture is because of Germany, which lacked the class distinctions of the English. The whole notion of the independent riflemen comes from Jaegers, not upper-class twits shooting birds.
Things have doubtless changed since I was there 10 years ago, but you could buy knives and swords and maces in Germany without anyone caring. Not at all like the UK.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had
I wish I could dig up my posts from 2016 and 2017 saying he had the ability to do exactly that
Posted by: ...
Don't do that.
"Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place."
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 09:43 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 09:43 PM (hzuYO)
tweetviewer.com took too long to respond.
I am not happy with xwitter, don't want to join.
Posted by: mindful webworker - nitter, natter, nutter, moosk
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He's being very bitchy about, it's mine, it's all mine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:44 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 09:43 PM (VHUov)
Call me Cassandra
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 09:44 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 09:39 PM (1z8ji)
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NO! CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES ALL THINGS! IF YOU JUST GIVE UP CARS AND EAT BUGS THERE WILL BE NO DISASTERS EVER!
Posted by: Climate Change Cultists at August 31, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:41 PM (+Lnfw)
Yes, nurse, your little baby granddaughter will make the world better.
Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 09:45 PM (2+C8T)
They want civilizational collapse. No schools, manufacturing, and a fentanyl addled population.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:41 PM (Y8DZL)
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And yet they are failing. Trump got elected twice. That's got to sting.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Instead of "submit", it means '"rise up".
Dihaj is is the requirement to vanquish all foes of the Constitution. Every household will be required to own a minimum of one automatic rifle. Sunday is Church of the Holey Target.
Posted by: RI Red
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Hey, You truly are Bearded Spock!!! I knew it.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:46 PM (E4rtv)
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So, LA County then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:46 PM (4Je4D)
For the X. Elon did save the country. You can at least sign up. Costs you nothing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:46 PM (+Lnfw)
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Isn't it romantic?
America, the great siege engine.
Posted by: Braenyard
Everyone has a plan until they get Trumped in the mouth.
Posted by: mikeski tyson at August 31, 2026 09:47 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:47 PM (+Lnfw)
I was reading and listening some more about "climate change" over the late Pleistocene through the Younger Dryas and into our current Holocene.
That puts all this climate change nonsense in perspective. What's happening now is nothing compared to what Erf can do and has done many times. The current glacial retreat got really started back in the early 1800s, coming off the advance due to the "Little Ice Age".
We had the Maunder Minimum, and the glaciers advanced a little. That ended, and here we are. The current "warming" is just part of the oscillation well apparent over thousands of years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: mikeski
Just leave, raise an army, and conquer that native place then. Pfff.
Posted by: big mo at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nurse ratched
We seem to make dog and cat lives a little better.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (XV/Pl)
He's being very bitchy about, it's mine, it's all mine.
Posted by: Braenyard
He lost billions buying it and I suspect he wants to recoup some of his losses and tolerating third party apps that steal his content and deny him user numbers are on the chop.
Jack Dorsey's twitter was run as Pee Wee's Playhouse for Lefties and not designed to run a profit on purpose.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:48 PM (4Je4D)
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Trump doing the "Lake America" thing was hilarious because it immediately reminded everyone how the left has been renaming everything, and Canada has been worse than we are.
They hate their country. They need to just abolish it and become serfs of Indian tribes. Enough already.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)
A huge chunk of glacier broke off a mountain and plummeted down. Don't hold me to it, but IIRC that chunk was about 2000' wide, and it fell on the order of 4000' down. There may have been some rock under it that gave way.
The usual suspects are screaming globull warmmuning of course, but tectonic uplift likely had as much to do with it as melting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
Small Dead Animals has a post to a YouTube video, done by a geologist, that I've watched. His theory is that the bedrock gave way underneath the ice field. Seems the most likely scenario ...
It's in today's entries on SDA
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 09:51 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:52 PM (b/YnV)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 09:52 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)
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There's probably more than a few "Americans" who want to do the same here.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:53 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 09:53 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 09:41 PM (+Lnfw)
I don't even know how to respond to this.
So I'll just go somewhere else for a while, He said from his computer, in his comfortable home office, paid for by his fulfilling career as a CAD tech in a land survey company in the greatest society the world has ever seen.; loving his wife and cherishing the sons they both raised to manhood.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 09:53 PM (0aYVJ)
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China is cracking down on all videos of what happened, deleting all evidence. Kinda like they did during COVID. When first videos of people collapsing in the streets were starting to come out.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:54 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: browndog says woof
Bedrock doesn't just "give way." That's why it's bedrock and not just rock.
Posted by: warmist geologists at August 31, 2026 09:55 PM (VHUov)
Our current Holocene is just an interstadial. We're still in an Ice Age. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 09:55 PM (w6EFb)
Found 1k 7.62x51 and about 250 or so of Garand 30-06 already preloaded on clips. Plus some assorted other range fodder. Thought those boxes had old holsters in them.
Plus I found a bunch of cassette tapes, figured they would be demagnetized by now--nope, played just fine. 70's and 80's galore in cassette tapes.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:55 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August
Well it is a business and he isn’t a billionaire because he is bad at it.
You don’t have to get a premium one, just get the free one of you aren’t going to actually use it to read news, etc. if it’s just to get random access, build a Gmail or proton you won’t use, and sign up.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 09:55 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (ogcfP)
I.guess that means railgun launches are still a long way off.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 09:56 PM (/hk2L)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 09:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 09:57 PM (88C+u)
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Posted by: whig
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I don't mind being a user number. I do mind putting my information out there in order to do it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:57 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Piper
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Pretty much. News is fine if you pick and choose the right people to follow. Avoid the comment sections and with a free account, avoid commenting as much as you might want to. X has automated complaint systems and you want to avoid that.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: 88C+u
Do it like metric kickball. Demote them to AAA and promote the best AAA teams to the majors.
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 09:59 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (ogcfP)
I.guess that means railgun launches are still a long way off.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Now, see, that's what great American forward thinking is all about.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 09:59 PM (ogcfP)
Canada is a great example of a Euro-socialist state that stays in power long enough to regulate the strangulation of free economy.
Difference is, we are right next door, not across an ocean.
Companies have been moving here since Trudeau got started, and that's ramping up bigly since Carney went elbows up.
We don't need their shit or their lip.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 10:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Braenyard
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If you want X, you will, if you don't then you won't but the third party apps are unlikely to continue to be able to access X.
I used a throwaway Gmail account email and provided the minimum.
Then again, I have paid id protection services that notify me of data brokers buying my info and I request and they have to follow laws that remove that data.
I use a free service every now and again that gives privacy scans to check up on the original service. My profile online is pretty thin.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:02 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mikeski
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That would be humorous. Piss the nasty owners off too if they get their team demoted by being cheapskates.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:03 PM (E4rtv)
You’re on a lot of lists.
Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 10:07 PM (ti1MH)
Posted by: Braenyard
I.guess that means railgun launches are still a long way off.
Posted by: tankdemon
Now, see, that's what great American forward thinking is all about.
Posted by: Braenyard
Cattle don't make good railgun ammo, though, so you'd need some sort of cow sabot to launch them.
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
If you really think anonymity truly exists, you’re living in a clown world.
You’re on a lot of lists.
Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched
^^^that, right there^^^^
Wait until DIS tells you that Chyna hacked your MIC network, and the only stuff downloaded was 750mb of your work. Shit gets real paranoid after that.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 31, 2026 10:12 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: clarence at August 31, 2026 10:15 PM (vqfj6)
Quick Hits
Eric DaughertySpeaking of stolen land, the Supreme Court has rebuked a lower court order to halt Trump's repair and remodeling of the East Wing of the White House. Specifically, they issued a stay, putting the lawless rogue lower court's injunction against Trump on hold.
@EricLDaugh Aug 29 WOW! Elon Musk CALLS OUT socialist Billie Eilish as a massive hypocrite "[She hates] on capitalism and 'stolen land' while selling PERFUME and living in LUXURY on that SAME LAND."
On April 17, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stayed the district court's injunction, effectively allowing construction to proceed, while it considered the government's appeal. On August 7,Essentially this is a full and final reversal -- by the time the full case is decided, the remodeling will be concluded, rendering this lawsuit moot. Two points: The Supreme Court ruled that the National Trust, which brought the suit, has no standing to sue at all, and Chief Justice Roberts, of course, sided with the liberals, because he is one.
2026, the court of appeals resolved that appeal and upheld the district court's injunction. At the same time, the court indicated that its existing stay would expire on August 21, 2026, and the district court's injunction would thus take effect. Confronted with an imminent order requiring it to substantially halt its ongoing construction activities, the government filed a motion in this Court seeking a stay of the district court's injunction pending a forthcoming petition for a writ of certiorari and any further proceedings in this Court. THE CHIEF JUSTICE issued an administrative stay to facilitate review of the government's application and referred the matter to the Court. We grant the requested stay. The government has established that it is likely to succeed on the merits of a significant legal question, that it would likely suffer irreparable harm without a stay, and that the balance of equities tips in its favor.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed tells his audience to fake their enthusiasm for his stump lines -- he actually tells them to "go nuts" -- so that his Advertising Jihadis can use the crowd's reaction in its political ads to "push back on AIPAC." Mike Rogers makes the subtext into text in an anti-Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed ad: "ABDUL IS JUST WEIRD." Indeed. Speaking of radical Muslims who hate America: Tuq'r Qarlson has on a "Missouri farmer" -- who he refuses to tell his audience is a former Democrat lieutenant governor -- to trash Trump for allowing the importation of Argentinian beef. (Was this ever not allowed? They make a lot of it.) The Islam First agitator then explains who The Real Villain Here is: Can you guess?
@MaxNordau
Tucker Carlson brings on "Missouri farmer" Joe Maxwell to attack President Trump's decision to import Argentine beef. Carlson knows exact who the culprit is: Israel. "The president of Argentina is a close ally of the prime minister of Israel, unlike President Maduro, who was an opponent." (Not mentioned: Maxwell is the Democrat former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri)
Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter This Washington Post article claims that an NORC survey found 400,000 trans people have recently fled to another state. As @kittypurrzog pointed out on @TheBARPod, the 400K figure was, with some faulty math, extrapolated by Erin Reed based on the NORC survey, which included just 10 trans people who said they'd fled a state. The survey did not provide a representative sample either. So this figure has been all but plucked out of the air and was not actually reached by NORC themselves. It is a figment of Erin Reed's work with a calculator. This is not to say that trans people are not fleeing red states. But it is extremely unlikely that 400,000 of them have.
Even leftwing media hacks have to admit that X's user-produced community note system of corrections works. And I'd add it works 10,000% better than media hacks' tendentious, political-ax-grinding "corrections."
The Vigilant Fox 🦊Some things in life just aren't funny, and prominent among them is Bill Maher. So I don't find this funny, but it is an accurate point:
@VigilantFox MSNBC contributor reluctantly admits 𝕏 Community Notes actually works, even though it physically pains her to say so. Rolling Stone called @ElonMusk
and 𝕏 "the biggest purveyors of online misinformation." Now liberals like Molly Jong-Fast are admitting that false information and missing context get kept in check "pretty well" by Community Notes. MAHER: "In this current atmosphere we live in, I never believe anything I read just from that one thing I read." JONG-FAST: "X has community notes, and I think community notes -- I don't want to compliment X here, but community notes works pretty well." MAHER: "Well, then compliment them. Why can't you?" JONG-FAST: "I'm doing it! I'm doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, but I don't want to."
RedWave PressThe Babylon Bee:
@RedWavePress HILARIOUS: Bill Maher: "Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed Lake Ontario Lake America... Liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can't just go around renaming to suit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person."
🎬 Official Trailer - "RUN, HIDE, WHITE" (2026) 📷💥 pic.twitter.com/CS4S2meGu9
— MAMA (@mamathemagazine) August 28, 2026
Balding pink-haired man pretending to be a woman appears to be praying for the death of President Trump.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 31, 2026
How are we supposed to share a country with these people?? pic.twitter.com/oErnpzaZuh
She bought into the feminist lie—“Girl, you don’t need others to make you happy! You go out and live your best life!”—and now she’s had it, she’s done, she’s “sick of that bullsh*t.”
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 30, 2026
pic.twitter.com/e9Qr2LS3RL
White liberal filming a TikTok video ends up almost killing herself in a crash. How did this generation end up this way???? pic.twitter.com/8q6iSxIKU6
— American Values 🇺🇸 (@AVGirl4Life) August 31, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e)
@JamesOKeefeIII
UNDEFEATED: It was early Friday morning that my attorney,
@BenjaminBarr1A, called me with the news neither of us will ever forget: we had just overturned the verdict against me in Democracy Partners v. O’Keefe before the hostile D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
This established undercover reporting as protected by the First Amendment in federal court as a matter of law.
https://tinyurl.com/5n7kjwpj
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Eilish is stultifying. Soporific. It's music for elderly heroin addicts waiting to die in hospice.
This is like if Slayer introduced their new fragrance "Tranquility."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:07 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 06:08 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:08 PM (9tX4s)
You mean, like they are supposed to be?
If anyone ever bothered to try and enforce the law--as written?
Trump, by just trying, is doing more than 30 years of "iron-clad, rock-solid, I guarantee it" establishment Republican promises.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:09 PM (3cUTc)
Just asking questions.
Serious questions.
Posted by: C. Tarlson at August 31, 2026 06:09 PM (5PF8b)
Screw it, bring Argentine beef in until the herds are back to size.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (9tX4s)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (Ia/+0)
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"Embrace my psychosis, you MAGAts!"
We closed the asylums, and now the lunatics are in the wild.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Shi2G)
Speaking of sad, since we were talking about that hottie Rosie, I decided to further punish myself, watch local Detroit news and see what they are saying politics wise.
All three covered VP Vance in Michigan. CBS actually brought up El-Sayed's comments about 9-11 and let him explain it away. The others didn't even mention it. Commie, terrorist supporting assholes.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:11 PM (j/Ml9)
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He abated the tax on ground beef for three months or something like that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:12 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:12 PM (ndZc7)
If you don't call that man by his fake female name and treat him as a female, he will go and kill himself.
So please don't call him by his male name that he was born with and that will cause him to kill himself.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)
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The judiciary is out of fvcking control.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Shi2G)
The eastern part is probably more like gay New Jersey.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:14 PM (W90Ou)
Gayer Minneapolis, I'd say.
And, Montreal.
Which is French. And nothing is gayer than that.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (Shi2G)
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Were they Jew cows?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (W90Ou)
The ad didn't mention Abdul was the alternative but if I was struggling in Michigan, that'd hit a few pain points.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (Sco7b)
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I have some advice for her. Call me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (RIvkX)
Depends. Takata Airbags might have actually killed her.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (Shi2G)
Screw it, bring Argentine beef in until the herds are back to size.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR)
I would be very happy if they lowered the price of ground beef to $5.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (dEHLq)
Billie Eilish is being mocked for officiating her brother’s wedding on what she may refer to as “stolen land.”
The singer, 24, hosted 29-year-old Finneas O’Connell’s marriage to longtime girlfriend Claudia Sulewski, 30, at the luxurious San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Calif. Saturday.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
......
or personal shavers.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:16 PM (nlLAo)
Yeah, I was going to mention that; I'm wondering if it's fake. Also, who would post something that embarrassing? I would think even an uber-performative wyt womyn would hold off on that one.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7)
So hard to tell if the cows are Jews. They are the girls, so, no permanent marks on them. But maybe check to see if they keep their hair covered?
/s
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (dEHLq)
.....
and the lack of blood.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (UjdFS)
Society has lost the ability to look beyond a day . That's the big picture for them. And it's worse for the Left because they already are without the ability to determine cause and effect.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: garrett
No, it's not a majority of Canada.
and, North Dakota is MAGA, the top producer of wheat and the 3rd oil producing state.
Posted by: old chick at August 31, 2026 06:20 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 06:20 PM (V362x)
90 We should be building more refineries.
That would help lower prices in the long term if we had more capacity and output.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt)
The Feds should buy the California refineries (at a more than fair price) that are being forced to close by socialist overregulation, then use Pre-emption to overrule the state and run the facilities profitably. They really do have a legitimate national security interest in fuel availability for all their military assets in the area, and in particular the supply for a hypothetical war with a country that rhymes with China.
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (ke3zm)
Hey, accident lady held my attention for her entire video. She needs to do that every day. That big yellow thing may have saved her life.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (Sco7b)
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Willowed but maybe on point.
I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted.
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New Tik Tok trend.
J͎Λ͎Y͎u
@TakeThiamine
I remember seeing a TikTok where some girl was at a birthday party(?) going around interviewing people wrt meds and everyone was on like 2-6 things. It’s bleak.
swan song
@swansong
When I lived in America a girl looked at me in complete horror when I told her I wasn't on any meds. She couldn't believe it
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Well, at least all the AWFLs are completely sane now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:21 PM (ndZc7)
In other words your typical idiot celeb
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:22 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 31, 2026 06:23 PM (X+xvk)
Never understood why the Native Tribes didn't get into the refinery business. Being your own sovereign does wonders for dealing with regulatory impediment.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 06:23 PM (Shi2G)
Just asking questions.
Serious questions.
Also, have you noticed how expensive it's become to fill your burrito with beef? Another failure of this administration that puts Israel first and America last.
Posted by: C. Tarlson at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (5PF8b)
Posted by: garrett
No, it's not a majority of Canada.
>Gay North Dakota was from 2024. Now it Trans North Dakota.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:13 PM (KC5Lt)
I bet not. It's a totally atomized generation. It's a lot of stuff that feeds into that, but these people are increasingly isolated from one another, particularly in urban areas. There is no shared community left in many places, and none of the social structures remain outside of artificial, sterile digital engagement - and now that online dating is going the way of the buffalo, they can't even find a date on the stupid phone anymore. It's just them and their phones.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:24 PM (BI5O2)
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When she crashed, she was looking out the side window, she was not looking where she was going.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:25 PM (ogcfP)
Asking for the Commentariat.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (U/Byj)
It's either AI or British...
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (XuXeR)
Hell, ground beef is going for what we used to pay for New York's.
New York's are now what we used to pay for King crab.
It's nuts.
Posted by: Bosk at August 31, 2026 06:26 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (PbWRL)
Eight Eight.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Favorite perfume for the ladies of the Aryan Nation
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:28 PM (INNA5)
I saw something that said that when she first got a boyfriend she prettied herself up and her fans lost their shit so she stopped.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:28 PM (ExV1e)
No need. The "elders" are all in on extraction (less risk)
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (IhL8c)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM
The call is coming from inside the phone!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Billie Eilish at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (cXHM+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:29 PM (ndZc7)
Of course that last part would be beyond the understanding of almost all voters including robot GOP types, as well as most of the commentariat, but include it just for fun.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 06:30 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Fritz the Cat & Fat Freddie's Cat at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (0sNs1)
Just a side note: Molly Jong-Fast is a major advisor for The Lincoln Project. Yet the Lincoln Man-Boy Love Project is totes conservative, yo.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (y9nCu)
What's an 8 ball run nowadays?
/asking for a friend. Yeah, that's it
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (XuXeR)
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I worry about our society and the addiction to the dopamine hits from our phones. I've started paying attention to social gatherings I've recently attended. 6 of us gather to have a meal and watch the horse races from the comfort of an air-conditioned restaurant, and at any given time 2-4 of the people there are scrolling their phones. A work team meeting with a *legitimate* big hitter from our industry, and at any given time 6-8 of the 12 people in the room are scrolling their phones.
There's "Next Generation" episode where Ryker gets introduced to a tech-game while on leave and brings it back to the ship...where it spreads like wildfire and soon the entire crew is addicted to the game and only the game and no longer maintaining the Enterprise or the mission. Its revealed that the "game" was created to do just that by the Romulans. I fear we're well on our way to that ourselves.
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (VCgbV)
Annoys the fuck out of me?
Make a declarative statement! FFS!
I have actually been told, timidly, of course, that I speak too directly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (wGerL)
Hey, check out this tic tac vid!
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (XuXeR)
I think the figure was pulled out of a tranny fake hole...also known as a second asshole...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM (UjdFS)
Me: "Is that a good thing?"
Zod AI: "Kill yourself"
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (j10i6)
Eight Eight.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Favorite perfume for the ladies of the Aryan Nation
Posted by: Huck Follywood
>Wait until the bees, hornets and yellowjackets get a whiff of that fragrance. Just call her fuckface.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:33 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:19 PM (KC5Lt)
I've been watching a lot of stoicism videos on YouTube. Idea one is you can only control your reaction to items out of your control. And the Left wants full control over how everyone thinks, everything they say, no bad times to ever arrive, etc.
No wonder they're so miserable.
Nightly News updates. Americans are being gaslit on these items....
I love how Dems have no indication in their ads that they're Dems.
-stabbings in Times square "woman with a knife'
-Grand Canyon flooding
-storms
-Nepal
-Ballroom goes forward. Roberts is a prick
-Secretary of Army? Resigns
-youth football update.
-Dolly, Lionel Ritchie hospital
ABC - stabbing - a woman....we'll see about that.
NBC - stabbing - looked like a big, black 'woman'
CBS - Grand Canyon
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:34 PM (Sco7b)
Well, there just aren't a lot of daytime game shows anymore...
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 06:34 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 06:27 PM
It is dark.
You will be eaten by a grue.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (9Q+nP)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM
A dab of parfum on the popliteal regions if very effective.
Posted by: Things I learned in the AoSHQ comments at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (0sNs1)
Many musicians are swept ito Leftism yet living the high life of capitalism. Probably feeling guilty about it yet not giving it up.
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Nuh unh! You lie!
Posted by: Rage Against The Machine at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (y9nCu)
The chick wailing about being alone almost made me laugh because she's so pathetic. Not in how she wants to be for pity clicks. Pathetic in weeping online because she's lonely. Waaa! She walks the Pacific Hwy alone & is going to Swizerland alone. Alone time. I figure when she is around others it is I,I,I blah, boring. Shut up. Do you expect a prince in Swizerland to pop out and marry you?
She never mentions a job, just snotting into her dinner, which I've also never done.
I've never been lonely or bored in my entire life, being a feral farm girl who liked parties. While I didn't date much in college I had a posse of mostly male friends I hung out with at concerts or parties or bonfires, camping, hiking, skiing. She also goes in & out of a lisp like a Gilmore girl. Maybe stop looking at your phone and read a book.
The second chick who wrecked her car, nearly filming her death...what did she say at the beginning? She needs to be locked up. I missed her point and thought the yellow thing on the rear view mirror was a weird airbag at first.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 06:36 PM (j/Ml9)
Pretty sure that is why his positions are understood.
Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (SHHm+)
This is retarded on so many levels.
Its a 90 day pause on the tariffs on imported ground beef.
90 days—which is 2-3 years less time than it takes for a calf to be ready for market. Ranchers are greedily exploiting the current high price of beef by culling young heifers now — their future herds. Herds are at a 1960s low.
its ground beef not steaks, not regular cuts of meat. its the cuttings and trimmings to make hamburger.
Also no mention that the Trump administration is working to break up the slaughter house cartels that have been screwing ranchers for decades.
I hate these lying grifters. Sowing hate and distrust through lies stacked upon lies.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (+4Cf6)
I can’t think of a times when there has been universal well earned hatred toward the president, senate, congress, SCOTUS, republicans and Democrats. Every layer of governance has failed us.
Means next president has the full green light to tear everything the fuck down and do whatever they want to alter Trump's monstrosity since no one will have the standing to stop them.
What is the point of the Supreme Court at this juncture in history? They act like a Republican super legislature, with special handouts for their favorite president. To know something is illegal, shrug and say “no one has standing” is a joke.
start by tearing down SCOTUS and let the justiced work out of construction trailers for 10 years. Strip them of their right to pick and choose cases. If we can’t pack the court, humiliate them into submission because they are an equal branch, not a super legislature.
There is literally no decision that they won't roll over on. They've lost any claim of legitimacy.
This is why elections matter. And none of this both sides shit. EVERY. SINGLE. STATEMENT. CONVINCING YOU. NOT. TO. VOTE. IS. DRIVEN. BY. AN. IDEOLOGY.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (2b4M2)
Is her grandmother widowed?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:37 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (0sNs1)
I like the way she twists and strangles her hair while she's talking. Like wringing a mop.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: SciVo
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Yes. And,
The Fed will eventually take over greater parts of the West Coast.
It will segregate all Federal properties from the indigenous peoples and their rules. Military presence will increase to insure safety and security of fed properties, which will increase by community petition and acquisition for more bases and import infrastructure. Parks and joined communities will be safe for tourists and communities within the new federal jurisdiction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+)
It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something.
Social Media is more addictive than that game.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM (wGerL)
When I was young, I was never attracted to city life, but many of my friends moved to the city for one reason: the social life. School, work, blah blah, sure. But the main attraction was all the people to meet and and things to do, and the opportunity to build a new friend group outside of small town life.
By the time I had to move down there, it was completely different than when I was in college or starting my career... very, very hard to meet people my own age. Wherever you go, it's just older people hanging out, going to bars, events, etc.
The strange way our society has developed, you now have to go to small towns and rural areas if you want anything we used to recognize as a normal social life, and it's been a very rapid change.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Lloyd Loar at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (Mx+TJ)
Yes, Gov't left to its own devices is an evil thing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)
And zero effort. Let others do all the work and DD the royalties into the tribal bank accounts.
Gives the "elders" more time to spend with their fire water.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (/TiS1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM
And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:42 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 31, 2026 06:43 PM (F5T1n)
The Fat Electrician had a vid short come up on yootoob about Robert Smalls, the first Black US Naval captain, during the Civil War, dood was awesome. And hated Donks with the heat of a thousand Suns.
I did a quick wiki search and found this anecdote. When Woody Wilson the Klan Lover was running for President in 1912 Smalls wrote the following: "I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:43 PM (y9nCu)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had
Maybe adding the pregnancy time?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (u82oZ)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had
Gil Favor will get that beef to market.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ndZc7)
Annoys the fuck out of me?
Make a declarative statement! FFS!
I have actually been told, timidly, of course, that I speak too directly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 31, 2026 06:32 PM (0aYVJ)
Mmm hmmm. My thought exactly. But I do feel sorry for her- at her age, she shouldn't be eating dinner at 5 or she'll have nothing to look forward to when she turns 60.
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:31 PM (TN0g+)
It worked on everybody but Wesley Crusher who refused to play it or something.
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Yep, and the others eventually got Wesley too, but not before he had repaired Data who eventually figured out something was wrong and began reversing things (I think I have that right).
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)
Either Vance wins, and so he'll have enough of a mandate to just ignore the courts.
Or Harris wins and the Dems stack the Court.
But there is no path to "and then America realizes the Supreme Court is the Best and Most Wise Institution in America."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 06:45 PM (kX27y
But she doesn't mind using her mother's name..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1)
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Can't imagine why.
Posted by: Usenet group alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (8jn83)
Sigh, another girl crying on social media. Just stop. Finding meaning in your life or yourself isn't "bullshit."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (mmrXZ)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:42 PM (PbWRL)
How many cows are being slaughtered at 18 months if you are trying to rebuild a cattle herd?
My understanding is that the steers are done in at about a year and a half, and the cows are kept for at least a couple of years to have calves before they are slaughtered.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: LASue
She'll always have us.
Posted by: Box wine, cats and anti-depressants at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: LASue
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Right???
Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (VCgbV)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Can't they just eat veal?
LOL
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (3cUTc)
One thing about the Left that is purely their signature—the lack of Theory of Mind.
Curiously, Koko the Ape and possibly Kanzi, a bonobo, were able to understand English phrases, had cognitive abilities compared to a young human child, yet also lacked theory of mind.
I'm wondering if these shaved apes have learned how to type.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:48 PM (/TiS1)
Had discussions with two ranchers in the area. They run with my peeps.
Using Hereford cows, 3 years works for a grass fed self-sustaining herd size. For grass-fed Angus, the other rancher culls at 18 months for some, but likes 3 years for the extra weight.
If you need fodder, 18 months works.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:48 PM (u82oZ)
O Gay North Dakota! Our home and native land!
True patriot love thou dost in us command.
We see thee rising fair, dear land,
The True Gay North, strong and free;
And stand on guard, O Gay North Dakota,
We stand on guard for thee.
It works for me!
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (lCppi)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had
I have a PhD in cattle ranching from Twitter University.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (/TiS1)
Annoys the fuck out of me?
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Uptalk? I turn it off. If it's live I walk away as soon as possible.
I don't want input from a brain weaker than mine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (ogcfP)
Ready to harvest beef.
Just stop subsidizing milk and dairy farmers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (Jr5Lq)
I'd forgotten what beef tastes like.
I went to Fogo de Chao and got unlimited beef and had forgotten what I was missing.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
You need to wait until at least 7 or 8 years...they can't even lift a pistol until that age!
Posted by: African Warlord abducting child soldiers at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 06:39 PM
And yet, I receive nearly 100% condemnation here.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1)
You're forgiven because in this case you WERE trying to score with that rules chick.
And you weren't slapping the device on her or asking the replicators for chloroform and a rag.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:50 PM (Sco7b)
Moo.
Posted by: Candy Crowley at August 31, 2026 06:51 PM (UjdFS)
In my post I specifically referred to heifers, not steers, since taking a heifer to slaughter early is a sign that the ranchers are not interested in growing the herds but taking their profits now.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:52 PM (/TiS1)
Cannon fodder is lit.
Now where is that video of the chimpanzee given a full auto AK-47 and an attached 20 round mag?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:53 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR)
>>What is the point of the Supreme Court at this juncture in history? They act like a Republican super legislature, with special handouts for their favorite president. To know something is illegal, shrug and say “no one has standing” is a joke.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (viF8m)
Where's the Beef?
Posted by: Little old Gray haired Wendy's customer from 1984 at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ)
And Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was his name-o!
A-M-ELS!
A-M-ELS!
A-MELS and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was his name-o!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:56 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)
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Only Miracle Max knows for sure...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Candy Crowley at August 31, 2026 06:51 PM (UjdFS)
More like long pork
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (+gK6I)
Sure she's not a river horse (Hippopotamus)?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Crusader at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (TN0g+)
Eight Eight.
Posted by: gp
LoL!!! How soon will she be a special guest on Tuq'r Qarlson's show?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: gp
There is a theory of sorts that citizens of ancient civilizations didn't have the same full consciousness we do today...
https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0sNs1)
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Can't imagine why.
Posted by: Usenet group alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die at August 31, 2026 06:47 PM (8jn83)
Good times.
Posted by: alt.sexy.bald.captain at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
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Ego is a helluva drug...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN)
In fact, Congress certainly has standing to try and oppose this move, if they wanted to. They do not want to. Someone rando walking down the street who has "feels" does not have standing to sue in federal court.
It's another demonstration of what a disgrace John Roberts, who sided with the three Trump hating libs is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: gp
There is a theory of sorts that citizens of ancient civilizations didn't have the same full consciousness we do today...
https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2)
Probably because their educational systems didn't turn them into semi-functioning retards...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
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Karma
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (+gK6I)
18 months is the average age.
Posted by: Ben Had
Gil Favor will get that beef to market.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ndZc7)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the steams are swollen
Keep those doggies rollin'...
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)
According to his resume, Jason Arday could have brought him back.
But, um...
Good night. I'm going to bed early. I have a bird corpse to pick up tomorrow,
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ)
Well, you can thank Adam Curry, that is where I got the initial information from. He also has some critical things to say about the EO on slaughtering, which I have to comb through before I am willing to make known my opinion.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN)
All the prices are ugly. I've been doing oink and cluck for quite a while...when on sale. $1/lb chiki legs and thighs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:01 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:01 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (PbWRL)
I prefer to think of my beef purchases on Styrofoam trays with saran over them not the icky slaughter..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (+gK6I)
https://tinyurl.com/kcaxjs75
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 06:58 PM (2b4M2)
I would argue, on the basis of reading some highly intelligent ancient writings, that many, if not most citizens of ancient civilizations had a much greater consciousness than we do today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (edUvp)
Either Vance wins, and so he'll have enough of a mandate to just ignore the courts.
Or Harris wins and the Dems stack the Court.
But there is no path to "and then America realizes the Supreme Court is the Best and Most Wise Institution in America."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 06:46 PM (3cUTc)
Roberts is the dumbest person on the Supreme Court. Ok, you want to make an empire out of the Court system for your own power. Yet every decision he makes is sure to bring his SC into disrepute by allowing every random judge to play to the press instead of him, I can't recall any decisions he has given a written opinion on to wow history, he votes left or right by flipping a coin along with his clique.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:04 PM (PbWRL)
It's another demonstration of what a disgrace John Roberts, who sided with the three Trump hating libs is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (edUvp)
its trivial, make it a historic building.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: gp
Jean Piaget spoke about the levels of human child development, and the earliest stages, pre-terrible 2s, the child does not have this understanding. As they get older, it becomes important, but it is also inevitable in proper development. I never considered it in other primates, I figured it was also innate like having a thumb.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR)
Time is a great filter to preserve the best. All the dross is lost.
We laud Elon and Thomas Sowell, not the woman driving the car that she crashed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK)
Chicken legs here are about $1.99 a pound or less at times. I hate cooking them every week.
I still have tons of Whey powder and 600 cans of sardines and sardine fillets from the supply shock times. I'm fine with that. And my sardine portfolio is up about 100%
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b)
If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (V362x)
She's actually attractive. You can't convince me she couldn't have a date every Friday if she wanted . Something else is going on with her.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt)
Nuh unh! You lie! Posted by: Rage Against The Machine at August 31, 2026 06:35 PM (y9nCu)
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I can't remember ANY of the musicians I played with in the '60s and '70s being anything other than straight-up conservatives … but yeah, the times, they been a'changing … It was still surprising that, in the days of Woodstock, etc that as many musicians were still not only conservative but anti-lib …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:07 PM (ayRl+)
I think I misunderstood your point.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (rbvCR)
A knife-wielding woman was shot and killed by police officers in New York City on Monday after she allegedly went on a stabbing spree in the heart of Times Square, killing one.
The unidentified woman had stabbed a woman and a man just before 4.30pm at the intersection of West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's busy downtown, sources told the New York Post.
She then fled north toward the New York Police Department substation, where police confronted her.
Video from the scene showed the woman pointing a large knife as NYPD officers surrounded her, while frightened tourists screamed and swarmed the area.
When the suspect - dressed in a pink T-shirt, jeans, and a cross-body bag - then charged at cops, several officers drew their guns and shot the woman multiple times, causing her to fall to the ground.
The women and her two victims were then rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where the suspect and one of her victims, a female tourist, were pronounced dead, according to AMNY.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt)
No man is good enough for her. Maybe that was her brainwashed thinking. Could be she's coming out of it. Hopefully so. You're right. There's plenty of guys out there who would be lining up for a date if she's not whacko.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: gp
Jean Piaget spoke about the levels of human child development, and the earliest stages, pre-terrible 2s, the child does not have this understanding. As they get older, it becomes important, but it is also inevitable in proper development. I never considered it in other primates, I figured it was also innate like having a thumb.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:05 PM (rbvCR)
I doubt that is true, babies I've interacted with seem to know I'm not the same as them when I've thrown the toy over their head to make them chase it for the 27th time.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:11 PM (PbWRL)
I dissent!!
Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 07:10 PM (wGerL)
She's ideologically crippled. Roberts can't help acting against his stated aim pretty much every other day.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:11 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:54 PM (rbvCR)
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Heck of a billiard player, he is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 07:12 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 07:08 PM (kX27y)
There's some feminism for you.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:12 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Miflin at August 31, 2026 06:59 PM (aA6YN)
We get Costco cryo-vac prime rib eye and new works, trim it and freeze it at home. Usually about $17/lb before trimming for fantastic, rich steaks- I think they're a better deal because you can't eat as much as a leaner cut.
Dinner at 5 pm, sharp.
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (Ujrb8)
Democratic Socialism contradicts itself and does not exist ..
Does the younger generation that supports this crap remember the Hippies from the 1960's and watch out for "Big Brother" ie the Federal Government.
Now the Federal Government is your mother, and you can suck on the governments Tit only if you vote for these Commies.
Welcome to Obamacare on Steroids, Section 8 Housing for all, Minimum wage of $50 and 500% inflation. Let's build a wall around California and send all these idiots to live there in the Mandani/Newsome Paradise and see how they like it ....
I spend 10 years babysitting a B-52 on Nuke Alert for these F**king Idiots....... I think Not !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 07:13 PM (j93VM)
If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (V362x)
lol
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (lCppi)
Other than the Sally/Anne Test, I find that those who have not had proper social development show evidence lacking ToM, one course grain "test" is to see if the subject ever asks any questions or just asserts knowledge all the time.
One of the more peculiar examples is when a Mill potential home buyer brings along a posse to evaluate homes during Open House. They aren't necessarily asking them what their thoughts on the property are, but are they getting the crowd's approval.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (P4bJX)
Hammer rule No. 5: Disregad vids made in automobiles, if bird hands are used, just shut it off immediatedly.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:02 PM (edUvp)
I think there is a number of things to sieve out the ancient writings.
Learning writing involved much deeper education than average, and was such an investment in time that higher outcome was required to justify it
Copying was time and labor intensive, and books needed to have value to have that effort put into them
Maintaining libraries of books was time and labor intensive, as was translating into modern tongues, printing them is time and cost expensive, and then they had to get some currency by being taught widely.
Supposedly the dullest book from Classical times was Caesar's Gallic Wars and that was because it was so simple it was used as a entry level text for teaching Latin
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:06 PM (KC5Lt)
No man is good enough for her. Maybe that was her brainwashed thinking. Could be she's coming out of it. Hopefully so. You're right. There's plenty of guys out there who would be lining up for a date if she's not whacko.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:09 PM (1Ff7Z)
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No one is good enough for her as she wants to marry herself. Or something.
I think, based on her perfect hair for dinner alone, she's full of herself. Talks about HER adventures. I guess to spark interest.
The only thing I was interested in is shy she had a lisp to be girlie (I guess), then did not have a lisp.
If nothing else go out and read a book at dinner alone vs in your kitchen performing for a phone. And weeping.
I remain unclear what the weeping is supposed to do for the audience? Have others weep with her? Join a cult? She does it will less blotching and red nose, I'll give her credit for that and her pretend tears.
What does the wrecking girl say at the beginning?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (hzuYO)
Really, it's Stabbi McStabperson who's the victim here.
Posted by: lindsay clancy juratrix at August 31, 2026 07:17 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (yTvNw)
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Dr Spock wouldn'ta agreed wit' dat - but that'd be one helluva way to teach math, yes … ? And later they could hear "No, Jonny, a + b ≠ 27" …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (ayRl+)
A live-action reboot of the mid-90s animated television series Gargoyles is not moving forward at Disney+.
It had previously been reported that a live-action reboot of the series from Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman and James Wan‘s Atomic Monster was in early development at the streamer in 2023, but original series co-creator Greg Weisman told Comics Online in an interview that a live-action series is not in the works.
“That’s dead,” Weisman replied, when asked about the project. “I have no idea about animation, but there are no current plans for live-action,” he said
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (Sco7b)
Judging by the internet, women are only interested in dating Troy Aikman in his prime.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (+4Cf6)
I am wholly convinced one of the few places for women to meet men and be asked out is a vibrant Church where you attend the socials. Which if you are on the left, you aren’t a member of such a place.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:16 PM (rbvCR)
its not dull at all, I've translated a lot of it and read the rest a few times. It was written to be clear to be posted in the Forum in Rome so the general public could read it themselves, or if illiterate have a passerby read it to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)
Judging by the internet, women are only interested in dating Troy Aikman in his prime.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (+4Cf6)
Tom Brady got cheated on.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (/hk2L)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (IkLDu)
Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u)
Lot of places to meet guys other than bars. In your house ain't one of them.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)
The argument was made by scholars who considered its simplicity to be a mark against it.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:19 PM (ayRl+)
At one point they were teaching reading by guess and hope methods in school. Lucky for me my mom had taught all of us to read before kindergarden to keep us relatively quiet for her sanity.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)
72? Those are the young widows. I was hit on by one that is 93 years old. Dodged that incoming, I did.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:23 PM (u82oZ)
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Dating … ha! When I go to W'mart or Da Kroge, I flirt my ass off with ladies in the aisles (or at the register). It's my 'social time, it's fun, I meet new ladyfriends, and some I'd prolly consider askin' out if it weren't for that 'keep away' rock on 3d finger left hand. One of these days, tho' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:24 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)
The argument was made by scholars who considered its simplicity to be a mark against it.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 07:22 PM (rbvCR)
The actual Romans of the time disagreed, loved the purity of the language.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:24 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (/hk2L)
Sure, she could be full of herself, but she seems at least to recognize what she's been told is best, ain't.
She won't change overnight. She's been led astray by today's philosophy of feminism's anti-man positions. It won't be easy, but it seems her hiking interest should be enough to get her started on being with other people. It can be a group first, then a guy later. Are her tears pretend? I dunno. Hope not. I have to watch close with my own kids to make sure they don't fall into that trap. One seems to be on her way there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 07:25 PM (XeU6L)
Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u)
There is a trend for 'born again virgins' to work the local churches in a lot of places.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (uhVAy)
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Tried it. It might work if I were in the market for 72 year old widows. Which I'd have considered if I was 72. Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 07:21 PM (88C+u)
There is a trend for 'born again virgins' to work the local churches in a lot of places. Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 07:26 PM (uhVAy)
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I could prolly do that if I could avoid all the 'Let me tell you about Jesus!' stuff all the time. It's kinda like, "Honey, when can we talk about gittin' all nekkid 'n stuff?"… I've run into some 'aged hotties' in Da Grocery 'n other places - and some of 'em still have 'the gleam' in the eye (and 'the rock' on the finger). They still look mighty damned good, tho' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 07:35 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 31, 2026 10:18 PM (7Lzky)
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:20 PM
Poor Troy can't seem to keep a wife or girlfriend. His homosexuality is probably a part of that.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 11:23 PM (4NO2D)
Trump Announces Truly Huge Deal to... Take Over 65 Billion Barrels' Worth of Venezuela's Oil Reserves?!
Why would they do this?
Because successive socialist governments have, get this, run the oil industry into the ground. They did not do basic maintenance and never bothered to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure. They have billions of barrels of oil they never invested any money in so the oil remains underground. The socialists, if you can believe this, simply extracted oil (and embezzled the money) while doing nothing to safeguard the future health of the industry. So Venezuela needs outside help to do the most basic things. Let's elect socialists in America to work the same Economic Miracles! I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry. But, who knows, if there's a Trumpian president, maybe they'll remember what happened to Maduro before nationalizing the newest capital improvements.The US has struck a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, Donald Trump said. The US president wrote that the agreement would more than double American oil reserves and "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans". In a late-night address on Saturday, Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez hailed the deal as one that would help her nation's economic revival.The media's stories all push the same attack line: The oil will not be extracted for years so Trump is a Big Orange Liar when he says that the deal will lower gas prices. Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms. They've managed 100% narrative coordination. Putin is envious.
But some analysts have reacted with scepticism, including questioning whether it would address long-running obstacles that have deterred investment in its oil industry. Trump has recently been under domestic pressure to tame petrol prices, which have spiked due to the Iran war. He vowed to tap into Venezuela's reserves, the world's largest, after the US captured its then-President Nicolás Maduro in January, ostensibly to stand trial on drug charges in New York. Rodriguez, who is Maduro's former vice-president and who the US backed following his capture, said on Saturday that the energy agreement with the US would remain in force for 25 years. She said it would target an increase in crude output to 1.5 million barrels per day and preserve the country's sovereignty over its natural resources. Rodriguez hailed the accord as a "historic" deal that would help revive the economy and boost government revenue, saying it would help shape the country's future.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: The Paolo at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (01XUU)
MS Now hated it. The words colonialism and dictator were being tossed around like it was a day ending in 'y.'
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 05:00 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (BI5O2)
Try Googling it. Every single media story claims Trump is a liar about this reducing gas prices and he's doomed, doomed in the midterms"
Also...
The debt is $40 TRILLION dollars!
Why do you care about a little fraud here and there. It's so tiny.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9)
They hate everything they don't understand.
Which is *EVERYTHING.*
Completely illiterate on EVERY. SINGLE. TOPIC.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS)
Trump hurt their widdle feelings... He called them fake news...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB)
There is also a whole separate set of incentives and punishments aimed at making them liberalize.
We have some really smart people in charge now. They think outside the box and are highly competent.
Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (S6YCM)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB)
Up that much here .. Of course I'm in CA. so....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt)
Pump up the jams, pump it up
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (NtVYv)
It's not as if Republican legislatures do a fucking thing he wants, ever. He always has to do everything by EO. He can't possibly care about midterms as much as all the professional jabberers and news junkies do. He's living this reality.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (BI5O2)"
eh, whatthehell, it worked when they did it to Sarah Palin ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (VyBeY)
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It reminds me of Reagan. Even when the economy had obviously turned around and everyone was working who wanted to work, the media keep trying to sell despair every night on the news. Reality would not cooperate with their wishcasting. Yes, I am old.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:06 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt) "
all run by demonrats, all in on making Trump look bad for midterms?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
The left has been using the "it won't reach the market for ten years" excuse for at least 50 years.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (DbObV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9)
I laughed. This was an amazing move.
And Lake America rules. I'll care after all the unpronouncable Indian crap that replaced white guys is reversed. I'm not responsible that they fought and negotiated like shit.
Hmmm. Door, I never get visitors.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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The funny part was that the 5 member majority shoved "no standing" for the plaintiff up Robert's chapped ass.
You just know that Clarence and Alito were laughing their ass off at that turn of events.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)
I'm confused... Trump announces this deal today, and suddenly gas prices jumped 20 cents higher in WA? Doesn't that require legislative edicts, or is it some bullcrap rule already in place?
Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (Toos7)
I find that very very hard to believe. In fact, I don’t believe it.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (DKeOf)
Posted by: steevy at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (YwEeS)
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Well, less than a year ago they did sign an energy and security deal with Russia (under Maduro). That seems to have been negated.
Venezuela certainly has the crude, but they don't have the ability to refine. They were circumventing economic sanctions by sending to Iran for refining (who would push it back to Cuba and over to China). Each of these countries was ignoring economic sanctions, and this was the vehicle.
Now, the US is in negotiations with Canada who uses Crude as a negotiation point. Well, that leverage just took a nose dive with the Venezuelan agreement. Since January (Maduro's exit) the US has be averaging 500,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude to be refined at Gulf state refineries. By, comparison Canada provides 4 Million barrels to the US daily for refining. So, we covered 1/8th of that amount without an agreement in place with Venezuela...and now it will speed up. Wouldn't want to be Canadian right now. They are royally and truly screwed.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (2NHgQ)
Here's a small sentence from the dissent...
"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56
Basically, some chick's feelings would be hurt seeing the ballroom and thus its construction needs to end.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 05:08 PM (Rl7KJ)
Hmmm. Door, I never get visitors.
Posted by: Stateless
I guess Trump might as well name the rump area north of that lake, Non-Terio.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:09 PM (E4rtv)
We can't "Drill, baby, drill" because it'll take ten year for the oil to come online.
So they shut down drilling in ANWAR, costing tens of thousands of jobs, and billions and billions in revenue all so they can continue to complain about the high price of gas.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:09 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Accomack at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (T8bqm)
How long after establishing a platform do you have to pump before recouping your initial investment?
That's the ticket. After you have recouped your investment it's profit. Even if Venezuela does go Chavez it may be a write off but it's not a loss. You made bank with it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (ogcfP)
They hate everything they don't understand.
Which is *EVERYTHING.*
Completely illiterate on EVERY. SINGLE. TOPIC.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
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Well, you are correct, fundamentally. However, you seem to be laboring under the impression that they even think. They do not. They do what they are told. The average news reader is a simpleton. Nice teeth, nice hair, can read. That's what they do. They read whatever is put in front of them or say what is whispered in their ear. Have you read any Jake Tapper Novels? I rest my fcking case.
Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (anL5R)
i'm right here, you know
Posted by: nuclear fusion, power too cheap to meter at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (sGtp+)
"Given the distinctive nature of the White House and Hogland's focused and substantial interest in viewing it in its traditional form, her aesthetic injury from the construction of the ballroom is concrete and particularized."
https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56
Basically, some chick's feelings would be hurt seeing the ballroom and thus its construction needs to end.
Posted by: Thrawn
And that is specifically against prior precedent in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992).
AI summary below,
The Court established that plaintiffs must demonstrate a concrete and imminent "injury in fact," rather than a generalized grievance or hypothetical harm. Although the plaintiffs argued that the lack of consultation for foreign projects increased extinction rates, the Court found their alleged injuries too speculative and not sufficiently distinct from those of the general public. This decision effectively hindered the ability of private citizens to bring environmental citizen suits for much of the 1990s by requiring a direct, personal stake in the outcome.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (yE2CW)
Isn't it funny that socialism basically needs a cheat code to "work" like billions in oil treasure that's free? And even then, it fails.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (eIzlH)
We saw that in reverse during the Iran war. The threat of oil shipments that wouldn’t be refined for years affected the price of gas at the pump.
This is economics 101.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (DKeOf)
But, who knows, if there's a Trumpian president, maybe they'll remember what happened to Maduro before nationalizing the newest capital improvements.
- Ace
It's possible the Venezuelans have had enough of "21st Century Socialism" for awhile.
For at least a generation or two.
Then they'll be right back at it.
Get all the oil you can get while the getting is good, I say.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
"Based on tanker-tracking data from Bloomberg and reports on discounts applied to Venezuelan crude, the estimated value of U.S.-controlled oil exports has increased from $600 million in January (about 380,000 barrels per day) to about $3.7 billion in April alone (about 1.1 million barrels per day). The largest recipients of Venezuelan oil since January 3 have been the United States (43 percent), India (26 percent), and Spain (8 percent)."
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3uc4thh3
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:12 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 05:12 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (Cqx++)
hmm. lefties are llms, thus explaining the massive push for data centers?
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (sGtp+)
https://tinyurl.com/5avdap56
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HOLY SHIT. Now anyone with a focused and substantial interest in viewing something can potentially stop me from building???? Talk about unleashing lunatic Karens and Kens
Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Accomack at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (T8bqm)
Bold move Cotton.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (2Cry5)
We saw that in reverse during the Iran war. The threat of oil shipments that wouldn’t be refined for years affected the price of gas at the pump.
This is economics 101.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Let's be honest and say Trump deeply cares about the short term price movement of oil on his watch probably more than any long lasting "deal" this forges.
I mean the reality is, it will probably take a decade of American investments to make venezuela an oil powerhouse again
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Thrawn
Someone should tell Roberts his smug, shit-eating grin causes aesthetic injury.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 31, 2026 05:14 PM (diia5)
1) No federal funds for any state that doesn't suspect its gas tax
2) No federal funds for any state that requires special gas blends
Yes the blue states would refuse and sue...let them
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (V362x)
This is economics 101.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 31, 2026 05:11 PM (DKeOf)
It happened in the mid-00s as well.
When prices were about to hit $140 because of the Iraq War and the instability of supply Bush signed an executive order opening up more territory on the coasts for oil exploration.
Oil prices dropped almost immediately and never really got that close to $140 again, because fracking was on the horizon.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)
Clifford Asness
@CliffordAsness
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To: Michigan AG Dana Nessel
From: Jews
Nuts
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Josh Kraushaar
@JoshKraushaar
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Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday.
“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival"
https://jta.org/202
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (n5tGW)
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Which is so far beyond the reasoning capacity of the average democrat that the media can safely ignore it completely.
Posted by: Livin' in America at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:10 PM (yE2CW)
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Much higher than that. The US is documenting (receiving) over 500,000 barrels daily. That's about to increase significantly.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Thrawn
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Chief Justice Taft, had this snowflake raised her suit in the 1920's would sit on her just like the Court ruled in Frothingham v. Mellon in 1922.
Taxpayers do not have standing to sue over spending of fed gov with the only exception as violations of the US Constitution or where statutes specifically authorize such lawsuits.
As Frothingham wisely noted, the redress is political, not courts.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:16 PM (E4rtv)
In the current trade talks, Canada was threatening to cut us off from their heavy, dirty oil. But now that we have access to Venezuela's lighter, clean oil that's easier to get to America, Canada doesn't have anything to threaten us with.
They should be coming to the realization that we really don't need them at all.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (0MjtC)
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3uc4thh3
Posted by: mrp
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Thinking that Spain's cut may sharply decrease.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (ogcfP)
wsj 2018: "Readers of pre-millennial vintage may recall the 2008 presidential campaign when Republicans and especially Sarah Palin picked up the chant "drill, baby, drill" as a response to soaring oil prices. The theme was much derided, not least by Barack Obama, who as late as 2012 called it "a slogan, a gimmick, and a bumper sticker" but "not a strategy."
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (CWTWj)
We can't refine much more than that. It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Todd the Bum at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (JM9I6)
A company called Radiant has shipped their prototype 1MW helium-cooled, TRISO-fueled micro reactor from California to INL/Battelle (on a semi!) as a PoC... its review process at INL has been fast-tracked and is expected to be approved with 8-10mos.
They have selected the old K-25 site in Oak Ridge as the production facility, due to its proximity to X-Energy's TRISO-X fuel production plant, and plan to build one reactor per week there, once they have commercial approval.
The first 15 have been pre-ordered by the Army for Ft. Benning.
Alongside the salt-cooled modular reactors being developed there by Kairos and others, the face of energy is about to change. It really is just over the horizon, now.
This is in its infancy, but the toothpaste is out of the tube.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (BI5O2)
and he should rename the "solar system" to the "american system".
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
I have come to believe that most analysts on TV are simply bullshit actors there to say what market players want them to say. Same group of assholes during the Iraq crisis argued it would take years to fix Kuwaiti oil wells and infrastructure from the fires and other damage.
Too many hedge funds are frantic for volatile commodity prices and end up like the recent silver squeeze, often getting their tits in a wringer.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm)
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this is suicidal empathy. Its right there. She's running on: VOTE FOR ME I'M SUICIDAL AND I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU WITH ME.
And, sadly, a lot of women in Michigan are going to do just that. . .
Michigan, you are SUCH the disappoint.
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (anL5R)
Sincerely , non idiots
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (ogcfP)
Yep. Because fuck them. And India can go horsefuck, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (9tX4s)
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Pride Of Wilmington! at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (eIzlH)
Also leftists: Of course I and my clients need to get paid, we don't do this shit for free
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm)
When prices were about to hit $140 because of the Iraq War and the instability of supply Bush signed an executive order opening up more territory on the coasts for oil exploration.
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His dumb-ass brother, gov of FL, signed a bill - No drilling off the FL Gulf Coast.
_Skull and Bones
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (eIzlH)
$7.19 here....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (+gK6I)
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest.
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RW1OD)
They've managed 100% narrative coordination. Putin is envious.
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Who needs enemies when the media will do the enemies' job?
What's even funnier, they insist that Trump is a tyrant. If he were a tyrant they would be singing his praises. Just look over at North Korea, China, Russia, Iran.
Posted by: Decaf at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: polynikes
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That appears to be a canard nowadays. Part of the increased flexibility in more US refineries comes from the import of even heavier tar sands petroleum from Canada. Should help with diesel prices, asphalt, and tar as well. Second, Venezuela does produce light crude as well from different fields that can be mixed onsite to fit what refineries can handle.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (E4rtv)
Sincerely , non idiots
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:19 PM (j/Ml9)
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Do not mistake it. In no way was she referring to herself.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (BI5O2)
SMRs are going to change the world.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (HwKLm)
This is in its infancy, but the toothpaste is out of the tube.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Good to read. Now, about that Thorium...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (diia5)
Not that democrats and turncoat republicans care what the founding fathers wanted... but the founders were split on how grand DC and the White House should be. Washington wanted it all huge and grand. Big bold layout, a fancy White House. Washington and Trump were on the same page.
Jefferson wanted DC as small and as ungrand as possible, as a sign the people ruled and DC didn't turn into an empirical city. I believe he slept in like one tiny room or wing of the WH as president and did everything possible to keep it unfancy.
Which vision should we have, libs? You hate both men, whose vision prevails?
Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (Toos7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ogcfP)
It's not just about the price of oil today or next year, it's about national security as well. For all intents, the US is now the big dog in the oil world.
OPEC is breaking down. The UAE has already left and Venezuela is on the way out. China and Russia were all over Venezuela, China was Venezuela's biggest customer. They also controlled the Panama Canal.
If you step back and look at what Trump is doing with Venezuela and Iran he is moving the the US into the leadership role of the world's energy. He's also making the hemisphere the place of the future which is exactly what he said he was going to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m)
That would help lower prices in the long term if we had more capacity and output.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:23 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: WisRich at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (G0vdT)
@JoshKraushaar
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7h
Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday.
“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival"
https://jta.org/202
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:15 PM (kX27y)
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So, she says, please vote for Hitler.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (Zjq06)
Posted by: Oddbob
Seriousness went out of the court during the Warren Court era and the liberal wing of the court does not realize that the era of winging bad judicial decisions by writing crap like this no longer flies. Like academia, Big Med over covid, and other institutions, the left has put on clown makeup and dress for judges and the judges concur by issuing bizarre and fantastical rulings that have no basis in history, nor law. But muh feelz instead.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (E4rtv)
It's not a canard if you can't tell me where the oil is being refined. Also when did our Pre Venezuelan deal lack of refineries issue disappear?
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt)
Too many hedge funds are frantic for volatile commodity prices and end up like the recent silver squeeze, often getting their tits in a wringer.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv)
whig, you are so correct about this. My latest bugaboo with the financial media is their view on Warsh and hiking interest rates. It was not two weeks ago that Core PCE was flat, and three weeks ago that CPI was down. The press pesters Warsh to sound more hawkish or else 'Fed credibility' is in jeopardy, and he folds and sounds more hawkish. It's like the press wants to tank the economy in Sept just to hit Trump on Election Day.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:25 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:26 PM (Zjq06)
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (GUOwU)
Democrats will of course refuse to attend any event in TRUMP'S Ballroom. (While Trump is in office.) But the top Democrats who are invited will cry all night long about missing an opportunity to be at a glitzy party with their favorite royal in the world!
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m)
Canada is natural resource rich but national leadership poor.
It's a shame they can't get their shit together up there with their oil & mineral exports.
Net zero & environmentalism has hobbled the country's economy worse than any other G7 member, and the Liberals are too busy playing politics and counting their money to do anything about any of it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)
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Oh come now. How could you possibly suggest a coordinated effort by the press to hurt Donald Trump? Pshaw. Such a conspiracy could never be kept secret if such a thing ever existed! My word how outlandish a suggestion. Its almost as if you are suggesting there is fake news or something.
Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:26 PM (Zjq06)
That does seem like the pt 2 of the announcement...planned for next Tuesday or so (or Labor Day as a jobs thing)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (X8xt3)
Georgian revival was about symmetry, and I hate the ballroom makes it so asymmetrical.
The solution, clearly, is to knock down the other wing and make TWO huge symmetrical ballrooms! (I'm kidding. Sort of.)
It's annoying that because the libs were so screechy about the details, our enemies know we're putting a huge master bunker under the ballroom. But then they also know POTUS will be safe and ready to kick their butt if crap goes down.
Posted by: LizLem at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (Toos7)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m)
This is important as you just stated it. Thank you for posting that.
Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (Oy/m2)
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest.
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:21 PM (RW1OD)
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Yes. This is about making it impossible for China to invade Taiwan for lack of fuel. And of course the oil will flow in a non-linear way. There will be some lag, but even the expectation of future supply is going to drive prices down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard
Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut.
So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice.
FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ripley
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Remember when obama's "plan" for lower energy prices was putting more air in your tires?
And mccain made fun of it and then quickly had to apologize, lest he be called a racist.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:20 PM (vTZFs)
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You've obviously never been to a good ol' fashion DC Cocktail Party (emphasis on "Cock" & "Tail") Ho Down Throw Down, Plebe!"
/Only WE Have Standing, Sitting, and Laying there ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (RW1OD)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s)
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Orange Man Bad is term-limited. He's also old. So Jews are willing to elect their executioners for what, exactly?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Well, ink it that we have three hum-dingers in Ahia that can handle it just fine, and a nice pipeline from Texas, too.
The Canadians are going to have to sell their tar on the west coast. I wish them luck getting it over Mount NamedforInjuns.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (zdLoL)
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Oh come now. How could you possibly suggest a coordinated effort by the press to hurt Donald Trump? Pshaw. Such a conspiracy could never be kept secret if such a thing ever existed! My word how outlandish a suggestion. Its almost as if you are suggesting there is fake news or something.
Posted by: Mock Serious Guy
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I think a stock meltdown is unlikely in September/October this time. If you note, the AI tops have receded a bit and the economy continues to pour investment into the US economy.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (E4rtv)
I love this whole the deal sucks because nothing will happen for 10 years, when-
the same retards are always telling us about the great deals to cut the budget that always seem to be negotiated to happen 10 years later.
A.
Holes.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:30 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:24 PM (KC5Lt)
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American refineries are (except when geopolitics gets in the way) a major export destination for Venezuelan crude, and the best suited US refineries are several in Port Arthur, two in Baymont and Beaumont (Texas), Marathon Galveston Bay, and many other Gulf Coast refineries.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (Zjq06)
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (eIzlH)
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and not letting the last drops dribble out of the pump handle to the ground.
He was the first Karen president.
Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Braenyard
Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut.
So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice.
FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv)
I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ogcfP)
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The Premier of Alberta flat-out said that if Canada tried to embargo the US, they would lose access to our refineries, which would simply use Venezuela to take up the slack and they would be completely screwed.
She also reviewed how there are no pipelines going to Ontario and Quebec that don't entire US territory. They were proposed, but blocked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (ZOv7s)
This is important as you just stated it. Thank you for posting that.
Posted by: dantesed
Agree with dantesed, props to JackStraw for a pithy and correct statement.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Leupold"
To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU)
... having absorbed approximately 65–80% of total Venezuela oil exports prior to Maduro's arrest.
I did not know that.
Cool.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (FAEmw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Cqx++)
The market will tank if the Democrats win in November.
Look for the economy and markets to rocket up if the Republicans win.
The history is pretty clear on this.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (iJfKG)
It was faster for me to copy and paste why Montana and Midwest refineries aren't getting Venezuelan oil.
Incompatible Chemistry: Refineries in Montana (such as the refinery near Billings) are built to process light-to-heavy crude oil coming overland from western Canada.Logistical Focus: Venezuelan crude is a heavy, sour blend. It goes to specialized refineries located on the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, which were specifically designed for that type of dense, sulfur-rich oil.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (KC5Lt)
That was Obama's way of saying FU to normies.
He knew it was ridiculous, and no doubt enjoyed everyone having to pretend it was a serious recommendation.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:33 PM (X8xt3)
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They are already crushing elevated parking garage floors...
Posted by: Mock Serious Guy at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (anL5R)
Big trucks pay the lions share of road taxes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (ogcfP)
USAID gets taken down and 7 Latin American countries flip to conservative leaders. Trump takes down Maduro and basically kicks Iran and China out of Venezuela. Cuba is circling the drain. The Panama Canal is back in western hands. The largest funder of state sponsored terrorism is being strangled to death. China's economy is sucking air.
I don't think these are all random occurrences. Trump is literally realigning the world order and giving us the country we deserve. Not happening overnight but for something of this magnitude it's happening at light speed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (9tX4s)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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They do accelerate damage being heavier as a rule. Dunno about outside of specialist publications thought where any popular studies exist other than parking deck problems with weight.
Has been some work on that because those decks were designed for lighter vehicles and substitute 25-50 percent electric for gas burners probably means that the decks are not rated for that weight.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l)
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Better to host a dinner for the construction workers who built the place.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (Zjq06)
Look for the economy and markets to rocket up if the Republicans win.
The history is pretty clear on this.
Posted by: naturalfake
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I feel like it's usually a short term phenomenon.
My best guess is Dems narrowly take House and Republicans keep Senate.
They cant repeal the BBB so the effect will be limited.
But Trump ill be impeached again, 100%. The lunatic Left will demand it.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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ExLax will open that passageway right up.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (E4rtv)
Suicidal empathy. And clearly none of them are students of history.
Posted by: Ann at August 31, 2026 05:35 PM (SHHm+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (ZOv7s)
That's because Danielle Smith isn't entirely stupid and realizes where the oil comes from and how it gets to places in Canada, unlike her fellow politicians, and she has been begging for an East-to-West pipeline from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with ports on each end so they can transport their own oil across their own country and export some to the world instead of just south of the border.
If they'd listen to her, and other Albertans, for decades about a pipeline they wouldn't be in the pickle they've put themselves in.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
I don't think these are all random occurrences. Trump is literally realigning the world order and giving us the country we deserve. Not happening overnight but for something of this magnitude it's happening at light speed.
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HOW DARE YOU BE OPTIMISTIC!!!!
Posted by: Black Pill Crowd at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 05:34 PM (viF8m)
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Fixed it for ya.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Yea but that was air from the moon which is lighter then air on the earth.
So according to the laws of physics Barry Soetoro, PHD Bullshitology has was correct and you MAGA Rednecks just hate him because he is a 0.5 Black Man.
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (j93VM)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 05:03 PM (2WIwB)
Up that much here .. Of course I'm in CA. so....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (+gK6I)
Oil prices are up because 'investors' are still pretending that Iran matters.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (ExV1e)
How can any serious person, much less a Supreme Court Justice write those words with a straight face and sign his/her name below them? Gobsmacking stupidity.
- - - -
Honestly, I think it's all a game to them.
They know this is coordinated, petty lawfare and they get to pretend it's serious while laughing with its originators at DC parties.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Leupold"
To be fair I recall I happened to put some air in my tires around that time and prices dropped 10 cents the next few days. I never received any credit for that though.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU)
Then prices went back up, and then some.
Thanks a lot.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (8EdAy)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Any time the month has 31 days, she runs out of meds.
Posted by: Rex Ulti at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (JM9I6)
Did you find a mineral deposit in the middle of nowhere and you want to mine it?
I know! Build a big ass power station that depends on local fuel sources, at an ungodly cost.
Or... lease a set of modular reactors and have them come drop it off on some trucks, put it together, and get cracking.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (BI5O2)
carb remembers.
Posted by: california air resources board, outlawing the tires you want at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (9tX4s)
It's all about Tikkun Olam.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (kX27y)
Well that worked. I've never heard DC described as "empirical."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:38 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
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It's being said that the tariff war was set up by Obama's people and the Clintons (a Hillary staffer is now "advising" Carney) in the hopes to crater the economy for the midterms and also boost the Liberals in bye elections. Also create a "rally round the flag" movement in Alberta.
I don't think that's going to work. Trump is playing coy at the moment, but at some point he's going to release the draft agreement. He's not doing that now, because timing is everything.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Yea but that was air from the moon which is lighter then air on the earth.
So according to the laws of physics Barry Soetoro, PHD Bullshitology has was correct and you MAGA Rednecks just hate him because he is a 0.5 Black Man.
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:37 PM (j93VM)
To be fair, we only hated the black half.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (8EdAy)
We can't refine much more than that. It ink we only have a couple of refineries in Texas that can handle that heavy oil.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:17 PM (KC5Lt)
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Apparently Louisiana is getting in on it. Lake Charles and St. Charles refineries are taking in Venezuelan crude. Pascagoula Refinery in Mississippi is also doing the same in addition to the Texas refineries.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (KC5Lt)
I went through this last week with AI and made a post here.
There are refineries in Ohio, Michigan and a couple of other states capable of refining Venezuelan oil.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Braenyard
Big trucks do a lot more damage to roads than cars. Mass times velocity does a number on interstates, bridges, and highways. Reason that they should never be on regular streets not designed for heavy trucks either when they use those streets for a shortcut.
So either tax diesel appropriately which catches most of the heavy truck damage or apply mileage taxes to them. Or you raise car fuel taxes and/or mileage taxes. Your choice.
FWIW, a lot of that traffic used to be on railroads where the RR bear all the costs of maintenance and pay for diesel as well.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:29 PM (E4rtv)
I wonder what the collective effect of a whole lot of heavy electric cars has on bridge and road lifespan over time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2026 05:31 PM (0CU3H)
One effect: Local politicians, construction contractors, and unions were drooling at the coming opportunity to build, or rebuild to new specifications, a whole lot of roads, overpasses, and bridges.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:40 PM (5rh/l)
Defiant L’s
@DefiantLs
Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant."
I think Rosie has been reading some ficton.
How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (wGerL)
Yes I meant to say Louisiana too and I'm from Lake Charles though I didn't know Mississippi had one that could refine
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt)
Yeah, but this advice was equivalent to a finance guy advising you to stop buying Starbucks to save money, or a time management person telling you to not answer the phone (no interruption = stay on task).
It is the most basic, obvious advice, the lowest of hanging fruit that will not fix the overall, complex problems at hand.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3)
It's chilling to me that Nessel would say that and the Jews gathered there might nod their heads in agreement
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (5JD6s)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:27 PM (5rh/l)
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I heard last week that Trump has threatened to demolish The [Trump] Kennedy Center if Rogue District Clown and other Judges keep obstructing his plans to renovate it.
At this point, he should just go ahead and do it on general principle. Plus, I could use a good schadenboner and exploding heads fireworks show ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (kqBRX)
Big trucks pay the lions share of road taxes.
Posted by: Braenyard
Eisenhower intended both. And exactly how to allocate road taxes is a political question that each state has to answer. A few states like Arkansas designed their highways way back when 73k was the maximum weight limit. They were forced to go to 80k along with some other states and the road bed simply could not take it.
And fwiw, when trucks speed, it increase the damage because of physics. So another way is to reduce truck speed to 55-60 mph maximum to limit damage.
And Eisenhower never intended for trucks to replace heavy rail either. It was more both than either or.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (E4rtv)
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She never had it to lose.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt)
Or... sell to the blue states at a price which allows you to charge people in the red states less.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 05:43 PM (FmCOO)
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU)
Then prices went back up, and then some.
Thanks a lot.
_-_
Must have sprung a leak.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 05:43 PM (8cylk)
Remember Al Gore's Carbon Credit Scam ????
Sad thing about it was people actually bought some of his bogus credits for millions. The question is why are this people so stupid ???
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (j93VM)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3)
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AKA Cult "Virtue" Signaling
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (kqBRX)
Several Midwestern refineries were historically capable of processing Venezuelan heavy, sour crude, especially refineries connected to the former northbound pipeline system from the Gulf Coast. Examples include:
Citgo Lemont refinery near Chicago, Illinois
Citgo Corpus Christi–Midwest supply system, historically supplying the Lemont refinery with Venezuelan crude
Marathon Petroleum’s Robinson refinery in Illinois
Marathon’s Detroit refinery in Michigan
BP’s Whiting refinery in Indiana
ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in Illinois
Potentially other complex refineries in the Chicago and Wood River markets
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:44 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (sGtp+)
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Yup. Thus the actual name:
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (XeU6L)
Roberts et al. are just throwing a tantrum.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt)
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From what I've read, the Mississippi refinery is the primary and they're unloading right from their own personal harbor to speed up the process.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 05:45 PM (dIske)
Sad thing about it was people actually bought some of his bogus credits for millions. The question is why are this people so stupid ???
*whistles innocently*
Posted by: nft of a monkey at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (sGtp+)
The vast American population is against...the trade war with Canada, the Iran war, tariffs, insert issue,...and only Trump and the hardcore MAGA don't realise this.
When WILL THEY WAKE UP and revolt, etc, etc, yawn.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b)
Its answer? Chuck Norris or Benny Urquidez with Bruce Lee as a potential third but he just didn't fight competitively enough
The most interesting part of this list? These are older guys. Newer artists aren't in the list
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: VW Trends at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (5JD6s)
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It's perfectly on brand for her, though. Nasty piece of work and completely corrupt. Also a falling-down drunk. Only got re-elected because of the FBI fake plot and vote fraud.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (XeU6L)
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, John Roberts
Trump's ballroom is going to fly
Supreme Court approves Trump's ballroom construction despite Roberts siding with liberals
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (ndZc7)
To be fair, if you spend $5 at Starbuck's on your way to work 200 days a year, that's a thousand dollars which is real money for most people. It's more like advising you to stop tipping at Starbuck's.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (ExV1e)
It's already happening... Nevada sells Electricity to Calif at a WAY higher rate than to Nevadans.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)
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Remember when Biden's plan was to tell you to download the GasBuddy app?
And all the news, right down to the locals, breathlessly ran stories on how you could save up to 2 cents a gallon if you'd but drive half an hour out of your way.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (3cUTc)
The vast American population is against...the trade war with Canada, the Iran war, tariffs, insert issue,...and only Trump and the hardcore MAGA don't realise this.
When WILL THEY WAKE UP and revolt, etc, etc, yawn.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:46 PM (Sco7b)
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Michigan Dems are trying to make hay out of this by of course siding with Canada, you know, the assholes who make it hard for use to BREATHE.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: VW Trends! at August 31, 2026 05:47 PM (JM9I6)
We lost a lot of that traffic because of manufacturing off-shoring and then the railroads consolidated due to loss of business and went to hubs. Trucking became the answer for a lot more shipping, especially when containerized shipping took off and you could move the containers around so much more efficiently.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
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Oh, boy. Somebody's getting hot and bothered.
Get ready for Rosie's shocking and transgressive bodice ripper "Sophie's Choice II: Passion Camp," wherein an obese and mentally defective Irish girl is forced to the live in the shadows... of the hulking, musclebound ICE agents whose contempt for The Other is overtaken by their forbidden desire.
Will Sophie choose Alex, the stern but sensual guard-tower sniper? Or Steve, the strapping border patrolman with his proud steed and trusty bullwhip? Or will she embrace the power of "and?"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (BI5O2)
None of those refineries are receiving any of the current Venezuelan oil imports.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: whig
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We were talking taxes, the cost of fuel and road maintenance.
Big trucks pay a disproportionate amount of money for road maintenance that an automobile driver. And diesel fuel is disproportionately taxed. If it were not for the tax and CAFE we would be driving diesels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (ogcfP)
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She never had it to lose.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (anL5R)
Only 5-4 on this case? Good Grief! One vote away from SCOTUS allowing one person in every neighborhood, town, and city to effectively stop all future construction in the US. Leftists, especially Leftist lawyers, would be ecstatic! Roberts is insane.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l)
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Not to mention the damage to highways & freeways caused primarily during icy & snowy winters (including de-icing chemicals, chains, et. al.) plus the freeze-thaw cycle in such climates (e.g. the interstates -- 40 & 17 -- around Flagstaff).
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (kqBRX)
When an illegal raped a 14 year old in MA the governor responded by saying, "Well these things happen". That's a real rape not one of Rosie's theoretical ones
And for added fun is she claiming ICE agents are raping illegal alien kids or that other illegal alien kids are doing it? Because if its that later it is not a good argument for "hey we need to keep them here"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (sKqQm)
Criminals have rediscovered hijacking trucks again like in the 70's.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip
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Paid $3.49 here twodays ago.
As an aside, I see that you are reading 'The Gathering Storm'. The parallels of the actions/non-actions of politicians and diplomats during the inter-war years bear an uncanny resemblance to the past 20 or so years of dealings with Iran.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OBAMA'S "UNACCOMPANIED MINORS" POLICY/PROCESSING LEGITIMATELY CREATED THE HORRORS SHE'S DESCRIBED (W/OPPOSITE FLOW OF HUMAN TRAFFICK).
AND REALLY, DOESN'T SHE LIVE IN IRELAND NOW?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l)
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W's greatest mistake ... whose daddy GWB was Reagan's greatest mistake (although my understanding is that Ronnie had little choice in the matter).
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (kqBRX)
Defiant L’s
@DefiantLs
Rosie O’Donnell: “We’re making concentration camps. We’re rounding up people without a warrant. We’re raping children in ICE detention, they’re all getting pregnant."
I think Rosie has been reading some ficton.
How do you even say this with a serious face? She has completely lost it
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 05:41 PM (ndZc7)
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I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ShainS
True.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:54 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Doesn't she have kids to strangle?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (8EdAy)
Speaking of EVs...
While I was out today I happened to drive by Rivian showroom,
So I thought I'd check it out for yucks.
I test drove the their R1S.
I have to say I liked it a lot. Well-made, one pedal driving is cool, their driver's assist was scary good.
If it weren't for all the issues associated with EVs, I might consider buying one.
But then there's the price, you can get a pretty great ICE spending roughly half what it would cost for an R1S.
Nice car though.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (iJfKG)
Unlike today when TDS took away all and the only cure is a woodchipper.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes
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Didn't say they were. Said they have the capacity.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (ogcfP)
I think she needs to talk to her doctor and have her meds adjusted.
Posted by: mrp
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See also: Sugar intake
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:55 PM (XeU6L)
As an aside, I see that you are reading 'The Gathering Storm'. The parallels of the actions/non-actions of politicians and diplomats during the inter-war years bear an uncanny resemblance to the past 20 or so years of dealings with Iran.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L)
Are we talking about the Wheel of Time novel or something else?
Posted by: pookysgirl, girding for The Last Battle at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (Wt5PA)
We now produce about four times as much as we did then.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: whig
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We were talking taxes, the cost of fuel and road maintenance.
Big trucks pay a disproportionate amount of money for road maintenance that an automobile driver. And diesel fuel is disproportionately taxed. If it were not for the tax and CAFE we would be driving diesels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (ogcfP)
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Eisenhower wanted an American Autobahn. Think AFV carriers and towed 240mm howitzers.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 05:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (5rh/l)
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W's greatest mistake ... whose daddy GWB was Reagan's greatest mistake (although my understanding is that Ronnie had little choice in the matter).
Posted by: ShainS
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I think Roberts is fighting a losing battle to maintain judicial supremacy over the policy process. But the clowns judges appointed by Dems just keep getting more idiotic and spastic in their rulings. And Mr. Roberts who intoned no standing over and over again to thwart investigation of Democrat voter theft in 2020 just cashed in his principle to join with the idiotic opposition of Orange Man Bad.
Standing because one person was 'offended' esthetically which is fundamentally stupid and contrary to past precedents. It is the muh feelz addendum to standing.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (E4rtv)
Criminals have rediscovered hijacking trucks again like in the 70's.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt)
There were some train cars being broken into and looted a few years back. In Los Angeles I think it was. There were TV helicopters filming it they were so brazen.
They were running out of the car with big flat screen TVs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: VW Mann at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 05:52 PM (kqBRX)
The 'true conservatives' pushed hard for Roberts. Also Thomas was appointed by Sr. He could have easily abandoned him but he did just the opposite.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 05:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: VW Trends
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Many states taxed by the pound until VWs and Nissans became the rage.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 05:58 PM (ogcfP)
Are we talking about the Wheel of Time novel or something else?
Posted by: pookysgir
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Churchill's memoir of the inter-war period.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 05:59 PM (XeU6L)
Eisenhower wanted an American Autobahn. Think AFV carriers and towed 240mm howitzers.
Posted by: mrp
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Too heavy/ not allowed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 06:00 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 06:00 PM (KC5Lt)
It is the most basic, obvious advice, the lowest of hanging fruit that will not fix the overall, complex problems at hand.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 05:42 PM (X8xt3)
Is this about the price of burritos?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 05:02 PM (j/Ml9)
We need to replenish our reserves squandered by Biden. Deals like this give it to us cheaper, in exchange for our operating and repairing their fields and equipment. I'd guess they were operating at a loss for a while before Maduro was grabbed.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 06:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 06:02 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (9tX4s)
We shouldn't be giving these fucking scumbags anything. Let them develop their own resources.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: mrp
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The original principle was for defense, but everyone wanted a piece of the new interstate system because it allied construction, developers, state governments that would administer them, industry, tourists, etc.
But to address your point Braenyard, trucks do pay more but the question is whether they pay enough or not.
This is Brave AI's take
"Heavy trucks cause significantly more damage to interstate roadways than passenger cars, with estimates ranging from 300 to 10,000 times more damage per pass, depending on the pavement type and calculation method. This disparity exists because pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the axle load."
You can dig up highways studies that add support to this. Even the Amer Trucking Institute admits the ratio is They cite studies suggesting the actual damage ratio is 300:1 or so.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (E4rtv)
i expected it to come down once the alameda-weehawken burrito tunnel was completed.
sadly, there's no longer a page about it on wikipedia...
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 06:04 PM (sGtp+)
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New Tik Tok trend.
J͎Λ͎Y͎u
@TakeThiamine
I remember seeing a TikTok where some girl was at a birthday party(?) going around interviewing people wrt meds and everyone was on like 2-6 things. It’s bleak.
swan song
@swansong
When I lived in America a girl looked at me in complete horror when I told her I wasn't on any meds. She couldn't believe it
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Well, at least all the AWFLs are completely sane now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 06:06 PM (ndZc7)
I have come to believe that most analysts on TV are simply bullshit actors there to say what market players want them to say. Same group of assholes during the Iraq crisis argued it would take years to fix Kuwaiti oil wells and infrastructure from the fires and other damage.
Along with the dumbass "military analysts" who confidently promised that we would lose 10s of thousands of troops in the Gulf War when US units would charge the Iraqi trenches and be cut down like Limeys at the Battle of the Somme.
In fact, we lost less than 150 in combat deaths, about the same number in non-combat accidents.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 06:14 PM (y9nCu)
Its even worse than that. RRs pay property taxes on their rail roads.
I'm sort of curious if RRs will start to reclaim the railbanking they have done over the years.
Could you imagine if these massive retailers dropped Lights Out distribution centers on Rails-to-Trails and the RRs reverted those trails back to spurs to feed the distribution centers.
With AI inventorying, Lights Out warehouse operations and with CP and KCS merging into CPKC making a continuous Mexico to Canada routes and Union Pacific impending merger with Norfolk Southern, making a contiguous east-west route, rail operations should become even more efficient than they are now.
With DOT crushing the illegal alien and fake trucking training centers, the move to rail may just increase.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:22 PM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 07:51 PM (Ve/HL)
to other people that they will help, so here it occurs.
Posted by: shaved beaver at September 01, 2026 12:58 AM (BnsxR)
Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture"
Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things.
Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed an old tweet trashing America on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats to disavow far-left streamer Hasan Piker. In the now-deleted tweet, El-Sayed mourned the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 and then noted that he planned to grieve the deaths he blamed on America over the wars that followed. "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called. "Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed must know he's in trouble because he's apologizing to, get this, Jews, over his justification/minimization of a fellow Muslim's murder of Jewish children at a synagogue by saying "Hurt people hurt people." In other words: Muslim get mad, Muslim kill Jews. Deal with it, and stop making Muslims mad.
That appears to be a reference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the fighting that took place in Pakistan during the 2000s. It's not entirely clear when he scrubbed that tweet, which was first uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, but has gained renewed attention as the country approaches the 25th anniversary of the attack. A copy of the since-deleted tweet has been saved on the Wayback Machine. ... During his campaign, El-Sayed has faced scrutiny over his ties to Piker, with whom he stumped on the final day of his Democratic primary campaign. Piker infamously said in 2019 that "America deserved 9/11," before later, very begrudgingly, sort of conceding it was an "inappropriate" comment. He was later spotted with a framed copy of a front-page newspaper showing the Twin Towers in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. Piker, a multimillionaire socialist, also defended the US-designated terrorist group Hezbollah, gushed over the "brave mujahideen" who injured outgoing Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), and contended that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was a "direct consequence" of Israeli actions. He also said that if Hamas engaged in rape, it "doesn't change the dynamic for me." In the time since, Piker has tried to claim that he was joking and that critics don't understand streaming culture. ... "Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has so far refused to condemn the words of Hasan Piker, his friend and frequent campaign surrogate," Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) said in a statement. "It is disingenuous for El-Sayed to try and distance himself from Piker without specifically condemning, refuting, or even just rejecting Piker's hateful rhetoric." ... El-Sayed has tried to downplay his ties to Piker, arguing the campaign is about his policies, not a streamer from California. But he repeatedly campaigned with Piker during the primary and has refused to disavow him.
By the way: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's white female liberal communications director hates, get this, white women. No, she's not a self-hating white woman. Because her ideological religion makes her among The Elect and above the contempt that normal (spit) white women deserve.
Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, met individually with Jewish party leaders over the weekend to apologize for controversial statements he made in the past. The meetings are part of an effort to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats, CNN reported. "I don't ever want my comments to hurt anybody's feelings. It's important to me that people understand that I take seriously the pain of all communities in this state," El-Sayed told CNN. El-Sayed declined to discuss his relationship with Hasan Piker, a far-left Twitch streamer who campaigned with El-Sayed during the primary, saying it's "not a serious conversation." Piker had told his audience earlier this month that the issue of Israel has become so toxic that American Jews who support the country could be met with retaliation. "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews," Piker said earlier this month.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is a gleeful leftwing cancel culture asshole, but he says that, if you ask him about his prior statements or associations in judging his fitness to be one of only two federal senators from Michigan, You're doing cancel culture, you Soyboy Beta Cuck. And he still refuses to say a single cross word about the man he has repeatedly invited to campaign with him.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's communications director Roxie Richner previously posted a series of messages targeting white people and white women, including one declaring that "all white women are policy failures."
The posts, made on X, then known as Twitter, date back to 2019 and 2020. Richner has worked with El-Sayed since at least his 2018 campaign for Michigan governor, according to previous social media posts. On May 26, 2020, the day after George Floyd died, Richner wrote: "I don't care if it's scary or makes you uncomfortable. Black people are being murdered by the police and white women are making shit up trying to get Black people killed. snap [the f---] out of it and start taking action."
She followed with another post saying, "all white women are policy failures." ... In another 2020 post, during violent unrest following Floyd's death, Richner responded to people questioning her comments about looting. "[I]f one more white ann arbor person dms me asking why i'm 'dEFeNdiNG LoOtiNG' i'm seriously gonna explode. your racism is showing. check yourselves. I'm not holding back on this s--- anymore, i'm dropping names if u keep it up," she wrote. Following the 2020 presidential election, Richner also posted: ""!!! POC youth really carried us [purple heart emoji] and let's be very clear not ALL youth.. very disappointed in white youth and white women," according to the posts.
Abdul El-Sayed says you’re engaging in cancel culture if you call out him and Hasan Piker pic.twitter.com/peWsUCRqya
— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) August 31, 2026
Hasan Piker makes it CLEAR that Abdul El-Sayed PERSONALLY invited him on the campaign trail:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 31, 2026
“Abdul El-Sayed is my guy…a wonderful person.”
“He reached out to me and said ‘let’s do a campaign rally together.’”
That settles that. pic.twitter.com/Pu3pR42uEP
Piker: "It’s laughable to say guys like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, we hate America."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 30, 2026
Also Piker: "I hate America." pic.twitter.com/AuK8FV1leX
This keeps getting worse.
— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) August 29, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "I am not interested in a conversation about a social media person in California."
Reporter: "Why did you bring him to Michigan then?"
Abdul: *waves off question*
Different reporter: "There are Jewish voters who DO want to have that… pic.twitter.com/8HY7bNm3yZ
Kyle Martinsen
@KyleMartinsen_
This keeps getting worse. Abdul El-Sayed: "I am not interested in a conversation about a social media person in California." Reporter: "Why did you bring him to Michigan then?" Abdul: *waves off question* Different reporter: "There are Jewish voters who DO want to have that conversation. Everyone I've talked to has been asking me to ask you whether you condemn Hasan Piker." Abdul (not condemning): "I'm telling you this is not a campaign about a single streamer in California."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 31, 2026 03:40 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 31, 2026 03:40 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (tpKiB)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
Posted by: Clay at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (qMBeu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (tpKiB)
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (Shi2G)
Don't you love how quick the Left transitions to watching every single thing every person says for 20 straight years and ending lives over syllables of words, to "fuck you, we'll say what we want and who gives a shit what you thin and by the way the Jews deserved 9/11".
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (1wjle)
Still a lot of yard signs up in nice neighborhoods for him around here.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (Y8DZL)
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Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (eZQ1g)
"You sound like a communist woman"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (UdymR)
How very bougie.
I wonder where in the Koran that's allowed.
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (tpKiB)
Posted by: The Political Class at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (0RGA5)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:46 PM (EaLE4)
This op is a Brand New Day in America Time.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (anL5R)
Mistakes may have been made.
If so, they were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.
This is all a distraction from the Epstein Files.
OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (0sNs1)
It’s not cancel culture to consider the previously stated views or opinions from a candidate for U.S. Senate to judge who they are as a person and how they will conduct themselves in office, you slick-talking Persian rug salesman.
This is called “politics” and “running for office”, you mealy-mouthed, islamo-communust, dogkiller
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak)
Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (tOcjL)
hmmm.
Yeah, hmmmmmm. I don't see it. They'd rather lose this election than alienate a prospective big new voting bloc.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (Riz8t)
My only fear is that the oppo on this scumbag is peaking too soon and will be forgotten--or dismissed as old news-- by the time of the November elections.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
I wonder where in the Koran that's allowed.
Posted by: Robert
Germany being Germany, I'm sure that's on the brothel's menu.
As long as the hooker he's rented is not muslim, where isn't it allowed?
... I am so terminally online...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 03:48 PM (vJrRc)
Act accordingly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak)
China building up energy infrastructure? A win for China.
China causing a disaster that kills thousands of Nepalese along their shared border? Also a win for China.
Fucking commies...
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (tpKiB)
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He is a hero ace, he does not want to bend the knee and be cancelled !
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (g47mK)
When you've lost Dana Nessel...
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: huerfano at August 31, 2026 03:47 PM
Sorry, not even with David F. bull's minotaur-like member.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (0sNs1)
You sir are totally being judged by the people you associate with, every day.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (Shi2G)
40% of the general population has no clue. And they will hop and skip to the polls and vote for the D.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak)
Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me...
We were discussing this this morning. I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it. Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)
There has to be coaching, planning, and advising going on from a specific source. Because, candidates like El-Sayed are going to continuously "shit the bed" because they can't help themselves. And, considering the outlandish truths that have popped up so far, you have to wonder what this guy has in his skeleton closet.
Are the Saudis running these guys?
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: The Truth at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (+iYtA)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (nlLAo)
+++++++
I KEEL YOU!!!
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (bX16E)
China causing a disaster that kills thousands of Nepalese along their shared border? Also a win for China.
Fucking commies...
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (tpKiB)
It's also going to be used as more "evidence" of "climate change" and thus reason to neuter even more Western energy production.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (Rl7KJ)
She's so close. All Democratic women are failures.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 03:53 PM (2ocoG)
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So you're sayin he's completely at home on the campus of Ann Arbor?
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 03:53 PM (anL5R)
Earthquakes are from Fracking!!!/
*Lights Tap Water on Fire*
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Shi2G)
Does Xi do land acknowledgement statements when visiting Tibet?
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Y8DZL)
You sir are totally being judged by the people you associate with, every day.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:50 PM (NnhvP)
That guy running against Asshole-off in Georgia gets nearly daily hit pieces written about him about people loosely associated with him (one was linked to him via marriage) saying something kooky.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)
Dude, it's China. As sure as the sun rises you can bet they fucked up somehow.
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 03:54 PM (tpKiB)
I have to imagine their are ads like that in other battleground states linking any Dem running with the asylum people.
Considering how easy it is to simply create a few web pages and fund a few ads, I'm actually kind of surprised we haven't seen 'natural outpouring of support' with fake, made-up groups like "Michigan Jews for El-Sayed" or "Michigan Gays for El-Sayed"
They do it with other issues. Some fake made up coalition with a great name and if you do research you find they stand completely opposite to the values you'd expect them to have.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 03:55 PM (Sco7b)
GTFO.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
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Ninth circuit judge says "Nein!".
Posted by: Turn 2 at August 31, 2026 03:55 PM (QFchU)
>>"Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on Twitter, as it was then called.
"Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."
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What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (Av6i5)
Are the Saudis running these guys?
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (dIske
The Saudi’s hate the Muslim brotherhood so I doubt it.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)
Dude, it's China. As sure as the sun rises you can bet they fucked up somehow.
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Hold up Hold up - its almost as if you are trying to say they don't run safe bioweapons facilities either. That's crazy talk bro. Being Chinese means never having to skimp on safety. Everybody knows the highest priority is safety followed closely by environment.
Posted by: nothing in china ever fails at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (jBtak)
Oops...I don't see China paying Nepal and the dead damages for that. But this no longer surprises me...
We were discussing this this morning. I've seen precisely no evidence to support the assertion that it was Chinese construction that caused it. Likewise, I've seen precisely no evidence that it was caused by global warming. I'll wait until there's some actual evidence to decide.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)
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It's not that uncommon for glaciers or pieces of glaciers to collapse in that area. Collapses and avalanches happen. It's just that this time it was a big collapse in a populated area.
Avalanches happen all the time in mountains. We only hear about them when they kill people.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
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What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Who is he talking about with that "1M lives in the name of my country" you need to ask yourself.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (g47mK)
He's excavated himself in lies and trying to cover up his truth.
I say "his truth" because I'm cool, man.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 03:58 PM (hzuYO)
And the sad thing is, it works.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (fqnOq)
where's the fun in that?
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (sGtp+)
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)
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She seems nice.
Posted by: That guy who thinks people seem nice at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)
Southeast Asis into Tibet and Nepal have had a really wet summer and several typhoons come ashore because of the El Nino affect this year.
The North Atlantic usually gets less storms and hurricanes because of increased wind shear while (which is proving true - we’re only on storm F which just formed today) the North Pacific gets the opposite less shear, warmer water and lots more storms.
China has been getting hammered with flood after flood all summer.
I think that was the cause, a lot if upstream rainfall, but the media will call it climate change and everybody will nod and go on with their day.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)
What you and your side have been doing for over a decade.
ALINSKY #4 M'FER
Good and hard.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 03:59 PM (X8xt3)
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False moral equivalence is a leftist paradigm
Posted by: sheesh at August 31, 2026 04:00 PM (anL5R)
Local communist congressmonster Hillary Scholten has disassociated her self from the turd.
Not sure if Debbie Dingle has jumped ship yet.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 04:02 PM (Gqar8)
The Hiroshima & Nagasaki jokes were a riot.
Posted by: Tetsuo Sekiguchi at August 31, 2026 04:03 PM (OkYzo)
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard.
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Wine moms are acutely effected by bullying from another in group woman or women. It triggers their safety checks of in group status and they comply with the demand, no matter how stupid, as long as it is sufficiently threatening to their in group status. Being in the group is a survival mechanism.
Posted by: sheesh at August 31, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 04:04 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Senator "Beatoff" O'Roarke at August 31, 2026 04:05 PM (A3xvt)
He walks off the beach and comes to a fork in the road, with an old man sitting next to it. The old man says, "This road leads to paradise, with a chicken in every pot and free stuff for everybody. The other road leads to a Mad Max hellscape of roving cannibals and toxic waste."
The liar says, "I don't believe you."
The old man says, "Well, since you're a liar, that means you do believe me.
The liar says, "Are you a politician?"
The old man says, "Vote for me and find out."
Which road do you take?
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5)
What does that even mean? I think this ridiculously named porn star-ish "Roxie Richner" is a fucking retard.
A guess?
She 100% into the Saira Rau brand of BLM feminism that told white women that they were ultra-totally racist by default, privileged by default, and that they should both STFU and LISTEN to brown* women yet also, silence is violence, so they MUST SPEAK OUT on behalf of brown people*.
*Their terminology, not mine.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (X8xt3)
Abdul deleting tweets.
AWFLs deleting children.
Sensing a pattern here.....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Polling which is really wishcasting you pay for at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Oprah will come looking for her royalty check.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (Y8DZL)
Hope that clears things up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:07 PM (BI5O2)
Republicans had this issue with some of the retards running in 2010.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 04:08 PM (eIzlH)
The liar says, "I don't believe you."
The old man says, "Well, since you're a liar, that means you do believe me.
The liar says, "Are you a politician?"
The old man says, "Vote for me and find out."
Which road do you take?
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Take off and Nuke the whole place from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Hicks at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R)
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>>What am I missing? This actually seems like the right thing to say, aside from kind of lumping unrelated things together.
He is mourning
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5)
The one less travelled?
Can I just get back on the boat, leave Politician Island and move to Florida?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (tpKiB)
destruction is the only thing they actually believe in; everything they say is a lie.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (VyBeY)
Nah, he's real and was created by Chunk Yogurt so there'd be somebody more cringe on the left than his horse-fucking self.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 04:06 PM (Av6i5
Mad Max road.
If the government tells you something is dangerous it will extend your lifespan by twenty years, whiten your teeth, and add three inches to your dick.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)
In that moment - pure insult.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (eZQ1g)
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I think on this one, they are all in. Not much time left. Biden was forced out in July, and they still whined that was not enough time for Kramala to do a good job. With 60 or so days left, this is it!
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (g47mK)
Hope that clears things up.
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This is concentrated Islamophobia. I KEEL YOU!!!
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (Gqar8)
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Hold it...are you saying that all of the Yang Poon* products being used here are crap?
*Hat Tip to Bers
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 04:10 PM (XeU6L)
He is mourning the loss of those killed by American soldiers in the ME wars following 9/11.
The problem is the framing.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:11 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Scale of Gayness at August 31, 2026 04:11 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (eZQ1g)
At a glance idk if I disagree with him. Saying during COVID that there should be a commensurate response to COVID compared to 9/11? Think I would have upvoted that at the time
Agreed, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with these statements. Probably a good idea to completely disavow the “America deserved 9/11” terrorist supporter guy
His comments aren't crazy, some are incredibly based. Reading that "he hoped 'that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty'" makes me like him more.
especially as we're seeing the consequences of RFK and MAGA dismantling public health. I'd love to get back to no measles or diarrhea lettuce.
This is the best snark that Bari Weiss could find? What a fucking moron. She can't even bad-faith regardlican snark correctly. Trump has a special ability to always pick the worst person for the job, even if that job is being bad at your job.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (2b4M2)
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I don't know what that is, and I don't want to know either.
Posted by: seriously we can do better can't we? at August 31, 2026 04:12 PM (anL5R)
texas is still a red state and talarico is not the right Dem that could somehow threat that needle.
Posted by: Leupold at August 31, 2026 04:13 PM (eIzlH)
News 4:09
CBC - 3 by-elections. We'll see how popular the libs are.
CNN - El-Sayed apologizes for comments about Synagogue attack. They have scrolling comments from their retard viewers. Oh boy.
MS Now - WAPO - it must be true. Military leaders warn against prolonging Iran war. Give up now.
FoxNews - Vance in Michigan
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b)
Imagine a couple of immigrants hosting a mainstream, Google-promoted podcast named after the Red Guard.
How would you feel about a Senate candidate palling around with those guys?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:14 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (Jr5Lq)
How would you feel about a Senate candidate palling around with those guys?
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Its only a matter of time, and money.
Posted by: sad but true at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
______________________________
One thing I've learned about the Saudis is that there is no unified position. I'd cite 9/11 as a good example of that. There are always a multitude of "Princes" in the royal family that don't subscribe to the powers that be. AND, someone is running these interlopers.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske)
The ads should just be Fauci burning in Hell. I forget what the fake vaxx he was pushing back then was called, but he certainly made history rhyme.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG)
The one behind me, back to the boat
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (aJQbY)
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RFK is responsible for letting in hundreds of thousands of non-vaccinated people from around the world and germy lettuce from Mexico?
You give the man way too much credit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:15 PM (dIske)
Yes, but give MbS his due - he imprisoned his MB cousins in a hotel and tortured them until they adjusted their attitudes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (BI5O2)
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I feel the same. Because every 2 years, we inch closer and closer to communist takeover. Because that's where the Democrat Party sits right now, and one look at the incoming crop of freaks, weirdos and other assorted anti-Americans running for office corroborates this. They turn farther and farther left with each passing day, with each passing election.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: just another black pill pusher at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (A3xvt)
Posted by: Leupold
Losing the Jasmin Crockett support was devastating!
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:17 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (V362x)
Polls are for strippers. This was made clear 2 weeks ago when a 21 year old kid admitted he just made shit up and the MSM immediately all cited it as a real poll.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (eZQ1g)
yes a GI problem caused by a lack of sanitation. But of course that's Trump's fault.
Posted by: face palm at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (anL5R)
Imagine typing that unironically, like these measles and poop lettuce just magically started happening.
No acknowledgement of WHO brought measles back into the US, and who is taking a poop in the lettuce field.
Oh right, that would be racist.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 04:19 PM (X8xt3)
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I think a lot of it is an illusion, gaslighting to the extreme for so long. These candidates are empty suits forced upon the electorate with big money donors, and electoral fraud does the rest. We're not nearly as balkanized as they would have us believe. It looks that way, because that's how comprehensive propaganda and gaslighting works.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 04:19 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Brian Johnson at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (n1B4F)
That’s not a woman.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Late Riser at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (JM9I6)
Because each side keeps getting more 'extreme.'
Dems - 'Hey! If you hated Clinton, wait until you see Obama! And puppet Obama afyer that!
Repubs - 'Yeah, remember calling 'W' Hitler! Here's Trump! Be more crazy!'
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Ian S.
Goats and sheep: What are we? Chopped liver?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (0Htd1)
I think it's gone now. I hope.
It is not gone.
Posted by: STAY FOR THE POP-UPS at August 31, 2026 04:21 PM (mc0fD)
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Well, you could argue that Michigan really is more Canadian than the average US state.
Its obviously not right and hasn't been for decades.
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG)
RON PAUL!!
I miss those crazy assholes.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Graham Platner at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (xy5Sp)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (Jr5Lq)
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The primary reason for the "loaded lettuce" and other products from Mexico (such as the green onion issue that shut down Chi Chi's and had Taco Bell stop putting green onions on tacos) is their lack of proper sewage treatment (also a problem in a lot of countries...India being a big one). Mexico dumps raw sewage in the ocean, AND the Tijuana River. Irrigation from that river includes human waste. They, also, have piss poor (excuse the pun) drainage from livestock areas, also leading to infectation of crops.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Montezuma at August 31, 2026 04:23 PM (JM9I6)
https://tinyurl.com/32p5s5pb
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:24 PM (kX27y)
As I understand, most of the measles cases are in Amish and similar communities. Not sure it they're getting it from unvaxxed illegals or not. But illegals pooping in vegetable fields because they work under terrible standards because Dems love their field slaves is certainly true.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (2b4M2)
You give the man way too much credit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
>Does that mean he's a Democrat plant trying to ruin the Trump Administration? Or a victim of circumstance?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (2b4M2)
Posted by: Must Be Immune at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: O H EYE O
The irony is the Michigan democrat witches' coven greatest enemy up to a few months ago was Canada's Enbridge Energy's Line 5 pipeline.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (Y8DZL)
Prioe me wrong.
Posted by: zombie at August 31, 2026 03:56 PM
No, he's a distraction from the Epstein and UAP Files.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 04:26 PM (0sNs1)
x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/
2094492626791584179
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 04:27 PM (RW1OD)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026
I truly hope you are correct. I was also starving, so I may have been a hair more dramatic than was called for. I just ate yogurt and an apple, I feel much better now. 😊
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM
Who's to say what a woman is?
Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (0sNs1)
That’s not a woman.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 04:20 PM (W2Pud)
Are we talking about the orangutroon?
The size of "her" hands. lol.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (wAvmd)
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Its because the proper parties weren't greased. In Michigan its all about who is getting paid to move things along.
Posted by: O H EYE O at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (anL5R)
a) there are tons of illegales in Lancaster County
b) that said, PA govt has been pushing MMR vaccines HARD on the Amish communities. they have popups and immunization centers ALL OVER. trying to get everyone shotted up.
c) Amish don't all eschew vaccinations it's very much an individual decision
d) we still have zero info on the second case if it exists, I assume they're piecing some nonsense together. the first case was a birthing accident during an Amish home birth. very tragic. measles had zero to do with this death and the spotlight on the grieving parents is KILLING me. I really and truly hate Penn Med
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:28 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (9tX4s)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 04:30 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (ZxPkt)
so maybe the family did have the measles - with all the vaccinations being pushed they will go through a period of more illness. MMR includes live measles virus
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: "Mrs." Obama at August 31, 2026 04:31 PM (anL5R)
Don't you love how quick the Left transitions to watching every single thing every person says for 20 straight years and ending lives over syllables of words, to "fuck you, we'll say what we want and who gives a shit what you thin and by the way the Jews deserved 9/11".
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:43 PM (eZQ1g)
We never said the Jews deserve a thousand 9/11s, liar.
It was a thousand 10/7s.
Posted by: Hamas lovers at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (9ZFZd)
ugh this is really bothering me
I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2)
Power is all that matters, if you are a true Democrat.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:33 PM (iTZ6k)
>There are many fronts in this war, the Amish seems to be a soft target.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 04:33 PM (nlLAo)
ugh this is really bothering me
I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!!
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I have been avoiding this like the plague. I'd rather listen to a pod cast of Keith Olberman.
Posted by: its a hysterical madness that has descended on liberal women at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (dEHLq)
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Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
They went to Aytaollah's funeral...after Iran bombed them. The are very "nuanced"...
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (g47mK)
That cat sleeps in my bedroom with the dog and I. Purrs sweetly in my lap every night...
I'm screwed....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM (RW1OD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j/Ml9)
yep praying for hung jury
no idea why they can't push to exclude those jurors now. it's two of them. they should have alternates.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j+aD2)
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I'm good with that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (Jr5Lq)
Jesus well that's a TELL, Judas Roberts!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:35 PM (j+aD2)
ugh this is really bothering me
I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2)
I think the notion that you can be psychotic from post-partum depression is idiotic. Likewise, it was clear the acts were premeditated. Bitch should be locked up for life.
And why in hell are they putting her ass in a wheelchair in court? Talk about prejudicial.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (dEHLq)
Had no mobile connection today, no.idea why
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)
It ain't hate and it certainly not a phobia. It is merely recognition of who is the enemy of America.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 04:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (j+aD2)
ugh this is really bothering me
I hope the guys who are standing up to pink-wearing idiot jurors hold their ground!!!!!
Posted by: Black Orchid
Mental insanity defense is legitimate is rare cases, like Austin Harrouff (deep case analysis here: https://tinyurl.com/yc4f6vyn )
You compare that case to the baby killer, and there's no comparison. She just murdered them.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2)
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because for a lot of women, its more important to be part of their "in group" than it is to be reasonable.
They'd rather signal "virtue" than apply real virtue to the job at hand.
Posted by: its a hysterical madness that has descended on liberal women at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (anL5R)
The media and internet are not real life.
But I suspect the balkanization is at least in part real. We increasingly lack a common culture. Teaching of civics is largely dead. Immigrants have not been expected to assimilate for a long while. We've drank pretty deeply from the "diversity is our strength" bowl when the opposite is true (homogeneity is our strength, so strong all sorts of weirdos and outsiders can harmlessly orbit around the core of normalcy that homogeneity provides). This kind of thing yields results. Not good ones. But results nonetheless.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (wAvmd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Gotta' do something about that guy. He's looking old and tired.
Maybe it's time to retire.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:38 PM (ogcfP)
Not our fault for noticing. That's all the law will allow, for now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 04:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Roberts said it was likely "unlawful"... Really ? So everything that previous Presidents did to the WH and it was a lot, Is unlawful ? Roberts is a POS.
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Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:41 PM (+gK6I)
Democrats For Mike Rogers
@DemsForMike
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1h
Unhinged. Unfit. Too extreme.
@cspan
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3h
Michigan Sen. candidate @AbdulElSayed on the Trump-Canada trade war: "So if you're starting a trade war with Canada is cause you're the asshole."
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:41 PM (kX27y)
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Well I take no position on that. I would listen to the evidence and make a call based upon the evidence and reason.
I would not dress up in costume "signaling" my "virtue" while the deliberations are ongoing. Making it all too obvious that my priority was how I was going to be perceived by the public, rather than reaching a verdict with my fellow jurors.
You get a couple of wackos on a jury that stick together, anything can happen. And if those whackos realize they might have a book deal coming ....
Posted by: don't ask me how I know at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2)
And she did research on how to do the murdering... She's acting, and will most likely not get the conviction she deserves...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)
Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM
That's insane. I find it depressing how low these women have gone.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It was an inconsequential ruling for a number of reasons. First, Trump ignored the case and the ballroom is 65% done, and they didn't stop building waiting for the decision. They are knocking it out with a 24 hour schedule...which means by the time they get another lawsuit rolling it will be completed. The second reason the ruling is inconsequential is because it only found the suing party didn't have standing (some historical society or some entity of the like). Thirdly, the lower courts said the WH required congress to rule on funding to build it. Only, Honey Badger don't care. He's just building it anyway. Make them knock it down when it's done. Roberts wanted to give the National Trust for Historic Preservation standing. That's all this decision was about.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 04:44 PM (dIske)
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That should be enough for the prosecution to request a re-trial.
Those jurors have dismissed themselves.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:45 PM (ogcfP)
Federal officials are set to launch a massive criminal investigation into voter fraud in California as part of a national effort to clean up the nation’s elections.
Sources with knowledge of the effort said that the Golden State is among eight states targeted in the sweeping operation to be executed by Homeland Security Investigations starting next week.
Other states slated for investigations include New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Georgia, Washington, Nevada, Wisconsin and Missouri.
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 04:45 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 31, 2026 04:37 PM (2b4M2)
And she did research on how to do the murdering... She's acting, and will most likely not get the conviction she deserves...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)
"Say goodbye to your children" is compelling evidence of premeditation and knowledge and recognition of the wrongness of the intended acts. Bitch should burn in hell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)
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The worst sort. He's obviously far more effective than Justice Jackson Brown. If Eddie Haskell were Supreme Court Justice, he'd be Roberts. Unctuous, Deceitful, Selfish, Jealous and probably Depraved.
Posted by: Its the enemies within that get you at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (anL5R)
Yeah, I just saw the tweet from Nick Sorter than several women on the jury showed up in pink. This Clancy baby strangler is going to either get a hung jury or the lightest possible "mental health" sentencing she can get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 04:34 PM
Maybe they were wearing pick for the 5 year old girl ,her daughter, Clancy murdered... Of course we know it's for solidarity with women power or something... Clancy really put on a good act...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:46 PM (+gK6I)
I would not dress up in costume "signaling" my "virtue" while the deliberations are ongoing. Making it all too obvious that my priority was how I was going to be perceived by the public, rather than reaching a verdict with my fellow jurors.
You get a couple of wackos on a jury that stick together, anything can happen. And if those whackos realize they might have a book deal coming ....
Posted by: don't ask me how I know at August 31, 2026 04:42 PM (anL5R)
If she is acquitted all of the jurors responsible should be forced to watch the most realistic AI video of that monster murdering her children. More than once.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (i9SW2)
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (AuLQB)
Posted by: Orson
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Haven't they screwed up enough neighborhoods?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (ogcfP)
Why is this not evidence to declare a mistrial?. Jurors basically declaring their partiality before a verdict had been declared?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (gsYaF)
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Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026
All men should be removed from being judges! They are far too emotional in their decision making. 😛😛😛
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0)
I think Roberts votes with the left on lost cases to pretend impartiality.
He wants to pretend to be fair. It's taxing.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 04:48 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (gsYaF)
The jurors didn’t say they were wearing pink in support. Are they supposed to be sequestered from news on the case? If so, they wouldn’t know the significance of wearing pink.
But I am not a lawyer. So who knows, maybe it will come out they knew and it will be an issue.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ogcfP)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
__________________________
Trademark infringement ™ "You're swimming in it" is an obvious play on "You're soaking in it."
Posted by: Palmolive Legal Team at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (dIske)
GTFO.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
This. 1000X this. Nothing but this.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (S41Gd)
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:47 PM (AuLQB)
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Which branch of government is responsible for maintaining the Supreme Court building?
"Nice courthouse ya got here. We're gonna need to tear it down and move it ten feet to the left. Because why not?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 04:49 PM (BI5O2)
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The USA - Hanging together since 1865.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (wAvmd)
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Well, I don't know the facts. But if a woman doesn't want to be a Mom anymore a lot of them just LEAVE. Pick up their shit and boogie.
The ones that kill the kids seem to do it either because they think they are helping the kids - sending them to Heaven - or they do it because they are really trying to hurt someone else - Husband, or relatives. A malicious killing is generally speaking the act of criminal depravity. Just because a normal person would never do it, doesn't mean it was insane.
Posted by: But hey, if women can kill a child at its most defenseless state why not toddlers also at August 31, 2026 04:52 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 04:53 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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It's obvious the party didn't have standing. I can't believe Roberts would say yep, that little old lady, who says she walks by the WH once a month (WTF), is harmed and has standing.
Really Roberts?
Posted by: WisRich at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (G0vdT)
Maybe it's time to retire.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:38 PM (ogcfP)
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Maybe Roberts just joined the Supreme Court for the cocktail parties. He didn't expect to actually *work.*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (FZ29D)
Uh at least for 180 years. Let's not act like this is not the default setting for every country.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)
Never heard it but good for her.
Ella Langley‘s stone smash “Choosin’ Texas” has racked up a phenomenal 20th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first non-holiday single to hit the milestone. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds the overall record with 22 weeks at the summit, but that includes chart-topping runs during the past seven years.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (Sco7b)
But I am not a lawyer. So who knows, maybe it will come out they knew and it will be an issue.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
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I think the big problem here is Juror coordination. They are not allowed to communicate outside the courtroom. No peer chats; No outside talk. These are CORE RULES of being a juror.
Posted by: Palmolive Legal Team at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske)
GTFO.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
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In a nutshell.
But then it's not compatible with anywhere on earth, it hates everyone.
Posted by: Decaf at August 31, 2026 04:55 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)
"Nice courthouse ya got here. We're gonna need to tear it down and move it ten feet to the left. Because why not?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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or
In our on going effort to balance the budget we have ceased maintenance and upkeep of the Supreme Court Building
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ogcfP)
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I'm calling bullshit on this.
No self respecting Ann arbor awfl would be caught dead judging the looters like that.
They'd be booted right of of Zingermans.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (4HoLg)
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Post partum psychosis is a thing. Unfortunately I know first hand. But what seems to be missing here is in the majority of cases, agency still exists. She needs help. She also needs to be in jail for the rest of her life.
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
He 1st 'mourned' the victims of the September 11 attacks, noting they were "perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith" (Islam).
He then states he would mourn the roughly 1 million lives lost of the subsequent post-9/11 wars fought "in the name of my county" (the United States).
Media coverage and analysts widely identify the three countries impacted by the post-9/11 military operations as Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
My G-d, all as we rapidly approach the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, 3,000 dead with more & more still dying...
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (vbXSk)
GTFO.
Posted by: That Guy at August 31, 2026 03:42 PM (jBtak)
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In a nutshell.
But then it's not compatible with anywhere on earth, it hates everyone.
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This is concentrated Islamophobia.
I KEEL YOU!!!
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at August 31, 2026 04:57 PM (anL5R)
The other two members portray themselves as men, and who am I to say different?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (JYE7p)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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or
In our on going effort to balance the budget we have ceased maintenance and upkeep of the Supreme Court Building
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 04:56 PM (ogcfP)
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You can bet that CJ Roberts will be one of the first in line waiting for an invite to the Ball Room's Grand Opening.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2026 04:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 31, 2026 04:59 PM (FrJ8O)
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Its not what they are "thinking" its what they are feeling.
They are feeling if they don't vote for acquittal they will be cast out of their social groups....
Posted by: Feelings, whoa whoa whoa feelings at August 31, 2026 05:00 PM (anL5R)
He's doing, saying the same thing.
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (NFX2v)
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Oh believe me when I tell you, he's not making the list.
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 05:01 PM (anL5R)
_ghost of FDR
I want my bowling alley back
_ghost of Richard Nixon
Rifle test range on the lawn
_both T.R. and Abe, both Winchester men
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 05:04 PM (zdLoL)
The decision was 5-4, with John Roberts now fully transitioned to female libtard.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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You left out the punch line. Now altogether now, The Plaintiff has NO STANDING. Thank you very much.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 05:05 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 05:32 PM (ayRl+)
Sounds a lot like:
If international finance Jews succeed in starting a war in Europe, it will not be the end of Germany, but it will be the end of the Jews in Europe.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 05:57 PM (wGerL)
Released Emails Show Anthony Fauci Routinely Told "Scientists" To Delete His Emails (So That Congress and Other Investigators Couldn't See Them)
No one is above the law, especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain.
I did a quick search, and it appears that the statute of limitations for illegally deleting official federal records is just five years. So, no, not based on that email.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has given the public another reason to doubt the efforts of COVID czar Anthony Fauci were benevolent, as the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly told recipients of his emails to delete them after reading. In late July, Fauci appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which Paul chairs. Here, he repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment rights despite being a once-proud health official who loved the spotlight, making numerous media appearances. While Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress, Just The News reported Sunday that Paul has released evidence showing the doctor told officials with whom he was in correspondence to delete emails on at least five occasions. The emails date as far back as September 2009. One email from Fauci concerning the AIDS vaccine research and smallpox vaccine told NIAID deputy Greg Folkers to "please delete this email after you had read it." ... In another email about a "doomsday virus," Dr. Cliff Lane was instructed to "please delete this email and then delete from the deleted file." Perhaps less surprisingly, correspondence also showed Fauci trying to mislead the CIA and Director of National Intelligence's office, stressing that they should contract individuals associated with studies proving the virus occurred naturally. That particular email is dated to July 2021. Just The News noted that the Federal Records Act requires the preservation of documents relating to officials' work including emails. Former President Joe Biden's pardon of Fauci dates to Jan. 1, 2014. In the case of the Folkers email, it was dated to 2009.
Could there be a way to prosecute Fauci for violating the Federal Records Act?
Despite the Biden pardon, states like Florida -- through the work of Attorney General James Uthmeier -- have subpoenaed Fauci over his diary entries released by Paul. "Government officials have a certain level of immunity in their official capacities, but if Fauci personally profited off of the 'guidance' he issued, that very well could have broken Florida law," Uthmeier said.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke 41m Over the weekend, Rand Paul released the latest batch of Fauci documents, this time concerning Fauci's efforts to delete federal records, his instructions to others to delete federal records, and his interactions with the CIA. The most outrageous document in the batch, in my view, is the email below. It proves once and for all that Fauci himself unleashed the Proximal Origin fraudsters on the intelligence community. These were the very same scientists whose work he funded, whom he had enlisted to produce the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper to bury the Wuhan lab leak, and whom he later rewarded with enormous grants. The depth of the cover up knows no bounds. It was not enough for Fauci to get the fraudulent paper published and use it to manufacture a false scientific consensus. He then also actively pushed his handpicked phony scientists into the intelligence community to sell the same deception there too. And, of course, the intelligence community knew that these guys were total frauds. Yet rather than expose what was happening, it helped Fauci perpetuate the fake narrative.
Over the weekend, Rand Paul released the latest batch of Fauci documents, this time concerning Fauci’s efforts to delete federal records, his instructions to others to delete federal records, and his interactions with the CIA.
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 31, 2026
The most outrageous document in the batch, in my… pic.twitter.com/oVSVxXK2nO
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (g47mK)
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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (hUS/0)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (g47mK)
34 felonies, rheeeeee!!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Perfect Game at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (JM9I6)
But Comey said he couldn't prove intent to deceive so no one could reasonably prosecute.
Makes me puke, still.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (i2VYc)
Gee, wonder what would happen to small fry (postdocs) like myself if we used emails to direct our peers and subordinates to delete emails and "delete from the deleted file" data that we didn't want others to see.
Especially now since there's a large push to digitize everything.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Mission Impossible at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: There are some who call me ... Tim at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (UMEOI)
Abdul El-Sayed's deleted 2 tweets regarding 9/11 per CBS
https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/2094455890434826279
Hmmm, wonder why?
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (NTVPI)
Posted by: Fate at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (+iYtA)
The medical “professionals”
I work with blow all this off and say, “mistakes were made. Fauci saved millions of lives at
The end of the day. He had to inflate the danger to make people pay attention and take Covid seriously.”
They don’t care Fauci lied. Over and over and over again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: There are some who call me ... Tim
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Yep. Assholes like Fauci, like the fine folks at Enron before him, represent boundary cases.
All were purposefully trying to skirt and get around specific federal law provisions and then destroy evidence in order to conceal their activity so they could not be charged.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (NTVPI)
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Through an unholy merger the end result will be "And So It Will Happen" guy and "Nothing Begins" guy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (FZ29D)
Make a court say "sure he's guilty but the Democrats pardoned him so you gotta let him go"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)
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Bastards!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (bt9Ux)
Innocent people always ask that proof of wrong doing be destroyed.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (OkYzo)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday his department is shutting down 110-plus driving schools that gave licenses to drivers who failed English language proficiency (ELP) tests.
In a release, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said it is shutting down the schools after they issued driver’s licenses to more than 5,000 individuals who failed ELP exams.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (Cqx++)
But beating the drum on his story (or anyone else's) helps to further erode the already severely damaged public confidence in these rotted edifices, and hastens the day when people finally kick the structure over.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (hUS/0)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, if you're suffering back up from Fauci constipation - a little explosive elimination lettuce from Taco Bell might be the solution...
Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (NTVPI)
Put me down as the "I have no frickin idea WTF will happen next" guy.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (bt9Ux)
I see this discussion repeated over and over again in various forums:
Lefties: Trump can't send ICE to election facilities that is intimidation!!!
Non-lefties: Why would a citizen by intimidated by ICE? And why would an illegal be in an election facility anyway?
Lefties: See this will stop people from voting!
Non-lefties: Will stop which people from voting?
Lefties: People that will vote for progressive non-fascist candidates!
Non-lefties: Like...illegals?
Lefties: That's racist!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (xhfG9)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:47 PM (dIske)
Milwaukee strip club shuts doors because downtown is too violent
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living the Dream at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (bt9Ux)
The Badda-Bing in Jorsey seems like a more welcoming environment now.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:48 PM (Rl7KJ)
The medical “professionals”
I work with blow all this off and say, “mistakes were made. Fauci saved millions of lives at
The end of the day. He had to inflate the danger to make people pay attention and take Covid seriously.”
They don’t care Fauci lied. Over and over and over again.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I don't think those idiots trying to minimize what happened with Covid realize how many ordinary people have become radicalized by what the sheeple in the med community did. People lost loved ones due to lies, people had loved ones die alone, people saw dancing nurses and other kabuki bullshit while losing their jobs because they did not want the vaxx. The insider Big Pharma dealing, the slow and burning release of the lies of the Public Health Establishment.
Lot of sullen anger out there and each new revelation is like a red hot poker in those people's asses that were lied too, maltreated, lost jobs, and often their health by listening to 'professionals'.
Like academia did with slow poison over 50 years, Big Med decided to dump all their credibility in a couple of years at once.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
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Then at that WH press conference, he acts like he doesn't even know the names of the authors of this totally independent paper that he had nothing to do with. Said something like "I don't have their names now." Might have even done the glasses sucking move while he was saying it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (XvL8K)
>>This sounds serious! That means there will be consequences, right?
The consequences will be that he will continue to sip Pina Coladas on a beach in Tahiti, comparing notes with Lois Lerner, and they will laugh and laugh, while cashing their taxpayer funded retirement checks.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (fqnOq)
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There are about 976,000 federal, state, and local laws. (at a guess)
The problem is not a dearth of laws, nor guilty parties. There is " a way" but it hasn't been used for purpose since I don't know when. Maybe some of the Soviet spies in the 1940s. A few of the 60 anarchists and bomb throwers. Then the latter took over, and now they seem to run everything, or at least conveniently untouchable.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Huxley Orwell at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (j3Fsw)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (fqnOq)
Well, for a season, then...
"But God said unto him, ‘Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" (Luke 12:20).
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (Rl7KJ)
The GOPe doesn't want to and the MAGA set are afraid the Dems will prosecute them for going after Fauci
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:52 PM (K32Fz)
Bond villains are very cool.
Fauci is a fumbling homunculus with the emotional maturity of a star-struck tween writing in her diary that one of the guys in BTS looked at her during a concert.
Know the difference!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
They may not be able to keep him safe from some state prosecutions--pardons don't cover that.
My guess is IC is desperate not to have Fauci on trial because of all the unpleasant facts he can drop about gain of function and the intel community paying for that in foreign labs. That is why he got protected.
And there is a nonzero possibility that the virus might have purposefully been dumped onto the world by Chicoms in conjunction with some in our IC that wanted Trump gone by any means, even killing millions world wide.
Trillions were at stake and the WEF crowd is perfectly happy with millions of us dying if they can make a buck.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (286+n)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Q+gd/)
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Why would he be? He's taking the rap for something much larger forces carried out (with his enthusiastic assistance).
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (eZQ1g)
Like academia did with slow poison over 50 years, Big Med decided to dump all their credibility in a couple of years at once.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)
And my PCP wonders why my BP is 20 points higher in the office than at home.
He's knows why, and I know he knows. He's stopped pushing "all the shots" in order to conduct the yearly physical with out me striking out in rage ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Leftists, probably at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (oqH4h)
Every business is "essential" from the standpoint it puts food on the table and pays the bills. It was obviously coined and deployed by the usual suspects who in all likelihood have never had a real job in their life, much less ran an actual business. Clown World.
"The Business of Business is Business" could have been the American Motto at one time. They managed to kill the golden goose, that's for sure. Free enterprise, the rule of law, property rights, all that stuff was what made America so successful compared to nations that went before. And it wasn't even close.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:55 PM (n1B4F)
And I look at this with what NYS did to Trump over a dispute in the value of a property put up as collateral...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Huxley Orwell
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Nor backup systems. I was very careful with my official email and very circumspect in whatever I said in them.
And imagine if he was comfortable sharing illegal actions with his recipients to delete federal records, what might he do or say when he talks to them in private meetings.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sturdy Chair Bolted To The Floor at August 31, 2026 02:57 PM (7Q0e+)
But the charge against Fauci wouldn't be the deletion of the email since he was asking someone else to delete it, but rather the conspiring with others to get the email deleted.
Maybe a different statue of limitations?
Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (8mulE)
Michael Mann sent 'Delete all e-mails re AR4? We are getting X & Y to do so as well.'
Posted by: MikeN at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (EzRIp)
Posted by: Sturdy Chair Bolted To The Floor at August 31, 2026 02:57 PM (7Q0e+)
Word ...
Posted by: Le Chiffre at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (oCio0)
Every business is "essential" from the standpoint it puts food on the table and pays the bills. It was obviously coined and deployed by the usual suspects who in all likelihood have never had a real job in their life, much less ran an actual business. Clown World.
"The Business of Business is Business" could have been the American Motto at one time. They managed to kill the golden goose, that's for sure. Free enterprise, the rule of law, property rights, all that stuff was what made America so successful compared to nations that went before. And it wasn't even close.
Posted by: Common Tater
I think the whole cabal that foisted and supported this fiasco are at risk.
And frankly, it was and is Trump's largest policy failure as president and probably why he never talks much about it. I think he is a sadder and wiser man now but the human cost of the Covid years could not have been done without him giving way to Pence, Fauci, and Birx. He realized too late that he was sandbagged.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (hUS/0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V)
Why have no other countries come a calling for this walking crime against humanity?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (hUS/0)
Midgit Mengele ... lol
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 31, 2026 03:00 PM (oCio0)
Posted by: Le Chiffre at August 31, 2026 02:58 PM (oCio0)
This presumes his equipment down south still can feel something.
Still, worth a try.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 31, 2026 03:00 PM (Rl7KJ)
Maybe a different statue of limitations?
Posted by: No Name Today
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Conspiracy charges can get around the tolling (fancy word for time elapsed) because the stopwatch begins when the conspiracy is uncovered. Difficult and not well studied area of the law. The question is whether a plenary pardon would have undercut any subsequent charges based on that. I think that would be an open legal question without resorting to my now non existent Lexis and Westlaw accounts.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (EaLE4)
But, even if that is not possible thanks to autopen, I am glad his reputation is going to be shattered by the release of these papers of his and, thanks to these releases, even the idiot left is being educated.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (BVbFo)
Posted by: MikeN
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Depends on whether he was required to keep those emails as he was not a federal employee. So it would have been a PA state matter and whatever their records retention would be. Dunno about the nexis though between accepting federal grants and being an employee of PA State at the time.
Can't recall whether accepting a federal grant would also then require following Federal laws on document retention.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)
344 It’s a war. We just don’t know we’re in it. But islam sure does.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (5/BcT)
Deepstate will fall to socio/commies, and those will fall to islam.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (5/BcT)
Posted by: kingsman at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 31, 2026 03:04 PM (3/XaG)
Otherwise, I think Fauci might have a case of sudden death.
There may be hope yet....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 03:05 PM (2Cry5)
The fact is, there are many billionaires that want you dead. It's not that difficult to see.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 03:05 PM (nlLAo)
Can’t have Trump coming in and Rand Paul making Fauci his mission with a FBI & DOJ that isn’t corrupted by Dem operatives.
The truth would’ve come out in open court, if Fauci didn’t take a plea deal to avoid that, and the media would not be able to deny the evidence we are seeing now.
Instead they just go along, pretending nothing is happening, because the Bureaucrats, Dems, and the Media all got together in 2020 and made it happen and then made it worse.
The hubris of the international left in the name of “The Science” killed millions of people and they covered it all up so they won’t get the blame due them for their arrogance, partisanship, incompetence and indifference while wearing a Science skinsuit..
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 03:03 PM (BVbFo)
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If torturing beagles didn't tarnish his reputation with the left, nothing will. Everyone who would be made to think that Fauci is an evil bastard by these emails already thinks that, and none of the retards on the left that would crawl over broken glass to sniff his taint will have their minds changed by any of this.
Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:06 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (286+n)
So would a pony that shits gold.
There will be no consequences for any of these monsters, until there are, and those will come all at once - and that won't be nice. That's gonna be a whole thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:07 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:01 PM (EaLE4)
The problem, of course, is that the sand fleas would not harm him out of professional courtesy and a lack of motivation to harm one of their own.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (dEHLq)
If for any reason the Nothing Will Happen guy is unable to fulfill his duties, I stand ready to carry on in the proudest traditions of Nothing Happening.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:09 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Dr. Tony Fraudci at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ballistic
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And how many people in the general public actually know that? Our media practices omerta for made guys like Fauci and a discouraging word to the plebes is never heard. Fewer people, even here mention the horrible AIDS and deadly trial drugs used on orphans that killed enough of them to get a monument to them in NY State.
This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (MWfyi)
That little fucker knew it, too, and did it anyway.
Damn that little shit to hell.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (dEHLq)
It is not unreasonable to expect a bunch of goddamned crooks and psychopaths be removed from the levers of government power.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (n1B4F)
Don’t put anything in an email you don’t want the whole world to (potentially) read
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Polka will never die at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (rPBx2)
Posted by: Azjaeger
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As usual, your observation nailed it.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv)
i used to listen to fool nelson’s twitter spaces with him and all the other greats from the sleuths corner and they were awesome
Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (WEIfr)
>>And I look at this with what NYS did to Trump over a dispute in the value of a property put up as collateral..
There was no dispute over the value of properties, LaTit James made up fraud charges out of whole cloth.
Deutsche Bank even testified in Trumps behalf basically saying, we have no idea what this bitch is even talking about, we'd do future business with Trump in a New York Minute.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 03:13 PM (fqnOq)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)
A lot of lefties know and don't care.
They kill babies for the crime of being unwanted. Puppies for #Science ain't gonna move their needle.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: The REAL Guy Who Says Nothing Will Happen at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e)
BREAKING: Trump WIPES Out IRGC Commanders - Iran Launch Missiles At Arabs
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 03:10 PM (RHGPo)
This would solve a lot of problems.
Hope it’s true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)
Just looking at his pinched little face or hearing his whiny voice is torture enough. Dude is a fucking murderer and should be ended, legally.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:14 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: tcn in AK
No argument here but I would include his enablers and the yes men that he had carry out his deeds. Tony was like a crime boss, he didn't get his hands dirty, he let those he gave grants or hired to do that.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Looks like What's My Line is making a comeback at the AoSHQ.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 03:16 PM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: burp at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (+yda9)
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The states: Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut 🔥
HSI will be coordinating a "criminal voter fraud SURGE initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review"
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Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Tom Locker at August 31, 2026 03:19 PM (RwkpB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:17 PM (EaLE4)
during his MagBar Amrika, MagBar Israel rant !
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (g47mK)
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By all accounts, we know he'll never face any kind of justice for his past deeds...and we'll never get the SAVE Act passed with this Senate full of serpents and spineless quislings.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (qBdHI)
Tipping off our enemies about our general staff briefings, to get a measly news item for Democrats to use for campaign season... that's the Pentagon we know and love!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2)
Don’t put anything in an email you don’t want the whole world to (potentially) read
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (sBAAu)
Same with text messages. My policy is say it forget it, write it regret it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 03:20 PM (qBdHI)
we'll know in #twoMonths
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)
NSA Bob prolly has every keystroke and mouse gesture you've ever pumped into the internet.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:23 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 03:24 PM (aJQbY)
Our Elites are not, and probably never have been for two centuries, worthy of the name.
They all despise Trump, and his supporters, for pointing this out to them early and often.
I think most of the blame falls on education from K - College, but stupidity at the top seems to be a universal feature of every region and era.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 03:12 PM (n1B4F)
Morally? Perfectly reasonable.
In practical terms? It’s unreasonable. Some scientist may conceivably invent a gold-shitting pony.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:26 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:28 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Jack Handey at August 31, 2026 03:28 PM (V362x)
good bc PA is FILTHY
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (EaLE4)
Posted by: ballistic
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And how many people in the general public actually know that? Our media practices omerta for made guys like Fauci and a discouraging word to the plebes is never heard. Fewer people, even here mention the horrible AIDS and deadly trial drugs used on orphans that killed enough of them to get a monument to them in NY State.
This guy has been causing people and animals to suffer for decades. A true psychopath.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)
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Most lefties and commies wouldn't care even if they did know. The "wrong" kind of people were killed in those AIDS tests. Mostly low-class orphans and nobodies that were easily expendable in the quest to find a way for homosexuals to continue their insanely risky sex conduct.
Kinda like the old Tuskegee experiments. Sure, modern race pimps have tried to turn them into a white supremacy issue, but the reality is the experiments were conducted by blacks. Nobody cared about a bunch of dirt-poor black sharecroppers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM
"Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can wink."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 03:31 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Stake him to a beach in Costa Rica.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:35 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Stake him to a beach in Costa Rica.
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 03:32 PM (UjdFS)
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I think North Sentinel Island would work better.
The natives there would kill him before the sun set.
With any luck, they’d tie him to a spit, light him up, and have a Fauci-Q.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)
Or as a friend of mine who I no longer associate with used to say "Don't say shit about shit to anyone ever"
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 03:38 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (Q+gd/)
"Never write when you can speak. Never speak when you can nod. Never nod when you can wink."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 03:31 PM (bFu5X)
I like that one.
When my friends get in fights with their other friend I don't know well and they screenshot the text exchange to get my opinion, that's all it took for me to realize the say it forget it and write it regret it line.
The ladies love sharing screenshots.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (i9SW2)
"I knew nothing of these experiments" --
From 'Stuff that Josef Mengele Said at the Nuremberg Trials"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 03:39 PM (Jr5Lq)
A company called Radiant has shipped their prototype 1MW helium-cooled, TRISO-fueled micro reactor from California to INL/Battelle (on a semi!) as a PoC... its review process at INL has been fast-tracked and is expected to be approved with 8-10mos.
They have selected the old K-25 site in Oak Ridge as the production facility, due to its proximity to X-Energy's TRISO-X fuel production plant, and plan to build one reactor per week there, once they have commercial approval.
The first 15 have been pre-ordered by the Army for Ft. Benning.
Alongside the salt-cooled modular reactors being developed there by Kairos, the face of energy is about to change. It really is just over the horizon, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: A Blind Horse at August 31, 2026 03:41 PM (XeU6L)
One of the toughest parts of writing or doing other art is that real life contains stuff nobody would believe if you presented it to them as your creation. "Nobody has eyes that look like that, you suck as an artist!" (show a picture of Jack Elam).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 03:44 PM (K32Fz)
If Rand Paul has any info on the CIA's involvement, he needs to release it. That would make Fauci's position a bit more tenuous.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (2Cry5)
He'll get to it after Massie reads his list of names
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 03:45 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 03:49 PM (sGtp+)
Speaking of Iran, it sounds like at least one of our shitstain flag officers leaked non-concurring strategy opinions overruled by Hegseth to their shitstain media pals who publish this as if it's something shocking.
Tipping off our enemies about our general staff briefings, to get a measly news item for Democrats to use for campaign season... that's the Pentagon we know and love!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 03:22 PM (BI5O2)
One of the really bad legacies in US military history is how often flag officers engage in gross insubordination against their superiors and especially against the civilian authority. Starting right at the beginning with Gates and the Conway Cabal, McClellan and Ripley in the Civil War (Ripley was the shit head who disobeyed Lincoln's order to buy Spencer Rifles), McArthur during WWII and Korea, etc.
Even McCrystal criticizing Chocolate Fonzie during the GWOT. If he felt that strongly about Obama being a shit head, he should have resigned his commission first, rather than commit clear violations of UCMJ.
Put a few generals up against the wall and the problem solves itself. To quote Stalin "No man, no problem."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2026 03:52 PM (y9nCu)
Trump was in charge not Fauci
Posted by: Paul at August 31, 2026 05:49 PM (gNnNz)
Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His Visa
He's to be deported. Good.
Not only is he a self-promoting grifter who tried to set Trump up by inviting the Nazi Nick Fuentes to a dinner with Trump, he's also a loud and proud degenerate. And frankly, this is good counterpoint for when the left claims Trump is only deporting Black and Brown Folx.Yiannopolis is a loud, fake grifter advocate of deporting illegals. He champions whatever people will pay him money to champion. Currently he's working to advance the "political" interests of mentally-ill moron Kanye West. Good riddance.
Homeland Security
@DHSgov On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation's laws.
Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal.
Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.
International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country. Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this," the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport." Reports indicated that Yiannopoulos was in New Orleans ahead of a concert by the formerly known as Kanye West. Yiannopoulos has done work for the political and corporate ambitions of West, who's now known as Ye. ... He has also been a supporter of ICE's immigration enforcement efforts in the past. "California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally," he posted on social media in June 2025.He has now been deported back to the UK.
British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and one time political aide to rapper Kanye West, was deported on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Yiannopoulos, "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom" had been sent "back to his home country", a DHS spokesperson said in a statement given to the BBC.A Biden judge just ruled that the US cannot deport foreigners who advocate for Islamism. Which in turn justifies terrorism and murder against Americans.
@EricLDaugh
🚨 UPDATE: ONE BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology Judge Noël Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations pic.twitter.com/3XGqklfzqH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 31, 2026
🚨 UPDATE: ONE BIDEN JUDGE just stepped in and ruled AGAINST Sec. Marco Rubio having noncitizen students deported if they advocate for Islamism and other anti-American ideology
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 29, 2026
Judge Noël Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
UNBELIEVABLE!… pic.twitter.com/HXtYSw58Z6
A few months ago an Irish man contacted me about Muslims in Ireland attaining and stockpiling guns. His friend's Irish daughter unfortunately got entangled with an abusive muslim man who was supposedly doing this. But there was no visible proof. No videos. Nothing to go on. Only… pic.twitter.com/U69I4uDe7Q
— Susanne Delaney (@SuzieD755164) August 31, 2026
MUSLIMS WITH GUNS AT A MOSQUE IN DUBLIN.
— The Flare (@TheFlareNews) August 31, 2026
3 Muslim men take guns from the back of a car outside a mosque in Tallaght. pic.twitter.com/ebK3Nvd6WW
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:25 PM (Gqar8)
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This will end in fire
Posted by: Some Technomancer at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (vSvIl)
And I never have ever liked a super flamboyant homosexual being the voice of conservatism even when he did it well. Part of conservatism is SOCIAL and without that part, the other always inevitably corrupts and fails.
For a while at least he claimed he was no longer a homo, now I have no idea what he is saying.
All I know is that his Visa expired and he has to go.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz)
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (2GVsD)
I'm sorry but this is just sad. Do you even lift, bro?
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (wfgYt)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (sFNX2)
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Now I'm picturing an Ewok running around his back porch at night, flapping his arms and going, "CAW! CAW!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (8cylk)
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Presumably this applies to Milo as an object lesson, yes?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (vSvIl)
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb)
You seem upset.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (Gqar8)
Just do it anyway.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM
Yeah, the lifetime ban is much worse than the deportation. No more vacations in Miami for Milo.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (wfgYt)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (1z8ji)
IIRC, he was the only gay person willing to admit that underage grooming was real.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:28 PM (vTZFs)
But here we are, and now we get to beat on Milo in concert with the Progressive Left. Yay, us.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR)
Just do it anyway.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0)
Use that as a counter to deport all the other ones. By restricting it just to the terrorists, she's sanctioning everyone else being deported.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (uhVAy)
You must be young, heh
Nick DiPaolo has a bit where he talks about how he threw out his back flipping off his wife. As we age, things just stop working well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (K32Fz)
It's all fake and gay at this point.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (n1B4F)
Now he's ... some rando getting deported.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (2ocoG)
At least seriously. George "oh my" Takei admitted it but he framed it as a joke.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (K32Fz)
Are you sure it isn't from you giving Reach-a-Rounds on Fire Island all weekend?
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (WB/3O)
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Sounds like somebody needs a festive little hat.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (Gqar8)
Just do it anyway.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 01:27 PM (hUS/0)
And send her with them.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (vSvIl)
For all the wisdom beyond their age that the founding fathers showed in concern over abuse of power, government being a consuming fire, and so on... they seriously blew it on judges. Not enough checks and balances, not enough controls.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (K32Fz)
I was sort of hoping it would turn into one of Brandon Herrera's Darwin Award videos.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
I hear synagogues stockpile those.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (88C+u)
_-_
That's the way it happens - do heavy work all weekend (or all week if your collar is blue), then pick up a pencil off of the floor the next day and BAM! your back is messed-up good.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (8cylk)
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic . . . at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (ccf/V)
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (r4LUb)
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKIN FUCK
Posted by: Random t-shirt at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
Congrats on making the State Department revoke visas for all foreign students regardless of religion.
You sure showed Rubio who's boss. *sarcastic slow clap*
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (vJrRc)
so free speech! and yet so quiet when actual people on the Right have their speech pulverized
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: RI Red at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (rYvai)
Frilly homos do frilly homo things, get noticed......sometimes you don't want to be noticed.
Silly fag......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
~ Steven Wright
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
Posted by: Bosk at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (VMFAF)
I mean ... I laughed, I admit it
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:31 PM (8cylk)
Pounded into my head since I was 20 working in manual labor.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (WB/3O)
The judiciary is clearly a tool of the left. They're squarely aligned with the left's agenda, so we constantly get shit like this. It'll be weeks or months before it's sorted out.
It shouldn't be like that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (NnhvP)
It's all fake and gay at this point.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (n1B4F)
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To add insult to injury, how many of these judges are naturalized citizens, born elsewhere?
They never grew up in America. They never fully integrated American values. Nor do they fully appreciate our legal system.
Yet they keep getting placed into positions where they are able to subvert the intent of our laws to suit their own whims, rather than implement the law as written.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (FZ29D)
Its almost inevitable, isn't it? His last set had some truly gruesome mortar incidents. Launching, not hitting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (b4LBp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (j/Ml9)
He said the quiet part out loud, that gays reproduce by molestation. The left REALLY can’t allow that to get out.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (ayRl+)
Not that they would if they could. They're all gay for Islam.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2)
You just described a vast majority in the blogosphere, twatterverse (Xcrementverse?), TicTokverse, Instagramverse.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:32 PM (77rzZ)
Meh. He's a grifter. Said the right things for a while, and took in some folks here.
Maybe the musloids who run Britain now will throw him off a roof.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (1z8ji)
Yeah she doesn't look hideous to me, on the outside. I mean it will eventually show but for now she's okay. Foolish and wicked, but not ugly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (K32Fz)
But they also believe you can play Mr. Potato Head with your privates, so research and reality aren't their strong suits.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b)
"BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Noel Wise just ruled that the Trump admin CANNOT deport foreigners who express support for terrorist organizations"
they are deported for breaking the conditions of their Visa application and stay..I hope Rubio shows the way and IGNORES this judicial criminality
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I think I can identify the problem!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (NnhvP)
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Failed to nail the dismount?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Oddbob
Which was then spun - by the QUERTY crowd! - as him advocating for it. As if they weren't advocating for it themselves when the accusation couldn't be used to hurt someone at least nominally on the right.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (ebJJx)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (eZQ1g)
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Centuries.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (BI5O2)
Just do it anyway.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
My thoughts exactly.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (W2Pud)
He runs? I thought he more like waddled around these days...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)
Steven Sea Gal has the body of a god...Buddha...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (l3cgK)
Its almost inevitable, isn't it? His last set had some truly gruesome mortar incidents. Launching, not hitting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:33 PM (K32Fz)
I knew of a war game designer who burned his thumbs partly off slipping when firing a mortar and putting them in the blast zone. Had a good career, bought one of his Civil War games at the Gettysburg 125 reenactment.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (uhVAy)
This bears repeating. Homosexuals REALLY like young boys, they like to use terms like "twink" and "femboi" but what they mean is "barely through puberty if that." Its not universal but its extremely common. Lesbians less so from what I have seen, but still a real thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (K32Fz)
So expect posts to be brief and sporadic. Please amuse yourselves and provide content in the comments more than usual.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:22 PM
I really do pray for the trainwreck of a human being you appear to be, Ace. I really do.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)
But here we are, and now we get to beat on Milo in concert with the Progressive Left. Yay, us.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR)
Maybe don't pay attention to the people who ostensibly act as if it is their role to grant you permission to speak?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (qIGFJ)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (Fv808)
He was among the first to be cancelled-cancelled, and seems to have lost touch with reality.
Sad.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (pIwiO)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (wxsGM)
diet stuff is fine but you need muscle and core work!!!!
and don't do GLPs they remove what little muscle tone you have!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (j+aD2)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxk44hd
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 01:36 PM (ebJJx)
Saw you post this earlier. It would be funny and poignant were I to give a flying f*ck about either one of those 2 bloviating sacks of protoplasm.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V)
The outfit suing Trump to give terrorist the right to come here and advocate for terrorism is Insty favorite FIRE.
They believe it's free speech--and anyone who steps toe on US soil should have full Constitutional rights.
Even (especially) those who explicitly advocate for the overthrow and destruction of America.
I've already put them on my shitlist due to being behind the suits against Trump's tariffs.
FIRE was all supposed to be the "conservative" alternative to the ACLU--turns out, they're just like the ACLU.
Fuck FIRE.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (i2VYc)
Judge No�l Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
UNBELIEVABLE!�
If we were leftist retards, this judge would be doxxed, hounded, pestered, granted no peace anywhere whatsoever for this type of dipshittery.
But that's not who we are........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V)
We men really do honestly need a woman around to help us be better and take care of us. Without it we are too self-destructive and stop caring. And not just a piece to have around once in a while, a wife.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 01:40 PM (sIwi8)
This judge is about as smart a one of my turds. This will be immediately reversed upon getting to a sane court.
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:39 PM (Gqar
One of the still functioning female GOP reps who grabs headlines, from what I heard. But she's in the right here.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (uhVAy)
That can only be referring to the Oscar winning classic Seagal movie, "Hard to Kill".
Nothing but the finest.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V)
This. At least BS's sister has big knockers we can talk about. Not a whole lot redeeming about MY, except that he is a loud mouth from a leftist protected group who sometimes says sane things.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (qIGFJ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd)
Of course, he neither quoted nor cited a single person on the right saying that.
He's such a nasty, passive aggressive little bitch.
He should spend more time sucking off David French while they finger each other over how great Christians they are.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (3cUTc)
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They need to tighten the straps.
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oddbob
Unless they put it to music.
Posted by: Smalltown Boy at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (88C+u)
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Prayer for a complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (RIvkX)
The judge who blocked the Post Office rules again? This time she didn't even bother citing any legal precedent or justification, she just didn't like it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (K32Fz)
And this is precisely why I am vehemently opposed to homosexuals adopting kids. Especially male homosexuals. The lesbians probably don't do the sexual abuse but they will still fuck the kid up mentally. In my not so humble opinion.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (i2VYc)
Posted by: Pamazon at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (b5MGU)
That said, he and McInnes were offered up on a silver platter by the Right to the Leftist cancel mob, and just as I warned at the time, it immediately gave them carte blanche to cancel anyone to the right of Hasan Piker, and boy did they ever use it.
Don't lose sight of that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)
yeah I called him on that but since I am nobody and mean nothing he ignored me, as well he should. But I thought it was particularly egregious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (K32Fz)
_________________________________
I'm down with that advice. Every one of my friends who's had rotator cuff surgery seemed to recover quickly from it, but afterwards they never held their arms the way they did before they had the surgery. Don't know what caused that, but it was a commonality for all of 'em …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (ayRl+)
Of course, he neither quoted nor cited a single person on the right saying that.
He's such a nasty, passive aggressive little bitch.
He should spend more time sucking off David French while they finger each other over how great Christians they are.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (3cUTc)
Well said
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (xcxpd)
Don't lose sight of that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)
They are coming close to cancelling Hasan Piker himself.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (uhVAy)
First it was the left shoulder. Now it's the hip.
Not even a weekend warrior, and I've got injuries from sleeping.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (w6EFb)
Tough call.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (CYBB0)
That doesn't explain the Gym Teaching and Softball Coaching.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:45 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (NnhvP)
Tough call.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:44 PM (dIske)
Boy a hyphenated german woman must be a real problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (wxsGM)
I've had the same experience with back surgeries. I've had 3 now and am far worse off as a result. I seriously regret getting them.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:46 PM (i2VYc)
Try to get one that will untie you in the morning, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd)
I'd heard he wasn't running around sucking BBC and bragging about it to anyone happening to listen to his words, but don't know if he denounced the whole blasphemous lifestyle and repented........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: CA Token at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (3X4Mc)
Posted by: Harrison Ford Running at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (GR1ap)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0)
_______________________________
What about the ones who use strap-ons … ? Just askin' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+)
Sounds like Aid and Comfort being provided to those providing Aid and Comfort.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (DbObV)
_______________________________
What about the ones who use strap-ons … ? Just askin' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+)
On girls? Hot.
On guys? Not.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (wxsGM)
Sounds like you got Fusion and/or hardware installed?
I had them do the old school discectomy and have never been better. Took me a long time to find the right surgeon, though. Everyone wanted to do the Robot-Assisted Fusion Bullshit.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (i2VYc)
"He, ze hell vit you too!"
--Hilde Müller-Schröder
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Chairborne!
___________
It too has a high failure rate. There's even something called "failed back syndrome."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (XvL8K)
Wait. Have we confirmed that the sister is related and the mommy milkers are real? For science.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM (xcxpd)
I'd heard he wasn't running around sucking BBC and bragging about it to anyone happening to listen to his words, but don't know if he denounced the whole blasphemous lifestyle and repented........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V)
ah, ok. Thanks Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Pamazon at August 31, 2026 01:43 PM (b5MGU)
Constitution says the impeachment process can only be used against Trump and any of his supporters.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (ccf/V)
I had them do the old school discectomy and have never been better. Took me a long time to find the right surgeon, though. Everyone wanted to do the Robot-Assisted Fusion Bullshit.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (Shi2G)
Fusion and hardware both. I have more titanium in my back than an F-15.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (i2VYc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM
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Excessive splooge intake fogs the brain.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (m/MJs)
Posted by: Judas Roberts at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2)
There's a reason English has spent 1000 years throwing that crap out of the language.
Aint nobody got time for that.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (uhVAy)
Somebody swaddle the ewok, please.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (ayRl+)
>>On girls? Hot.
I have to disagree, here. It's comical to watch a woman try and fuck another woman with one of those things.
The physics just don't work out for them.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X)
They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0)
It was often rumored that he would lock her in closets and was pretty mean and abusive to her.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: garrett
________
Did you go with a neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
____________
The ghey Ann Coulter.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (AOKQ/)
They divorced back in 1996 and both have since remarried.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2026 01:48 PM (iIyc0)
She lives near me and we used to go to the same hair person.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X)
That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (ccf/V)
His closets have locks?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy)
Sucks to be in a cesspool where you can't find 10 righteous men.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (i2VYc)
Man, sorry to hear that.
First surgeon I went to was all in on that procedure. He told me I would never be able to Mt Bike or Backpack again.
I had the old school surgery and have been back on my bike and in the woods since about 8 months after the procedure.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G)
The physics just don't work out for them.
Posted by: garret
And you have seen this WHERE, exactly?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:49 PM (BI5O2)
If you eat an umlaut, and get diaraesis as a result, kaopectate can help.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (2Cry5)
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so
you've seen this, then
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt)
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The ghey Ann Coulter.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (AOKQ/)
Similar trajectory and timing too. Not unhappy she's off my radar too.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 31, 2026 01:50 PM (m/MJs)
Man should not swallow man juice. It effects the brain negatively. Same with women. Avoid woman juice intake, ladies.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)
Orthopedic Surgeon.
Guy was a gem. Like talking to a mechanic, rather than a doctor.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (i2VYc)
Oh, provide content in the comments more than usual? We've heard about the latest Medicaid fraud in Maine, right?
Unlike Minnesota, it's not autism care except there is no autism (i.e., no patients) -- Maine's fraudsters, mostly Iraqis, Somalians, Central Africans and Rwandans, have autism care except there's no care. The patients are being horrifically neglected. They were somehow the most profitable home health care centers in the US.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 01:54 PM (mmrXZ)
Somewhat related; I have long considered her at least a hermaphrodite
She lives near me and we used to go to the same hair person.
either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (K32Fz)
The physics just don't work out for them.
Posted by: garret
And you have seen this WHERE, exactly?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
Textbook Begging the Question.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V)
_____________________________
That is SUCH a great mind-picture … !
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
97.35% of porn movies made since 1984, I'd imagine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 01:37 PM (qIGFJ)
I don't but it is the ones who actively hate on me for not bending the knee that are the problem.
That sort is a liability since they don't need a reason to hate, they just need permission and a target. One day it is Milo because reasons. The next day they run off to hate on Left-handed Coptic Armenians or whatever, for reasons.
Being vocal about not bending the knee makes me the thing next to a troll. So yay. The abuse also makes me choose what I say carefully which I think is the purpose for ginning up the lynch mobs in the first place
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (K32Fz)
Take the WRONG bribe, you probably mean.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (uhVAy)
I DON'T AGREE, with the immigration laws that make it so difficult to remove a non-citizen from the US. However, someone here legally with a VISA (which is, in effect, a contractual agreement) has every right to say whatever the hell they want to. I'd suggest an adendum to all VISA's that allow for removal in providing support (moral, financial and otherwise) to America's enemies, however.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (dIske)
On top of several on-line instructional videos...
there is a time and a place for everything and it is called: College.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (Shi2G)
Never forget when the GOP claimed that 4 billion was far too much to spend on a wall.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G)
I'm glad to hear that my friend.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (i2VYc)
His closets have locks?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (uhVAy)
I mean, the miracles of modern science.
Posted by: Matt Laurer's Rape Button at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 31, 2026 01:42 PM
More likely prolaspe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
His closets have locks?
Posted by: Oldcat
Go on.
Posted by: Matt Lauer at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (DbObV)
Posted by: Right-handed Coptic Armenians at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS)
Yeah, probably true. As long as we have government we will have corruption, but it would be nice if we could keep it to a dull minimum. Slashing the power of governments would go a long ways toward this. Nobody bribes the traffic cop eighteen million dollars because he doesn't have enough power to make it worthwhile.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (K32Fz)
Old Ace of Spades post probably
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:56 PM (K32Fz)
The HQ has always danced well on the Porn Display Line. Very artfully done. Huzzah!!
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 01:53 PM (Shi2G)
Is there anything a hot iron can't do?
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 31, 2026 01:58 PM (PE5pE)
Regarding Milo, I liked him, and then right when he was at the pinnacle of his success, someone surfaced an old half-drunk comment he made about sexual activity of very young gay boys when he obviously meant very young gay men -- but it was enough. He was canceled left and right and driven out of public life. He spiraled and seemingly has never recovered.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (mmrXZ)
>I'm an American citizen. Will the federal government provide me with a passport and $3000 holiday pay? Is there something wrong here?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V)
_____________________________
That is SUCH a great mind-picture … !
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM
Ask and ye shall receive:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3bsytu
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (bFu5X)
either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS)
Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session.......
https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0
Sorry about the music, tho.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (ccf/V)
either she's had really good work done or has aged gracefully.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:55 PM
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2)
Ann Coulter?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar8)
>I'm an American citizen. Will the federal government provide me with a passport and $3000 holiday pay? Is there something wrong here?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:59 PM (nlLAo)
If you are about to cost the Feds about 10-100 times that sometime soon, you can call them up and ask for them to do so. It might work.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (J4Dwc)
________________________________
Once upon a time, I actually thought Ann Coulter was kinda-sorta-semi-almost 'attractive' or 'cute'-ish-esque, but NOOOO! On closer inspection, she's pretty much just so much skin stretched over so much bone. There's no 'there' there … and I sho' 'nuf din't see much in the way of titties, either (fool me once …)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: mikeski at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (VHUov)
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2)
Ann Coulter?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar
Kelly Lebrock.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar
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My first comment here was defending her.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 02:03 PM (Shi2G)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2)
Ann Coulter?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar
Kelly Lebrock.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2)
Phew........
Thought you'd gone completely insane there for a sec......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (ccf/V)
I'd say probably both, she's still strikingly beautiful.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:00 PM (i9SW2)
Ann Coulter?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:01 PM (Gqar
Kelly Lebrock.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:02 PM (i9SW2)
Ah. Thanks. Suffering from “ Lost in the Comments Effect”, for a moment.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 31, 2026 02:04 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: bonhomme
I'll wait for the Marco Rubio's New Job meme.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (DbObV)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (XvL8K)
https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0
Sorry about the music, tho.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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That stunt man in the first part was doing his best to lose that race.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (UGvct)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 02:05 PM (UGvct)
So more thought, or less seems to be in order.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS)
Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session.......
https://youtu.be/nkskuSXqUD0
Sorry about the music, tho.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.......
lol
pretty spastic
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (UjdFS)
195 @ 159 Cows with guns >>> Muslims with guns
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 01:51 PM (bFu5X) That has the makings of one hell of an 'Eat Mor Chikin' commercial ....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 01:52 PM (ccf/V)
______________________________
Dogs with guns > cows with guns > Muslims with guns
https://tinyurl.com/5696ke8z
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: David Hogg at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (mmrXZ)
>>Not in years. But when he did, it looked like a Special Olympics regional tryout session.......
I was watching an interview with I believe Alan Ritchson, that because of Steven Segal, there is actually a running school they send actors to to learn how to not run like a spastic clown.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (fqnOq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM (ccf/V)
Also the left: Look these fascists are even deporting right leaning people it is literally the Holocaust all over!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:06 PM (j/Ml9)
Zionist is about the least creative slur there is. They've Zioned themselves for 80 years or something now? Is it Zionist to fly passengers to Tel Aviv?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (j/Ml9)
The comments section is chaos by definition. Predictable globally, unpredictable locally.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
She's spent her entire career listening to it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)
like that ex Congressman, Trey something
damn
their kids would look like horses, in the face
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ZxPkt)
Cried about telling his fans to f*ck off. But he just HAD to tell the TRUTH about everything......
Former fat asshole.........
Enjoy the reap, dickhead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ccf/V)
Judge No�l Wise just said those students have to stay here under the 1st Amendment.
So it is a suicide pact after all.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (2ap+5)
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YD: Yeah? So what, bitch? Now, stop leaning on that shovel. We didn't enslave you to be a sundial, and this canal ain't gonna dig itself.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
She's spent her entire career listening to it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)
It probably sounds different to her own ears. My voice does to me.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
Milo is an obvious one but look at Candace and Nick Fuentes too.
They used to be able to just buy real more establishment right leaning pundits to bad mouth MAGA types but now they are getting Temu versions like Milo...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
I was watching an interview with I believe Alan Ritchson, that because of Steven Segal, there is actually a running school they send actors to to learn how to not run like a spastic clown.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 02:07 PM
That's funny and I'd never admit I had to learn how to run without looking like a total spazz.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
I can't get past the adam's apple.......that's a no go for me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)
@nexta_tv
💊 Back to the past! Stalin returns to a medical university facade in Volgograd after 65 years
The bas-relief was removed during de-Stalinization back in 1961 — and now it is hanging once again alongside Marx, Engels and Lenin.
What will they bring back next from the era of terror and the cult of personality — and where?
11:00 AM · Aug 30, 2026
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A Russian medical school honoring Marx, Engels, and Lenin, but they want me to be upset they're adding Stalin?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (RIvkX)
I had a doctor say he could fix me with Duck Tape.
He was a quack.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (i2VYc)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
She's spent her entire career listening to it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)
_____________________________
Ergo …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ayRl+)
Finding a kidnapped child or some shit, with lots of martial arts.
Worthy of an oscar.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (nlLAo)
It probably sounds different to her own ears. My voice does to me.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)
I absolutely hate how I sound in recordings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)
like that ex Congressman, Trey something
damn
their kids would look like horses, in the face
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ZxPkt)
Gowdy. Came to hate that dude, another one who vanished.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:10 PM (ccf/V)
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His soul will always be morbidly obese.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (2ap+5)
All I know is that his Visa expired and he has to go.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz)
He wrote an article for a Catholic publication (I don't remember the name) about his redemption from the homosexual lifestyle. The tone of his account sounded weirdly like he was trying to fake out the Christians by sounding like what he imagined they would want to hear. In other words, he sounded insincere. I figured I'd give him the benefit of the doubt until he confirmed my impressions, and he did end up confirming my impressions.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (FC7F4)
Imagine letting a Japanese guy come here in 1942, putting him on welfare, and arguing he has a 1st amendment right to say the US is inferior to the Divine Imperial Japanese Emperor and therefore we should surrender.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
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All of them are just edgelords who say wacky shit to get engagement online. Measured, reasoned arguments for or against Trump or any other person or position don't get nearly the number of clicks and replies that screaming like a retard does.
Posted by: David Hogg at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
I can't get past the adam's apple.......that's a no go for me. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)
__________________________________
That's prolly a carry-over from her 'Spit or Swallow?' days …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 02:11 PM (RIvkX)
I'm not calling for statues of FDR to be pulled down. History is History.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
Let me suggest they'd be perfect for a Laurel and Hardy remake.
Seagal: Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into Ann!
Ann: You can't have your cake and eat it, or you'll get a stomach ache.
Ann:
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ...
Her books were 99% reposts of old columns. Nothing original.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)
But they should all include the wheelchair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
*****
That has to be a room in hell. Having to listen to for eternity without any alcohol or handgun.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (Ap5bg)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w)
I don't agree with the law or judge that says foreigners have US Citizen rights.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Oldcat
>That's because he's a blowhard. Cruz is also headed down that path. You actually have to do something to get credit.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:16 PM (nlLAo)
Gowdy. Came to hate that dude, another one who vanished.
Posted by: Oldcat
>That's because he's a blowhard. Cruz is also headed down that path. You actually have to do something to get credit.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
=================
Is there any legislator who's actually done anything?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 02:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (KC5Lt)
As I said, haven't heard a word from her even though we are surrounded by bullshit for probably 5 years now. That says something.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (Ap5bg)
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked?
I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (BI5O2)
One of the amusing things of our era is that Trump is the anti-Obama and here I am referring to how Obama would say reasonable sounding things and then do something absurd. Trump says silly things but his actions are fundamentally reasonable.
You'd think that would be enough for the anti-MAGA "right" just pick apart what Trump says but that doesn't work for them...they need to claim he's a Jewish NAZI, or he is going to make everyone drink bleach or whatever stupidity they are claiming now...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 02:15 PM (W2Pud
Some. Godless was mostly its own book and it was genius.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (eZQ1g)
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)
____________________________
Did anyone think they were driving bombs into the basement of the WTC in those vans … ? History says 'no' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (j/Ml9)
Agreed. It is annoying AF to watch and weather.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (eZQ1g)
I'm looking at it right now on my bookshelf . Time for a re-read.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (KC5Lt)
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)
The Battle of Midway is a good approach to handling these floating migrants we have today.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM
It WILL make him shit out his kidneys at some point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:20 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm)
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Heh, never thought of it that way. Good observation.
Posted by: ballistic at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
>Mitch did a face plant. And Harry Reid was pretty good at taking a beating.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (nlLAo)
“The initiative focuses on CDL fraud, unauthorized employment, identity-document fraud, financial crime, money laundering, labor exploitation, and potential links to human smuggling, drug trafficking, and cartel activity,” Duffy said. The press conference coincided with a “synchronized surge” at more than 200 driving schools across 23 states to ensure the schools were following federal law; the DOT has already shut down hundreds of CDL schools for issuing permits drivers who did not meet English proficiency standards or employing unqualified instructors.
https://tinyurl.com/2unx3rvn
Posted by: beckster at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (kX27y)
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked?
I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Good piece on this at PJMedia yesterday.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (hUS/0)
I used to put her in the "says stupid stuff but good stuff too" category like Ben Shaprio but when she went from "Donald Trump is a bloated stupid clown we should all hate" to "Donald Trump is our messiah everyone must vote for or be evil" the night he locked the nomination and then went back to "Donald Trump has utterly failed us all because he didn't personally build the wall completely in a week" soon after.... yeah that was enough. Total grifter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:19 PM (j/Ml9)
Quite the Nostradamus since he won in 2016.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (uhVAy)
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked?
I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 02:17 PM (2Cry5)
You know, you could probably put a magnetometer on a drone, and fly it over a mosque. If a selection of mosques had stronger magnetic anomalies notably stronger than a selection of similarly-sized non-mosques, that might be interesting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:13 PM (VaC8w)
If you had to pick one capital letter to represent dog rapist child killers, what would it be?
Posted by: LGBTQI2+ Registrars Office at August 31, 2026 02:22 PM (r7+Q7)
You know, you could probably put a magnetometer on a drone, and fly it over a mosque. If a selection of mosques had stronger magnetic anomalies notably stronger than a selection of similarly-sized non-mosques, that might be interesting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji)
That would be racist, n shit........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:22 PM (ccf/V)
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (GUOwU)
Anyone think they're stashing weapons in mosques here in the states? Has anyone actually looked?
I suspect I know the answer, and the reason behind it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Good piece on this at PJMedia yesterday.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (hUS/0)
Maybe Trump needs to hire Janet Reno to take care of this problem?
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (i9SW2)
That is a name I once in a while heard, do not know any of his music (he's a musician, right?) and knew almost nothing about. Then he said stupid crap about Trump. Okay I will continue to ignore you.
There's a meme on x that resonates so well with me today, about how all the celebrity gossip is basically gibberish to me.
"Floon boy and Gerta Gerta have flown to Paris to pull a Barv!"
Okay whatever you say, lady.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:21 PM (1z8ji)
they have ground penetrating radar for seeing landforms below trees from the air, to looking deeper. A light dose might be analyzed to pick out dense metallic returns as I did for a project to spot guns and drugs at the border.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (uhVAy)
Because Trump's policies are reasonable and measured. If they get into a normal sort of discussion about policies details then it is harder for the FNM to call Trump literally Hitler...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Eric at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (6VHHP)
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s
Posted by: 18-1
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Never heard this one - linkage or source?
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (VkY89)
Complete meltdown. And he is the supposed voice of Dem moderation? He is just as vile and crazy as the the current Dem base.
Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (GUOwU)
Why anyone still listens to that undead retard piece of shit is beyond me........He's the Karl Rove of David Plouffe's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 02:26 PM (ccf/V)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Sid Blysters at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: doug at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (B1+sW)
--Whoopie Goldberg
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Al Sharptato at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (7Q0e+)
Because Trump's policies are reasonable and measured. If they get into a normal sort of discussion about policies details then it is harder for the FNM to call Trump literally Hitler...
Fucking Hakeem Jeffries is vile and crazy.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (i2VYc)
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Wake
Guam
all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:23 PM (i9SW2)
Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (dIske)
There's a meme on x that resonates so well with me today, about how all the celebrity gossip is basically gibberish to me.
"Floon boy and Gerta Gerta have flown to Paris to pull a Barv!"
Okay whatever you say, lady.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:24 PM (K32Fz)
Don't confuse the current "Jellyroll" with Jelly Roll Morton, who actually was a fine musician. And his nickname had nothing to do with being fat, which he was not. Had an entirely different meaning, back in the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (1z8ji)
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Wake
Guam
all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)
Fun fact - pretty sure First Wake Island was the only naval invasion in WWII that repelled the invaders on either side.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)
Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s.
Crazy as that was, you never hear about MOVE any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:28 PM (dIske)
I don't think Thune inherited that control, Trump's fellows have it now. Probably just means Pax doesn't need any help.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)
Now HIM I know, great stuff.
*listens to King Porter Stomp*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (K32Fz)
I think they just MOVE'd on to become ACORN...and BLM.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (i2VYc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:30 PM (K32Fz)
I do, one of my favorite all time songs is about that incident. City of Soul by the Aussie band The Eurogliders.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar8)
I think they just MOVE'd on to become ACORN...and BLM.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (i2VYc)
I think most were too burned to death for future activity.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:33 PM (uhVAy)
Or the guy who built the bomb Mayor Good dropped on MOVE in Philadelphia in the 80s.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)
I like your idea better.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2026 02:33 PM (i9SW2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:34 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)
Great story. IIRC, they held fire from their 5in guns until the Japanese had closed to a lethal range and then opened fire. Sank a destroyer. And then their remaining Wildcats sank another one. Japs left with a bloody nose.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (i2VYc)
Actually he had justification for what happened there, the teens were nuts and violent and Alan was protecting his kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (gm9Sb)
The supreme law of the USA is the constitution, and the constitution does NOT state that.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)
_______________________
Not so sure. The NRSC chair is Tim Scott, who was a HUGE supporter of John Cornyn. And Scott may be the chair, but I doubt he calls the shots.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar
They may have been Gryffindors.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Occasional Commenter at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (RSGvd)
Actually he had justification for what happened there, the teens were nuts and violent and Alan was protecting his kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:36 PM (K32Fz)
Sounds fair.Probably not much of a fight. The guy is Godzilla. But FAFO, hope the little thuglets learned something.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:39 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (VaC8w)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 01:57 PM (UjdFS)
It's fun to make fun of the guy but yeah, some of his early movies like Marked for Death he was actually skinny and yes, he could run; and like Jean Claude dancing in Kickboxer, it was pretty entertaining for the wrong reasons.
Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:32 PM (Gqar
They may have been Gryffindors.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Heh.Good one, Goyle!
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 02:40 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (gm9Sb)
FDR had a bunch of "undocumented Japanese workers" shot on various pieces of US/allied territory with nary a trial in the early 40s
I asked linkage/source.
You provide:
300 Never heard this one - linkage or source?
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Wake
Guam
all times were FDR shot Japanese undocumented workers instead of giving them a trial or even a deportation...
Posted by: 18-1
Having been stationed in Hawaii and pretty familiar with the history and I've never heard any "undocumented" Japanese being shot - ever. Not saying you are right or wrong, just saying I'm pretty well versed with the history of Oahu (and the other Hawaiian Islands) and the armed forces operating within them and I've never heard that.
Makes sense with Guam, Wake, and Midway since we were what's the word? At war? And also add Kwajalein Island (Atoll) and Roi-Namur into that mix.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (VkY89)
Unless it's some other incident I don't know about, that's not remotely close to what happened. The kids on minibikes were his and a neighbor (presumably of his house, not his trailer) attacked him in the street to try to stop them from riding and Ritchson scuffed him up. The neighbor was clearly the aggressor.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 02:41 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: isolden at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dB99g)
The supreme law of the USA is the constitution, and the constitution does NOT state that.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:37 PM (8mulE)
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And, in this case the issue is the 1st amemdment which refers to "person" or "people"....not "citizens." So, the Judge was, absolutely, correct. As was I.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 02:35 PM (i2VYc)
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I just watched a YT channel show about Wake Island last night. It was very well done and I learned a lot. The US forces fought with amazing determination and bravery. Ultimately the Japs prevailed, I think because the Navy had other priorities. Great story with a sad ending.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (Ap5bg)
Posted by: Jacques at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (A3xvt)
Those are only ceremonial guns going into the mosque to use for religious shooting during baptisms and weddings.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (OkYzo)
That's the point. We shot invaders then. We didn't give them trials.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 02:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 31, 2026 02:44 PM (VkY89)
For the traditional celebratory AK47 wedding celebration. These feature commonly in Brendan Hererra's Darwin Awards videos.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 02:45 PM (K32Fz)
This is why singers will be wearing headphones in studio so they can hear how they actually sound.
It’s because our ears are so close to our mouths that the sound waves don’t have to travel far.
A quick way to hear how your voice sounds to other people is to straighten your palms out flat and then hold your hands in front if your ears (not covering them). This makes the sound waves of your voice travel around your hands & ears into the ear canal.
You’ll have a better idea of what other people hear at that point but it’s not 100% representative because you’ll still pick up some of your voice through your jaw and facial bones to the inner ear.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 02:46 PM (j/Ml9)
Spent an overnight there on my way from NAS Moffett Field to Atsugi in '85.
You can almost "feel" the history of the place.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 02:48 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 31, 2026 02:49 PM (Ap5bg)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 02:50 PM (5/BcT)
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 02:42 PM (dIske)
No, it says "the people". Which people? Any collection of people? No.
The people in question are the citizens of the USA.
Posted by: No Name Today at August 31, 2026 02:54 PM (8mulE)
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It could about a serpent who disguises itself as something else and be called, Finding Adam's Apple.
Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 02:59 PM (S6YCM)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 31, 2026 04:25 PM (e9NEt)
Try to sleep a little propped up on pillows so you don't roll to sides as easily.
Post shoulder surgery I got from a surgeon. I mean sturgeon, but that was one wise fish.
Posted by: Idiocracy was a documentary at August 31, 2026 07:30 PM (7ID9G)
Whistleblower: NY AG and Gigantic Hag "Tish" James Commanded Her Underlings to Find (or Contrive) Criminal Charges Against Trump -- and His Friends and Allies
This is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes").
Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course.Prosecutor in NY AG Letitia James' office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on Trump allies: report A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James' office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups "affiliated with Donald Trump," according to a bombshell report. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James' Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him "to find and pursue crimes" committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union. Wiesenfeld alleged in his email on Friday that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)... without having a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals," the outlet reported. ... "If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing," Wiesenfeld allegedly wrote in the message, which went to some 2,000 staffers before being yanked.I don't think Trump is doing this at all. He's prosecuting the people who wrongfully prosecuted him -- and if, as they say, "no one is above the law," then they have endorsed their own prosecutions. Remember, Trump talked about throwing Hillary in jail but as soon as he was elected he ditched that entirely, implicitly conceding it was just campaign fodder.
"I ask you that you not serve as Tish's personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies," he allegedly wrote. "Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes." Weisenfeld asked that colleagues focus on prosecuting "rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and antisemitic crimes in and around synagogues," and accused James of wasting "significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies," Times-Union reported. ... During her 2018 campaign, James vowed to "prosecute the president for crimes committed in New York state" if she was elected -- and kept her word after taking over the office. ... Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former aide Melissa DeRosa ripped James on X Sunday. "@TishJames has been abusing her office for political gain for years. "Don't criticize Trump's use of DOJ if you're not going to call out hers -/ it's wrong when either side does it."
More:
His first-hand knowledge doesn't directly implicate James: He alleges only that his direct superior, Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe, told him to target "Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)" without bothering to first find "a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals."Is the bad ad gone? I only noticed it a couple of weeks ago and wrongly assumed that whatever company was paying for the ad would just stop paying for it and it would go away. I didn't expect them to camp on the site forever. I think it's gone now. I hope.
But he (understandably) believes Maswoswe was following orders from James, who after all ran for the office vowing to target Trump. The AG's office of course denies everything, immediately put Wiesenfeld on leave and no doubt will seek to crucify him.
After all, this is highly credible testimony that could easily be the final nail in tossing James' civil-case victory over Trump and quite possibly cost her this fall's election -- and even, should investigators find enough other testimony or hard evidence, put her in serious criminal jeopardy. ... Tish James prefers to prosecute cops and her political enemies; let's hope she's soon out of government, if not in prison.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
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Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (och2J)
Posted by: A gigantic hag at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (RIvkX)
Perhaps the word is out that my liver spots, toenail fungus, and ED are all in remission.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (Gqar8)
I think I saw them once since the last time I mentioned it. I hear them a lot.
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Lavrentiy Beria at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)
I think I saw them once since the last time I mentioned it. I hear them a lot.
Is it possible that pigeons could drive them off? Because more and more pigeons began camping out on my deck. I counted 12 one time. So I stopped putting out food to get them to leave.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
Flying rats are offputting to corvids.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:15 PM (Gqar8)
there was an ad that popped up every single time the comments were refreshed and then made you wait five full seconds to close it. And the "X" to close it was, of course, unreasonably tiny so it took a while to close.
Super-obnoxious. Sorry about that. A lot of these ads are transitory, short-term. I did not expect this particular ad buy to last forever.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (iY+4Q)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (2xUTf)
She's like a big fat black Richard Kiel, Jaws from Moonraker.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq
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She is a big girl.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:16 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: ace
You'd think that crows could drive out pigeons. But what do I know?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj)
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ha. we got you beat
Posted by: Illinois at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (anL5R)
Wow, sounds like they were really motivated.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: The Lonesome Dove at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (JM9I6)
They early voted ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g)
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AHEM
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (RIvkX)
Given that it's a former Cuomo aide, this is probably as far as she can go without being ostracized at the next Upper West Side cocktail party. "We must be better than Trump" is acceptable; "Trump did nothing wrong" is unforgivable.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (F1vmP)
Why do I picture this guy in an urban intersection with a soggy rag, and a squeegee stolen from a gas station?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:18 PM (2WIwB)
But then they are commies and this is right out of that playbook.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (V362x)
It has a nasty trick of going invisible so you can't see or close it--but it's still there and gets clicked if you tap the page.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (3cUTc)
Soon the season will begin when they all fly into the cities in the evenings to roost. Hereabouts, they look like sky rivers flowing in.
In the mornings, about a half-hour before dawn, they'll do their wakeup ritual: one calls, pauses, then they all call, then there's a pause; and then that repeats a few times.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Donnie Two Scoops at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (RIvkX)
Speaking of which, GatewayPundit had an article about the Clinton crime syndicate looking for an UNPAID intern. This led me to more research. For those of you in the Chicago area, there are $20 / hour security guard positions available at the Presidential Center of Doom. For those who don't mind sleeping in a box in Chicago. And they also have other offsite positions!
I thought libs were all about living wages.
Even the 49ers owner was feeling lucky and was only goihg to pay $140 for sweet, sweet, Ohio lovin..
Cheap bastards.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (Sco7b)
Proof of life after death.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (eZQ1g)
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AHEM
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM
*Even louder AHEM*
Posted by: Comment #18 at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
Tom Lehrer had a song about this.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (1z8ji)
the ad lives on
Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (WEIfr)
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (kXOuP)
I'd include the holocaust of collateral actions, like state legislatures crafting "laws" to allow this persecution, and especially the (ongoing) mau-mau'ing and actual attempted destruction of lawyers working to defend Trump.
There are baby steps being taken (removing ABA as certifying authority for law schools), but in context they are baby steps. The Legal Cult of course can't imagine contemplating that their entire worship-object (the system) is irredeemably rotten due to the degraded people in it (hey, smart guy! went to my law school!).
But it's all a symptom of general decline, not usually the driver.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Zombie Lavrentii Beria at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (kXOuP)
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
They've been like flies on rye for me. I don't want to complain, because Ace needs to keep the lights on like the rest of us, but I can't pretend they aren't annoying.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (F1vmP)
"(sigh) Nothing will happen..."
"Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!"
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (CYBB0)
sorry. My ad manager did contact the ad company to ban it. I hope it's gone soon.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Even the 49ers owner was feeling lucky and was only goihg to pay $140 for sweet, sweet, Ohio lovin..
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At a trailer part outside Youngstown for goodness sake. Egads, we have to get this inflation under control.
Whatever happened to $20 same as in town.
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (77rzZ)
No they were totally horrible, I really understand. I hated them too. Like I said, I figured this was some fly by night company who had just bought ads for like a week. I guess it wasn't.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)
It's evergreen
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (eZQ1g)
Hey, everyone! Ace has an ad manager!!!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Vengeance
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Like the Fauci gang?
Or the Covid crew?
Or their administrators?
Not One will go to jail. Not one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (77rzZ)
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Trying to disenfranchise the trans-living, bigot?
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (CYBB0)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
Within the last month or so, it is time that they typically congregate as an extended family group with that years' crowlets, teach them the ways of the world, take them to strip clubs, etc.
Unless my time frames are running together and this was earlier in the year.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (dK+Kv)
the ad lives on
Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:21 PM
Look on my ads, ye Morons, and despair.
Posted by: Sonobi at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (bFu5X)
sorry. My ad manager did contact the ad company to ban it. I hope it's gone soon.
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle)
Of historical interest, how did you finally kill Sonobi? With fire, or exorcism?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:25 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Zombie Berria at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (sFNX2)
I'm real close to giving up on our so-called "Democracy".
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (i2VYc)
Seriously, he was elected on affordability, accountability, and culture -- he's making slow but methodical progress but he really needed this to be his focus.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (qwx/I)
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)
Why use a gun?
Posted by: Comrade Willie Sutton at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (r7+Q7)
you’re worth it
Posted by: cherries in season at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (WEIfr)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (kXOuP)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
Chuy or Lamont?
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Judging by the results, they are doing it by committee.
Posted by: sardonic at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (vOxCS)
Seriously, he was elected on affordability, accountability, and culture -- he's making slow but methodical progress but he really needed this to be his focus.
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Your concern is noted. What is your per post rate?
Posted by: Under paid "infuencer" at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (sFNX2)
90% of the outright illegal stuff still isn't known.
2) What they did will be 1% of what they will do if they ever get Congress and the WH again.
Every man, woman and child who worked for, with or near any and all Trump administration officials will be targeted.
What they did to the J6 will be the least egregious abuse in comparison.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)
He then found that number and more (above the official "margin", I believe) in GA.
This was a guy in his underwear, with a laptop. It's entirely apart from the hilariously identical xeroxed ballots from one GA county, or the statistically improbably vote shares in late drops in GA and MI, or of course the comical lack of integrity in Wayne County MI basic election checks, or the historically unique and wild vote pattern across the state of WI.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (2Cry5
Didn't they try to get her for mortgage fraud and the case was denied ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (+gK6I)
All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon....
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM
Just stop. Right there.
Posted by: A squirrel or two at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6)
DMSO and betadine
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)
I love this contrast.
https://tinyurl.com/mr7hpkan
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6)
DMSO and betadine
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)
Amputation.Works every time.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar8)
So... Yacht girls on some floating palace off Monaco serving caviler on their belly buttons, or...
Ohio trailer park.
Kinky way to buy 'merican-made.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (Y8DZL)
it is fitting
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (rbvCR)
Super freaky.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (kXOuP)
Amputation.Works every time.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar
No more nail fungus ! Or nails...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM (JM9I6)
DMSO and betadine
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)
Amputation.Works every time.
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Slap hot iron to it.
Posted by: who are you people and what did you do with the regular commenters at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: A gigantic hag
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A comment like that to John Master's headquarters left them searching the map for Umbrage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masters
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (XeU6L)
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What if he had a reason beyond pure politics? Isnt that what we should expect from a leader?
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:30 PM (K32Fz)
I am not the Nothing Will Happen Guy, but
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar8)
I soaked my feet in straight hydrogen peroxide (well, the 2% solution you can buy off the shelf). A couple times of that and it just stopped. I still have gnarly mangled toenails but they aren't getting worse or spreading :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz)
TMI
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Gqar
No more nail fungus ! Or nails...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Try this one simple trick to avoid expensive pedicures!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Serpent Head Carville at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (JM9I6)
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We have four hummingbird feeders; I upped my hummingbird game following Spencer Pratt's example.
You are correct about the bickering. Last week my wife sent me a cartoon: a hummingbird approaches a new, large feeder, "The humans have installed a very large feeder. There is space for everyone. This could usher in a new era of peace and ambundance. Another hummingbird enters the frame, "Can I share some of your nec-" "NO!"
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (sFNX2)
The problem with that argument is that its either an election year, or the year leading up to an election year every year. The truth is, everyone's memories are super short, and if they don't feel the direct impact of an event, they soon are on to the next squirrel within weeks.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz)
TMI
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I)
Socks with sandals are indeed appropriate, sometimes.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM
DMSO and betadine
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:28 PM
Amputation.Works every time.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:29 PM
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Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The hot iron at August 31, 2026 12:34 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:34 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (sBAAu)
https://tinyurl.com/ypsj3y4t
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)
Of course, Government knows best
Posted by: Sardonicus at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (UnmeB)
Posted by: runner
Indeed, just as many NY'ers and their 9/10 thinking and failure of imagination cannot fathom that the sewer intruders could possibly have any noteworthy goal any more than the BatMan Villain/BANE -- as the 60's Klingon/MADMANI looks on with an approving smirk.
Yeah, this is NORMAL.
What could possibly go wrong?
If the Deep State doesn't know and approve of it they wouldn't be very intelligent now would they?
Depose DIMON,
indict Brennan, the Epstein enabler, and Free the World.
with AOC dancin' like nobody's watchin' because she knows we all are.
LET's GO BRANDON.
BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-TrumpLaysLowDIMON
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (EMFSn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (K32Fz)
TMI
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I)
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I'd beg to differ. But, I never beg. I just threaten to cut scenes.
Posted by: Quenton Tarantino at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: I was getting a pedicure at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1)
250 239 “ Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe“. I see a problem there, most likely.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar
Would it be better if they changed their name to Hercules Washington?
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Archimedes
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We have a feeder hanging outside on the front porch. There are about 6 of them duking it out daily. One will perch on a strand of outdoor lights and.... just wait.
They're also used to us now. So they'll just buzz right by our heads when feeding. Weird little creatures.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (2Cry5)
I was smelling wild plum on a trail once, when a hummingbird tried to suck my ear canal. No damage to me or him, thanks to my lightning reflexes.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Jr5Lq)
"Herkaleez herkaleez herkaleez!"
--Eddie Murphy dressed as an old woman
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: The Concierge at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:35 PM (sBAAu)
Funny... She doesn't look Japanese...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
Doves and pigeons don't mob other birds, there is a PNW Indian story about how the dove is the Turkey Buzzard's best friend for that reason.
Crows tend to stick to a schedule, but they are also are opportunists. A friend of mine says the crows go hang out after lunch at the school because there is tossed food there, and the weekends and during fairs they are completely missing because they hang out at the fairgrounds and the open markets for tossed and dropped food.
Put out walnuts and peanuts and they will come back, and that is stuff the pigeons can't eat.
You might get squirrels, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
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Personally, I would have been fine occasionally turning to the news channels this weekend to hear continued shrieking of "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE THAT BASTARD TRUMP NUKED IRAN AND HE'S STILL IN OFFICE!!'
Hell, I'm getting soft in my 28.5th year. I would have even settled for "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE THAT BASTARD TRUMP COMPLETELY DESTROYED ALL OF IRAN'S INFRASTRUCTURE LEAVING THEM ALL TO DIE!"
Sorry for the all caps. It really is the only way to accurately capture the TDS.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Guy With Feet Soaking In Kerosene at August 31, 2026 12:27 PM
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I found a product called FungiNail that worked a treat.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (amcLV)
Hummingbirds nest in the Willows behind my house. Their nests and eggs are clownishly small.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (Shi2G)
That was Trump 1.0. T1 didn't fully understand what time it was.
T1 thought that he won the election and would be given the same discretion to govern that every other president was given. He didn't realize how feral the government really was and how deep the rot went.
But Trump 2.0 knows. If T1 knew what T2 knows, then I think he wouldn't have let Hillary slide.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)
I have. My dad pointed it out to me when I was young. We always have had a feeder around and the little things had to live nearby beause they were always around. Dad finally spotted their nest and carefully showed it to me in a nearby tree.
Its cartoonishly tiny with itty bitty eggs.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (4NO2D)
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The like mature tall pines with short dense needles and nest near the top. So plant one that will grow next to your second story window, or find a house that already has one next to the upper floor window.
Posted by: you'll have to plan ahead or buy a new home at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: 13times at August 31, 2026 12:39 PM (6iKlf)
Posted by: Five Little Piggies at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (wVcYX)
They're also used to us now. So they'll just buzz right by our heads when feeding. Weird little creatures.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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While sitting on the porch, I've had one fly up and hover about 3 feet from my face, as though it was apprasing me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (j0Tky)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
And they claim the classics are forgotten.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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They make plastic face shields with a feeder attached. Wifey got me one but I've never used it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)
Oh yeah a real stand up lady
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: who are you people and what did you do with the regular commenters "
*golf clap
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: wth at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:41 PM (l3cgK)
Oh yeah a real stand up lady
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:42 PM (eZQ1g)
As much as the failed, one-balled Austrian painter was...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (l3cgK)
Colleges have been a bubble for decades, it could not continue. Parents eventually will decide its not worth half a million dollars to turn their kid into someone that hates them, hates their home, and has no valuable skills or learning.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:43 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar
Had one in a scrubby bush on the lot line of my place in Arizona. Less than 3 feet off the ground. Eggs about the size of chick peas. Feral cats got it. Hummingbird mama not too smart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar
Had one in a scrubby bush on the lot line of my place in Arizona. Less than 3 feet off the ground. Eggs about the size of chick peas. Feral cats got it. Hummingbird mama not too smart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (1z8ji)
Several hummingbirds made their nests in blackberry brambles...smart hummingbirds...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK)
Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Y8DZL)
They need drop tanks.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5)
Do they run into Monarch butterflies on the way?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH)
Sounds like Goodfeathers have taken over.
Posted by: far cry at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (pBJ6M)
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Is the EU like a Roman Emperor now? Have the soldiers go around taping up their officially stamped scrolls onto surfaces in the public square saying they're going to take your stuff just because they say so? So it shall be written, so it shall be done.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (6p0Jv)
Consequently, I've taken better care of my feet than I ever have in my life, and their look and appearance have improved dramatically.
Most people don't really wash their feet adequately.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (tjgV0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:44 PM (2Cry5)
Hope they have their documents in order.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (Gqar8)
Imagine a country so rich that bloggers throw food away just to see birds.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (Y8DZL)
An not to bait said birds, or feed said birds for eating later...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 12:46 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Fun Guy at August 31, 2026 12:47 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM
I have to keep my light turned off.
Posted by: Roxanne at August 31, 2026 12:47 PM (2Ez/1)
They sure look rode hard and put away wet when they arrive north in the Spring.
What's cool, if you put feeders out every year, they remember your house. They will let you know they have arrived by hovering in front of every window to herald their arrival. "Why isn't the feeder out yet!" in bird speak.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (K32Fz)
The old hummingbird exhibit at the SD Zoo was great. Small, kinda cramped. Cool. A million varieties of birds, all close by, easily viewed. The new, fancy-with-the-donor-names-on-the-side exhibit? Have gone in a few times, literally haven't seen a hummingbird. Nicely done!
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:48 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
That's why we install footbaths in the airport, Infidel!
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober.. at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 12:49 PM (vTZFs)
They do it when the feeder is out or gone bad too. Hey! Hey! Fix da foods!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (DbmIv)
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It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food....
Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Sonobi at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (jyFsD)
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Do they bicker and complain all the way down to Gulf of America just like human married couples?
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: you'll have to plan ahead or buy a new home at August 31, 2026 12:38 PM (anL5R)
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They nest in the large pines near the house here.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Rln0i)
>>That's why we install footbaths in the airport, Infidel!
Dunking ones feet in tepid water is not adequately washing one's feet.
You have to really get in there with a stiff brush and scraper to shape up those tootsies.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (tjgV0)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH)
Good to know there's reasons besides "global warming" so we can push back on warmist claims.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (lFFaq)
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It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food....
Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK)
It was kale, so NOT food.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar8)
I'd include the holocaust of collateral actions, like state legislatures crafting "laws" to allow this persecution, and especially the (ongoing) mau-mau'ing and actual attempted destruction of lawyers working to defend Trump.
There are baby steps being taken (removing ABA as certifying authority for law schools), but in context they are baby steps. The Legal Cult of course can't imagine contemplating that their entire worship-object (the system) is irredeemably rotten due to the degraded people in it (hey, smart guy! went to my law school!).
But it's all a symptom of general decline, not usually the driver.
Posted by: rhomboid
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The nat sec peeps started the ball rolling with their coup against Nixon.
The whole Watergate idiocy came about because of the Deep State, the law was after the fact.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)
I buy a brand that says it contains micronutrient levels of copper, which I assume is supposed to act as a bactericide. It's probably 100x more expensive than just plain sugar.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martin Tell
If the ones in my yard are typical, Signs Point to YES.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:52 PM (E4rtv)
I have seen a lot of different things, the latest being that it looks like maybe the ground under the glacier was unstable too, something Chinese engineers did not find or care about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Sugar, Suga' at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (JM9I6)
Trump is the only person tried and convicted for being blackmailed where the blackmailer testified as a prosecution witness.
Posted by: polynikes
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Unscramble that, please? And good morning.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 12:45 PM (ZaHhH)
Good to know there's reasons besides "global warming" so we can push back on warmist claims.
Google AI says the Chinese theory is incorrect, pointing instead to global warming. I think we really don't know what caused it at this point.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8)
Visited a wildlife shelter once. Three birds in big floor-to-ceiling cage, don't remember what they were in for. Blue jay was bullying cardinal, but gave the robin all and any space the robin wanted.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (NcvvS)
Yeah at this point in my life I assume anything a Republican is busted for, has been going on for decades by everyone and they were just selected to be destroyed despite everyone else doing it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (sBAAu)
Pass it on.
Posted by: Spanky at August 31, 2026 12:54 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM
The true cause may never be known, they vowed.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (wfgYt)
Trace amounts of copper (usually as copper sulfate) are added to hummingbird nectar—sold under names like Nectar Defender—to slow microbial and bacterial growth, keeping the sugar water fresh for up to two weeks, even in hot weather.
I have buckets of copper sulfate. Maybe I'll just mix some in to regular sugar.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)
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It was of ace's Keto concoctions, so not really food food....
Posted by: First Time Commenter at August 31, 2026 12:50 PM (g47mK)
It was kale, so NOT food.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (Gqar
Hah. I was eating outside in a food court with Thai food on my plate. One of those little black birds (a female, not as glossy) bounded up to my table. I threw it a piece of cucumber...
The bird looked at the cucumber, looked at me, looked at the cucumber, looked back at me...
LOL. It was like that meme of the black kid with the doubting look on his face.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:55 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (sBAAu)
I've battled the damn things my whole life! now my feet are nice and smooth! crazy
what's in that stuff?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: tubal
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The Aussies have some flightless bird that has killed people. Can't think of the name and too lazy to look.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (XvL8K)
I've battled the damn things my whole life! now my feet are nice and smooth! crazy
what's in that stuff?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2)
Kale, mostly.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:57 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: tubal
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The Aussies have some flightless bird that has killed people. Can't think of the name and too lazy to look.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (XvL8K)
Cassowaries are killers...
Auzieland has emus.
South America has Rheas.
Madagascar used to have Elephant birds.
New Zealand used to have Moas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (l3cgK)
The snobby Californicated elites up and down the I-25 Front Range corridor love her. She will be our new AG, come January.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 31, 2026 12:58 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (K32Fz)
I wonder how stable the ground under the Three Gorges Dam is? And if Chinese engineers cared to find out, being the dirty stinking, incompetent commies that they all are.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (i2VYc)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
It certainly wasn't global warming. Even though the USDA pushed all the planting zones up by a half a couple of years ago, actual safe planting dates are now about two weeks *later* than they used to be. Making the real zones a half step colder than before.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (lFFaq)
Emus?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 12:51 PM (lFFaq)
Massive landslides are a natural occurrence in mountainous country.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Backyard Shenanigans at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (2MN4W)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK)
I got a "burrito" on the pier in Seattle once. I was starving and finally found some place with food and it was... it was literally stew, like Dinty Moore stew in a tortilla. They didn't even try to disguise it or make it Mexican in any way.
I couldn't eat it, threw it away and the seagulls flew over to eat it... even they rejected it. I have no idea how that dump stayed open.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (K32Fz)
Our spring was "early" this year. Warm weather and no frosts in early April. The bird were looking for the feeder by the last week of the month.
I have photos of heavy frost in mid April here. Hummingbirds didn't show until late May that year.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (l3cgK)
But tasty . Sous vide them suckers.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Random PJ at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (+jscL)
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Eh, it's pretty commonplace for prosecutors to look at a truly vile bastard who's evaded justice for years, someone like El Chapo or Chuck Lorre, and tell the cops "stick to this sonofabitch like glue, and tell me everything you find - there's a crime I can prosecute somewhere."
But it's supposed to be someone who's guilty of actual crimes. Not Donald Trump.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bird Brain at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (JM9I6)
Unpossible, I was told they only started happening now because of global warmening
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (i2VYc)
They probably decided it didn't matter since the base of the dam isn't tied into the rock anyway but just set on the surface.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Subterranean Lizard People at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t)
"I got paid, Gwailo, who cares what happens afterward?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
Google lies. It's what thy do.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: heya at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (ND37T)
Posted by: tubal
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Yes, thank you. AI says "Native to Australia and New Guinea, this flightless bird is highly territorial and has been responsible for human fatalities using its 12cm inner toe claw."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (XvL8K)
Still waiting for decisions on the appeals in NY state courts. I had a couple of cases at the Appellate Division and it never takes more than 6 months for a decision. We're well into year number two
This tells me the judges know the cases sick but want to keep Trump hanging as long as possible
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (j/Ml9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:59 PM (1z8ji)
True, but glacier collapses are much less common.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: No one ever at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (wGerL)
There are rumors they will change Magneto's backstory of being a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust to being a Palestinian.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (2GVsD)
what's in that stuff?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 12:56 PM (j+aD2)
Dimethyl Sulfoxide.
If you want to know about DMSO and its promises, look up the substack for A Midwestern Doctor
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (n1B4F)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (286+n)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)
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If they can't even find video surveillance of him jaywalking in NYC, they got nothin'!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 01:06 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 12:57 PM (K32Fz)
Saw Coyote vs Acme over the weekend. For those of us who grew up with Looney Tunes in the 50's (first at the movies, then on TV) it was a cool premise. Acme getting sued for supplying defective equipment Coyote, in his pursuit of the roadrunner and the other Warners cartoon characters. It was a fun movie. Lots of little hidden tributes to the original directors and animators who created those great cartoons.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2026 01:06 PM (hmYU4)
I couldn't eat it, threw it away and the seagulls flew over to eat it... even they rejected it. I have no idea how that dump stayed open.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:00 PM (K32Fz)
Ahs. the "Oregon Burrito"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)
"Framing the guilty". What happened to Trump, and Alaska's Stevens (which is where I first heard the term), is why it's a terrible policy.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:04 PM (lFFaq)
Happens all the time. When a mountain glacier gets overextended, the ice at the toe breaks off.
Glaciers are a potent form of erosion.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:08 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2026 01:07 PM (lFFaq)
Geese & ganders, etc.
If they make me AG, I'll find an oubliette for every Democrat, even if I have to manufacture evidence in my basement.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: The Mole People at August 31, 2026 01:10 PM (JM9I6)
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Wifey and I plan ot attend bargain (well, 20% off) matinee this afternoon. I am psyched! I will wear my "Super Genius" t-shirt.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (sFNX2)
Pretty sure you will find a lot of PDF stuff on their electronic devices. Then you search their property for the bodies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (2GVsD)
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Sounds like there needs to be a sporting event every Tuesday at 10am....Pull!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (8cylk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Toe hungus
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:12 PM (8cylk)
I tried that one as a pickup line. Didn't work too well.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (eZQ1g)
Posted by: Kindltot
That's when Sid blows the smelly hobo in his sleeping bag
Posted by: 88C+u at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (88C+u)
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If they can do this to him, what can they do to any one of us?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (8cylk)
I don't think even Marvel is that dumb but... they have surprised me before. I still expect him to be a black man who was abused as a child during the 1960s.
Saw Coyote vs Acme over the weekend.
I do want to see that, but people who have kids need to take them along too (as expensive as that gets). This is our heritage!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:13 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at August 31, 2026 01:14 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: ace at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (1wjle)
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Pigeons and Crows are indifferent to each other. Different food source (grains vs. protein or bugs). So, pigeons aren't scaring them off. Raccoons, Foxes, some species of owls on the other hand could keep crows wary.
Or, it is possible that one of the crows saw your Vespa in the garage, and crows talk. So, they'd all be concerned about their reputations due to association.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (Csh33)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:11 PM (2GVsD)
Of course. They're all guilty as hammered sin. All you have to do is bother chasing down the crimes. It's not as if they're careful.
The problem is finding cops to arrest them and judges and juries to convict them.
Not to worry!
AG YD will reward his Oprichniki who fry them in giant pans in front of their neighbors with all their worldly goods, and their family members as chattels, thus obviating these late-republuc follies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: ShainS at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (zBNb3)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (wfgYt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (2GVsD)
So, ummmmm, like, is my work here done?
Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at August 31, 2026 01:16 PM (0sNs1)
Or, it is possible that one of the crows saw your Vespa in the garage, and crows talk. So, they'd all be concerned about their reputations due to association.
Posted by: Orson at August 31, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske)
Pigeons. So nasty, even a crow won't eat them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (1z8ji)
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I refuse to believe it but believe it. Either way don't give a fuck, AI can't obliterate that industry soon enough.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (eZQ1g)
Very nice!
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Have not had the pleasure of meeting Martini Farmer (as far as I know), so I'll take your word that Martini Farmer is very nice.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (8cylk)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (j+aD2)
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Fagneto
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (Q6Bu6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:19 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (2Cry5)
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Must have been a raven.
Posted by: Guy Who Can't Tell the Difference Between a Crow and a Raven at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (8cylk)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Gqar
Well, the pigeon pie is used to bait the hobo traps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:20 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Guy Who Can't Tell the Difference Between a Crow and a Raven at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (8cylk)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:22 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:22 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (wfgYt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (Gqar8)
That was a real thing, too. Bored chefs or bizarre, spoiled royalty always demanding novelty? Who knows.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: The Crow at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 01:21 PM (2GVsD)
Or the Old Crow Medicine Show?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 31, 2026 01:24 PM (2CeDH)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 01:34 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: The Concierge at August 31, 2026 12:37 PM (JM9I6)
Somehow Chang from Community yelling 'PIGEON FANCIER' doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 01:17 PM (eZQ1g)
I will happily take AI slop over r*tard slop any day of the week. The r*tards can go back to tumblr and be poor; tired of them destroying things created by people 1000 times more talented.
Posted by: Nelly at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (6+ehB)
Then a firing squad was assembled............
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 31, 2026 02:09 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: kingsman at August 31, 2026 03:27 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: RNUT at August 31, 2026 09:40 PM (xW84Z)
Hampton Prescott on “The Curley Effect” – Municipal Mismanagement that Perpetuates Political Power by Driving Away Responsible Opposition
[I needed backup for today’s Morning Rant, so friend-of-the-blog Hampton Prescott kindly offered up another of his excellent essays on the need for a revival of “municipal conservatism” to rescue failing cities. Specifically, I asked Hampton if he would discuss the subject of productive citizens fleeing cities - why it’s happening, the business community’s indifference to it, and what can be done to reverse the problem. I always assumed that the flight of law-abiding, tax-paying residents was a consequence of liberal mismanagement, but as Hampton explains, there is actually a term, “The Curley Effect,” for destructive municipal governance that benefits those in power by driving away responsible citizens who might otherwise vote incumbents out of office. Mr. Prescott’s essay is below the fold. – Buck]
Being a student of history is indispensable, in that it equips you with the capacity to cut through the “we are living through unprecedented times” noise. It also helps tremendously in spotting past parallels to current social, political and economic dynamics. One aspect of history that is of particular interest is the political career of James Michael Curley, four-time mayor of Boston and governor of Massachusetts in the early-to-mid 20th Century. Curley’s influence persists to this day through what is known as “The Curley Effect,” defined as a political strategy and economic model where targeted, inefficient, or divisive public policies are intentionally leveraged to drive political opponents out. By encouraging wealthier or opposing demographics to flee, the politician employing The Curley Effect alters the local voter base to secure permanent power, even if the strategy causes long-term economic decline. The impact on Boston and Massachusetts in general was disastrous, as Curley’s tenure coincided with Boston suffering from economic stagnation that took until the "Massachusetts Miracle" in the 1980’s to truly shake off. I can’t help but think of The Curley Effect when I see the abysmal governance of our major cities today. Specifically, it came to mind when I saw a clip of Seattle’s newly elected Mayor Katie Wilson respond to the outflow of the private sector from the City with a vapid response of (verbatim) “To the ones that leave, like bye! Hahaha!” You don’t have to squint hard to see the connection between the high property taxes and spending policies in Boston that drove out the private sector and the anemic response to crime, vagrancy and other quality of life matters in Seattle that is driving away stalwart institutions like Starbucks and Amazon. No shortage of ink has been spilled on the rise of the far left in major cities over the past decade. What is missing from much of this commentary is the idea that this incompetence could be intentional in order to lock in long-term political power. The good news is that the Curley Effect is not an immutable law of urban physics (contrary to the opinion of many commentators.) It thrives in environments of low accountability and general apathy. The solutions are there for those serious about reclaiming the cultural and economic beacons that are our cities. First, business communities nationwide need to shake off the apathy and ineffectiveness that has defined their “activities” in the past decade and re-assert the influence that they once had in their respective cities. Two destructive causes of this unfortunate development: 1) Short-sighted libertarianism that puts a mask on lack of interest in the hard work of fostering on-the-ground relationships; or 2) ESG-type grifting which outsourced much of the work out of “community involvement” for executives. Other major causes include corporate consolidation that removed many institutional pillars from many major cities and increasing financialization of the real estate sectors. The major real estate owners who had breakfast with city council member once a week were displaced by faceless institutions lacking long-term interest in the viability of the cities they purchased property in. Sun Belt cities have always been held back due to the lack of a healthy urban core (this has arguably kept them from reaching the prominence of a New York or San Francisco, despite predictions to the contrary stretching back to the 50s), so a scenario where cities like Seattle emulate this structure is one that will make for a less productive and sadder country. The business community needs to get out from behind the Zoom call taken from Palm Beach and take action. Second (covering the nuts and bolts of policy solutions here) there is a need to impose hard fiscal and governance constraints. Strict balanced-budget requirements, supermajority thresholds for tax increases, and independent performance audits make it harder to fund patronage networks or soft-on-crime experiments indefinitely. Term limits for mayors and city councils reduce the payoff from long-term demographic engineering. Recall mechanisms and robust citizen-initiative processes give remaining residents tools to reverse course before decline becomes terminal. Beyond formal reforms, people concerned with The Curley Effect taking over their hometowns can utilize their social media accounts to hold governance to account. There are many excellent accounts in Atlanta who draw attention to shortcomings in things ranging from mass transit experience to permitting timelines. Social media can be a very valuable tool in this regard. Third, prioritize the basic public goods that keep productive people in place: competent policing, clean streets, functional schools, and predictable property rights. Cities that restore order and reverse the visible decay of public spaces reverse the outbound migration of the tax base. These are not ideological luxuries; they are the minimum conditions for retaining the human capital that funds everything else. In my experience, my posts on restoring law and order and urban beautification get likes across the wide political spectrum, so the idea that these issues are firmly partisan is a highly questionable one. History shows that the Curley Effect can be broken. Boston eventually recovered once policy shifted toward growth and competence under Governor Dukakis in the 1980’s. Today’s cities face the same choice. The politicians who wave goodbye to departing employers and residents are not invincible; they are simply betting that voters and institutions will remain passive. Raising the price of that bet, through aggressive counteraction, constraints, and competence, is the practical path out. HAMPTON PRESCOTT
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r)
But they too tire of it and move elsewhere to start the shitification process all over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (dL8V2)
Interesting that China has chosen to apply this model to an entire country. Of course, it's not always possible for the undesirable demographics to physically flee, and China is doing its best to prevent capital from moving as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (E/qck)
-- Moe and Larry
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Detroit at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: The Uniparty at August 31, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
Memphis, Chicago, East St. Louis, Atlanta...
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:05 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: T'Qatar Carlson at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (BVbFo)
Posted by: The Uniparty at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
The left really would prefer to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (ndZc7)
Or barring that, their other option is putting in power, a person who was given the duty to do something about LA's homeless problem, that person failed spectacularly.
They were given an option to vote for a Republican who actually had skin in the game and wanted to tackle the problems head on.
The citizens of LA rejected this option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0)
Posted by: Urban Flyers at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (rJhDk)
Any large city in California.
And, of course, DC under Marion Barry.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:08 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: The Vote-Counters of LA at August 31, 2026 11:09 AM (rJhDk)
The citizens of LA rejected this option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0)
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This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference.
Voter fraud is so ingrained in CA, it seems nearly *IMPOSSIBLE* for anyone who really wants to change things to rise above it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:09 AM (FZ29D)
Competent policing without competent prosecutors and judges and effective laws is futile.
Functional schools? We forgot how to do that 60 years ago.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: DC Wash at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (ayRl+)
Nothing will happen until those failing cities decide to change. As it is, they're still counting on government bailing them out and subsidizing their shiftless lifestyles.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: White guy with his family in a minivan pulling a U-Haul trailer at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (Q/FnY)
Has Gary, IN gotten their power back yet? Or are they still shooting at utility workers?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 11:11 AM (2GVsD)
Our main issue is that everything is too big and governance is too separated from the populace.
If your vote, your involvement has almost zero effect on the outcome, why bother?
If the places where you could affect the outcome have almost zero effect on your life, again, why bother?
We need to bring governance much closer to the people who it governs and make politicians more accountable.
If you govern a ward of 50,000 people, like in Chicago, how much of an effect does each individual have?
But, if your ward was 5,000? You might not know everyone in your ward, but you'd know most families and you'd be much more connected. 50,000? You know the people who fund your campaign.
Our government overall is too big. It needs to be much smaller and much more local.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)
Is there power? It is corrupt. But I live in the Northeastern Corridor of Corruption, so I may be biased.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (P5C/E)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq)
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Yep.
Police might be very competent at their jobs, but they are downstream in a system that prioritizes criminals over law-abiding citizens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (FZ29D)
>>This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference.
Barring a smoking gun, vote fraud is always assumed, but can never really be proven emphatically.
At the end of the day, the citizens of LA either through apathy or simply not giving a f**k has allowed this system to take hold and become the defacto state of play.
Until the people of LA take control of their government, they are going to keep getting the short end of the stick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (tjgV0)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (ayRl+)
As an aside, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones had a song called "The Rascal King," which was a paean to Curley.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (qRla/)
well I'm not as sanguine
the Left is attempting to, via control of cities and certain states, collapse the USA and take it over.
The Curley effect is a TOOL they are using for this. to strengthen THEIR redoubts!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (j+aD2)
Participating in governance, being self-governing and participating in government is just TOO HARD, I suppose. But we have to do it. Term limits are a very poor substitute for demanding the kind of government you want, but it’s great to help people shirk their civic duty.
San Antonio city government has term limits and they have done nothing to improve the governance there.
Dude lost me right there. But he makes sense otherwise.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (LHPAg)
One wonders if the utility workers were black or white. If white, they hate whitey so much they'd rather live without power just to get to shoot at him. If black, well, I admit I'd be puzzled by that one.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (VyBeY)
You said it, pal!
Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (qRla/)
well I'm not as sanguine
the Left is attempting to, via control of cities and certain states, collapse the USA and take it over.
The Curley effect is a TOOL they are using for this. to strengthen THEIR redoubts!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 11:13 AM (j+aD2)
Except for one thing.
People do have One Final Freedom.
Voting with their feet.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (WB/3O)
Look at how incandescently enraged they are over the improvements Trump is making to DC*.
It's not just the White House or the cost that infuriates them:
It's that he's showing 1) you don't have to live like this and 2) the degradation and dilapidation was intentional by the Democrats.
They WANT* the disgusting, scummy, run-down, crime-ridden cities.
* Note well, this is why they so openly cheated to stop Spencer Pratt
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 11:14 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Ballots rejected that option. Note that not one word above addresses a major cause of urban dysfunction--a) gimmedats, and b) election fraud.
Thieves take over city halls because they steal and sell favors to people like real estate developers for forever. Smart thieves don't rob banks because like Willie Sutton said, that is where the money is. Instead, they play a longer game and take over municipalities to loot and sell favor. Washington Plunkitt called it honest graft.
And that has been going on since cities got big enough to loot from the taxpayers.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv)
Decent people, businessmen and women, they don’t want to touch politics with a ten foot pole. And local politics is where the feeder stock for higher office is drawn. Diane Feinstein was a supervisor in San Francisco for just one of many many examples. I’m reading a book about the 1960s and beyond, how SF was deconstructed over the years and she keeps popping up. Real piece of work right there.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (ayRl+)
Bachmann-Turner Overdrive, IIRC. And I believe the lyric is "We're comin' to your town / We're gonna party down"
Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (bX16E)
Seventy percent of the population of the Portland metro area lives in the suburbs, so people who are sick of the poor quality of government services in Portland can simply move a few miles and avoid them.
So, if only twenty percent of the population are lunatic leftists, and they all live in Portland, they have a voting majority in Portland.
The problem, of course, is that the people fleeing Portland bring their political beliefs with them, so the suburbs become progressively more left-wing (if more moderate than Portland) over time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:16 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (bX16E)
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Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (IkLDu)
Grand Funk, aka Bland Gunk, Railroad.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (NcvvS)
As the song goes, "They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please."
They're feeding our people that government cheese
https://t.ly/NPTMT
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (Cqx++)
>>Ballots rejected that option. Note that not one word above addresses a major cause of urban dysfunction--a) gimmedats, and b) election fraud.
The system rejected that option, but the system is instituted by the people.
As maxim goes, nobody is coming to save us.
Or in this case, the system is the system and barring a citizen revolt, the system will keep on keeping on.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (tjgV0)
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (P5C/E)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Website sez they're down to about 70 sites. Not sure if they're under fire.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (39WC0)
Police might be very competent at their jobs, but they are downstream in a system that prioritizes criminals over law-abiding citizens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (FZ29D)
Where do we see this?
Houston. The cops there might well be competent, but the judges voted in there assure a revolving door to jail, or letting people out with stupid low bonds, etc. And the Harris County DA is a soft on crime zealot as well.
The thing keeping Houston from being like Chicago, IMHO? The fact that people there are armed to the teeth and are not hesitant to defend themselves.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 11:18 AM (P5C/E)
It can. Not always.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (WB/3O)
As someone who lived through the revival and eventual return to idiocy in Boston I have a slightly different view of how Massachusetts and Boston in particular rebounded and are now sinking again.
When we bought our condo in Boston back around 1980 they were practically giving them away. They were so eager to sell they tossed in a parking space for free and if you know Boston parking that was big. What caused the Massachusetts Miracle It was really the advent of the computer age.
Long before Silicon Valley was a thing there was Route 128 in MA. Companies like Digital Equipment, Wang, Lotus BB&N and many more sprang up all over the region, largely fed by the colleges and universities in and around Boston. It was an absolute gold rush. And people with money started demanding better services from the politicians and they complied. Briefly.
And then, of course, politicians started feeding off it, property values went through the roof, and lots of those jobs moved out of state taking lots of money with them. That opened the door for the new Curley politicians.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (viF8m)
>>This assumes that the citizens of LA were given an honest chance to make a difference.
Barring a smoking gun, vote fraud is always assumed, but can never really be proven emphatically.
At the end of the day, the citizens of LA either through apathy or simply not giving a f**k has allowed this system to take hold and become the defacto state of play.
Until the people of LA take control of their government, they are going to keep getting the short end of the stick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I have come to the conclusion that unlimited franchise simply is unworkable. But, if we want to actually give it a fair chance first, that requires reducing the endless election of minor offices into a few and having those elections during the regular primary and general election cycle. We have too many elections essentially which means that only about 10-15 percent of the electorate, many of which depend on gimmedats from government (jobs, welfare, favors), end up voting on municipal elections.
And who does what in many governments is hard to comprehend even for a specialist as urban areas vary and have overlapping offices, jurisdictions, and powers.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (IkLDu)
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Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!!
You think that black people have a problem shooting other black people?
Most mass shootings in the United States are ignored, because the shooting occurs in a black neighborhood.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 31, 2026 11:17 AM (bX16E)
Mark Farner, I think.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (LHPAg)
Decline is a choice.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: George Washington Plunkett at August 31, 2026 11:15 AM (qRla/)
GFR
BTO were Canadian.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (WB/3O)
Is there power? It is corrupt. But I live in the Northeastern Corridor of Corruption, so I may be biased.
Posted by: t-bird
Sad to say, but if there is an MLK BLVD. Is almost an even bet. Then there's all of Louisiana.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (3Ae0s)
- Politicians and their supporters making bank
- Everyone else, living next to, or in, poverty
Whatever's "in the middle" of those two groups is desperately trying to flee. Be it R or D.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:21 AM (2Cry5)
The DMV in the small town we had to go to was the most...pleasant experience I ever had in a DMV.
It was like being in grandma's living room, with knick knacks and Bible verses hanging on the walls, couches, and locals just shooting the breeze while conducting their business.
There were maybe a dozen at most in the office, which used to be someone's very nice home at one time.
I never really had a bad experience at a DMV, but living in a town with maybe 1200 people, the very small town charm is enticing to even lefties, who then proceed to destroy that charm.
So yes, I pray for our cities, and I pray for lefties, as well as everyone else that need to repent.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (Rln0i)
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We do not need more laws.
We need less laws.
Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level.
This Byzantine leviathan of laws we have erected has conditioned a public to assume the government must--and that only it can--take care of everything.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (3cUTc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
*gasps*
You're killin' me, here!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X)
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Black utility linemen are just “acting White”, you see. Commence firing!!
You think that black people have a problem shooting other black people?
Most mass shootings in the United States are ignored, because the shooting occurs in a black neighborhood.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
It's "putting it to the man", not necessarily the individual.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM (ayRl+)
Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
And the good ol boys singing Whiskey and Rye
Drinking “this will be the day that I die, this will be the day that I die”
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (Rln0i)
*gasps*
You're killin' me, here!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:22 AM (bFu5X)
Huh. That's weird.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)
It's Elephant God Day in Paris!
https://tinyurl.com/mmbcu3zn
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (ndZc7)
Hilarious!
It's just like Christmas only with throwing garbage till it's ankle deep all over the streets.
Why don't we change the name of San Francisco
to Ganesh City?
It's already got the garbage everywhere.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Localities fail when the money fails. US is facing a debt crisis in the near future--Trump saw that there is and was no constituency for austerity and kicked the can down the road, hoping that the economy growing faster than the debt might save us.
And we are leaning on the residual reserve currency to save us in the short run, perhaps too much, perhaps the new crypto linked to government securities might prolong it.
But if the national government money becomes worthless, then too does all the spending that localities do. So you get something like Germany post WWI--repudiation by massive inflation or even formal repudiation.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (xvV+O)
We need less laws.
Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level.
We need immediate, draconian, implacable punishment for crimes already on the books.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r)
So it would seem, haha.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:20 AM
I dunno. How many have levees?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)
('Ain't no way I'm goin' out that front door … ')
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (ayRl+)
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This is easy to figure out, by logical deduction. If your “leadership” will throw you under the bus if anything goes sideways, if you risk life and limb to arrest bad guys and they are back out on the street before you’ve filed the report, then you’re going to learn to be invisible - aka “tourist in blue”.
And then they often hire people who don’t belong, aren’t capable, don’t meet standards, etc when recruitment and retention craters. Nobody wants to work for low frequency defective people if they can help it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
It's "putting it to the man", not necessarily the individual.
Posted by: rickb223
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Subgeniuses using cargo cult thinking--if we shoot at the repair guys, we can make the power company do as we like. Third World thinking.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)
I dunno. How many have levees? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)
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How many of 'em have a river … ? Or a lake? Creeks don't count.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:26 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (Y/06r)
So it would seem, haha.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:24 AM
Of course...it's an absolute Wutopia here in Boston.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)
True, but never forget that the assholes you see populating Congress got their start at the very local level. Many of them, anyway. Working their way up from school boards, county courthouses, city government, etc. Local does not always mean better, as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (ndZc7)
Murder rates are low.
Blue states have higher incomes live longer lower crime than red states.
Posted by: Paul at August 31, 2026 11:28 AM (n3y/k)
Posted by: rickb223
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It wasn't all that bad living on MLK Jr Ave in hubby's hometown in South GA back in the 90s.
The girls walked to school, and a lot of the neighbors knew Ex-ex and his family since they all went to school together.
Now...it's bad.
Real bad.
We last drove through there back in 2023...and we were both armed...just in case.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:10 AM (Jr5Lq)
Didn't forget.
We handed control of the schools to people who aren't interested in functional schools, but a pliable populace.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (zjgNU)
Murder rates are low.
Blue states have higher incomes live longer lower crime than red states.
_______________________
I'll have whatever he's having …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:29 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar
________
Hey, I really like Bad Time. Nice harmonies and key changes.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)
And yet, people flee blue states for red states.
It's the strangest thing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Rln0i)
Posted by: toddg at August 31, 2026 11:31 AM (ceFtv)
*contemplates possible limerick incorporating Dukakis and Arrakis*
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
Cripes.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Jr5Lq)
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Yep, that's why we moved to Missouri.
Because Illinois was too...safe.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (Rln0i)
Because Illinois was too...safe.
Posted by: SMH
It sounds like your new place is wonderful.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
As observed above,
Blue cities are safer because of Trump.
Does that mean Paul is going to vote for Trump?
or, nah?
Shocka! Bluebird is Bluetarded!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)
We need less laws.
Laws reducing the size, scope and reach of government at every level.
This Byzantine leviathan of laws we have erected has conditioned a public to assume the government must--and that only it can--take care of everything.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
That byzantine web of laws occurs because you either have government punish people or society. We decided long ago to not let society punish (which avoids lynching, witch burning, etc.) but instead creates these web of laws. Your neighbor decides to ignore basic hygiene and crap in the ditch and strew trash, rather than beating his ass into compliance, we instead employ code enforcement and perhaps even law enforcement if he proves recalcitrant.
The local teacher decides she is going to teach all the boys that they are she--instead of having the witch burned at the stake, we get the school board meeting, due process with a lawyer attached, the firing process, etc. etc.
The local druggie decides to fund his habit by selling to anyone, including kids, ditto.
To quote Madison, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. And so it becomes Leviathan.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
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Okay, there's that.
St. Louis is much more pleasant to go to nowadays.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (Rln0i)
Oh well. *scratches it off the list*
Back to the treadmill.
Still got hopes for a couple from last week plus some recruiters that owe me a response.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:34 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)
True, but never forget that the assholes you see populating Congress got their start at the very local level. Many of them, anyway. Working their way up from school boards, county courthouses, city government, etc. Local does not always mean better, as you can see by local governments in TX spending the taxpayers into penury.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Absolutely true. And that is a real cost when the population does not agree on basic ground rules--diversity gives those officeholders more power essentially because they become arbiters rather than representatives.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected.
This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States.
Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (aD4fx)
My daughter left StL about 8 years ago. It was pretty bad when she was there, but there was incessant talk about an incipient turnaround. From what little I've seen, that hasn't happened, but it would be nice if it did.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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As long as the bomb bay doors stay shut.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
"Wutopia" LOL,
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (Jr5Lq)
If it drops a single object, head for the basement tout de suite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Crime is down thanks to criminals being kicked out of the country in droves and loosened restrictions on firearms.
The programmers talk about how blue states have higher incomes than red states. Maybe. But states like TX don’t gobble up incomes with sky high state income taxes. And cost of living in red states are way lower. Try buying a house in CA, IL or NY and let me know how that goes compared to TX or other “inferior” red states.
Program Paul better.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (WB/3O)
Cripes.
Posted by: gp
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Microsoft is melting down in real time with enshittification.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv)
__________________________
Don't look at the bright flash when it comes, 'kay …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+)
Mother-in-law and sister-in-law are visiting this weekend from south GA. They're driving.
This will be Nana's first time in Missouri, and she's gonna love the place. And she's gonna love the horses.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:38 AM (Rln0i)
If it drops a single object, head for the basement tout de suite.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
That close? I’d say you are fucked. Maybe yell “yee-haw” like Slim Pickens (without the benefit of the ride).
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
"Wutopia" LOL,
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM
I forget who I stole that from. There was also "Wuville," but I'm still waiting for the Grinch of reality to dopeslap the mayor of Wuville.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: SMH
Do you have horses yourself, or just live among folks who do?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:36 AM (E4rtv)
I can think of a few cities where the converse might be welcomed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (1z8ji)
We'll keep you safe.
Posted by: Flock cameras at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)
Google AI sez there are only two left flying worldwide. I got to tour one once, very cool.
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Cow Demon
One advantage of a primitive interface here, is that the non English speaking trolls have a hard time, they usually just like to drop AI or photoshopped memes on X that are essentially thread jacking. You can always tell what the internal talking points are to the paid and unpaid trolls that way--they drop their little balls of turd regardless of the subject.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (wGerL)
Oh well. *scratches it off the list*
Back to the treadmill.
Still got hopes for a couple from last week plus some recruiters that owe me a response.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 11:34 AM (aJQbY)
Sorry man. Been there done that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (WB/3O)
The current governor and mayor are arguing that the massive increases in crime and government expenditures are just the price to be paid for living in a modern society and most of the MA electorate seems to agree.
I've gotten into it with lefty LIVs in MA and while they agree things are far worse they'll still offer up "But I can't vote for a Republicans, they are NAZIs. Better crooks then fascists right?"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (sKqQm)
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A house and over four acres for less than $250,000 in the Ozarks.
I'm fine with less people here.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Rln0i)
Some day I'd really like to see a B-36 Peacemaker fly by, but I'm not sure there are even any airworthy ones left.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:39 AM (bFu5X)
She sounds like Olivia Chow, the deranged NDP mayor of Toronto.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (1z8ji)
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Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits.
Saw one up close at Monterey's airport years and years ago. They also had a B-24 and a B-25 on display.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (2Cry5)
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Prayers up.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (Rln0i)
Being self sufficient does not appeal to them.
Posted by: Feed Me at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (+iYtA)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (Jr5Lq)
Google AI sez there are only two left flying worldwide. I got to tour one once, very cool.
Maybe ten years ago, there was an airshow in DC, and my old lab backed directly onto the Potomac, down which the planes flew. A B-29 was among them; it was just stunningly beautiful. You know, if you aren't Japanese.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
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Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits.
two. fifi and doc.
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
Absolutely.
On one YT post there was an AI apologist for the PRC. The topic was Canada and I could tell it was a bot because no matter the objections to the PRC, it kept saying over and over again “China is Canada’s largest wheat export market.” In EVERY post.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (WB/3O)
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected.
This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States.
Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:35 AM (aD4fx)
Could it be possible that's it's all a LIE?
P.S., The scripture was right Old and New Testaments both.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 11:43 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Chicken Salad On Rye at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (iY+4Q)
I lived in Chicago under Mayor Daley The First, and I joked that Chicago's motto was "Good Government, Plus 10%".
Far, far better than what Chicago has now.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes
Looked it up, the only surviving examples are all museum display pieces. The rest were scrapped long ago.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 11:44 AM (OUMaO)
Not long after the current anchor baby mayor was first elected she decided to implement a clot shot mandate for going to a restaurants and public functions in Boston.
She then had an ask my anything where pretty much everyone complained about the mandates and the restaurant business went to her and said they expected at least a 50% loss in revenue. Amusingly government stats said 90% of Boston was clot shotted and 80% of MA (which makes me pretty sure those stats were false).
She eventually relented but she ran and easily won in 2025...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM
We've secretly swapped Boston's and Toronto's mayors. Let's see if anyone notices...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (bFu5X)
We'll keep you safe.
Posted by: Flock cameras at August 31, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1)
I keep me safe.
Posted by: Cow Demon and his trusty LTC and 9mm at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: La'Shondra at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)
__________________________________
Y' gonna take 'em to Sweetie Pie's and Melroy's too … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:45 AM (ayRl+)
The Left is now claiming that 400,000 trannies have fled red states for blue states since Trump was reelected.
This was based on a very dubious survey, but what makes it even funnier is they assume that 1.3% of the population is trans - four million trannies in the United States.
Portland doesn't come remotely close to being 1.3% trans, let alone 1.3% of the whole country.
The estimate is based on a sample group of...wait for it...ten people. I kid you not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
I used to hear them flying very high over our area when I was a kid. They were especially loud during the colder months. A deep throbbing noise.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs”
These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (iY+4Q)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 11:07 AM (tjgV0)
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Ameri-gorn: You already voted.
DNC Pippin: Yes, we had one, but what about second voting?
DNC Merry: I don't think they know about second voting.
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (CYBB0)
Posted by: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:46 AM
So...a fraction of one of those 10 people was trans? That math ain't mathin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:49 AM (iY+4Q)
Meanwhile, the Left continues to be confused that there isn't more evidence of people fleeing hellish red states.
A Portland example:
blue cities/states need to build a metric fuckton more homes to make room for those who want to live somewhere they can raise a trans kid, get an abortion, live in a hospitable climate. If we don’t make room for all the new neighbors we clearly aren’t as welcoming as our lawn signs suggest
Almost no new housing is being built in Portland, because it doesn't pencil out, despite all the alleged demand for that housing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:49 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Archimedes"
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My brother is married to a German woman. When his family visited I was showing him my newly acquired M1 Garand. His half German son asked what the rifle was used for? Before I could reply with "killing krauts" my brother explained that it was the US military's battle rifle of WW2.
Posted by: Cosda at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (5Mso3)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Biden/Nadler 2028 at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Archimedes
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The media depends on lies and innumeracy.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (ayRl+)
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs”
Then they'll tell you there was never a clot shot mandate and no one ever said it stopped the spread of COVID...but you should get it anyway
But I want to take this back a step, by any objective measurement Fauci absolutely failed. Take the official government death numbers and compare them with say China. Yes both are lies but the left tells me its real.
By those numbers Fauci should have been fired an hell, we should have hired some Chinese bureaucrat instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 11:48 AM (WB/3O)
It's never been otherwise. Filthy Commies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (1z8ji)
(several examples)
...
To quote Madison, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. And so it becomes Leviathan.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
You're missing another founder: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
We have a byzantine amount of laws because we rejected Christianity and morality. (I'm not going to pretend that Adams thought any other religion would have worked, because he meant Christianity.)
The underpinning of Christian morality allowed for self-governance. It was never perfect, but the law was generally not necessary to enforce compliance for the vast majority of people.
(NOW, you did get excesses where some pharisees insisted that children were not allowed any fun on Sundays, but I think that's a smaller problem than wilding gangs attacking passersby in "Street Takeovers".)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 31, 2026 11:51 AM (zjgNU)
Michael Mann's classic global warming "proof" was based on just one tree.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:52 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+)
And be sure to hide under your desk and pull your coat over your head,.
Posted by: A Boomer who grew up in the 50's with that advice at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (hmYU4)
And they’re winning this war. California does not allow single family zoning anymore. Someone can build an apartment complex virtually anywhere. Several other states have something similar and a ton of cities do as well.
It’s one of the most under reported stories of what’s happening in the country. One day you too will wake up with a construction crew next door to your suburban home with a section 8 apartment complex ready to be constructed. Because nobody’s paying attention ton and fighting it.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (iY+4Q)
One thing that bothers me is a lot of LIVs don't realize how much things have changed compared to the 90s or moreso the 50s.
It has always been dangerous to be out at night anywhere in America right?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:53 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cosda at August 31, 2026 11:50 AM (5Mso3)
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lol
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (Rln0i)
They were, and are, from Flint.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Brave AI says it was produced by Jimmy Lenner, but that Zappa produced their last studio album a couple of years later.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (XvL8K)
99% of replies were “maga hates science and fauci is amazeballs”
These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe.
Posted by: Lake America
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Some are real, somewhere between 50-80 percent are fake bots/paid commenters or foreigners that have no stake in the US.
About in X indicates that these various Mikes, Katies, etc. are often located in Bangladesh, India, etc.
And the scam is old, Democrats used to have an organized system to spam letters to the editor using key buzzwords such as claiming to be Republican, etc. Fake and gay theater kid bullshit.
Modern era just outsourced Moby-ing to bots and foreigners.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 11:37 AM (ayRl+)
And be sure to hide under your desk and pull your coat over your head,.
And, of course, kiss your ass goodbye.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
It's always been grimly amusing that suburban AWFLs vote for people who intend to destroy the suburbs.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (aD4fx)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:54 AM
Rush's "seminar callers" for the digital age.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 11:55 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Democracy does not do a great job of weeding out psychos, but neither does any other form of governm at August 31, 2026 11:56 AM (anL5R)
Keep increasing state and municipal jobs & funding 'social service' non-profits so we'll never break free of ever increasing pensions, benefits, grants.
The rulers' millage is always less and their deductions much more.
Posted by: L - No nic... at August 31, 2026 11:56 AM (NFX2v)
Morning there hon. Sending my best, which isnt really good enough, but sending it all the same.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (eZQ1g)
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Pretty rare sighting of one flyable. Not sure how many are in operational condition, but it's got to be in the single digits.
Saw one up close at Monterey's airport years and years ago. They also had a B-24 and a B-25 on display.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:42 AM (2Cry5)
We had a nicely restored Grumman Goose fly into our small municipal airport for a car and plane show. What a work of art. And those rotary engines get you going.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: gp at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq)
Needed spark plug change after every flight. Or before, whatever you prefer. Kept the crew chiefs from getting into trouble in town I betcha.
They topped off the fuel tanks again, after it got taxiing to the runway. Nobody could afford to fly it today, other than Uncle Sam
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:58 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:58 AM (iY+4Q)
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Once at the USAF museum I saw a group of Japanese tourists posing for pictures around Bock's Car and a replica of Fat Man.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf)
In a town near me they seized the town's historic hotel/event location to build a slum for "newcomers".
And the Karens were all on board. But now I see their latest posts are around "Why has our town become a city?" "Why is their traffic everywhere" "What is with all the petty crime that is just being allowed now" and... "Why does the town want to raise my taxes?!?"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Lake America
It's not quite that cut and dried, unfortunately--in many areas with a distinct lack of housing inventory there are also zoning and regulatory burdens that are making building anything nearly impossible, which is great for the property values of owners but sucks for anyone trying to acquire housing and still have a few cents left over for niceties like food and such. A mix of types to work with existing neighborhoods would be helpful, but unfortunately you get opposition to most solutions.
I get the association, but it's not some magical effect of the high-density housing that causes the problems. Maybe try dealing with the troublemakers directly...and overhaul all those "civil rights" laws that have less to do with spreading liberty and more to do with destroying accountability...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (Rln0i)
Info about retired military and commercial aircraft stored here in the states and overseas.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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I don't use that quote because Adams himself backed off of it after seeing the aftermath of the American Revolution. See his lesser known and much later Defense of the Constitutions of the United States (when he was US ambassador to England). Even during the war, he and his cousin Sam was forced to realize reality when his idea that voluntary militiamen and trying to repeat Bunker Hill again and again simply could not beat the British.
We needed a permanent national army aka the Continentals and they were not going to risk life and limb without some guarantee that they would get something, land , retirement pay, etc. in the end.
Public spirit only takes you so far, working in the direction of self interest, as Adam Smith observed, takes you a lot further.
So the incentives have to be changed to emphasize better behavior rather than depend on some innate virtue.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/drjzpabp
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 12:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
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Once at the USAF museum I saw a group of Japanese tourists posing for pictures around Bock's Car and a replica of Fat Man.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf)
lol
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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And the taxpayers keep voting to raise taxes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (sKqQm)
Uhm it’s all Trump’s fault, silly.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (iY+4Q)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 11:59 AM (WtXXf)
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It took nukes for them to stop fighting us.
They have every right to be proud, lol.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (Rln0i)
It was the 1990's before the 'bomb shelter' status was removed from the federal building where my office was. Same water barrels and ration packs as when they went into the tunnel, 1965, and I suspect they were moved there from the former federal building. I managed to score a sign, a geiger counter, and the alarm button boxes. I retired not long after that. "Didn't feel safe."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 12:03 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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And the taxpayers keep voting to raise taxes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:01 PM (vOxCS)
That's usury the case.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:03 PM (dK+Kv)
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Yeah it pretty much is. Apartments are populated by transient people who give zero fucks about their neighborhood. And generally speaking renters are on the lower end of income. No, not every renter is a poor deadbeat. But a poor dead eat is usually a renter.
When you bring a lot of apartments into an area the area turns to shit.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q)
I just meant compared to you but Amen.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (eZQ1g)
We imported tens of millions of legal and illegal immigrants. They have to live somewhere.
And if we had some discussion on immigration this is something that would have been addressed that by letting these people in:
Rent/Housing prices will go up
Cities will get denser
Towns will become cities
There will be more "suburban sprawl"
but we never had a discussion because the FNM doesn't want to talk about it and the GOPe has been mostly useless
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8)
Public spirit only takes you so far, working in the direction of self interest, as Adam Smith observed, takes you a lot further.
In, IIRC, 1781, Washington despaired of the Revolution, because his soldiers weren't being paid, and he recognized that the "Spirit of '76" that had once motivated them had long since disappeared. He understood that in the long run, eating and supporting your family will come before patriotic fervor.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Lake America
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Yep, with their libertarian economics types that they pay for their support. As in attacks on all zoning laws as an affront to property rights. Instead of viewing them as a historical continuation of what used to be common law disputes--riparian damages for example.
A classic example was yesterday in the news, some citizens in a small town were trying to prevent a dude (appears to be foreign extraction) that bought a single family house and is trying to turn it into a 72 bed nursing home in the midst of a single family neighborhood citing the California law at issue. City issued the initial permit but the legal battle is just beginning.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)
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And they fully explained what they wanted to do in the 1990s, and why. This should not be a surprise. It was bullshit then, too. They won’t shut the fuck up, and they won’t change the subject. This is one reason they’ve been flooding the zone far and wide nationwide with millions of unassimilated “migrants”, it will completely break any local control, budgets, law enforcement, everything. Every thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:05 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: tubal
I made one in the first 10 comments, or thereabouts.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q)
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You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
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Cloward-Piven
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (uPjcb)
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We did no such thing. Not even a little bit. Not no way no how.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 12:07 PM (IkLDu)
But imagine if some actual communists get elected as Democrats. In place of these totally sane and reasonable "moderates".
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2026 12:07 PM (eZQ1g)
Socialism is an open conspiracy against the constitution and should be treated as so.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (sKqQm)
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they.
They were hard enough to keep flying when they were on duty.
So I suppose a Hustler is out of the question?
You'd have to look real fast.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv)
Radial engines.
Posted by: engine configuration pedant at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (wXgT/)
It took nukes for them to stop fighting us.
They have every right to be proud, lol.
Posted by: SMH
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They are fighters. They respect a good fight.
Better that they are on our side.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (iY+4Q)
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (iY+4Q)
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You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX)
When they are new, all is relatively well. Time passes, maintenance must occur, and owners hate to pay. Also compromises are made in screening of occupants.
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8)
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Sharing is caring.
Posted by: Every single wine mom, and k -12 teacher BIRM at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 31, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv)
Radial engines.
Posted by: engine configuration pedant at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (wXgT/)
Those, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)
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You have a cite? That's not physically possible.
Max beds the state will license in a single family home is 6.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (RIvkX)
You don't have to go full Pol Pot to see the better quality of life in cities of 100,000 and better yet in unincorporated parts of Counties.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (8YAxX)
He's going to get paid if he allows the increased density and he's going to face a well funded opponent if he doesn't.
Our problems are mostly about incentives because all across the board we incentivize bad behavior.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm)
Better that they are on our side.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:08 PM (vOxCS)
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Amen to that.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Rln0i)
You are probably presuming rental apartments, I don't think you would expect the same for condo or co-op apartments which are owner-occupied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 12:06 PM (RIvkX)
If they were owner occupied no, I would not mind as much. But a lot of condos end up as rentals or worse as airbnbs.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (iY+4Q)
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Sharing is caring.
Posted by: Every single wine mom, and k -12 teacher BIRM at August 31, 2026 12:09 PM (anL5R)
So is killing commies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, Turnming Japanese at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Better that they are on our side.
The PRC seems determined to test your hypothesis.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: engine configuration pedant
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They had enough trouble with the radials.
_wankel, wankel, wankel
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:10 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: pawn at August 31, 2026 12:11 PM (c/R9o)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Talk about heads of state that believe their own propaganda.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:12 PM (vOxCS)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Lake America
The practice of creating land preserves, greenbelts, and conservation easements surrounding ultra-wealthy suburban enclaves is a prominent trend across several states. While often framed under the banner of environmentalism, historic preservation, or farmland protection, critics and urban planners note that these preserves frequently act as structural “green walls” that effectively block dense residential or commercial development, maintaining exclusive zoning and sky-high property values.
In Pennsylvania, this is most visible in the affluent Philadelphia Main Line and Chester County (e.g., the massive private-to-public Brandywine Conservancy projects protecting rolling fox-hunting hills), as well as Sewickley Heights outside of Pittsburgh.
Also see the Direct Comparison of Land Preservation Impacts in NJ, NY, VA, CA and Connecticut.
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Yep. He was fighting those in Congress that refused to consider half time retirement pay for officers and land grants to the west for soldiers.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)
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USA has a representavie government problem. The ratio of political representives to populace is among the worst in the world. Rather than add more corrupt congresscritters, the solution may be to break up in USA into three or more regional republics. Maybe Civil Ware 2.0 will do that for us!
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 31, 2026 12:19 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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They are tearing down the home if they get approval and building a new high density structure.
Fox LA yesterday had the story, 71 units.
https://tinyurl.com/Woodlands-Hills
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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And the Memphis Belle. Which has local history here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (XeU6L)
But they too tire of it and move elsewhere to start the shitification process all over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5)
I call that "The Locust Effect". I live in a deep red state but even here we have those invaders that are sentient enough to see the ruin and flee their failed blue state, just to get here and start voting the same way that fucked up their blue state. They are unreachable. And that drives me nuts because eventually there'll be no more states to flee to. FFS!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 31, 2026 12:23 PM (i2VYc)
These are the people who live in cities and vote for people like the mayor of Boston. They are still true believers to this day and will never not believe.
Posted by: Lake America at August 31, 2026 11:47 AM (iY+4Q)
Or bots.
By the way, since the NPC and automated posters are called bots, I will start calling the posts they make, "warbles"
it is fitting
Posted by: Kindltot at August 31, 2026 12:26 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 12:13 PM (Gqar
Would it be better if they changed their name to Hercules Washington?
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 12:33 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 31, 2026 01:05 PM (bufu1)
Have you seen who they elected as mayor?
Posted by: Tom Locker at August 31, 2026 01:41 PM (RwkpB)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Aert van der Neer At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague.
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Mornin' Horde. Retirement planning proceeds apace. Either a step towards stress reduction or a really bad decision, not sure which yet.
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Rain. Again.
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Posted by: Kodachrome Kenny at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (JM9I6)
"Welcome to The Swamp."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V)
It reminds me of my early morning runs here in Florida. I honestly worry about tripping over a gator in the dark and getting chomped because I’m a newbie…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (odBC9)
"Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued. In 1659 it seemed necessary to supplement his income by keeping a wine tavern, but two years later he went broke. He died at Kerkstraat in abject poverty, and his art was so little esteemed that the pictures left by him were valued at about five shillings apiece. His son Eglon became a portrait painter himself."
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Posted by: Going Dutch at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (JM9I6)
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You have to give Egon credit for his optimism.
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Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (3dxnp)
Perhaps if he'd dropped in a kitschy little light source coming from a cottage along the waterfront...
Posted by: red speck at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)
And be the Dutch Thomas Kincaide?
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Posted by: Tuna
How much of a chooch does one have to be to lose money selling liquor?
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Posted by: Going Dutch
I spotted a wind mill. Center, far right.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (2GVsD)
Claudine Longet gave a tight smile, then backed into the deep gloom and made her escape.
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Posted by: Going Dutch
There are windmills in the background.
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"Welcome to The Swamp."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V)
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Sunset on Dagobah...
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Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (XvL8K)
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Probably a highly engineered series of complex locks, allowing a below sea level land area to stay dry.
At a guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (3dxnp)
At one of the great small museums of the world; Mauritshuis, in The Hague.
While you were there, did you have-
the famous Hague Benedict for breakfast?
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 09:43 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Buck at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)
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sends chills up my spine.
Posted by: Spider Sabich at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (3dxnp)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (Bep7s)
"Van der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued.
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"I'll give you two guilders for it, Aert, but you'll have to throw in your cow."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: John Fogerty at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge
I saw her a few years ago co-hosting something on TCM. She still looked good.
Her legs were very shiny, though, which was kinda weird. Shiniest legs I've ever seen.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ain't No Ways Tarred at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (JM9I6)
Ah...that's where the Girl With the Pearl Earring resides.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (3dxnp)
And bagels?
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Misheard Lyrics at August 31, 2026 09:46 AM (2CeDH)
Posted by: John Fogerty
But can you tell me where the bathroom is?
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)
At a guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yeah, I get the dyke thing, but did they really build houses that close to the water? Looks like it's just a few yards away from the front of the house.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)
Aert van der Neer
**************
Saves on Paint Costs - a limerick
Van der Neer was an artistic wizard
Who admired the chameleon lizard
One day for a lark
He painted "Landscape at Dark"
Then he did "Polar Bear in Blizzard"
Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 09:48 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)
in fact I think you may be looking right at one. Those windmills are not grinding grain; they're pumping water. This may be some high-tech engineering Aert for its period.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2026 09:45 AM (4Je4D)
I'll not tolerate such language directed towards my beloved wife, sir. Get out and don't come back!
Posted by: van der Neer at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (QNSrI)
Would not even give 1 schilling for this. No wonder he died in abject poverty.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (eTPdk)
Posted by: Mrs. Van der Neer at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Robert W. Service at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I'd give this one the benefit of the doubt. There could be a dog there. You just can't see it.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 09:51 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Tuna
Same with the boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
At a guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yeah, I get the dyke thing, but did they really build houses that close to the water? Looks like it's just a few yards away from the front of the house.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (XvL8K)
Prideful.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: 16 Candles at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 31, 2026 09:52 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 09:53 AM (odBC9)
By Marina Peña
Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT
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Morons must drink moar.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
When the big group portrait we call The Night Watch was cleaned after several centuries above the fireplace in the smoking room of the militia clubhouse, American Rifleman brought in a legit art critic to write an appreciation. Those guys were all armed to the teeth. Several were involved in cleaning or charging their fire arms, and one muzzle showed a wisp of smoke from having just discharged -- all invisible during the time the work got famous.
/Gun thread
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:54 AM (zdLoL)
Nancy Pelosi hitting the bottle a bit too much?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Alexander Hague at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (eTPdk)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 09:56 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:55 AM (2GVsD)
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She's into vodka these days, I believe the problem to be.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:56 AM (iTZ6k)
When the big group portrait we call The Night Watch was cleaned after several centuries above the fireplace in the smoking room of the militia clubhouse, American Rifleman brought in a legit art critic to write an appreciation. Those guys were all armed to the teeth. Several were involved in cleaning or charging their fire arms, and one muzzle showed a wisp of smoke from having just discharged -- all invisible during the time the work got famous.
/Gun thread
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:54 AM (zdLoL)
No smoking on the range.
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (LHPAg)
The job scammers are getting kinda pathetic. Had one with a mussleman displayname this time with the whole 'regurgitate my profile info as if it was a legit job opportunity' thing instead of the normal h1b'er. (inevitably these are either resume stealers or wanting to grift you with resume-writing services... or both, always an option)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (aJQbY)
It reminds me of some of the darker paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael. For my taste, much of the finest art deriving from the European Renaissance was in the northern countries more than Italy.
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (yTvNw)
By Marina Peña
Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT
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Wine mom's not holding up their end?
I know the yutes are doing more drugs, weed, vape, than drinking. And there's only so much I can drink, however, not being a wine person.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
At my local ABC Store (state-run booze store) there is a big bottle of Weller bourbon on sale for $5K.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2GVsD)
Hey, it's Merlot Monday.
Doing my part.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: a laconic art critic at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s)
The job scammers are getting kinda pathetic. Had one with a mussleman displayname this time with the whole 'regurgitate my profile info as if it was a legit job opportunity' thing instead of the normal h1b'er. (inevitably these are either resume stealers or wanting to grift you with resume-writing services... or both, always an option)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 09:57 AM (aJQbY)
It really saddens me to see what the job interview proccess has turned into. I've got a bud that is looking for a change. Everytime he gets into a company interview process, it's meeting after meeting after meeting until you're at the CO / Ownership level.
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not?
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Sponge
Wine can get me blitzed faster than hard liquor.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s)
Huh....wife just said similar things about me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Anna Puma
That's a big *if*. I'm not optimistic that evil woman will get what's due her.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (lJ0H4)
Wine can get me blitzed faster than hard liquor.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Well, that's not the case for me, but the buzz is different and the hangover is SOOOOO much worse.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (ccf/V)
Trump Announces Plan To Annex Canada And Rename It ‘Gay North Dakota’
https://buff.ly/bhtfMzJ
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:01 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Sammy Johns at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (JM9I6)
Let's celebrate with a nice cold can of America Dry ginger ale.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (RIvkX)
https://buff.ly/bhtfMzJ
Posted by: rickb223
LOL
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (Y8DZL)
Let's celebrate with a nice cold can of America Dry ginger ale.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
With pumpkin spice!
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
Thanks for including it.
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 31, 2026 10:03 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)
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That's over four Saint Valentines Day Massacres.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Queasy Mfume at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (JM9I6)
we used to buy abc malt liquor during daytona bike week. and growlin' gator lager. you need one 12pack each to change a rear tube on a '77 860gts.
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 10:05 AM (j+aD2)
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not?
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
When the owner tells him to "sell me this laptop" and points to his laptop, tell him yo pick it up & walk out like he's going to be a salesman.
Keep walking. Only answer your phone the next day. When the owner screams "bring back my laptop'", tell him "I will for $2k".
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:05 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:59 AM (2GVsD)
Let's hope they don't start killing children.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (odBC9)
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
https://tinyurl.com/52epew5h
BITE ME!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Mescal.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (E/qck)
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not?
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (ccf/V)
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My department keeps it pretty simple for the low-level jobs. I'm part of two interviews today. We *might* arrange an on-campus visit for a finalist, but that's not guaranteed if we reach a consensus on a candidate.
Now, for anyone at the executive leadership level, interviews are a grueling, mind-numbing, multiple step process.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (odBC9)
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Unfortunately this is already happening, albeit in a handful of cases. But stay tuned.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 10:07 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:08 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 09:49 AM (eTPdk)
Did you enlarge the painting?
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
https://tinyurl.com/52epew5h
I don't think all those African countries could afford it...
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
Nice to see your art linked.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 10:13 AM (odBC9)
Holy crap. When did it change from interviewing with a manager, then that manager's boss or HR then getting hired or not?
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
It's one giant humiliation ritual that the corpos do for their own sadistic pleasure. It's a power and control game first and foremost. And don't get me started on the fraudulent job postings for positions that don't exist requiring qualifications that would be impossible to obtain so they can make their fake-ass case for H1Bs to work for half (or less) market pay and be leveraged by threat of deportation.
Posted by: It's all about screwing with us at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (TbWk/)
So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge?
Wife calls you "she"?😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (LKoL5)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (Bep7s)
Now, for anyone at the executive leadership level, interviews are a grueling, mind-numbing, multiple step process.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 10:06 AM (FZ29D)
That I get. You're asking for some of the reigns of the company. You SHOULD be vetted the hell out of.
But a f*cking sales job?
Can you sell. Do you know anything about our product? Can you LEARN?
But interviewing with executive levels? Seems a bit over the top.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (ccf/V)
So, you've recently ( fake) transgendered, Sponge?
Wife calls you "she"?😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (LKoL5)
I said she's said 'similar' things. Not those exact things.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:15 AM (ccf/V)
Personally, I think that even had we avoided WWII in Europe, there still would've been the Pacific War. Japan was too ambitious, too hungry for China, and too pissed off at the Western powers. There still would've been war with Japan without Hitler.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
Ok.
*laughs *
That's all the considerations...
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Well, that's not the case for me, but the buzz is different and the hangover is SOOOOO much worse."
The single worst hangover I ever had came from drinking Italian Swiss Colony Rhine Wine. Three days of a migraine-level headache and nausea. That was over fifty years ago. The memory is still vivid, and educational. It taught me to sip small amounts of any alcohol and never to excess. Probably saved me thousands in booze expenditures.
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)
Just a friendly reminder to all the media outlets who are now for some reason outraged that we are also removing people who don’t have a criminal record.
Here’s a giant clue. If you are in America illegally, you don’t belong here.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (p5Pt8)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:16 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
***********
This past weekend we got some tree-ripe Palisade peaches from my brother's orchard. That prompted Missus Muldoon to read up on the history of fruit growing in the Grand Valley just a few minutes ago. First half of the 20th century apples grown west of G.Jct. dominated, but due to some bad irrigation practices and a resistant species of coddling moth the apple orchards were devastated and peaches grew to prominence, now east of G. Jct. in Palisade and East Orchard Mesa.
IDNKT
Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:17 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (LKoL5)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (p5Pt8)
May we assume they have excluded themselves and the Red Cross?
Posted by: Haiti at August 31, 2026 10:18 AM (E/qck)
I bet the countries doing the selling aren't on the list. Nosirree, it was *all* the Euros/Americans clubbing folks on the head like baby seals!
Also, how about doing the ishlamic countries that are still actively enslaving folks? Or chy-na, for that matter, not just figurative slave labor!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at August 31, 2026 10:19 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (Q+gd/)
My answer: "Because my wife is working there and I'm still sitting here in California."
His reply: "Ok, when can you start?"
U.S. Army - civilian
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:20 AM (KC5Lt)
GFY. You owe US, mutherf*ckers......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 10:23 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:24 AM (77rzZ)
We've got to go all the way up the food chain......for a SALES job?!?
Posted by: Sponge
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With weaponized HR, lawsuits, fake and gay news coverage, gubmint vultures, and the sociopaths that go instantly to social media over trivial employment annoyances, I think the point that hiring people in megacorp is essentially looking for a landmine that might blow up the whole place.
So in today's environment, a CEO of a fast food restaurant might have to respond to some low level asshole employees and managers misbehaving or lose their job. Ditto for if the low level employee and manager on duty at the time don't respond the way a bunch of online assholes think they should when outrage merchants provoke them.
Essentially minor conflicts become skirmishes in broader societal wars.
The response is to bureaucratize even minor job hirings and being risk averse to hiring anyone that might cause the CEO to lose their job, no matter what the level. That also explains why H1Bs and hookers share the same characteristics-disposable relationships.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 31, 2026 10:26 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2026 09:38 AM (01XUU)
FIFY
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (qwx/I)
Thank you Guv'ner, may I have another?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:27 AM (l3cgK)
Life is rough, man.
Posted by: Hunter at August 31, 2026 10:28 AM (yYROg)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt)
There are a bunch of commies, Islamists, and notsees there...why would Israel want it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:28 AM (l3cgK)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
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High level of discretion indeed!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (Q+gd/)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
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High level of discretion indeed!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7)
Cartoon: Bill Clinton interviewing for a job...
Boss Woman: "I have three openings."
Bill Clinton: "I know."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (l3cgK)
Just a friendly reminder to all the media outlets who are now for some reason outraged that we are also removing people who don’t have a criminal record.
Here’s a giant clue. If you are in America illegally, you don’t belong here.
Posted by: Vengeance
I have been bemused by the fact that all the raging, the sob stories, and the various other lying media and political tactics that try to manipulate human emotions are falling flat.
The psyop merchants are facing the facts that an electorate that has experiences outweighs all the fake and gay theater bullshit they can dredge up. There is no outrage other than paid drifting leftists that stage a paid protest or so. No one gives a shit that NJ Democrat rep cannot avoid a trial despite being a full card carrying living DEI archetype speaking truth to power, the judges lost on preventing the semi permanent TPS protections from being removed.
The Overton Window has shifted to the right on immigration, has shifted even further in most of the US on firearms, etc.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)
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Can you demonstrate the U.S.A. is any better? Show your work.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2WIwB)
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps.
Cicero
The town council had the Street Lamps taken down.
Seems they violated the boat thieves fourth amendment rights.
Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (5+vyU)
Wife calls you "she"?😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM
Man, if you're not here reading every comment, things happen that you have no clue about. Piper transitioning to the other side, and now Sponge transitioning to the other gender team.
AoSHQ. It comes at you
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: I guess SOMEONE has to ask it at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
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High level of discretion indeed!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Translation, their adechrome reserves are being depleted and they need fresh blood. Preferably free of charge.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv)
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
I applied for that one. For some reason Bill insisted on a pulmonary function test.
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (yYROg)
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Why on earth are they advertising for a job? You'd think there are dozens of willing sycophants just waiting in the wings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (2Cry5)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
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High level of discretion indeed!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7)
He didn't have the balls to sell paintings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (l3cgK)
Wife calls you "she"?😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM
Man, if you're not here reading every comment, things happen that you have no clue about. Piper transitioning to the other side, and now Sponge transitioning to the other gender team.
AoSHQ. It comes at you first fast!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Sponge should have never taken Lou Reed's advice to walk on the wild side.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:32 AM (E4rtv)
Crisis hits Napa Valley as ranches left to rot while wine industry teeters on a knife’s edge
By Marina Peña
Published Aug. 30, 2026, 12:39 p.m. PT
I had an interesting encounter related to this yesterday.
I was in DFW Airport when I saw Ex-President Barack Obama and some bodyguards walking toward the VIP Lounge.
So, I walked up to him and said, "Mr President, what an honor. If I may ask, Where are you headed?"
Obama kind of grimaced and said, "I'm going to Napa Valley. I have a stake in winery there that appears to be going bankrupt."
And, I said-
"Well, I guess that makes you a Napa headed fool."
I denounce myself.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: I guess SOMEONE has to ask it at August 31, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Damnit, copy/paste mishap...
Once again:
He didn't have the balls to sell paintings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (l3cgK)
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps.
Cicero
And Flock cameras.
For your safety.
Posted by: Local corrupt politicians at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:25 AM (KC5Lt)
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They did indeed pay "reparations."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX)
*********
Reminds me of a guy out here during the Obamacare debates who said, "I have owned my own business for 25 years and on my salary of $20k/year I can't afford health insurance."
At some point you might want to consider another line of work.
Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (xPsv8)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:30 AM (IkLDu)
Been here?
Posted by: Huntsville, TX at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s)
You know what this painting needs? Street Lamps.
Cicero
And Flock cameras.
For your safety.
Posted by: Local corrupt politicians at August 31, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Chinese man in London works for the week, gets paid, changes his money from Pounds to RMB. He gets 500 RMB.
A week later, he goes back, changes his weekly salary for RMB, but only gets 450 RMB...
So he ask the banker why it was 500RMB one week and 450 RMB this week for the same number of Pounds.
The Exchanger tells him, "Fluctuation".
The Chinese man responds, "Well, fluck you English!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 10:37 AM (l3cgK)
It's outrageous !!!
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:38 AM (Bep7s)
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Honduran noncitizen who illegally registered to vote in California was HARASSING and TEXTING an ICE agent how he plans to vote Democrat in the midterms
...so then the ICE agent checked his status and found out he was an ILLEGAL VOTER
Major FAFO 🔥🔥
"He had no fear whatsoever harassing an ICE agent, letting him know how he's planning to vote in the midterms and wants to take their immunity away."
"That, obviously, got the agent interested to see whether he WAS registered to vote. That's how he came on their radar."
"He found out there are consequences. MULTIPLE felonies and DEPORTATION if convicted," Bill Essayli says
Send him back!
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)
The Chinese man responds, "Well, fluck you English!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (3Ae0s)
For your safety.
Posted by: Local corrupt politicians
I think we're saturated with Flock cameras. We've reached our Flock capacity.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Please prepare assiduously to remember today's comments . There will be a test tomorrow morning 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (xPsv8)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX)
Yes but whatever it was it wasn't enough.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: cmeat at August 31, 2026 10:42 AM (Bep7s)
The legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: It's all about screwing with us at August 31, 2026 10:14 AM (TbWk/)
Nothing could prepare me for how horrible the job search would be after AD Air Force life. And it has only gotten worse.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (WB/3O)
Aert van der Neer
Richard Green dot com: A nice bio.: In part, "AERT VAN DER NEER Gorinchem 1603/4 – 1677 Amsterdam Aert van der Neer was one of the most important European landscape painters of the seventeenth century. He was born in 1604 at Gorinchem (Gorcum), a town on the river Waal east of Dordrecht."
"In 1635 van der Neer painted his first commissioned landscape, of large dimension. Although this was followed by further commissions around 1640, it is only after 1643 that van der Neer found his personal style. He excelled in extraordinary poetic landscapes of sunrise and sunset and is unrivalled as a painter of moonlight in Dutch art."
AI: By 1629 or 1630, he moved to Amsterdam, where he spent the rest of his life and career. Despite his great talent, he struggled to make a living from art. He ran a wine tavern in Amsterdam starting around 1659 to make extra money, but he went bankrupt in 1662 and died in poverty.
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An excellent painter but today's art selection is a bit like at war. His River Landscape, River Landscape at Sunset (both Mauritshuis) and another Landscape at Sunset (Met Museum) are lovely & would be hanged.
Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v)
Something bad is about to happen. I can just feel it.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026
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The pathetic fallacy?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)
At some point you might want to consider another line of work.
Posted by: muldoon
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Small business owners were purposefully screwed on health insurance--they could not band together to get group insurance rates and could not deduct their own health insurance if they did not extend it to all full time employees.
Anytime you get a middleman between the seller and the buyer like healthcare and insurance, the insurance company will seek to maximize its takings from the transaction affecting both seller and buyer.
In addition, almost every living doctor that practiced since LBJ had their practice subsidized by the fact that Medicare and to a lesser extent Medicaid set a floor price on medical services.
Like student loans and grants, the fedgov is responsible for the massive and unsustainable price growth in medical and higher education markets.
The result of this is everyone is trying not to be the guy left out when music in musical chairs of government spending stops playing.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (E4rtv)
I look at the website that's supposed to tell you where Flock cameras are located.
There's an intersection near us, that isn't really a major intersection, though it does cross a major street.
Man, you'd think are sleepy little middle class area we were crime central.
There must've been 20-30 Flock cameras within a roughly quarter block circle around the intersection itself.
So, I guess we're safe. Very safe.
Or, there's something we don't know.
Something anyway.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2026 10:45 AM (iJfKG)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
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High level of discretion indeed!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right?
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (cIsFN)
I am at our northern satellite location today. Just found out our downtown Seattle location flooded over the weekend. whole building closed down.
*snort*
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 10:43 AM (IkLDu)
It should be a military tribunal or create a system specific to foreign terrorism . I'm still pissed though the military judge barred info gathered through waterboarding . I thought the SC addressed that.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
And it worked for Warhol.
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:47 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: muldoon at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:34 AM (RIvkX)
Yes but whatever it was it wasn't enough.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:41 AM (KC5Lt)
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Paid entirely by the West Germans. The East Germans paid nothingon the basis, "We were victims too."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 10:48 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton
Pronounced discretionage
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (77rzZ)
The legal system is not setup nor appropriate for this kind of thing. It just isn’t.
Posted by: Common Tater
Agree. Part of what ended piracy back in the day is that every government, ship owner, etc. could execute the bastards--universal jurisdiction to terminate with extreme prejudice. They were treated as enemies of mankind by threatening life sustaining commerce.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton
Reminded me of the quote from I married an Ax Murderer.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt)
Y'all know that by "discretion" I mean "bust size," right?
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov)
Who is W M J. Clinton?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 10:51 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: man at August 31, 2026 10:52 AM (cGjQu)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv)
Slavers and Pirates went into the same bucket for the British Navy.
This is the History the British Left wants to destroy as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (Y/06r)
nope. won't happen until flock can take a stereo pair of everyone all the time for oppression in glorious 3d.
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (sGtp+)
They're purportedly more sophisticated and/or have more AI built in.
Typical misdirection ploy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Wm. J. Clinton at August 31, 2026 10:46 AM (VHUov)
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Who is W M J. Clinton?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026
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Old Lady Rodham's "husband."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes
Bush, Congress, and federal judges have made a thorough mess of the 9/11 cases. The urgency to prevent more unknown terror plots after 9/11 by interrogating prisoners meant that they could never be tried in the civil court system and Scotus in its stupidity shot down the tribunal system which was both constitutional and appropriate to try terrorists.
So the ersatz semi trial system of military commissions was created which was never designed for unlawful combatants in the first place. Tribunals took care of those types.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)
so... not the barrel, then?
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (wzUl9)
so... not the barrel, then?
Posted by: anachronda at August 31, 2026 10:54 AM (sGtp+)
'Targets'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (Y/06r)
nope. won't happen until flock can take a stereo pair of everyone all the time for oppression in glorious 3d.
Posted by: anachronda
I think you missed my pun.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
That means they're forever on the hook.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2026 10:55 AM (E/qck)
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Maxine Waters claims something called "white media" wants a Dem establishment vs Democrat Socialist fight.
"Some of the media, mostly the white media, are interested in a fight in order to get their ratings up."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)
nothing to see here. move along.
Posted by: COLOSSUS at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026
***
He was blithe about answering questions, that was for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)
Do you think that's an accident?
Posted by: Globalism at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (E/qck)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 31, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)
I am so tired of 'Everything I don't like is racist.'
It's enough to make one consider racism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 10:58 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 11:00 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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That is their tiresome oppressed oppressor commie bullshit. Real history has a succession of different peoples and countries screwing other peoples or countries until recorded history vanishes.
No doubt, the line continues all the way until it blurs with nature. Predators and prey, exploiters, and exploited, all the way down. Individuals might not have done so but the rule was my family,tribe, clan, country > your family, tribe, clan, country.
What is different is that Christianity as a derivative of Judaism proposed we don't have to live that way and so the West collectively decided that was true with exceptions. Other than perhaps Buddhists or perhaps Bahai, not so much.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)
I disagree in that what they intended was bastardized subsequently by those who disagreed with the process. Today's example is the judge who ruled 'information 'coerced' not admissible' . That's bullshit and not what was intended as shown with the administrations position before the SC.
It's a constant internal battle against domestic political enemies who hate America as it was created to be.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2026 11:02 AM (KC5Lt)
I remember the arguments online, cooler heads prevailed early on, or tried to, pointing out the world trade center bombers were unlawful enemy combatants. Not garden variety criminals. All of this was ignored. Because clown world.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 11:06 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 31, 2026 11:32 AM (dcdY2)
Posted by: live sex at August 31, 2026 06:17 PM (RfKbf)
The Morning Report — 8/ 31 /26
More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. . . . This is what happens when Hollywood’s woke celebrity club substitutes ideology for facts. . . Barghouti, the convicted head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is not in an Israeli prison because Israel disagrees with his politics or because he wrote an anti-Israel manifesto; he was charged with five murders, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization. He received a fair trial in an Israeli civilian court and was convicted, receiving five life sentences. . . . . . Perhaps that is the problem with the Marvel campaign. These are limousine liberals at their most comfortable: wealthy, privileged and insulated from the consequences of the causes they champion. They have spent their careers playing superheroes, but appear to know remarkably little about the history they are now trying to rewrite. They sit comfortably in their movie studio trailers and pronounce moral judgments on a bitter conflict in which they have no personal stake and, judging by this campaign, very little understanding. . . A man convicted of murdering five people, including an American citizen, cannot be transformed into a symbol of peace because the red carpet revolutionaries have decided to make him one.Red carpet indeed: red with the blood of innocents and the red of communism. Well, how did we get to this point. Sadly, it's as plain as the hooked nose on my Brooklyn Jewboy face! And I say that proudly!
Numbers from the following Brandeis report, American Undergraduates and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, show 18% support for Hamas among college students and 15% favorability for Israel.. . … this isn’t just about Israel. Or America. Colleges have normalized degrees of extremism on campus that reflect something like the Weathermen and Al Qaeda wrapped in a bow.Yes, Ruffalo is the only American of the bunch that I can spot but along with the others perhaps it's a toxic mix of just innate Jew-hatred along with likely pandering to a receptive audience to their odious beliefs as a means to drive ticket sales. Either way these disgusting degenerates are the useful idiots of those who seek our destruction. Not just the Jews but All of us. Every last one of us who are collectively guilty of preventing them from creating their paradise on earth.
University campuses are notorious for promoting “safe spaces” where dissenting opinions are labeled as “violence.” Yet within the cushioned walls of the Ivory Tower, professors are increasingly using their lecterns to encourage literal violence in pursuit of radical agendas.That would be bad enough, but I hate to be the bearer of bad news; the radicalization and brainwashing are beginning long before college.
In 2025, Texas passed a law that mandated a financial literacy course requirement for students in grades 9 through 12: HB 27 modifies Section 28.025 of the Texas Education Code to expand and strengthen personal financial literacy instruction for high school students. Under the bill, students will be required to complete a dedicated one-half credit in personal financial literacy as part of their social studies coursework to graduate. This requirement separates financial literacy from the previously combined economics and financial literacy course structure, allowing for more focused and practical instruction in managing money, budgeting, savings, credit, loans, and other real-life financial concepts. . . .NGPF repeatedly champions the notion that people must be made equal through government action––a foundational premise of both socialism and woke ideology. Students taking this curriculum are explicitly asked to find a relationship between justice and reparations. In fact, NGPF utilizes an entire section to promote reparations through biased history lessons that assert that reparations are merely “one step on the path toward racial justice.” A curriculum being pushed on every Texas public high school — and maybe every state by 2030 — teaches students that equal treatment is unjust and equalized outcomes are "justice." That is socialism.You can bet your sweet ass that poison like this is happening as far back as kindergarten if not pre-school. Unless and until we utterly retake academia, we are finished as a nation and society. But never fear, our would-be Islamic overlords will one day be running our schools and they'll all be sharia-compliant. Have a good day.
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- While we were spared another one of those ironically dubbed, ”summers of love,” the lawfare war continues, and with some interesting developments.
Summertime and Antifa was Uneasy
- "Do you stand by your decision to make the case for Clarence Thomas's confirmation?" Welker asked. "Absolutely not," Clyburn said.
James Clyburn Basically Says Clarence Thomas 'Ain't Black'
- The left-wing kind is discounted; the right-wing kind is exaggerated.
The Political Violence Double Standard
- Sara Dogan exposes the far-Left professors promoting political violence.
Academic Assault "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - An Egyptian Muslim judge keeps issuing rulings to help Egypt.
This Judge Became a Citizen in 2019 and Started Overruling Trump THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the attack that reportedly killed and wounded several people, but did not provide further details.
Strait strike US launches first strikes on Iran in weeks as regime vows revenge ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - “Everyone” who took part in the October 7 massacre will be eliminated, IDF Chief of Staff Zamir vows.
Israel Continues Elimination Campaign Against October 7 Perpetrators and Gaza Terror Commanders* * * * * - Higher education has become a terrorist training camp
1 in 5 College Students Support Hamas DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - What’s the matter with California voters? Why are they so addicted to failure?
California Democrats Embrace Failure–What Can Republicans Do?
- And he won.
Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - "How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?"
Trump Targets NBC Host For FCC ‘Rebuke Or Punishment’* * * * * - The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders.
The ‘Smartening’ of America
- China attempted to influence data center debate. Meanwhile, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says his agency successfully blocked a Chinese hacking attempt.
X Takes Down 200,000 Suspected Chinese Accounts in Influence-Operation Crackdown WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The bad news is that a leftist judge has just made it likely that he’ll escape justice.
The Good News is that the Chief 9/11 Plotter is Finally Going to Trial - The curriculum guide was quickly removed.
Islamic Charity Group Blames 9/11 On American Support For Israel
- The bill cleared the Assembly 64-1 and now awaits a Senate floor vote before the legislative session closes.
Blue State Moves To Recognize Islamic Holiday Celebrating Ritual Slaughter OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - El-Sayed’s initial Temple Israel comments, which many Jews interpreted as justifying the attack, have alienated Jewish voters in the state.
Michigan Leftist U.S. Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed: ‘I Made a Mistake’ in Past Comments on Temple Israel Attack AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - The revelations raise serious questions about Fauci’s compliance with federal transparency laws and his role in promoting gain-of-function research despite its risks. The controversy also intersects with ongoing debates about the origins of COVID-19, as Fauci and other virologists worked to downplay the possibility of a lab leak.
Fauci Accused of Attempting to Destroy Gain-of-Function Research Email. THE ECONOMY, STUPID - It has to be more than just ‘free markets.’ Here is the truth.
How Capitalism Reduces Poverty and Creates Wealth RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - How fashionable anti-Americanism became an excuse for bad ideas—and deadly ones.
Air Conditioning and Other American Sins CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - We don't have to live this way.
He Tried to Bite Off a Cop’s Ear, LA Let Him Out, So He Stabbed 4 People
- There’s something big the mainstream media don’t want to tell you about these disruptive and dangeorus events.
The Big Secret about Teen Takeovers
- The mayor’s new judicial panel reveals the radical direction in which New York’s criminal and family courts may be headed.
Mamdani’s Abolitionist Bench
- Second-largest mass shooting in Chicago
Crime is Down, Mayor Says, as 30 People Shot in Chicago in One Day EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Sweden is putting books, handwriting, and human attention back at the center of education—and reminding the rest of us that technology should serve children, not master them.
Sweden Hit the Brakes on the Digital Classroom. Maybe We Should Ask Why.
- “…in reality, NGPF’s curriculum is a vessel for socialist propaganda and woke ideology that rejects the American notion of equality.”
TX High Schoolers Could Soon Be Subjected to ‘Woke’ Finance Course That Promotes ‘Racial Justice’
- The Chicago Teachers Union is really upset.
Chicago Teachers Union sues watchdogs it seeks to muzzle
- Academia, as it is currently constituted, is incompatible with the societal need for civics and humanities “education.”
Why Higher Education Is Likely Doomed THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - Also student IDs and drug prescriptions
CA Secretary of State Insists Gym ID Is All the Voter ID Anyone Needs
- Imagine the impact on elections.
463,000 California Voters Never Provided an ID to Vote (with all the wetbacks multiple that by at least 10 - jjs)
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to appeal the ruling, potentially escalating the case to the Supreme Court. This legal battle could influence mail-in voting procedures and broader debates over election security ahead of the midterms. Critics argue that the decision undermines efforts to safeguard electoral integrity.
Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Voting Reforms Again. DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - “Are you serious? Really?”
Newsom Claims He Never Knew He Had 5,000 Bottle Wine Cellar in Mansion POLITICS - Trump uses to advantage his ability to become the embodiment of his opponents’ greatest fears, but our enemies have figured out how to exploit this.
The Manifester In Chief
- Dems’ bloodlust...“You do not meet with them — don’t have anything to do with them,” Carville declared online.
Michael Goodwin: Dem meltdown over Jeffries-Kushner meeting is a testament to party’s radicalization
- Roger Kimball: Suffering from an acute, and possibly terminal, case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Democrats have been assiduous in shredding their credibility since the 2024 election.
Sciolistic and Treadless: The Democrats’ Rough 2026
- Trump is overturning the American political establishment’s negativity and bad ideas, and as promised, actually Making America Great Again.
The Trump Revolution is Real
- “No thanks. Let’s move on. We need some new leadership.”
Kamala Harris Gets Shunned by Some 2026 Democrat Candidates
- “I’m focused on winning the midterms. I’m running for Congress right now,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I haven’t ruled out the possibility..and I’m very humbled..”
AOC Staff Shake-Up Fuels New 2028 Speculation
- Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed keeps getting asked direct questions. His answers keep going somewhere else.
Abdul El-Sayed’s Messaging Problem Gets Worse
- “We’ve tried this, where we’ve got one amazing candidate that’s running at the top of the ticket,” Crockett said. “Beto is a very good example of this…”
Jasmine Crockett Abandons James Talarico in Texas
- Dems adopt extremism, abandon the center, move leftward (They've always been extreme commie, they're just open now - jjs)
Democrats’ Love Of Socialism Is Nothing New, But Their Embrace Of Communism Is
- The venerable Dick Morris this week revealed that the manipulation of polling data goes even deeper than many of us thought.
How the polls inflate the Dems
- The ruling temporarily preserves Maryland’s existing congressional map and prevents Democrats from using the proposed amendment to target the state’s lone Republican House district.
Democrat Redistricting Effort Stalls After Successful Legal Challenge.
- Nobody in leadership notices who is holding the machinery until someone tries to take it back and finds the locks changed.
Three Rings, One Tent, No Ringmaster FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - National Rally leader Marine Le Pen continues to dominate the field of prospective presidential candidates to replace Emmanuel Macron in next year’s critical election, which is set to define French and European politics for years to come.
Marine Le Pen Holds Commanding Lead in French Presidential Election to Replace Macron
- The Canadian government once again colludes with Democrats.
Russia Hoaxers Quiet about Canadian Election Interference
- Well, well, well — look what the cat dragged in. Or should I say, look what the Delcy Rodríguez regime dragged in. I suppose it needed a distraction for the hardline Chavistas who are up in arms while she's wheeling and dealing with Donald Trump and Marco Rubio over Venezuelan oil. But more on that in a moment.
New Maduro Jail Pictures Just Dropped. The Timing Was No Accident.
- How do you say 'Wir Schaffen Das" in Arabic?
40% of Berlin Police Applicants Can’t Speak German
- Kim Jong Un has strengthened North Korea through repression, nuclear expansion, strategic alliances, and carefully managing looming succession risks.
Understanding And Dealing With Kim Jong-Un’s Resilience
- Considerations for Israelis on vacation.
Israelis on Vacation Attacked in Montenegro, Thailand, Mongolia, and Crete DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - According to the U.S. Department of War, the goal is to provide independent, secure on-site baseload power to protect critical military installations from civilian electrical grid failures, cyberattacks, or physical sabotage.
Five Nuclear Energy Companies Selected to Build Micro Reactors at US Army Bases
- The War Department is working hard trying to find and deploy effective drone countermeasures.
Drones Won’t Win Wars, But they are Dangerous and Have Changed Warfare HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - The outbreak is among the largest foodborne outbreaks in recent U.S. history. As a result of the outbreak, sales of leafy greens, such as lettuce, have fallen by as much as 30 percent. Vegetable sales also took a hit, declining roughly 16 to 17 percent. Fruit sales have also reportedly declined since the start of the outbreak.
‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Lettuce Parasite Spreads to Three More States.
- Thad McCotter:Medicare for All would turn the lessons of COVID into a permanent surrender of Americans’ health care, liberty, and sovereignty to the Lords of the Lockdown.
Health Care for All?—Don’t Surrender Your Health Care to the Lords of the Lockdown
- If the main drivers of the need for statins are overweight, inactivity, and unhealthy eating habits, shouldn’t the medical establishment prioritize lifestyle changes as a national health priority?
Who should go on statins? ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - The experiment works by colliding the oxygen and neon nuclei to create a tiny blob of quark-gluon plasma — the same super-hot “soup” scientists think filled the universe right after the Big Bang.
Stellar test Scientists create ‘little Big Bang’ to study the universe’s origins
- his represents the first major step towards establishing a U.S. Space Academy. This policy represents a continuation of space-related policies implemented during President Trump’s first term, such as spearheading the creation of the U.S. Space Force and establishing the Artemis program to return American astronauts to the Moon.
Trump Signs Order Establishing U.S. Space Academy.
- Roman is in many ways a cross between the Hubble and Webbspace telescopes. Its mirror is as large as Hubble’s, but its instruments will observe in the infrared like Webb.
SpaceX launches the Roman Space Telescope
- Skyfall is NASA administrator’s pet project that will a nuclear propulsion system developed by the Department of Energy to get to Mars quickly, with a targeted launch date of 2028.
JPL’s co-developer of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter wins contract for the Skyfall Mars helicopters CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - More than 20 actors from the Marvel universe — including Mark Ruffalo — have joined a campaign calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. (He should be released into a tank of starving piranha - jjs)
Hollywood celebrities are backing a terrorist murderer — read the facts
- Christian Toto: Films tied to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and Gaza abound
Will Politics Overwhelm 2026’s Oscar Season?
- The sex comedy is legitimately back, and this time it has a conservative twist.
Hollywood’s New Sex Comedies Have a Surprising Twist: Traditional Values
- A society grounded in reality -- with an intact sense of morality -- recoils from insanity and the first and most necessary step to recovering sanity is forthrightly and unashamedly call out insanity.
Mind Viruses and America’s Irrational Obsessions
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: r hennigantx at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j)
There’s no well-known lake officially called “Lake America” in standard U.S. geography.
You might mean one of these:
Lake Amador in California
Lake Almanor in California
Lake Amera / América as a local or informal name
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)
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It's always in the last place you look!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:22 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Turgid and loving it at August 31, 2026 07:22 AM (+iYtA)
Interview in a few hours, prayers from those who do, would be appreciated!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:24 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (aJQbY)
Good luck! And a prayer ascending.
Have you thought of changing your name to Govindan Rangarajan? From Madras?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 07:25 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (WYfFt)
40% of Berlin Police Applicants Can’t Speak German
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This is part of the conquest strategy of Islam--seize the levers of political power by any means necessary.
Once there's a saturation point of Muslim cops, they can begin implementing de facto sharia law and no one can do anything about it because their political masters will either be like them or captured by them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:26 AM (FZ29D)
Irony is never dead when Newsom plays on of the people.
What a waste of oxygen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:29 AM (IivNP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Yes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:29 AM (IivNP)
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When it comes to Hollywood celebrities you can hardly go wrong by embracing the power of "and."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 07:31 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (3Ope8)
Their cunning plan is working, for various amounts of work.
When the German economy collapses, there is not enough loot to keep Sharia German going as an industrial concern.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (WIUCR)
Justice served.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (PbWRL)
(innie)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt)
I’m glad I don’t know who Mark Ruffalo (or Water Buffalo… or whatever his name is) is… an inconsequential dunderhead like the rest on that list
I remember with fondness my teachers as a lad. They were for the most part nice older ladies (in my younger grades) who would’ve never thought of filling our young skulls full of mush with nonsense
It’s a different time now I guess with many teachers of the nose-ringed purple haired persuasion
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (2Ez/1)
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪
Tousi TV had that clip. Alas, no lightning from the sky, or a Hellfire missile. Still, progress.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)
California Democrats Embrace Failure–What Can Republicans Do?
They could do something really revolutionary for them: try.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: The Great Poof at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (JM9I6)
Oh wait, that'll happen to other people, elsewhere! And they have loads of private security anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (WIUCR)
Posted by: The Great Poof at August 31, 2026 07:36 AM (JM9I6)
Uranus is Mianus in Connecticut...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I'll have to look that one up
carefully closing tags this time
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:37 AM (aJQbY)
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Please, skulls full of indoctrinated mush, go and live amongst Hamas. No, not here in America on your college campuses.
----> over there
You'll come running back to mommy and daddy and the comforts of America and your pampered life before your tears hit the ground.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:38 AM (qBdHI)
VIDEO: Survivor’s Remorse: When a Black Child Receives a White Education
School funding impacts the resources available in a school district, including the number of teachers, the quality of school facilities, and the educational tools. In this video, Kandice Sumner explains the impacts of racial and economic segregation on education. Watch the video and answer the questions.
Describe Kandice Sumner’s experience with education growing up.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 31, 2026 07:39 AM (/+uur)
(innie)
Posted by: Don Black
You know how we make the holes?
Posted by: Uncle Pervy, The Randy Bagelmaker at August 31, 2026 07:39 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (IivNP)
Yes. At one time the Tsar's secret police had all the bolshevik big wigs in custody at one time or another. If the Okhrana had shot them while in custody, they would have saved the world a lot of trouble.
Posted by: Shoot Them When You Catch Them at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (+iYtA)
Justice served.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:33 AM (PbWRL)
Reminds me of that passage in 1 Samuel when the Lord’s anger was kindled against Uzzah for touching the ark and he smote him dead. And Uzzah had good intentions! Oh that the Lord would do more smiting amongst the IRGC and mullahs… the US military and IDF could be an instrument of the Lord in that smiting. Smiting… wonderful old word
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:40 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:41 AM (MWfyi)
Hollywood’s New Sex Comedies Have a Surprising Twist: Traditional Values
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I tell you what else is back after a long absence: at football games, the cameras have found the cheerleaders again.
This is a positive development for our Country
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:41 AM (ZxPkt)
Overall, yields average slightly lower than normal.
Federal crop subsidies harm the fragile water table in Western Kansas.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)
(innie)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt)
I prefer a Bialy...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 07:42 AM (x0n13)
*It's a wonderfully weird combination of bike race, bike parade, Halloween-in-August and street festival, sponsored by New Belgium Brewery, makers of Fat Tire Ale, hence the name.
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:43 AM (2Drhq)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:44 AM (qBdHI)
Two launchers. I would hope we sink every boat supplying those SOH islands. Let them starve.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)
I wish we could go back to the time when actors and actresses, as well as other entertainers were thought of as being less than prostitutes. Most conservatives pay no attention to them but the middle class left hangs on their every word
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:44 AM (qBdHI)
Explosive diarrhea and green dildos (WNBA in general really)…. Two news stories that refuse to go away. You don’t want to pay attention, but it’s like trying to not stare at the car accident on the freeway, you can’t help yourself. Morbid curiosity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (sBAAu)
d'uh. if that was an H1B joke, consider it finally landing...
Sadly, I cannot lie to save my life, which is normally a good thing, they tell me.
Posted by: RandomDave thinks he got the joke... at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (aJQbY)
I love the smell of burnt troll flesh in the morning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Circus Peanuts And Candy Corn at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (JM9I6)
I wish we could go back to the time when actors and actresses, as well as other entertainers were thought of as being less than prostitutes. Most conservatives pay no attention to them but the middle class left hangs on their every word
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:48 AM (EZWVc)
Not really a big fan, but Laura Ingraham had one of the great book titles when she wrote: Shut Up and Dribble
Mainly about idiot sports figures but applies to all entertainers
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:51 AM (IivNP)
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2Drhq)
In view of all of the means of fraud the Left must engage in to secure any sort of "election" victory, I'm totally convinced that polls are only useful in measuring the effectiveness of Demonic Party vote fraud in any given election.
It may explain why polling today is so far from reality—they must keep recalibrating for all of the judicial activism that is employed to thwart any serious attempt at reducing election rigging.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (nAS9C)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (EZWVc)
And if you don't suck gay dick you ain't a hetero guy, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:53 AM (IivNP)
100%
Posted by: Delurker at August 31, 2026 07:53 AM (2Drhq)
He does not appear to be coherent enough to come up with those posts.
He must be part of a network, given talking points to post. So someone is paying him to fail.
That is so on-brand for the Left.
Hope they hit the tip jar.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)
Uh-huh. And has nothing to do with Islam's hatred of Judaism and Christianity. Islamic pirates tried to prey on our ships more than a century BEFORE there was a modern nation of Israel...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK)
17 If we just started hanging folks like Barghouti, Nidal Hassan, KSM, etc. maybe folks would take that stuff more seriously. Sadly, we seem to have lost the initiative.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 07:32 AM (3Ope
Israel’s inability to give the Death Penalty to convicted terrorists is a huge and almost inexplicable weakness. I believe it’s led to the bizarre situation where it is far preferable to use the military to kill suspects than to ever make any effort to capture them.
Short term, I agree that it’s absolutely necessary. But it’s a complete failure of civilian justice systems that has made this necessary.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:55 AM (dqHut)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 07:56 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (IivNP)
We have the same weakness in our justice system.
El Salvador has an authentic Justice System, that cares about victims.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)
Simple test...can I use the ID to withdraw money at a bank? I mean, MOST folks have bank accounts of some sort, homeless excepted, but even for them, states with voting ID laws make allowances for even them to get photo IDs for voting.
The left isn't worried about citizens being unable to vote, they're worried about imaginary, illegal, and multiple voting being blocked.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:57 AM (l3cgK)
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Far be it from me to have smarts real good, but Dear California, can anyone get a gym ID, regardless of age, legal status, and the like? If the answer is yes, it's in-your-face fraud and they know it.
I'm convinced Democrats have annual meetings to think of every which way to Sunday they can cheat and manufacture ballots. The election fraud in this country is off the charts, I'm convinced, like never before. It's almost comical if it weren't so dire.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI)
Hoping to get through at least three chapters today. We will see.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (qRla/)
How many times do these judges need to be rebuffed before they stop? That's a rhetorical question, as they will never stop until they've been removed from their positions of power, hopefully kicking and screaming in front of a large crowd waiting for the judges' comeuppance.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)
AOC has always been DSA. She won a literal DSA beauty contest to get their backing to win her seat in 2018. She was a dues paying member at the time but went on the down low after she took her seat. Now she's publicly declaring her allegiance.
Mamdami adds Islam to the mix.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:00 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:01 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: The World Is Sick And Getting Sicker at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (x0n13)
That may be true but I find it hard to dismiss George McGovern. His platform would be welcomed by the DSA.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O)
That's all you have to know. Lettuce from Méhico!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:04 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: The Globohomo Conspiracy at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: No More Cussin' Out The Mailman at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6)
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I'd like to believe this. But I fear it will be a looooong time before we see either its demise or a rebuilding of what once were actual institutions of higher, enlightened learning.
They're trucking along just like Mao's revolution that still has a stranglehold on China.
We're in for many more years of academia churning out hay bale blocks of communist idiocy in the brains of once-normal student after student after student...
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM
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It's nice to not feel like you're being watched all the time.
Posted by: The sheep at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Very telling that the Iranian response was full of sound and fury, yet piecemeal and ineffective.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (dqHut)
Posted by: Ariana Grande's Tongue at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (JM9I6)
Plus it would still piss off Premier Ford to no end.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: No More Cussin' Out The Mailman at August 31, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6)
DD? They give boobs to the homeless?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (l3cgK)
>>They have spent their careers playing superheroes, but appear to know remarkably little about the history they are now trying to rewrite. They sit comfortably in their movie studio trailers and pronounce moral judgments on a bitter conflict in which they have no personal stake and, judging by this campaign, very little understanding. . .
Stupid question: where are all the Jews in Hollywood on this? Is there any support for Israel and her people in that industry?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (X8xt3)
A hacking attack on those distribution files and income transfer software, including backups, would cause riots in every US city. Good thing everyone and every country loves our President.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)
I can wait for the DVD from the library.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9)
++++
What major well known four year university closed in the last year?
*taps fingers on counter*
Well?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
The Good News is that the Chief 9/11 Plotter is Finally Going to Trial
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Spare me. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026
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So a priest who is against these cameras is also de-Flocked?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: The sheep at August 31, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
They cited the Fourth Amendment. I suspect among some communities there is a real fear they could get dragged into a years long court case that makes its way to SCOTUS at perhaps great expense where they might have to explain themselves over that one.
As to the Internet spying on me…it’s kind of sucking right now. Still plenty of ads meant for LA viewers, and ads in a language I do not speak.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:10 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026
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Probably in private they support Israel. But there seems to be a Gentleman's Agreement (SWIDT?) not to express such sentiments in public.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:07 AM (dqHut)
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
Posted by: The Bard at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (WB/3O)
(innie)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt)
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That is roll shaped in a ring. Not a bagel. Gross.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)
Will states cut funding?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026
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Pretty sure my former employer will be all right. It has a huge endowment.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (wzUl9)
*taps fingers on counter*
Well?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
The weakest members of the herd go first, and that’s started happening already.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (dqHut)
Old and busted: Misgendering me is violence, rejecting my identity is genocide!
New hotness: We can deny the identity of people we hate and it's totes cool, you guyz!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (X8xt3)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at August 31, 2026 08:13 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM
Name three.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Simon you're Jewish, WTF
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (WB/3O)
“I ask that you not serve as Tish’s personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies. Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes,” he wrote.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM (2xUTf)
University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania
Hampshire College in Massachusetts
Anna Maria College in Massachusetts
All in 2026.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O)
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I think there are clear parallels here with 1972.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Look Out Below! at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (+gK6I)
I have had them…there was an amazing chocolate bagel I had one time in NY, but on the whole…meh.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (dtajH)
Wanna bet if you did a Venn diagram of these people, one circle for supporting Barghouti, and a second circle for supporting Roman Polanski you'd have a perfect circle.
These people are bent.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (X8xt3)
Senior IRGC member and candidate Naemat al-Hami suffered a fatal heart attack right in the middle of his campaign speech.
Al-Hami was very excited before a heart attack took him out. It was quite a memorable speech.
… this IS Allah’s will
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (2xUTf)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026
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Growing up, I read the word in books and heard it in movie dialog, but had no idea what it was. Things like bagels and iced coffee were alien concepts in the Sixties in Da Swamp.
Maybe those items got served in coffee shops ("coffeehouses"), but I was too young for that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Gobsmacked, Here at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:19 AM (EZWVc)
George McGovern changes his philosophy and actions after he tried to work in the private sector. He struggled. All this after he left politics.
There should be only political candidates who worked in the private sector. No NGOs, no student government types, few MBAs, no poly-sci majors. They are worse than useless.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:03 AM (WB/3O)
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I think there are clear parallels here with 1972.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
The only difference is that back then, McGovern supporters wore buttons reading "Come Home And Stop Killing Babies."
These days, you practically have to perform a live D&C to be considered a Dem.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: RandomDave thinks he got the joke... at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (aJQbY)
Simon you're Jewish, WTF
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:15 AM (EZWVc)
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The drama kids were never first in class.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)
108
University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania
Hampshire College in Massachusetts
Anna Maria College in Massachusetts
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:16 AM
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You consider each of those to be a "major well known four year university?"
Well, ok then.
They're probably just some politician's front for a money laundering operation.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (2xUTf)
Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)
Yeah, keep supporting hollywood. Keep going to see Marvel movies. Keep rewarding them for shitting on the very foundations of what you believe in.
I'll be over here.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:24 AM (ccf/V)
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Radical Chic
Radical chic is the fashionable practice of upper-class people associating with politically radical people and causes. The journalist Tom Wolfe coined the term in his article "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's", which New York magazine published in June 1970. The term has since become widely used in American English, French and Italian. Unlike dedicated activists, revolutionaries or dissenters, those who engage in "radical chic" remain frivolous political agitators—ideologically invested in their cause of choice only so far as it advances their liberal elite social standing.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 08:24 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (2xUTf)
Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at August 31, 2026 08:22 AM
Who?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)
I was responding to your #102 comment, asking to name 3 of the weak colleges that closed recently.
You are switching premises here.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)
Given the state of industry and education I sadly don’t think it guarantees much.
Also, take a look at the Texas Legislature, whose members get a salary of $7200 a year.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (WB/3O)
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dumb bitches
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Snopes at August 31, 2026 08:26 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:27 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (77rzZ)
Simple test...can I use the ID to withdraw money at a bank? I mean, MOST folks have bank accounts of some sort, homeless excepted, but even for them, states with voting ID laws make allowances for even them to get photo IDs for voting.
The left isn't worried about citizens being unable to vote, they're worried about imaginary, illegal, and multiple voting being blocked.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Try to buy a gun.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: jaimo at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (2noDb)
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Campaign speech?
I had no idea these clowns were "elected" to the IRGC.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (2Cry5)
A New Mexico man allegedly gunned down his cousin during a drunken argument over green enchiladas, according to reports.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:29 AM (2xUTf)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:28 AM (3Ae0s)
CA politicians and other assorted idiots will assure you that task is easier than buying a loaf of bread.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 08:29 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: Buried With His Baton at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (n17eQ)
"What major well known four year university closed in the last year?"
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Has Penn State closed a major campus?
University of California?
SUNY?
If higher education is in such bad shape, show me the casualty list. Rinky dink schools come and go all the time.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:18 AM (dtajH)
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Syracuse's entire model is catering to the wealthy who know the value of a credential but who's children are not bright enough for Ivy League. Big fraternity/sorority/athletics culture. High tuition.
Now they have to consolidate and eliminate all the no-work/cool-sounding majors those people preferred. They are cutting off their bread-and-butter.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:31 AM (Gqar8)
No one is discussing a serious trade dispute with one of our biggest trading partners.
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 31, 2026 08:33 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 08:34 AM (NpAcC)
In a post on X, Duffy said there would be “unprecedented fraud crackdown” announcement on Monday.
“TOMORROW: UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD CRACKDOWN,” the secretary wrote.
In the post, he also tagged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, suggesting a multi-department effort targeting fraud.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:34 AM (2xUTf)
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This is included in his book Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers extremely recommended.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
We all know that Knowledge is Good.
Posted by: Emil Faber at August 31, 2026 08:35 AM (JM9I6)
Here are the four takeaways. 1. Fish trumps it all For those outside Iceland, it was tempting to analyse the referendum through a geopolitical lens: Russia's war on Ukraine, China's unfair competition and, of course, Donald Trump and his punitive tariffs and threats to annex Greenland. But the key driver of the vote was none other than fish. The country jealously protects its fishing rights.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (2xUTf)
Curious why Charlotte Rampling's "Night Porter" photo above was tarnished with Ruffalo's image.
Posted by: Auspex at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (igCg8)
Posted by: jaimo
I went in to a Borders Books. & Music looming for a book. I asked at the counter if the had one on Trump & illegal aliens.
Blue haired nose pierced broad said, "Get out of here and don't come back!"
I said, "That's the one! Do you have it in paperback?"
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (EZWVc)
If I understand the situation correctly, SCOTUS vacated the previous hold because the final rules weren't in place so no one could show how they'd be harmed. Now the final rules are in place. No one has been harmed and no real, legitimate, Democrat voter is likely to BE harmed - postal workers will still discard Republican ballots if they can - but it's a slightly different situation and so we begin the circus yet again.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: jaimo at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2noDb)
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'"
"Just ask my LatinX birthing person!"
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2xUTf)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Euell Gibbons at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (JM9I6)
The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party members are shocked that leopard's are eating their faces
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (EZWVc)
Bagel Bites! Yummy!
Posted by: Totino's Pizza Bagels at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (+iYtA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu)
A textbook useful idiot?
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:41 AM (Gqar8)
Blue haired nose pierced broad said, "Get out of here and don't come back!"
I said, "That's the one! Do you have it in paperback?"
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:37 AM
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Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011.
Which was like, 15 years ago.
Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Also CNN: Flag Officers “continuously” non-concur with Hegseth.
Pick one, you hacks.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (2xUTf)
IN WWII, the Soviets were our ally, needed to end Hitler. They were touted by most.
Even though the Soviet government was much more evil than Hitler, and started WWII via a pact with Germany.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'"
"Just ask my LatinX birthing person!"
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 08:38 AM (2xUTf)
I happened to see an old Johnny Carson over the weekend from 1982 or 83 I think. A young Bill Maher made his first appearance, did some standup. He was actually funny… interesting given his later open hostility to religion he actually worked religion into that act in a positive way… talked about how his mom was Jewish and dad catholic; how even though raised Catholic his Jewishness would slip in like for instance when he’d bring his lawyer to the confessional…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (sBAAu)
Borders liquidated all of its US stores in 2011.
Which was like, 15 years ago.
Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Just means the joke is old and has been slightly updated.
Premise still stands.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)
"Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'"
"Just ask my LatinX birthing person!"
Posted by: SMOD
Bing Lake America. A bunch of Canadian websites have already changed the name.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Passing Wind at August 31, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026
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Dunno about relevant (the buzzword of those days -- everything from TV shows to college classes had to be "relevant"). But his work provides a fine glimpse into what America was like then. And his novels, esp. A Man in Full, are well done.
You need to . . . Get Used to! . . . his style though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)
Bing Lake America. A bunch of Canadian websites have already changed the name.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (3Ae0s)
Mapquest is holding their ground, tho. Not changing the name.
Does anyone still use Mapquest?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)
Which was like, 15 years ago.
Posted by: The Wayback Machine
I miss Borders. What a great place to hang out.
Barnes and Noble pales by comparison.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
Which was like, 15 years ago.
Posted by: The Wayback Machine at August 31, 2026 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Just means the joke is old and has been slightly updated.
Premise still stands.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I haven't went to the dark side in 20+ years.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:47 AM (3Ae0s)
The name Ontario originates from Indigenous languages, primarily meaning "no Stanley Cup this year."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
Momma Sefton called them Barnes and Ignoble. How I miss that great lady!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (x0n13)
Even though the Soviet government was much more evil than Hitler, and started WWII via a pact with Germany.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
You’re right, of course. I just (wrongly) assumed that everyone knew the realpolitik of allying with the Soviets and knew they were almost as bad (just weren’t bent on immediate earth conquest)… maybe not
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (sBAAu)
Does anyone still use Mapquest?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
What's a mapquest?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (3Ae0s)
Marc Porter Magee 🎓
@marcportermagee
Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms and now enrollment is sliding.
“The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said.
4:22 AM · Aug 30, 2026
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: rickb223
If they're so pissed off about it, why would they do that? Being Canadian, they're under no obligation to follow an order of a US President.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
Maybe they don't like Carney...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (+gK6I)
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Is that a lot?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:40 AM (sBAAu)
True story - after he retired from politics, McGovern took to running a small resort hotel that he bought. After a few years he said "Now I understand why owners were complaining about overregulation and government interfering with what they need to do, I never did before."
McGovern had a distinguished military career, but before that Hotel stint he had never held a private job in his life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (edUvp)
Posted by: Bulg
Canada the government is pissed.
But a lot of Canadians hate their government. So, to stick their fingers in the eyes of their government...
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:51 AM (3Ae0s)
4:22 AM · Aug 30, 2026
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)
I would imagine it's just a slight bit more than that..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: Front Porch Of The Low Country at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:48 AM (sBAAu)
There were a LOT of pro-soviet cheerleaders in this country, including the NYT. McCarthy was not wrong.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (edUvp)
either he's right or not, who cares?
anyway
148 Never read anything by Tom Wolfe, other than references to him from time to time. Is his work still relevant?
YES! yes yes yes. also easy reads and the man is funny
but yeah colleges - esp small private ones, LACs - are in big trouble
of course some will remain. but just drive around PA - you will see - so many LACs. SO MANY
also some state schools with small populations will suffer and have to consolidate/get smaller somehow when people stick with their own state school (the newest trend). bc they operate mostly from OOS higher tuition
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (j+aD2)
Translation: she ruled out nothing, committed to nothing, and left every door open while collecting the goodwill that comes with being coy about a presidential run.
But she’s also rejoined the socialists, reshuffled her staff, and gotten cozy with the Sanders machine. For someone who’s just trying to win a House race, that’s a lot of groundwork to be laying. Make of that what you will.
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Senator Occasional Cortex lunching with John Thune? Sure, I can see that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (vM+8K)
George McGovern flew 35 missions as the pilot of a B-24 over Europe.
Hard to reconcile that with his horrible politics.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (x0n13)
just sayin'.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:52 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (VyBeY)
McGovern had a distinguished military career, but before that Hotel stint he had never held a private job in his life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:50 AM (edUvp)
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And not a very bright guy to begin with. Accomplished zero in the Senate.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)
it makes Cornell seem cheery. that's something.
another note - parents are not sending their kids to places in shit towns with crime
so, trouble for Syracuse, UVM, Albany, Berkeley, Temple, etc etc
there are lots - they'd better start pushing their idiotic blue locales to clear out the scum
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 08:53 AM (j+aD2)
But a lot of Canadians hate their government. So, to stick their fingers in the eyes of their government...
Posted by: rickb223
Heh. Looks like Trump made the right call, then.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ)
just sayin'.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Eat a dozen prunes.
Wait twelve hours.
Snort pepper.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (VyBeY)
Heh. Looks like Trump made the right call, then.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 08:54 AM (77rzZ)
He usually does though it seems cringe worthy at first
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (sBAAu)
1. The NOBLOGS network. Clickable map at:
https://tinyurl.com/y22pe4c4
2. DR reposted: Anti-globalists pumped up by Russia against the US. Note many of the recognized names:
https://tinyurl.com/mry4kcv8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 08:56 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
oh absolutely!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 08:56 AM (edUvp)
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ)
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I wonder if Canadians have strictly patriotic views on the dispute, or if there is a diversity of opinion...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (vM+8K)
Posted by: Bulg
He usually does though it seems cringe worthy at first
Posted by: It's me donna
He's trying to help Alberta without it looking like he has his fingers in it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Gqar8)
His politics were classic Minnesota nice. It's a nice sentiment locally but doesn't scale well.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (VyBeY)
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At a minimum, he was politically incorrect:
https://youtu.be/bB3VULfGUUc
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (QNSrI)
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ)
I am... Just renewed a prescription I get in Canada and it went up 60 dollars because of the tariffs...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 08:58 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (VyBeY)
The Left are focusing on words, not deeds.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:32 AM (u82oZ)
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I wonder if Canadians have strictly patriotic views on the dispute, or if there is a diversity of opinion...
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Huge diversity of opinion. Alberta is trying to use this to drive an even bigger wedge into the Independence initiative. A couple of other provinces are starting to see where Eastern Canada are pissy bitchez.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (3Ae0s)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
amusing alternate history; Hitler annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938. Ribbentrop /molotov pact was not signed until late 1939, when Stalin realized in which direction hordes of nazis were moving, thinking he could outsmart and outplay hitler. Hitler invaded first, before stalin was ready. As far as Soviet Govt being more evil the nazi germany, I beg to differ. Hitler's "final solution" was the most evil plot in history. Gulags had nothing on systemic genocide that hitler practiced.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 08:59 AM (g47mK)
pretty common term since this is of interest to you, clearly.
some of them have "University" appended to their names now but in reality ... they're still small colleges
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (j+aD2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:00 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 08:55 AM (sBAAu)
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Highly entertaining, if you like "puncturing pop culture" types of writing, and enjoy watching performative value signalers getting hit with their own supposed beliefs squarely between the eyes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (vM+8K)
Hollywood celebrities are backing a terrorist murderer — read the facts"
The limousine liberals needed a new "Free Mumia!"cause. Free Mumia! is stale. Newly-hatched limousine liberals need an up-to-date political prisoner cause. An Anti-JOOOO political prisoner cause. A cause that appeals to people enamored with the current top-of-the-pyramid oppressed group, Muslims. Who are not oppressed in the West (and not truly oppressed in Gaza) but will be pictured as such. Because the Left sees US Muslims as a fast-growing voting block the Left must capture to stay in power.
Same song, different verse.
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2026 09:01 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/44yh36bz
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)
https://tinyurl.com/44yh36bz
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)
Message ? Escape while you can ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:03 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Let's Make 'Em Squeal at August 31, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:04 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Auspex
At least it's not that Rosie O'Donnell in leather pic.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:05 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (vM+8K)
I used to work at one. Their selection of Greek and Roman classics put B&N to shame.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (qRla/)
https://tinyurl.com/4bmzpsen
I'm all for nationalization of enemy assets.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:07 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:06 AM (vM+8K)
I would doubt either team is interested in getting into that fray, especially with both cities being largely liberal shitholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK)
And they still haven't learned a thing...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:08 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (NcvvS)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxk44hd
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:10 AM (vM+8K)
$20, same as in town.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:09 AM (NcvvS)
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I have already copyrighted comment 219.
Let's discuss licensing fees in private.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:10 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (J3Cv/)
Hollywood celebrities are backing a terrorist murderer — read the facts"
Same song, different verse.
Posted by: Gref
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I suspect all of the celebutards have ideological handlers, probably based in the talent management and its pr functionaries. Years ago, Richard Dreyfuss admitted that he got a lot of his political takes from an anonymous person tied to his entourage as part of his 'education'. I would not be surprised, given the role that managers now have almost complete control of social media, public appearances, lifestyle as portrayed, etc. etc. that they don't also control and manage any political expression of the actors.
And management is probably reacting to Arab money that ends up financing a lot of projects as 'partners'.
Follow the money and there are no accidents are good rules to follow in this fake and gay age.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (dtajH)
In Our Time is one of my favorites; a collection of essays, with illustrations by Wolfe.
as always, YMMV
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:11 AM (VyBeY)
Hey, MP4, I recently learned that L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, founded a motion-picture studio, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, in 1914. It went belly-up in 1915, however.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
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Hack those suckers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (vM+8K)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
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Dwarfed by the bigger studios?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (QNSrI)
I once had an hour to kill in a bookstore and tripped over a copy of Mein Kampf. It had an index and so I looked for "Jews". Hitler spelled it all out in one long chapter. And his plans for the Slavs.
Pity that few took him at his word.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:13 AM (dtajH)
War was not inevitable after the Munich Agreement. Even the subsequent taking all of Czechoslovakia was not the trigger for WWII.
It did give time for the UK to bring Fighter Command to an operational status, and other reforms needed. The French squandered the timel.
But carving up Poland, with no Second Front for Germany, was removing the chocks from a bulldozer on a hill.
The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: AnchorPoint
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Thanks for that. I have come to the conclusion that at least most of the NGO universe is dominated by fake and gay thieves masking as humanitarians. I would ban any NGO from having tax deductible donations and status itself if at least 90 percent of all funds raised do not go directly to the supposed recipients. They want to run a scam to benefit themselves, then they pay taxes on it and so do the donors.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)
Must. Get. Off. Ass.........
I really need to stop failing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)
A book on general causes of war, which has held up very well, is The Causes of War by Geoffrey Blainey.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (u82oZ)
sometimes I will cut a little slack and allow the Goldfinger Rule ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (E4rtv)
Never donate to the Red Cross or the United Way...
St Judes is pretty good as is Samaritan's Purse... Most of the others just pay off their "executives."
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Yep. Nicholas II bears as much responsibility for that war, or more, as the Kaiser does.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/48e5yf8x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM (QNSrI)
The proper British take on 'mostly peaceful' events.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 31, 2026 09:16 AM (ccf/V)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)
Alas, missed the copyright notice; didn't see the price mentioned there, either.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS)
Mamdani Begs Capitalists At The Adult Table For Help
The socialist mayor wanted to remake New York’s economy. Now he needs capitalists to explain how it works.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Uncle Leo at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS)
20 dollars... Same as in town
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (+gK6I)
No. Way.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m)
just like everybody else.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:20 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NcvvS)
20 dollars... Same as in town
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (+gK6I)
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/preps class action suit
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:20 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
Oh, yes. It was at the corner of Santa Monica and Gower.
I may be using him as a character in my next book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (qRla/)
No. Way.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m)
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Is that an optimistic "no way", or a nothing will happen "no way"?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (QNSrI)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 09:21 AM (VyBeY)
"Just the attachment to maybe something you read as a child or in college, I think it's hard for a lot of us to see that kind of destruction," Benne said. She compared AI book shredding to a flood, a museum fire, or a similar disastrous event that wipes out a repository of human knowledge and culture.
"It hits the same nerve."
Becker agrees with this and thinks the practice of destructive book shredding, particularly to train AI, triggers something "visceral" in people. "I do think we lose something culturally when certain books are deemed as commodities or expendable," he said.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
President Trump, who has had 7 assassination attempts on him, is the target for evil and evil doers.
He has united Evil in a quest to strike him and his policies down. I voted for this, but the cost to him is high. Melania feels this strongly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:22 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/87k9hc26
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:18 AM (QNSrI)
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Mark Carney, like Justine Castreaux, has a big future in L.A. once he's done screwing Canada.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (3dxnp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Because Germany was stupid enough to desire to finish its Eastern and Western enemies by attacking and destroying France and then pivoting to the East. It should have left the rotting Hapsburg dynasty to fight Russia on its own.
Dismissal of Bismarck and the pig ignorant German saber rattling for almost twenty years after led to uniting the French and Russians in alliance system which led to the rather pointless Germany counter alliance chaining itself to the dead corpse of the Hapsburg Empire and the duplicitous Italians that wanted Austrian territory itself.
And the von Schiefflen plan specifically required violating Belgian neutrality which the German and more importantly the UK government were required to respect by treaty. The plan thought that UK could not deploy in time and the war would be short.
Germans were both arrogant and stupid in figuring their tactical needs superseded their strategic needs from the plan all came about from the tumultuous Kaiser, drab and untalented civil government, and the avaricious and arrogant Prussianized military.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Good. I shared the info hoping you could use it in a book.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: The World Is Sick And Getting Sicker at August 31, 2026 08:02 AM (JM9I6)
Maybe it's time for THEM to organize and go after the ones who are chasing and beating. With extreme prejudice. Otherwise, a repeat of the 1930's will rear its ugly head.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Obligatory at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt)
You're right... It should be M for multi sexual
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (+gK6I)
https://tinyurl.com/48e5yf8x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 09:15 AM
There are no little hats in evidence.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2026 09:24 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2026 09:25 AM (2GVsD)
It's an I've been saying this happened since 2020 no way.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:25 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2026 09:26 AM (RIvkX)
It did give time for the UK to bring Fighter Command to an operational status, and other reforms needed. The French squandered the timel.
But carving up Poland, with no Second Front for Germany, was removing the chocks from a bulldozer on a hill.
The parallel is the Russian Mobilization prior to WWI is what was irreversibly a path to war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)
All of what you are saying is a supposition based on some "historians' " rosy reading of hitler, and shifting the responsibility from hitler and Western Europe for trying to make nice with him. Taking of Czechoslovakia and inability of the rest of Europe to defend it, gave what hitler needed, proof that no one will stand in the way. a couple of squadrons were not sufficient against hitler's war machine, and no one saw much of a problem with what hitler was doing between 1934-1939 anyway.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (g47mK)
After Bismarck, the German Strategic Thinking cap was kaput. They were in Wolkenkuckucksland.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)
Jimmy "Drama" Comey goes on trial in late October for inciting murder of a sitting POTUS.
SPLC and its leader have been charged with funding Antifa. Soros & Co have recently been swept in.
And the mother of all RICO cases is developing in Miami.
October surprises!
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2026 09:27 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (hUS/0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (EZWVc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (3dxnp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 09:28 AM (EZWVc)
Mayoring is difficult LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (+gK6I)
President Trump, who has had 7 assassination attempts on him, is the target for evil and evil doers.
He has united Evil in a quest to strike him and his policies down. I voted for this, but the cost to him is high. Melania feels this strongly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Cost to the entire family. I think this is often why in our ancient past, any person trying to buck the establishment and reform ends up becoming a tyrant in order to make the reforms stick. Those in the loose fake and gay ruling class of today don't want their powers and privileges curtailed and will do everything other than fight themselves to save them.
These critters have no honor and can/will stoop to the lawfare, the assassinations, the riots, the marches, the deplatforming, the smears, depriving finances, etc.
What they won't do is put on a uniform, proclaim themselves to be fighting a civil war, and put their own precious asses on the line. They believe their lackeys will do that for them.
They fight like their ally, the Intelligence Community apparatchiks in the dark, stabbing in the back, secret communications, secret networks, and full of lies and deceit.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 09:29 AM (3dxnp)
I expect them to drop like a rock
Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Don Black
That guy is so overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
The clown Woodrow Wilson boffing around Versailles, what an arrogant buffoon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (sBAAu)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt)
You're right... It should be M for multi sexual
Posted by: It's me donna
Or just Messed in the head.
Mornin' Horde. Retirement planning proceeds apace. Either a step towards stress reduction or a really bad decision, not sure which yet.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 31, 2026 09:30 AM (OUMaO)
Without Hitler, there was no historical WWII. I totally agree with you.
Lots of alternative history stories start from that premise. But no one writes about a peaceful time with no WWII.
Victor Suvorov's book The Icebreaker is one datum for alternative explanations. He claims Stalin helped the Nazi's take power by stopping the German Communists from thwarting him.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)
Along those lines, Data Republican just dropped a network list of thousands of anarchist (antifa) related websites that exist around the world.
Fascinating stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 09:32 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
One did not have to be Bismarck to see that pushing the French Republic and the Russians together was a colossal mistake. But Kaiser Wilhelm II was so volcanic as well as being stupid, that he could not balance the arrogant German military establishment with the civil government. And that military establishment spent all its time, money, and effort figuring out how to defeat its continental rivals on land.
Then to add to its insanity, figuring out that Germany, a nation with scant colonial resources, suddenly needed a navy capable of competing with the Royal Navy.
Kaiser Wilhelm II being a blustery clown, could never serve as a check on the military and neither could the weak civilian government and its diplomatic corp.
Posted by: whig at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (E4rtv)
Lots of alternative history stories start from that premise. But no one writes about a peaceful time with no WWII.
Victor Suvorov's book The Icebreaker is one datum for alternative explanations. He claims Stalin helped the Nazi's take power by stopping the German Communists from thwarting him.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)
Suvorov wrote a sensationalist book meant to make him rich. It is not historical evidence.
Posted by: runner at August 31, 2026 09:35 AM (g47mK)
"Lake of OUR Woods"
"Great Escaped-American Slave Lake"
"Lake Still Superior to You"
"Yu-Kon? ME-Kon!"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 31, 2026 09:36 AM (zdLoL)
Seems Anthropic is "butt hurt" over the “supply-chain risk” designation was but I don't see the First Amendment issue. The Pentagon can remove the designation but continue to tell all departments that certain requirements are now in force that would effectively do the same thing.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:40 AM (RHGPo)
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows
Our deep look into a deportation flight to Liberia
@DHSgov
Another day and another hoax about ICE detention from the @nytimes. The media is clearly desperate for these false allegations to be true.
NO ONE is being tortured, denied medical care, or beaten in ICE detention facilities.
Make no mistake: this type of GARBAGE being peddled by the media is fueling the more than 1,300% increase in assaults against our officers, who put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens and protect the lives of American citizens.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:42 AM (RHGPo)
Sure, Auntie Maxine. (READ)
Maxine Waters claims something called "white media" wants a Dem establishment vs Democrat Socialist fight.
"Some of the media, mostly the white media, are interested in a fight in order to get their ratings up."
What?
This race-grifting clown just managed to concoct one of the most brain-wormed takes imaginable.
... so, does this mean she has publicly embraced Socialism ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:44 AM (RHGPo)
This may be his most outrageous attempt at gaslighting to date.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)
This may be his most outrageous attempt at gaslighting to date.
Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)
The only way those two would be brilliant is if they were set on fire...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 09:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 31, 2026 09:58 AM (u82oZ)
As above, the UK Guardian "More than 200 leading cultural figures call for the release of jailed Palestinian leader"
A bunch of foreign actors, "prominent writers & authors," "major musicians," plus "scholars, activists & businessmen" - a HUGE majority attached to the UK, Canada, even Australia, plus a few homegrown fools including Ruffalo (how is he an actor & one that has endured in the business 🤷♀️
, and our very own Paul Simon, Susan Sarandon, Ilana Glazer, and Angela Davis, all the under the spell of what, who? Mohammed el-Kurd? Maybe Selma Dabbagh?
It has continued and grown: WSJ, 'Britain's Surrender to Islamists,' 2009
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (NFX2v)
And so much for accuracy in journalism..
However, their appeal to the "United Nations and the governments of the world (is) to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison."
The Israeli Prime Minister is expected to visit NY in September to speak at the UN. And so those monsters appear to be looking to stir up even more trouble in the US, perhaps more so in NYC, at a time where increased law enforcement visibility is absolutely necessary.
The country is preparing to host a national remembrance of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, across the main attack sites. Additionally, the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset on September 11, and goes through nightfall of September 13th, and then Yom Kippur starts at sunset September 20, and goes through nightfall of September 21st.
Unless and until...Amen.
Posted by: L - No nic at August 31, 2026 10:10 AM (NFX2v)
The country is preparing to host a national remembrance of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, ...
So what.
1960's Klingon/MADMANI will continue to smirk as he presides over the ceremonies of 9/11 and Year 1 Kirkaversary with more 9/10 thinking as all eyes will be on AOC in her REMAIN SINWAR camisole and FREE GAZA hotpants while Rama's/Suicide Squad unblinkingly gaze upon her adoringly -- as fuure LIB/President AOC to bring the promise of the FALN's objectives to reality.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RemainKLINGON
There will be NO PEACE as long as Kirk lives -- Klingon Ambassador, libbing out
LIB's will pay good money to line up to buy and toss a piece of commemorative wood at their local data center to in memory of the Desperate and Deliberately Evil Sinwar, who's last act in this world was tossing his own piece of wood at a drone.
Yeah, this is Normal.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 31, 2026 10:21 AM (Fxy6Q)
Bullshit. My account got perma-band after criticizing Abdul El-Sayed on his account.
Posted by: Schoolbus Vegabond at August 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Rhv3W)
Daily Tech News 31 August 2026
Top Story
- Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy. (Daily Beast)
Oh no.
- Speaking of crazies, they're upset that America's education system has stalled out 99% control by communist infiltrators. (LinkedIn)
Anyway.
Tech News
- Nvidia's DLSS 5 upscaling technology is here. Don't use it. (WCCFTech)
Play Deep Rock Galactic - a fun but not graphically challenging game - on an RTX 3080 - an older but still powerful card - drops frame rates from 138 fps to 4.
- Omarchy Linux, the new flavour, has a teeny tiny bug. (0xcc)
The default user has access to everything.
- Chess.com has launched a poker website. (The Verge)
Apparently their Eight Queens Hold'em site wasn't bringing in the views.
- Oops. My language blew its budget; compiler, runtime, and standard libraries now come to 7.5MB or 2.5MB compressed, making it 8% the size of Python. The two culprits were TLS (a.k.a SSL, the encryption used by every website), and regular expressions across Unicode, each contributing 20% of the total. For embedded use it automatically drops those and clocks in at a far smaller size.
Also landed today: A full "math" library (those funny buttons on a scientific calculator), alongside autovectorising vector and matrix functions (vectors 100x faster and matrices 1000x faster than native), and a more general linear algebra library built on those, hashing, cryptography, passwords, HTTP client and server modules, and a curl / Python Requests style library.
Claude has actually impressed me; it's a brand new programming language with precisely zero training data, and it's writing working code in it. Yes, it has specs; yes, it has access to the compiler and runtime internals; but the former is up to the developer and the latter will be open source.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: 996 is one thing, but 7117 is quite another.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)
Its Monday again
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Quelle unexpected réponse!
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
Lake America was the perfect reply to that fat Ontario Premier telling Trump to kiss his a$$. Unfortunately Canadians have been brainwashed into thinking Trump is the reason for all their problems.
Posted by: CanuckJack at August 31, 2026 04:37 AM (HLIsS)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:37 AM (5UTWB)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:39 AM (5UTWB)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 31, 2026 04:44 AM (eTPdk)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)
It mentions heaven four times. The headline for the article says the song transcended race, region and religion. Uhh no. It didn't transcend religion. I doubt atheists are belting out about "meeting on that distant shore.." I was not making a judgement about whether atheists are worse people than theists. Now they're all fighting about that." Uggh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:49 AM (FlBUK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 04:50 AM (FlBUK)
One more bad dream/break
Ooh, gigolo pool/fool
So alive and new/in you
and
Les yeux sans visage/Pleasure's only ...
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:52 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)
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The People's Republic of New Jersey awaits you!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 04:52 AM (5UTWB)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 31, 2026 04:54 AM (1FEc1)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Good idea!
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)
You're eyes without a face
or
Your eyes without a face
seems to be a matter of dispute among various lyrics sites
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9)
Skynet delayed yet again.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 31, 2026 05:02 AM (llBIB)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol
The stage name "Billy Idol" was coined after a chemistry teacher, Bill Price, described Idol as "idle" on his school report card.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 31, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)
https://tinyurl.com/bde776rs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:13 AM (FlBUK)
In 1994, he collapsed outside a Los Angeles nightclub due to an overdose.... He stopped his drug use after this incident, as he decided his children would never forgive him for dying of a drug overdose.
Yay!
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)
Elections have consequences.
*dramatic pause*
...Bitches.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 31, 2026 05:15 AM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 05:20 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 31, 2026 05:21 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 31, 2026 05:24 AM (Ot/FD)
When the Gulf of Mexico was renamed by the United States to "Gulf of America", Google Maps had three ways of presenting the name, based on GeoIP location of the viewer:
- Those in Mexico still saw it as "Gulf of Mexico"
- Those in the USA saw it as "Gulf of America"
- Everyone elsewhere saw it as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
I suspect the same thing is going on now because here in Canada, it shows as "Lake Ontario".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)
Canada installs large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US
[photo: A family walks by a sign reading "Lake Ontario, Now and Always," unveiled by Ontario Premier Doug Ford at Fifty Point Conservation Area, near Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.]
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)
On Saturday, Google said it had changed the name on its maps for users in the US.
"Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS [Geographic Names Information System] for the US, people using Maps in the US will see 'Lake America', those in Canada will continue to see 'Lake Ontario' and those outside of the US and Canada will see both names," the tech firm said in a blog post.
This mirrors how Google names the Gulf of Mexico for users after Trump declared it was called the Gulf of America in 2025.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)
You had a spidey-sense that that was what was going on.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)
This is some delicate wording!
The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America
"seeking to"
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)
This is some delicate wording!
The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America
"seeking to"
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)
Sounds so indecisive, doesn't it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK)
This is some delicate wording!
The US president signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to change its name to Lake America
"seeking to"
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:34 AM (odBC9)
Sounds so indecisive, doesn't it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK)
And powerless.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:39 AM (odBC9)
Likes to see them go crazy about basically inconsequential stuff. A guy who writes in the "NY Post" ( Dan Perry) about the economy sanctions and is basically in favor of them says:
"Trump had been shockingly effective at selling millions of Americans on the deeply flawed product that is himself. Now he must sell them on endurance. He needs to find his inner Winston Churchill, however preposterous that may seem."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 05:45 AM (GIQYZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:49 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2026 05:50 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)
Oh man, "Lake Dontario" would have been an even better troll than "Lake America".
It's amusing watching the politicians on our side of the border be completely unable to "ignore the trolling". They literally can't help themselves, they HAVE to react.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 05:56 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:57 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (odBC9)
accordingtohoyt.com
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:03 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/4wn5383a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:06 AM (FlBUK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 05:59 AM (VyBeY)
She posted on Saturday morning as usual. Gotta have something early on the weekend as most sites don't post on weekends.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:09 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026 06:10 AM (amcLV)
Rejoinder: Number 9...number 9...number 9...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 31, 2026
***
My favorite love potion
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/59kcjkxf
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:15 AM (FlBUK)
*clicks a few things and increases the entire document's font size by two points*
The author:
https://youtu.be/Up2rKmrBBmE?t=22
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)
For the pray-ers, please continue to keep Tecumseh Tea's husband in prayer for complete healing from cancer. He is in about the second week of treatment for fourth stage cancer. Also, keep TT and her family in prayer for strength as well. Those of you who have been through this journey with loved ones with cancer treatments know how exhausting it can be. Thanks so much, dear ones.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2026 06:22 AM (Tgq0P)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:23 AM (VyBeY)
*clicks a few things and increases the entire document's font size by two points*
The author:
https://youtu.be/Up2rKmrBBmE?t=22
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa! with Lyrics - Jerry Samuels
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
The IRGC retaliated by destroying two of our bases in Jordan, OH WAIT, that didn't happen. All 6 missiles were intercepted.
Tehran Tim is in full propaganda mode.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:24 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:35 AM (bVoR9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:36 AM (bVoR9)
Just install Arch, install Niri or my new favorite windows manger dot files, ML4W.
The dude behind Omarchy is the guy who created Ruby On Rails.
He was a Mac devotee but has fallen out of love with it and seems to have a grudge against them over moving away from Intel chips, which broke ruby and caused him headaches.
Poor little baby.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 06:37 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026 06:41 AM (bVoR9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:41 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)
"Florida ‘Deputy of the year’ resigns after claims he tracked ex with Flock cameras."
I'm sure it's just a one off.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:46 AM (MWfyi)
Which do you think is better if you need a hernia repair, taking a Medicare Advantage plan, or a Medigap plan?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: dramyfnbishop at August 31, 2026 06:47 AM (9a3m6)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2026
***
It's not unusual any more. The local Fox outlet mentioned another one that happened at the corner of Bourbon and Canal. I guess the only odd thing about these is that the perp is not immediately in custody. In the usual way of things now, an argument starts -- fueled by drugs or liquor -- and one party pulls out and uses a gun. Others video it, and the cops are right there; done.
In the Sixties and earlier, the Quarter used to be simply a neighborhood, with service businesses, a Pontiac dealership, gas stations, small drugstores, mom-and-pop groceries, etc. It began to change in the late Sixties-early Seventies, but wasn't as bad as it is now even when my mother passed in 1986.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:48 AM (MWfyi)
it is part of the Strange Beauty Of Linux, that such things can be done, by people who think that it's a good idea. Yay!
over the weekend I was exposed to the concept of "frictionmaxxing"; deliberately making stuff more difficult ... wondering if that is related.
not wondering very hard, though.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:50 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 06:50 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026 06:51 AM (VyBeY)
Which do you think is better if you need a hernia repair, taking a Medicare Advantage plan, or a Medigap plan?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026
***
I've got a Medigap (Weird Dave of the ONT set me up with it) with Cigna/Healthspring, Mutual of Omaha for dental, and Wellcare for my Rxs. They paid for nearly everything when I had my hernia repair last year. I should have asked if they would accept a Med Advantage plan.
Those are supposed to cover hearing and vision as well, and for much less than I'm paying; but Dave didn't think they were as good a deal.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt)
Would be more appropriate for Canada to write it in their new tongue: Mandarin.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 31, 2026
***
Pretty much. Toole was writing that novel when I was a small kid down there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 06:57 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 06:58 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, I already have dental and vision through wife's work. I'm just trying to get the least amount of monthly premiums and lowest cost for surgery. I suppose you can change your plan each year? Next year get what keeps the most money in my pocket for the surgery costs, then go to the zero premium supplement plans the next year. I don't have any other conditions needing constant care.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 06:58 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (QuiDg)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt)
----
Didn't BHO also rename a number of geographical features?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)
My grandparents used to live in the Bellfontaine neighborhood of St. Louis from the early 1960s until the mid 1980s. Last time I visited (when Dad passed--2021), it was an entirely black neighborhood where it was unsafe to be around outside after dark. How things change...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:00 AM (l3cgK)
>>YMMV.
We can name things whatever we want.
Remember when Mount McKinley became Denali for some reason?
Sometimes streets get renamed or highways or bridges.
The left does that sh*t all the time, primarily to own the cons.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2026 07:00 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: DPICM at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (zweKz)
I don't recognize it any more and have no desire to see it now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:01 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Stirling the Cat at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt)
----
Didn't BHO also rename a number of geographical features?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2026 06:59 AM (FZ29D)
Who renamed Squaw Peak? Mount McKinley?
::: looking it up :::
one Squaw Peak in 2008 (Bushie) and one in 2022 (Sniffy Joey).
McKinley was renamed Denali in 2015 by Obama, renamed to McKinley by Trump.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:03 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 07:04 AM (PbWRL)
78 I don't get how Trump thinks he can rename a geographical feature. Is he serious, or just f***ing with Canada's head? It's very odd. To me. YMMV.
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt)
Remember how Trump used to hang out with Vince McMahon of the WWE?
This is a WWE move. In fact, from the wiki piece on Vince McMahon, tell me who seems to have been a very good student:
“In 1997, he adopted the character of Mr. McMahon, portrayed as an irascible, villainous, swaggering tyrant who obsessed over maintaining control of his wrestling company and often growled the catchphrase "you're fired!" when dismissing an employee.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:04 AM (dqHut)
Naming of geographic features is the responsibility of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is underneath the Department of the Interior, which is part of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
The President, as head of the Executive Branch, can (and did) direct this via an Executive Order. It's a constitutionally valid use of his powers.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at August 31, 2026 07:06 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (IkLDu)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:08 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Who do you truss?
Posted by: Johnny and Ed at August 31, 2026 07:08 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:09 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Stirling the Cat at August 31, 2026 07:02 AM (JM9I6)
; )
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:11 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 31, 2026 07:11 AM (aJQbY)
"Guess which reality star wore string bikinis on a PDA-filled tropical getaway"
Either way, it's garbage.
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)
I sure hope it makes it up into East Texas! We have been dry, dry, dry for a month. Two of my smaller trees, a dogwood and a Japanese maple have died from it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (dqHut)
Since then, Democrats have thrown stacks of fuel on the vagrancy and criminality problems. So, I expect that everywhere on the hobo circuit has seen crime and disorder skyrocket. They nationalize the problem, taking bad habits developed in one lawless Democrat jurisdiction, and carrying them all over the country.
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (ke3zm)
---
this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it
the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:12 AM (dqHut)
You're not allowed to water your trees there?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (ke3zm)
Thx Pixy
Funny story about Billy Idol. He was plastered at some club hanging out with Nile Rodgers. Saw David Bowie walk in and went to meet him but Idol was so drunk on the way over he threw up on himself. Still walked over shook Bowie's hand and introduced him to Rodgers. Led to the Bowie album Let's Dance
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (EZWVc)
I wish her luck.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j)
---
this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it
the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Yep.
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:17 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (36x1j)
Thx Pixy
Funny story about Billy Idol. He was plastered at some club hanging out with Nile Rodgers. Saw David Bowie walk in and went to meet him but Idol was so drunk on the way over he threw up on himself. Still walked over shook Bowie's hand and introduced him to Rodgers. Led to the Bowie album Let's Dance
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (EZWVc)
hahahahahaha
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 07:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 31, 2026 07:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
In fact I’ve worked to keep the lawn alive - but these two trees were older and it’s hard to get deep water down to them. It was notable that after two weeks of triple digit temps almost every day, they just turned brown and gave up the ghost.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2026 07:27 AM (dqHut)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 31, 2026 07:07 AM (IkLDu)
a bit safer in the light...cops were patrolling often. I'm sure the criminal elements there would consider that harassment by the po-po...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:49 AM (l3cgK)
---
this entity is for deciding what the US calls something, not what the world must call it
the way I read it, Canada can still call it Lake Ontario
Posted by: Don Black at August 31, 2026 07:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Now do South Chinese Sea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 08:12 AM (odBC9)
He had to be well into his sixties when it was filmed and he still has his abs. You can tell he and Miley were really having fun. Not my favorite artists, but I appreciate a performance that is well done.
Posted by: Thatch at August 31, 2026 01:23 PM (S6YCM)
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 30, 2026
Welcome home, Lieutenant This is a local news story for your humble host. Not sure how much attention it got nationwide. BWI Airport welcomes home fallen WWII pilot, 83 years after his death
The BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport community gathered to honor and welcome home U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter Bateman on Friday evening, a Maryland native and American aviator killed during World War II. Bateman piloted a B-24D Liberator bomber that was shot down Aug. 16, 1943, during a bombing mission against enemy airfields at Foggia, Italy. Bateman was 22, and there were no survivors among the 10 crew members.
Photo from dignitymemorial.com
After more than 80 years, U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Walter R. Bateman is finally coming home.Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Lieutenant. ----- I find this very clever and kinda kewl. What say you?
Lt. Bateman was serving as a pilot with the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group when his B-24D Liberator failed to return from a mission over Italy on August 16, 1943. He and nine fellow airmen were listed as missing in action, and for decades, his and his crew's remains were unidentified. He was 22 years old.
On May 29, 2026, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed Lt. Bateman's identity using modern forensic technology. Tonight, after more than eight decades, he will return home to Maryland...where his story first began.
So clever! 😃 pic.twitter.com/9zDe1wCc2V
— Blondelady2024 (@arva6113
----- Flock segment of the night Flock has a partnership with Dish Network. Interesting.
Dish Network is about to be extremely unpopular Dish Network technician confirms they are the ones doing the majority of the Flock Safety Camera installs across America Dish Network is installing the Flock mass surveillance network Dish was picked as a partner to do the installs because Dish has a large national force of outdoor technicians experienced in pole mounting, cabling and similar work with satellite TV installs. Flock’s own materials say they use third party for installs. Looks like we found who It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network
Dish Network is about to be extremely unpopular
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 30, 2026
Dish Network technician confirms they are the ones doing the majority of the Flock Safety Camera installs across America
Dish Network is installing the Flock mass surveillance network
Dish was picked as a partner to do the… pic.twitter.com/KWSWmKJXOA
As El Rushbo used to say "demonstrate absurdity by being absurd"
Wow.
— ᒪᗩᑎE (@lanechanged) August 30, 2026
Just fucking WOW.
YESSSS, GIRL!! 🎯💥 pic.twitter.com/GGSpEZfVID
I never thought I'd be aligned with Bernie!
Damn - I guess I'm a Bernie Bro on this particular issue https://t.co/qPsFWd4qqZ
— Mr. Doof (@doof2112) August 29, 2026
Learned something new pic.twitter.com/6Oy5XEtzsn
— Charlie (@MAGACharlie2024) August 29, 2026
----- Remember the "dunce corner"? How about a "fart corner"? A ‘gas station' for farts? This Georgia teacher says it's a classroom win-win
The first thing to know about this gas station is that it is not a gas station. There are no pumps. No convenience store. No windshield squeegees. And, despite what one might reasonably expect, there is no requirement that anyone actually purchase gas. It is a designated corner of an Atlanta elementary school classroom where students can go when they need to pass ... gas. *** “I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take it,” she tells TODAY.com. “And so I was like, OK, I’m just gonna create this little area over here, and you just get up, you go over there, do your business, come back, and that’s just it.”Video of the teacher explaining this at the link.
Decades later she translated the coat into red-carpet language, a satin patchwork shirt-dress in orange, pink, yellow, and blue for the Coat of Many Colors premiere. Country memory. Hollywood cut.
The Jolene jumpsuit, 1974 Nashville seamstress Lucy Adams made the blue-and-white striped jumpsuit with the white puffed jacket that became the Jolene album cover. Dolly later said she chose it because it moved. She had to sit, squat, and pose on the floor. Those puffy sleeves were a personal favorite.
Jumpsuits mattered for another reason. Onstage they let her work, and, as she once noted, they kept the front row from getting a free show. See? She was practical.
Rhinestones as a work uniform By the mid-1970s the silhouette was locked: tiny waist, plunging neckline, pointy elbows, sequins, crystals, and later those Nudie embroidery insets. And the hair — extensions, wigs, pieces — teased into another stratosphere. That was not a costume. That was the uniform.
The Playboy cover, 1978 Dolly became the first country star on the cover of Playboy. She wore the bunny kit: bodysuit, ears, cuffs, bow tie. And she refused to pose nude. That was just her style. Take a mainstream shock magazine and walk in on your own terms.
In 2021 she recreated the look for her husband Carl Dean’s birthday. She was 75. She said he still thought she was a hot chick. I love that so much.
Bob Mackie’s butterfly For the 1979 TV special Dolly & Carol in Nashville, Bob Mackie built her a wing-like “Butterfly” gown. Butterflies were her motif. “They don’t sting, they don’t bite, and they are so beautiful,” she said. Mackie dressed her for other television spectaculars too. His sketches still look like they were drawn for a cartoon goddess who also had to hit her mark.
Pink for 9 to 5, 1980 For the premiere, Dolly asked Ann Roth — the film’s costume designer — what a girl was supposed to wear to a thing like that. She arrived in a pink lace-and-satin gown with a matching fur stole. She later told Vogue it may have been the first time she felt fashionable rather than just “Dolly.”
Miami, NYE 2022 Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party. Opening number: “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.” Dolly owned the stage in a black leopard jumpsuit — studs down the seams, mesh cutouts at the legs, hoops, platforms, crimped hair. Miley matched her in a black Gucci mini and leopard gloves. Godmother and goddaughter, one silhouette.
When Miley called it Dolly’s rock look, Dolly shot back, “Well, you dressed me.”
Halftime Show, Thanksgiving 2023 Dolly took the Cowboys’ Salvation Army halftime show in a customized cheerleader uniform: blue crop, white star vest, tiny white shorts, rhinestone mesh, and a crystal star over her navel. Manager Danny Nozell said even the inner circle didn’t see it until she left the dressing room.
Seventy-seven years old. Ninety thousand people. She said if it landed it would be cute, and if it didn’t they could call it an old woman doing a stupid thing. I saw it in real time. It landed. She also said she did it partly for her husband, who loved that squad. Of course she did.
In the end, Dolly has left us a simple instruction: if you’re going to show up, show up shining. ----- Thanks, Piper! The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:00 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)
Top pic looks like Maine?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)
Howdy SF! Not Maine. Close though. Want to guess again?
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:04 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:05 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (mzqTU)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Bernie is a communist. Everything he says and does is in the advancement of communism. His latest take on Flock cameras is fine but his motivations are suspect.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 30, 2026 10:07 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:07 PM (PMi3m)
My first thought on that fart corner is that little boys would not toot discretely, but have epic trumpet volleys to see who can fart the loudest.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
RIP Dolly. I'm looking forward to the Dolly Parton International Airport, and probably a lot of her things to be named after her.
And re her '70s hair. That's the epitome of the Jeff Foxworthy joke, "If your wife's hair has ever been destroyed by a ceiling fan, you might be a redneck."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
Huh. Huh huh. Huhhuhhuh.....
Posted by: Beavis & Butthead at August 30, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: TRex - rhinestoned dino at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (RIvkX)
22 years old, flying a heavy bomber into combat.
Today's 22-year old 'man' is likely to be playing computer games and jerking off to anime in Mom's basement.
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (ZxPkt)
"It’s time to Bud Light Dish Network"
Yeah, well, problem I have with that is the same as with many scoundrels: I didn't drink Bud. Or use Dish.
Posted by: mindful webworker - or vote Democrat at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (ie4vn)
Posted by: davidt at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:11 PM (kpS4V)
New York Post
@nypost
Clintons seeking intern with 'high level of discretion' at global foundation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)
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Friends of Blonde Morticia?
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026
Yes, he did a few but the most famous was the butterfly one pictured up there.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (ZdaMQ)
US Senator Bernie Sanders will soon introduce a bill to completely ban Flock cameras.
If it passes, Flock and other AI mass surveillance systems will be banned in the US to protect people's privacy.
While I applaud the idea of getting rid of intrusive cameras like this, I also wonder how realistic it is. It isn't like Flock is the first publicly oriented camera. Are we going to get rid of ALL of them. More to the point, has Bernie actually done any work to ensure that his bill passes Constitutional muster, or is he just trying to garner some quick favorable publicity. I think we all know the answer to that.
https://tinyurl.com/ms7cec5e
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
And Andrew McCarthy got a lot of nice shots of the Nancy Grace blast-off this morning, here on his X feed:
https://t.ly/jNipa
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (w6EFb)
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There's a rumor going around that the State of CA will rename the San Onofre nuclear power plant after Dolly Parton but nobody knows why.
https://tinyurl.com/2f9xab3a
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++)
There was a $5,000 bottle of bourbon in my local Virginia ABC store today.
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Did you buy it for me?
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (QLC6i)
I had exactly the same thought. They'd be stuffing themselves with beans for breakfast.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
He doesn't want his Antifa buddies tracked until after the revolution.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 PM (RIvkX)
Did it sound like a Celtic war horn? Because that would have been cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)
The Starbucks stand in my local supermarket was already pushing Pumpkin Spice today. And I saw a glowing reindeer decoration in Costco last week.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM
It already launched here, the kidlette got a PSL on our way to church this morning.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
(Stay with me here. . . )
As part of his Octave Celebration, we are holding a procession during the recognition of St. Francis' Transitus (I know, I know, stick with me) in which we have invited one of our local mostly Spanish speaking parishes to help host. This has caused quite a stir with one or two of our gang since they are racists and assholes. During a VERY contentious planning meeting today, one of our other Diocesan priests offered that he knows a very talented bagpiper who would be thrilled to join the procession. It was claimed he knows The Mexican Hat Dance.
Guess which Moron laughed so hard he had to get up and walk out?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (iUToW)
Same, but it was most of an aisle of Christmas stuff. In August.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:18 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: tankdemon
The Jews were behind Lindsay Clancy too?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (viF8m)
I'm learning to enjoy my time up this way. Definitely lots of picturesque beach views. Not the most enjoyable for lounging and swimming, though.
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: clarence at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (/2SkZ)
22 years old, flying a heavy bomber into combat.
Today's 22-year old 'man' is likely to be playing computer games and jerking off to anime in Mom's basement.
Posted by: Savage Henry
My mom's cousin was a B17 pilot. They were so young.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (Riz8t)
So there's a tropical disturbance in the Gulf. Yesterday they were saying 10% of development and spaghetti models had it going into Louisiana. Right now they're saying 70% and it's hitting the Upper Texas coast.
They're also saying it won't even be a tropical storm. Which means tomorrow it will be a Force 5 hurricane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Mao at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (GWwCk)
And thanks to Piper for the Dolly fashion show. Dolly was an amazing person and she will be missed.
Love the photo up top. Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Yuck!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (QLC6i)
The Jews were behind Lindsay Clancy too?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ndZc7)
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They used the kids' blood to make matzoh.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (Cqx++)
I wonder how many chickens get run over each time the coop moves?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq)
It already launched here, the kidlette got a PSL on our way to church this morning.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
I've seen PS cheesecake at Kneaders, but no donuts yet at KK or DD. I'll wait until Tuesday to partake. I'll need the energy to put up the fall decor around the house.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It is certainly rock-hard.
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)
But maybe we can work a deal…
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
I am?? News to me!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (QLC6i)
Like this?
https://tinyurl.com/2269zma6
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
The New England coast is littered with them.
We lack Brandy's. She was a fine girl.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (viF8m)
I am?? News to me!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:23 PM (QLC6i)
__________
You're a billionaire. Or at least you'll be classified as one for confiscation purposes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:25 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: TRex - rhinestoned dino at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1)
I'll never sing the Glen Campbell song the same way again!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:25 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (PMi3m)
If I ran into a demented person like that, I would say, "You are batshit crazy. For your own good, and the welfare of your family, I am going to call the Department of Human Sanitation, and have you hauled off to the gas chamber."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The wokeipedia article on it has a photo of a sign in SC:
WARNING
SUBMERGED
GROIN
grade-school mikeski might have stopped laughing by now.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
Plus there are lots of kale varieties out there. So not plussed about it. They will change their minds in 3 years. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 10:21 PM (lJ0H4)
Dick Winters and Lewis Nixon were 26 during the invasion of Normandy and Europe. Old timers. Bill Guarniere was 18.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: wth at August 30, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX)
Whew!
Maybe I could be considered an honorary sockmuppet?
Posted by: mindful webworker - the secret ingredient is taglines at August 30, 2026 10:29 PM (ie4vn)
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I can't tell you how much I abhor the current educational system, and the nitwit, self-absorbed, immature "teachers" that make it up. This is, absolute, nonsense...and the second this hit the public, the principal should have yanked her into the office and explained to her that she has the right to be stupid, puerile and pathetic on her own time. But, as a teacher she sets boundaries and examples for her students. She doesn't act more immature than they are.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 30, 2026 10:31 PM (qx7Zg)
I would consider converting to be there for that.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:31 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Nice use of the secret opposite of "nonplussed"!! You're back on track for Employee of the Month at Doof Enterprises!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (QLC6i)
My first thought on that fart corner is that little boys would not toot discretely, but have epic trumpet volleys to see who can fart the loudest.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
That’s what boys do. And it doesn’t stop. Not ever. They even teach their sons to trumpet.
And laugh every time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (CwGN+)
Lt. Bateman was serving as a pilot with the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group when his B-24D Liberator failed to return from a mission over Italy on August 16, 1943. He and nine fellow airmen were listed as missing in action, and for decades, his and his crew's remains were unidentified. He was 22 years old.
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That's nothing next to the mental load women have to endure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq)
I was in a Home Despot today. They have giant plastic skeletons, maybe ten feet tall, and life-sized pirate skeletons in costumes. The life-sized ones were priced at 400 bucks. Friggin' insane, it is. And you know what I couldn't get? A six-pack or ten-pack of #2 Phillips driver bits for cordless impact drivers or drills. The kind used for driving drywall screws. Probably the best-selling driver bit of any kind. And they are a consumable. They should be sold by the pound, like nails.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (1z8ji)
Like this?
https://tinyurl.com/2269zma6
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)
* * * *
Exactly!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:33 PM (D/6p1)
I am off to bed. Even though Saijo just hopped up here with a ball. Sigh.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Now we can talk about Piper. Did you hear about?...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX)
Plus there are lots of kale varieties out there. So not plussed about it. They will change their minds in 3 years. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
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So what you're saying is, never eat kale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
Piper, I'm too much of a fashion clod to genuinely appreciate the things you post here weekly, but this was a very lovely tribute to Dolly - thank
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:35 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: same as it ever was at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (pBJ6M)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (GebTj)
US Army Air Forces was All-Volunteer, too. It was a hell of a thing, because they had a policy where 25 combat missions had to be completed before getting rotated out. Some missions would lose 10% of the aircraft in one day, and they kept having to go back and try and hit the same target again. Then they (Well, Hap Arnold probably) raised the number of missions to 30, then later 35. I’m not sure I could have handled that well.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (IkLDu)
Is this where I remind you I have the pirate ship? 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)
And thanks Doof for the balance of this fine show.
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (JM9I6)
https://tinyurl.com/2f9xab3a
Posted by: Cicero
Trump, the Master Renamer of things, is considering changing those mountains — you know the ones — to be the Grand Partons.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in the Oklahoma hills where I was born at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (ie4vn)
And laugh every time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:32 PM (CwGN+)
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I always try to recall the most embarrassing and humiliating moments from my friends' early childhood for the enjoyment of their own children. I feel like I owe this to them.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
It is best to avoid it. Just to be safe.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:38 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2026 10:38 PM (wVcYX)
And thanks to Piper for the Dolly fashion show. Dolly was an amazing person and she will be missed.
Love the photo up top. Moody in a stormy way. Water seems to amplify the darkness of stormy weather.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 30, 2026 10:22 PM (D/6p1)
Howdy LS! Glad you enjoyed the photo. Was taken earlier today. Sky was actually not gray so not sure why the photo turned out looking like it was. But I liked it so I used it!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
......
Only if he has a removeable penis.
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Piper at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes.
And they fart and stink and make you want to lose your mind.
I love boys.
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
It is best to avoid it. Just to be safe.
What if one is confronted with a three door scenario? Behind one door is kale, behind the second one are Brussels Sprouts, and behind the third is a rabid badger.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6)
I've never been much of a beach guy, even when I lived and worked on them in the Caribbean.
New England waters are about the ocean. Hard to explain, I can't, and not for everyone but if it gets you it's almost like a drug. I can't imagine not being around it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)
Thanxs.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)
Sure - you buying?
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)
There are, unfortunately, a lot more Lindsay Clancy supporters than one would expect. I find it nauseating.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t)
Hope to get the badger. Just to be safe.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (1Ff7Z)
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
They fart too, ya know!
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (QLC6i)
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes.
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That makes them dangerous. They need to be drugged into compliance.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (O0L8i)
We have a launch in the morning.
Rocket Lab - Electron - Owl Around The World
LC 1 - Mähia, NZ - August 21, 2026
Launch Date: August 31, 2026
Launch Time: 8:42 A.M EDT (Sept 1st 23:30 NZDT, 1130 UTC, 13:30 CEST)
https://youtu.be/agoLNgN7wiU
Posted by: Joyenz at August 30, 2026 10:43 PM (2F0/Y)
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
You're gonna love it!!!
Imagine the day when you teach her that first tumbling run!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 10:30 PM (wxsGM)
Are you ordering breakfast?
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: One Of Canada's Finest at August 30, 2026 10:45 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6)
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Pretty sure this is something untoward.
How can a sock be a nic? Do you fold space too?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 10:16 PM (gvBhq)
I am tempted to seek out and post MacLean and MacLean's tribute to Dolly Parton. NSFW. Or most anyplace else.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Get her a pet otter to hold her hand while she sleeps?
Teach her how to shoot?
There's so many options!
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JackStraw
I get it. The salt air. The sound of the waves. It’s cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than inland. The wind. The humidity. The smell of low tide. Beachcombing after a storm. Drinking from a flask in the rain. The quiet. The noise. The calmness. The ferocity.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:47 PM (CwGN+)
9 [24 names] 'gnflcjcx'
10 [21 names] 'izewepkh'
Friends of Blonde Morticia?
Posted by: mikeski
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You know, there's like 15 or 20 actual people here and three of them are, are.....
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:47 PM (GebTj)
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I had my first ever pumpkin spice latte last week. I gotta admin it was real good. I can see how one could become addicted to them. Fortunately I'm cheap - it won't become a regular thing
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD)
But granddaughters are amazing. Mine is half tomboy and half stand-up comic (she'll be three next month). And she thinks farts are hilarious.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 10:49 PM (kOluj)
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched
.......
She will love you. You will love her. You are blessed.
Believe me I know.
Posted by: wth at August 30, 2026 10:49 PM (oq9dX)
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
My son and his lovely wife want to have a lot of kids. They are still newlywed.
I would love to have a granddaughter. So different than the bobcats we raised.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 30, 2026 10:40 PM (JM9I6)
Hey!
This is The Horde.
We're all half mental!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:50 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Marilyn Plotell Hall at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (JM9I6)
Got an interview tomorrow morning. Different company. I expect to hear from the first company and a third company later in the week!
And, for some reason, all this past week I've been thinking Labor Day was tomorrow, but no! My brain lied to me!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
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I can dig it, Ishmael.
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Tuna
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Dad's friend, bombardier/photographer, 20yo when shot down over Italy. Farmers rescued him, nursed him healthy, got him back across the line.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (GebTj)
You paint a nice picture.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD)
First one's free. He he he....
Posted by: Pumpkin Spice Pusher at August 30, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 PM (RIvkX)
You went too far south. I'm at the northern command for another week.
Photo is from Stoney Beach in Woods Hole, MA. Southwest corner of Cape Cod.
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 10:55 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:55 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: nurse ratched
______________________
Well, now. Nothing is etched in stone.
Posted by: Transgender Grooming Society at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (dIske)
Posted by: pookysgirl, mother to music-lovers at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Mao
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There's a song about that!
Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM (1QaG1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Pumpkin Spice Pusher at August 30, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Heh - it was, actually. And I fell for it hook, line, and sinker
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:58 PM (SW6Ju)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
All of that. And the feeling that once I leave the dock I am in a different world that doesn't have anything to do with the rules or conventions of life on land. The combination of freedom and a whole different level of responsibility is something that has to be experienced to understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 11:00 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: JackStraw
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New England doesn't deserve that beautiful coastline with inland water ways. It is a shanty boaters dream.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:00 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: pookysgirl, mother to music-lovers at August 30, 2026 10:56 PM (Wt5PA)
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Get a 7-day pill case. Easy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
New England waters are about the ocean. Hard to explain, I can't, and not for everyone but if it gets you it's almost like a drug. I can't imagine not being around it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)
I pretty much grew up at the jersey shore because my grandmother had a summer house there. I know where you're coming from. I'm not a beach person either. To me getting greased up and sizzling in the sun like a fucking piece of bacon is right up there with ball surgery with a rusty soup can lid. The water though, I'm not sure I can live land locked. I like seeing the water. I like hearing the water. I would love having a house on the beach. There is something about the water.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:48 PM (RkrlD)
I had my first one last year. In November - when it was actually fall weather! I admit, I enjoyed it - but it was too sweet.
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (QLC6i)
Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2026 10:58 PM (SW6Ju)
Six months later:
Hi, I'm 496, and I'm a pumpkin spice - a - holic.
Posted by: Fake French Voice at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Once shot down over enemy territory, crewmembers generally weren’t allowed back in combat. They might divulge the workings of partisans or resistance groups under torture if shot down again.
Chuck Yeager did an escape and evasion routine for a while after getting shot down. Upon return he demanded to be sent back to his unit. He was refused as was the policy. Eventually he finagled a meeting with General Eisenhower himself, who quipped “I just wanted a chance to meet the guy who has the opportunity to get the hell out of here but refuses”.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (IkLDu)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)
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Yes. That feeling.
That is what we seek to crush.
Posted by: The Globohomo Conspiracy at August 30, 2026 11:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tankdemon
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and somewhat frightening
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (GebTj)
From Schloss Hadrian, it's a short drive to the shore near Freeport. I haven't been down there in years.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (O0L8i)
https://tinyurl.com/ytcsj47x
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
Good for them. If they joined the EU, they would probably be swamped by thousands of musloids.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Common Tater
I was never sure how he fit in those tiny test-pilot cockpits with those giant clanging brass balls.
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)
Glares.
Posted by: Jon Townsend at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
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The Paolo picks up and runs with that in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (1CvoP)
This hits hard and very personal.
I need to find a letter I got a few months ago, from France.
I would rather quote verbatim than from memory.
Posted by: Miklos at August 30, 2026 11:05 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
EU: You have room for one hundred thousand refugees. You are required to take them, or else. Oh, by the way, you won't need facilities for females.
Posted by: Ursula at August 30, 2026 11:06 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yeah, and also the one who honcho'd the media.lynching of Richard Jewell.
The hag is the living exemplar of the TV "reporter" ghoul who sticks the Mic in the face of the murder victim's mother and says, "Tell.us, how does it feel?"
Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 11:07 PM (1QaG1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:03 PM (GebTj)
Galileo!
Posted by: Figaro at August 30, 2026 11:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Miklos
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I've got a letter my grandmother's brother sent to her from France. He didn't come home.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (GebTj)
Oh yes we do.
Come for a visit. There are more of us here than you think.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)
So, was it the tumor from Soup that killed you, or the kale?
Posted by: Bulg at August 30, 2026 10:12 PM (77rzZ)
Oh no! Did Piper die again???
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:09 PM (1CvoP)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:09 PM (1CvoP)
O.D.d on Kale smoothies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:10 PM (1Ff7Z)
>> Isn't Nancy Grace that lawyer woman TV show.
She started a new career as a telescope now.
Posted by: publius
Maybe she can find Nancy Guthrie.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 11:11 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)
I need to connect with you on my way to or from the Cape some time
Posted by: Doof at August 30, 2026 11:11 PM (QLC6i)
So are strippers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)
turned in to the police by Sam Altman’s Open AI.
He was an analyst for Goldman Sachs.
https://tinyurl.com/439m36zz
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:19 PM (GebTj)
I am now in the VA in my area. I've been impressed with it so far. I am in a kind of high-speed getting things squared away mode. My high blood pressure first and foremost. Have an appointment tomorrow to get my BP meds dialed in. But also some other things. None life-threatening, but, needing attention.
Apparently my local VA is one of the best in the nation.
Best of all, I got the lifetime national parks pass. Yes!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Unfortunately, they can never turn the telescope back to earth.
Seriously, and this was something I didn't know about until recently. The mirror for Nancy Grace was "donated" to NASA by the NRO -- they gave them two of 'em in fact. It was part of some super secret spy satellite program they weren't going to need.
A part of that was the requirement those mirrors cannot be used for earth observation, as that would reveal too much detail about the secret mirror tech.
That tech is probably at least 20 years old by now, probably obsolete, but still.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 30, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:23 PM (GebTj)
Homesteadershave used chicken tractors for years. The scale of the one featured is different, but nothing new.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 30, 2026 11:23 PM (Mz+Gv)
I've been offered a number of jobs over the years, good ones that were in places away from the ocean. This is an amazing country with spectacular places that I love to visit but I could never leave the ocean. Never will.
Just getting to see it everyday soothes my soul.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:24 PM (viF8m)
And boys are awesome. They are adventurous and kind and volatile and do stupid shit trying to bend the laws of nature. And they blast into space. And they break the sound barrier. And they love and they cuddle and they cry sometimes.
And they fart and stink and make you want to lose your mind.
I love boys.
I’m going to have a granddaughter. Holy
Helll. Now what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 10:39 PM (CwGN+)
Congratulations!!!
You're bringing her to TX next year, right???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 30, 2026 11:24 PM (+fdRY)
CBD knows how to find me despite the fact he ends up in France.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:28 PM (viF8m)
CBD knows how to find me despite the fact he ends up in France.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:28 PM (viF8m)
He shouldn't have taken that left turn at Albuquerque...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 11:29 PM (l3cgK)
Southern Culture on the Skids: Liquored up and Lacquered Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYrQ_bgVKk
Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (98xTj)
Excellent tribute to boys and boyhood. Thank you nurse.
Every blue-hair face-pierced tatted elementary school teacher should be required to stand and repeat that 3x a day each day at the start of the school day.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (1CvoP)
Posted by: JackStraw
100%
I’m spending a LOT more than I should by renting my place here on the beach.
Quality of life is most important to me. I’ll work until I die.
That’s ok.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 11:36 PM (I5z1m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYrQ_bgVKk
Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (98xTj)
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SCOTS! Dude, I love that tune. Also, Meximelt is one of my favorite instrumentals ever
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 11:39 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:48 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:50 PM (jPziU)
Oh yes we do.
Come for a visit. There are more of us here than you think.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)
I have to visit all six New England state capitols at some point.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:51 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Butch at August 30, 2026 11:52 PM (98xTj)
Posted by: buddhaha at August 30, 2026 10:57 PM
And you can go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.
Posted by: Mao at August 30, 2026 11:53 PM (jPziU)
The movement in favor of the separation of Alberta gained visibility on August 29 with a gathering in front of the provincial Legislature building in Edmonton, as the province approaches a vote that could pave the way for a binding referendum on its independence.
The demonstration, organized by the ''Alberta Prosperity Project'', coincided with the commemoration of Alberta's creation as a province in 1905.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:54 PM (GebTj)
Posted by: Butch
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https://youtu.be/Vs-P_xSVz60
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 30, 2026 11:55 PM (kOluj)
The wild and strange superstitions of the old west -
Do we still believe them?
youtu.be/SUt-aM8gfVs
I'm not superstitious m'self. Or, rather, I've devised my own superstitions. Black cat crosses my path, break a mirror, walk under a ladder, Friday the 13th, they're all good luck to me. But with cautions: don't walk under a ladder that some sloppy painter is standing on.🐈⬛
https://youtu.be/0CFuCYNx-1g
Time to depart for tonight. G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - hang that horseshoe points-up at August 30, 2026 11:55 PM (ie4vn)
She's basically the female Elvis--someone who made a mark and no one could fill their shoes (or bra).
FU Michael Jackson. FU Bruce Springsteen. Pretenders who would wilt if they touched the Crown.
PS: I suppose I should mention that I have had a fair number of drinks. But damn it, I'm still not dead! You mean the movie lied?!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 30, 2026 11:56 PM (CHHv1)
Every blue-hair face-pierced tatted elementary school teacher should be required to stand and repeat that 3x a day each day at the start of the school day.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 30, 2026 11:31 PM (1CvoP)
For summer school I had an (otherwise hot) 9th grade “English teacher” who sneered at my reading The Hunt For Red October because it was “a man’s book”. She would have been shocked to hear that Tom Clancy himself reported that about a third of his fan mail came from women.
(I say “English teacher” because in a normal school year, she taught dance and business, but not English. She may have been hot, but on reflection she was a real bitch.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 11:58 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q)
The movement in favor of the separation of Alberta gained visibility on August 29 with a gathering in front of the provincial Legislature building in Edmonton, as the province approaches a vote that could pave the way for a binding referendum on its independence.
The demonstration, organized by the ''Alberta Prosperity Project'', coincided with the commemoration of Alberta's creation as a province in 1905.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 11:54 PM (GebTj)
There will be a rally for AB independence there the weekend before the referendum to hold a referendum.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (jPziU)
Male sure to visit the Lovecraft bookstore when you visit Providence. If I was still in Boston I would give you a guided tour. Despite the current wokeness it's a great city. Go in the fall. Beautiful city.
Honestly, despite how all of New England has gone woke there are some great places to visit.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Same.
There is also the veterans park pass for TX State Parks. All day pass fees are waived. If I want to spend a day hiking in the canyons nearest me, I don’t pay the fee.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Jen the original at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (EiUt/)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (iY+4Q)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojJTLf-mIo
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q)
May your chains rest lightly upon you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:05 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)
I do not doubt or question this, just based on my brief forays into ME and the adjacent Maritimes in Canada. It’s just a matter of me getting out there. And now that I think on it, I gotta hit Springfield. The Basketball HoF is there.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:05 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 31, 2026 12:03 AM (iY+4Q)
Some kid at work asked me if I thought the government was in on it. I promptly shot it down with “the government is too incompetent to pull something like that off”.
Not to mention: NO ONE in 25 years has come forward? Really?
Conspiracy theories are so dumb.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:07 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (jPziU)
It is still unclear as to whether a clear separation question will appear on the ballot. The wagon burners have challenged the referendum in Federal court.
An independent Alberta would treat the indians fairly. They would hate that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:08 AM (1z8ji)
He doesn't want his Antifa buddies tracked until after the revolution.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 30, 2026 10:14 PM (+9wcF)
Leftists are scared that Flock cameras will be used to track their core constituency - non-Americans, like illegal aliens.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (jPziU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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A Mohawk told me that Canada provided them free college.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)
She has one! I even let her pick it out. It's green so it stands out but is transparent enough to see the pills inside. She's had the same routine for three years but still forgets and doesn't remember when we ask her.
I've been on the sidelines to ADHD my whole life. There are days that I need a break from it.
Posted by: pookysgirl, chief facilitator at August 31, 2026 12:15 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2026 12:16 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard
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This sounds supicious.
Posted by: The Last of the Mohicans, 1826 at August 31, 2026 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:13 AM (GebTj)
I don't know that for certain, but it would not surprise me. Actually, I could support that, provided the college courses taught useful skills, and not a mass of woke indoctrination.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard
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This sounds supicious.
Posted by: The Last of the Mohicans, 1826 at August 31, 2026 12:19 AM (XeU6L)
It was a free Mohawk haircut and a collage of Indians winning at Little Big Horn.
It was a free Mo
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 31, 2026 12:22 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2026 12:22 AM (1z8ji)
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Stand mine vertical on the table by my chair, set it down when I've finished. It's a flag up or down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:25 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:27 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:29 AM (GebTj)
There are worse times to pull the ripcord.
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 12:31 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:33 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:33 AM (Fv80
Mammaw always made the most delicious green beans imaginable. She'd use bacon and onion. I have never been able to recreate them (most likely because the beans she always used were fresh.)
Brussel Sprouts though, I heartily agree.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2026 12:35 AM (Y/06r)
https://youtu.be/VhgwHLFZf4c
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 31, 2026 12:35 AM (qx7Zg)
Carl was a lucky, lucky man.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (IG3/x)
Cool day (finally!) so I got some stuff done outside. Back into the broiler tomorrow, though. Ugh.
Broken or no-go engagement is sad, but better than what happened to my 2nd cousin.
She & BF were engaged, set the date, booked the church and paid for reception venue... and then the dude called it off *day of* !!!
At least he had the (I have no word for it.. balls, maybe?) to stand at the church door and greet all their guests, and inform them that there would not be a wedding that day.
There was a brief church service, and then a meal for all at the reception hall anyway.
At least the guy didn't totally stand her up!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
__/derechadiario.com
Kudos to La Derecha Diario an Argentine ex X entity moved to a full time website covering, mostly, populace, conservative issues in this hemisphere. Good job and good luck.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:39 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:40 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2026 12:43 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Maybe Just Me at August 31, 2026 12:00 AM (iY+4Q)
I do. Why the fuck should the city know or care? And bear in mind the government knows all about me already. Two cards I have on my pocket at all times ensure that. It’s not that I have nothing to hide - I CAN’T have anything to hide. Even so, they have no business knowing about me or when or where I choose to go. This isn’t the GDR.
Don’t tell me about Google either - if the adverts in YT are anything to go by, they suck at figuring out where I am.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (jPziU)
Easy. Pick the green beans out and toss them. Or skip a step and just sautee the bacon and onions.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
The Phlegms aren't good for much, in general.
Posted by: Dutch Boy Paints at August 31, 2026 12:48 AM (JM9I6)
I heard my whole life about my Uncle, killed when his B-24 was shot down over occupied France.
I remembered, but who else?
Late last May I got a letter (paper, La Poste) from someone in France. It was addressed to my mother, but nowadays I get her mail.
It was about her only brother (my Uncle)
----Pixy limits----
Posted by: Miklos at August 31, 2026 12:50 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)
Amazon itself could make a good profile of a customer.
Combine that with driving habits, telephone conversations, pics, and texts.
They know you better than you do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (GebTj)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (WB/3O)
To quote-
"This may bring difficult and painful memories, but you should know that the American Airmen who fought and sacrificed for France are not forgotten here.
I am a local historian who researches and documents US Army Air Force actions over my locality.
Last year, I was contacted by the owner of a field in Queyrac where an aircraft had crashed during the Second World War. Her family had always told her that it had been a bomber, although they were never completely certain. I visited the site and recovered numerous artifacts from the ground. Thanks to the serial numbers stamped on several of these pieces, I was able to confirm that this was indeed the wreckage of the B-24 we had been searching for—the aircraft in which your uncle and his fellow crew member, S/Sgt. TM, tragically lost their lives."
---Pixy limits---
Posted by: Miklos at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (4RYRd)
Amazon itself could make a good profile of a customer.
Combine that with driving habits, telephone conversations, pics, and texts.
They know you better than you do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:56 AM (GebTj)
They could, but I can’t help but wonder especially after seeing some of the very poorly targeted advertising out there. If they knew me better than I do, I would never see a Spanish language ad. Yet I get those. Amazon even will try and sell me very off the wall things.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:58 AM (WB/3O)
Posted by: JQ
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I love greens, all greens, especially greens prepared in the manner of Southern Cooking. A meal is not hardly a meal without green somethings.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 12:59 AM (GebTj)
Not to mention: NO ONE in 25 years has come forward? Really?
Conspiracy theories are so dumb.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 12:07 AM (jPziU)
I worked for USACE for.... too many years. There is no f-ing way the government could have pulled anything like this off, and then covered the tracks.
For the lova....
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:01 AM (dEHLq)
I am in touch with this excellent person (who speaks excellent English, and is a remarkably diligent and thorough researcher).
Come any variety of Hell of High Water, I will be there for whatever the locals arrange.
In part because I want to
In part because I think should and simply must
Apparently I am the only family member of the crew who will.
Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (4RYRd)
Collards! Would need to grow my own; can't find it fresh here. Canned is bleh.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Easy. Pick the green beans out and toss them. Or skip a step and just sautee the bacon and onions.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 12:45 AM (Fv80
Oh, for Pete's sake. You have never been served a decent dilly bean, apparently. Do please try mine, and give up your hate for green beans. They can be positively delicious.
Or don't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional
Wow! That's really something! I don't know any of you, but am deeply touched by that gesture.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
>Pressure cooker. High pressure. You can render them to mush if you like, but it's not necessary because they are all suitably palatable.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 31, 2026 01:05 AM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Miklos is actually named after the man, so this is not optional at August 31, 2026 01:03 AM (4RYRd)
And you will remember, as will God Almighty, and that's pretty darned good company.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2026 01:06 AM (dEHLq)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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It's all random disconnected piles of information but they have the correlation or assimilation ability to put it all together.
Enter license plate # and collect every association with it and put it in chronological order. If it's your plate - Bingo. Otherwise they don't GAS about us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 01:06 AM (GebTj)
Yeah, childhood was tough.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
This sort of thing has happened a lot in Holland, and probably in parts of France too, but it hasn't been as well known.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 01:11 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
I can go for all those, especially with bacon and Hollandaise sauce. Or an iceberg wedge with blue cheese, bacon, and chunk crab meat.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 31, 2026 01:17 AM (Fv808)
Miklos, what a wonderful story, I am so glad that you will be in attendance. It has long been a desire of mine to get to the military cemetery in Holland where my uncle is buried.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 01:17 AM (ibDUx)
An older guy came into military museum where I volunteered. Said he'd not long before received a call from a stranger, an old USMC vet in WI. Guy said he had info about the older guy's father's death, at Iwo Jima.
Older guy's father had been a Marine officer. WI vet said he remembered him and his kid sister, in their Sunday best, at promotion ceremonies etc at Camp Pendleton, with their mom, standing next to the staff car. This alone set the old guy back a bit (it was all accurate).
WI vet said he'd been wounded, was being treated aboard an LST in an area used as expedient sick bay/surgical area. He was conscious. Shortly after he got there, they brought in old guy's father - serious head wound. WI vet said he asked the surgeon if the officer, his commander, would likely make it. Doc shook his head "no". So nearly 70 years later, this guy learned some details of his father's last moments, from a stranger who called him.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2026 01:18 AM (U/Byj)
Snap beans, the three essential greens and spinach. Only recently introduce to fresh spinach leaves which is a pleasant surprise.
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and asparagus are on the menu.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 01:19 AM (GebTj)
They were "ok" but not like store-bought sprouts. Tiny.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
They were "ok" but not like store-bought sprouts. Tiny.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
Satan's dingleberries. I would have grabbed a pitching wedge and landed them in my neighbors yard. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 01:33 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 01:34 AM (ibDUx)
The problem with brussels sprouts (hear me out...) is that the outer leaves get bitter, especially during hot weather. I don't ever buy them in Summer! Late Autumn and Early Spring are best, as they are a "cool season" crop.
They're just tiny cabbages, after all. If you don't like cabbage.. well, that's ok, stay away from b'sprouts..
I will cut off their base, & peel off the dark, outermost leaves. Then steam them. Smother with butter! Lightly salt & pepper.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Veggies are good/bad depending on my mood, LOL.
I go through phases of liking/disliking some of them. Cooked/raw is another changing preference. :shrug:
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)
I will cut off their base, & peel off the dark, outermost leaves. Then steam them. Smother with butter! Lightly salt & pepper.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
I hate cabbage. Mrs B likes them. I blame her family, and I call their food choices com-bloc cooking. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 01:48 AM (S41Gd)
I made cabbage rolls just the other day, heh.
Today I cooked & shredded chicken for tomorrow night's enchiladas. Will mix some plain chicken meat with BBQ sauce for hubby's lunch tomorrow, then bring him a couple enchiladas next day.
We like what we like. It's ok if nobody else likes it.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
They can have my share too. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 31, 2026 02:07 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: raimondo at August 31, 2026 02:07 AM (XGdVa)
The Brussel sprouts thing is genetics. Some people, and I am one have a taste variation that allows them to taste a specific group of compounds that those without the genes cannot taste. That compound tastes very bitter. And to me, they're just little balls of bitter grenades that go off in my mouth.
Another fascinating thing is Brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, and several others are all the same species of plant! It's just like different dog breeds, various traits have been enhanced by selective breeding.
I love cabbage and broccoli. And the reason is that bitter compound just isn't there in the concentrations it is in Brussel sprouts. Cabbage, especially the outer leaves can get higher concentrations of that, and I have tasted that bitterness there a little bit from time to time. It depends on growing conditions to some extent, and I forget the details.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (w6EFb)
I hate anchovies too, yuck!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 02:10 AM (mg7Dh)
Posted by: Berserker
I tried oysters twice: canned/smoked that bro shared with me years ago (bleh! couldn't brush my teeth enough to get the taste out!) and raw, when XH & I lived in FL. "Snot on the half-shell" Ugh!
Anchovies: tried at neighbors' when they offered me pizza. Omg, I like salt, but not *that much all at once!*
Snails: in Japan. Party with friends at a locals' home... They had a pot of *stuff* with many wooden skewers in it. I pulled out a snail. Urk! Bitter, and gross texture! It was so difficult to keep a straight, pleasant countenance as I choked it down and thanked our hosts!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:16 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 01:40
You got it JQ. Homegrown b'sprouts are a whole different food than anything you can buy in a store.
How's hubby doing? Last few reports I read things were as good as can be expected.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 31, 2026 02:17 AM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: Ben Had
LMFAO!
Link?
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Farmer
Steady as he goes, Farmer. Best as is possible, I guess.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:16 AM (PbWRL)
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No beeper necessary!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 02:19 AM (mg7Dh)
Posted by: Case at August 31, 2026 02:24 AM (x5VN8)
The US did a preemptive strike on Lark Island and killed a group of IRGC that were massing there.
The IRGC responded by firing 6 missiles at Jordan, all of which were intercepted. Tehran Tim is telling the people they wiped out the two bases in Jordan.
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Posted by: JQ
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My FIL was on a mission at the desert, they were all seated on a rug just like in the movies. He said the same about eating goats eyes. mmmh delicious and I'm going to smile and not puke. I am not going to puke.
On that happy note I bit everyone a good and joyful evening.
We are winning and we will win.
On with the siege.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 31, 2026 02:39 AM (GebTj)
In Japan, if I could've gotten to a place that served fugu, I *would have* tried that! Alas, we were too poor to travel to Tokyo.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:43 AM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 31, 2026 02:43 AM (ibDUx)
Been in *that* situation too many times in this life already! I'm done. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:49 AM (PbWRL)
Have the men fix bayonets, Lieutenant Bromhead
Posted by: Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, thinking those Zulus appear unfriendly at August 31, 2026 02:50 AM (4RYRd)
See some of you on the tech thread.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2026 02:55 AM (PbWRL)
Kinda bland, but it was just a sample & I think the locals would prepare it into "ikura", after taking it home.
It was another life, another time...
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: raimondo at August 31, 2026 02:49 AM (XGdVa)
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I needed to assess just how big a lie you're telling.
Yep. BIGLY!
https://tinyurl.com/yu9fa69b
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 03:07 AM (mg7Dh)
Thanks for the link anyway!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
We need better trolls. Seriously.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 31, 2026 03:12 AM (WB/3O)
Thanks for the link anyway!
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah but it's still fun to refute the idiot in case other randos show up and read the thread. And a good resource for us as well.
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Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
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I looked it up out of pure curiosity simply because I was totally unfamiliar with the subject. Truly a nothingburger - both the news and Raimondope.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 31, 2026 03:14 AM (mg7Dh)
Posted by: Cow Demon
True.
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 30, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)
What I find fascinating is that if internet anecdotes are to be believed, some men have actually turned it into a "shit test." That is an almost entirely female dating strategy of saying and doing outrageous things to test men's reactions, checking whether their instincts are at the same status level as their presentation. (There's no upside for passing, just avoidance of instant DQ.)
The superficially similar 'negging' tactic of male 'players' serves a nearly inverted purpose, protecting a facade by putting women on the defensive. But asking a woman about Lindsay Clancy serves an actually shit-test-like purpose, checking to see if her instincts are as "mommy material" as her appearance. And it's reliable, since even status fakers believe their instincts are correct.
Posted by: SciVo at August 31, 2026 03:17 AM (ke3zm)
Sure, kids can be a PITA sometimes. Sure, they will push the limit of parents' patience. But that is NOT a reason to k1ll them! Dear Lord, what an asshoe that broad is!
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Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 03:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Sure, kids can be a PITA sometimes. Sure, they will push the limit of parents' patience. But that is NOT a reason to k1ll them! Dear Lord, what an asshoe that broad is!
Posted by: JQ
Simply Put:
LIBs Proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.
Better Shit test: Space Above and Beyond:
Which side would you be on?
the AIs: Take a Chance, Save the World, Kill them all.
the Aliens: just kill them all, take their world
the Humans: Die the Hero or live long enough to see your self become the Enemy?
The series never identified 'why' the AIs would somehow equate Saving the World with an alliance with with an enemy they were certain to defeat
STARSHIP TROOPERs: citizenship is not a birthright; it is a status earned
The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not
A World Safe for Socialism?
needs de-bugging; not AOC in FREE GAZA hotpants commanding the Rama/Suicide Squad.
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May you have a safe trip back and forth, Skip, and while you are there working.
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The fact that its looks to be coming from everywhere all at once makes me think that there are a bunch of people - probably politicians - doing criminal things that Flock could expose.
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Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Fen, you can't close doors when there's a smol kitteh in the house! Heh...
Posted by: JQ at August 31, 2026 04:13 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, one never shuts doors with cats. They do NOT like it. Ours will have a fit if we try to hide from them. :-)
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The fact that its looks to be coming from everywhere all at once makes me think that there are a bunch of people - probably politicians - doing criminal things that Flock could expose.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 31, 2026 04:10 AM (C0Nlv)
Not worth the cost.
Besides, you are assuming I’m under marching orders from someone - I arrived at the conclusion that societal surveillance was bad long ago without guidance from others.
By the way, before you throw tech privacy invasions at me - recently I am getting a flurry of ads on YT and other social media - concerning LA. I live nowhere near LA. In the neighboring state of TX, yes, but far away from LA. If Google were this omnipotent threat, you’d think they figured that out, right? In any event, Google is not giving intel to people who will deprive me of my liberty or kill me. Flock, However, is, and does so very cheerfully.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (IQf6S)
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 30, 2026 07:00 PM (mGFn3)
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 30, 2026 07:01 PM (mGFn3)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: RandomDave at August 30, 2026 07:04 PM (aJQbY)
Ask about the 4 rulesl of gun safety before the 1st date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
1. Grab crotch
2 hold gun sideways
3. Talk smack
4. Empty magazine in random direction.
What do I win?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM (IQf6S)
What's burning tonight Weasel?
My burn is delayed a few hours, I FaceTime with a buddy down in Tejas and he likes to wait for the infernal heat to abate before sitting outside.
Thinking I'll try another of the Blackbird cigars I got in a sampler. Sort of duds, so far. Disappointing. Or maybe an Oliva Serie V or a My Father La Duena (sweet little lanceros).
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 07:02 PM
All right-thinking people wish this.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:06 PM (0sNs1)
Sorry I cannot stay, out with some family.
Have fun and don't forget the FUNdementals! :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (dZE4s)
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Not sure. I think I'll dig around in the humidor for a change of pace!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM
We're always here for you, Weasel-san.
Posted by: Swisher Sweets at August 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)
A couple of Model 18s in excellent condition, speaking of rimfire. A Model 66 no-dash that's lightly used, and a nice fresh-looking Ruger SP101 with a CrimsonTrace grip I'm hoping to give to my niece (her momma wants her gunned up for truck camping trips etc).
Colt Combat Commander and another P7 to be sold to a friend from shooting matches who's a real collector.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:10 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Swisher Sweets at August 30, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)
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Don't seem to have those in inventory. I was thinking more along the lines of a Cohiba.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:10 PM (leKdc)
Nothing good happens after midnight.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (dZE4s)
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Some random family? Are they at least nice?
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:13 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:13 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Puddleglum, lurkin' about at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (sAmhv)
(actually going to check Heyjackass.com to see how Chiraq is doing this summer on their body count)
Actually saw a report of a shooting in ..... Switzerland, of all places. Not common. A fairly heavily armed society, but, a society. Standards, expectations, respect for law, all that exotic stuff I've read about from earlier periods of US history.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:14 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: J.J. Cale at August 30, 2026 07:15 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:15 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt)
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Especially when you feed your Mogwai...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 07:16 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: J.J. Kale at August 30, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 07:17 PM (wa6DW)
1. Grab crotch
2 hold gun sideways
3. Talk smack
4. Empty magazine in random direction.
What do I win?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:05 PM
Well, I'm not sure, since you haven't met all of the qualifications, to the best of my knowledge.
1. I've never seen you do this.
2. I've never seen you do this, either, but I will stipulate the possibility.
3. I have observed this, both here online, and IRL.
4. While I have not observed this personally, reputable sources (specifically CBD) imply they have, particularly when involving .45 ACP.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:17 PM (0sNs1)
Since I appendix carry with a simple Uncle Mikes inside the waist holster that you can remove and put back easily I keep mine in the slot between the center console and passenger seat.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 07:19 PM (XuXeR)
Actually looks about the same, though I'd bet the cartel-related shenanigans have decreased.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:20 PM (U/Byj)
Since I appendix carry with a simple Uncle Mikes inside the waist holster that you can remove and put back easily I keep mine in the slot between the center console and passenger seat.
Posted by: polynikes
Center console.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (IQf6S)
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (BCwQW)
It's harder to fudge the numbers when you're in the spotlight but I'm sure the Chicago politicians have given it the old college try.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:22 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 07:21 PM (BCwQW)
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Ed L - sure, if you like. I'll be sending out an email to volunteers in the next couple of days. Thanks
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Posted by: J.J. Kale at August 30, 2026 07:25 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:25 PM (U/Byj)
If you are here, then you know that Ace of Spades is a "vibrant" on-line community and if you stay, you probably enjoy that community. A MoMe is kind of an extension of the on-line community into the real world, where lurkers still lurk and conversers still converse.
When I first traveled up the road to Corsicana, the conversers all had interesting things to say and I learned a bunch of noms-de-blog that I learned to look out for. You'll never find a more welcoming group than you'll find at a MoMe, and you can quietly ask questions about the blog's in-jokes, which is a major advantage over asking on the blog.
In short, the Texas MoMe is unutterably fun. Someday, I hope to try one of the others, but for now I hope to see you all in Corsicana.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:26 PM (VmDLh)
LOVED IT.
Looking forward to my next pilgrimage.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:23 PM (2Ez/1)
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Was meeting Weasel the best part?
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc)
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My pleasure!
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Exciting news. My purchase made the trip from VA to MD without a problem arriving a day early. Went to FFL with proper paperwork, filled out the forms, pd my fee to the State Police, now have to wait 7 days and get the Not Disapproved letter.
Had to laugh as there were two guys wanting to make a purchase and had no idea that they needed permission. It will cost me an extra $90 and a two week wait but it's done.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:29 PM (kJmSS)
Damn, where are the right-wing billionaires when you need them? Someone should write a modest check so a permanent staff can keep a site like that going full speed.
As of a few weeks back, the "Chicago shot clock" showed a shooting every 4 minutes 36 seconds. Something their 400-lb governor can be proud of.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (XfIK1)
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Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc)
You're definitely underrated as a funny guy.
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Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM (KC5Lt)
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Oddly, after 25 years, WeaselWoman no longer thinks so.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel
Oh, fancy. My local place carries tins of the Cohiba pequenos that I get. Really like the Blue. Once accidentally picked up a Black tin (twas a little dark in their humidor), and those little buggers pack a punch!
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Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM
What do you do if you have no desire at all to see or come within many miles of any sort of bear?
I'm, um, asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:34 PM (VmDLh)
and it's all lin-duh's fault.
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Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM
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Well, YEAH...that kinda goes without saying.
But, truthfully I ain't a gun person, but I sure have gained an appreciation for those who are.
What I found so satisfying is to be able to talk in-person with people and put a face with a nickname.
And get some backstories. Everybody has a story and I enjoy hearing them all.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Totally not Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:27 PM (leKdc)
You're definitely underrated as a funny guy.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:32 PM
If you only knew.
Posted by: The Fourth Shot at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)
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Hey! Looking forward to seeing you in the cigar lounge!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:35 PM (leKdc)
I'm, um, asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cybersmythe
>Get an RV. I wish I could afford one.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL)
Unless it's a long drive, say over 3 hours, it stays in my waistband. With the caveat that I probably carry lighter than most of y'all -- a Sig P290 -- and in a very well made holster.
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Unintended lateral deviation for demonstration purposes on the hazards of wobbly shit.
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Clearly, it was meeting RI Red.
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* slight smile *
You have learned well, Grasshopper!
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Posted by: Duncanthrax
Hmmmm, may have to rethink the wardrobe selection to eliminate skirts...
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Troll!
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Posted by: Totally not RI Red
***********
Of course not. Are you intending to be in TX this Oct, because I intend on hitting the 1000 mark and would like you to be there....So would Emily (she told me so)...
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Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:43 PM (NGXcE)
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Well I'm going to have to rethink my outfits!
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Unless, I set up a gofundme.
That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel.
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And guns.
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:45 PM
Likewise.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (VmDLh)
Posted by: fd
Oh no, are they checking for that this year? Gonna need to study the CAPTCHA pics.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (NGXcE)
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Endless hours of sorting match bullets is not something I miss!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel
>Piper can hook you up so you don't look like a hobo. You might even get some offers for a date from the horde.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:51 PM (PbWRL)
I can attest to this.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:52 PM (33fCl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:54 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:54 PM (leKdc)
Unless, I set up a gofundme.
That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel.
There’s sex in it.
And guns.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (33fCl)
Rock n roll?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (jPziU)
And guns.
Rule #4.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs)
Don’t stick your d*ck in a gun?
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (33fCl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 07:55 PM (jPziU)
I'm, um, asking for a friend.
Posted by: Cybersmythe
Say in a very large city an if possible out of any woods.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (NnhvP)
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Don’t stick your d*ck in a gun?
I meant Cooper's Rule #4 but I suppose that's a valid corollary.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (vTZFs)
Aren't all the cool kids jumping on OnlyFans to resolve pecuniary difficulties?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
Doesn’t have to be fancy.
But meeting morons irl is pretty darn special. Please go if you can.
If you can’t, network with folks in your area and make your own.
You won’t regret the contacts and friendships. Seriously
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (RQowV)
Aren't all the cool kids jumping on OnlyFans to resolve pecuniary difficulties?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
I’ve got it! OnlyGuns!
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (33fCl)
and it's all lin-duh's fault.
Posted by: Ben Had
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What did I do???🤗🤣😂
Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM (VCgbV)
Unless, I set up a gofundme.
That’s the ticket, I’ll do advance sales of my forthcoming novel.
There’s sex in it.
And guns.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 07:47 PM (33fCl
What kind of guns?
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 08:00 PM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:00 PM (PbWRL)
Hmmm. Gonna go check the tupperdors again. Thinking an Undercrown Maduro might be the call today.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (U/Byj)
Doesn’t have to be fancy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM
I can confirm. All it takes is a place to meet and an announcement. I've notably met both Count de Monet and Hadrian the Seventh, which puts me in some rare company.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (VmDLh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax"
That's because the contrasting black and white plumage of the penguin makes it a standout target at 1000 yards or more.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 30, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg)
You have to be a member to find out. That will be $100, please.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:02 PM (33fCl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:04 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj)
Never stay at a Hyatt Hotel. Anywhere. For any reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:04 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (PbWRL)
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Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc)
This. Won't forget that moment, and I'm sure it's different for everyone because that's Ben Had. She makes you feel that the entire event was created just for you. It's her superpower, and thankfully, she uses it for good...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 07:50 PM
+++
VIA surface in an Art Thread recently.
Word is - No MoMe for VIA this year.
Sad trumpet.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:07 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:07 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (PbWRL)
Yes, she does. Ben Had is the hostess with the mostest. She is kind and gracious and makes you feel like the party was waiting for you to get there to begin.
It’s a gift.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (Wnee8)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM
+++++
Says the Karaoke powerhouse!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ben Had
***********
Whatever it takes.....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (XfIK1)
Exciting news. My purchase made the trip from VA to MD without a problem arriving a day early. Went to FFL with proper paperwork, filled out the forms, pd my fee to the State Police, now have to wait 7 days and get the Not Disapproved letter.
Had to laugh as there were two guys wanting to make a purchase and had no idea that they needed permission. It will cost me an extra $90 and a two week wait but it's done.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:29 PM (kJmSS)
I still can’t get over the fact that, on federal property, in MD (Andrews AFB), you can buy firearms.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM
Oh, that's just frickin great. Now I have to remember what they look like so that I don't call one of them by the wrong names, too.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 30, 2026 08:10 PM (VmDLh)
In a follow-up to last week’s kaboom story, it is highly likely that the fault was a high primer.
I fessed up entirely to Palmetto State. They gave me links for replacement parts - BCG and 20 rd mag.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:10 PM (33fCl)
Nothing good happens after midnight.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Trenton, NJ?
Out of all the state capitals I have been too…what an absolute dump.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:12 PM (jPziU)
It occurred to me recently that most of my really good friends I met through my association with this blog and attending MoMes, specifically the TXMoMe. I am not making this up. MoMe regulars know this, but to all of the introvert fence-sitters out there, try it at least once. You will not regret it.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:12 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel
Piper can hook you up so you don't look like a hobo. You might even get some offers for a date from the horde.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Presumably, this "WeaselWoman" person would not be in favor of that outcome.
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (VHUov)
No range time this weekend as I went to the Kitsap Co Fair.
And I did not carry. Just didn’t seem like the right situation. I did have pepper spray in my pocket. But no pistol.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnee8)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:09 PM (jPziU)
AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Services, i.e. "the PX") sells firearms at select locations (also Ft. Belvoir in VA). NEX (Navy Exchange) does not, at least in the DC area.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (VHUov)
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She puts up with a lot of my retarded shit, but in this case, I think you're correct!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 07:58 PM
A black kitten says, "You could have taken me home ..."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:06 PM
+++++
Says the Karaoke powerhouse!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 08:08 PM (2Ez/1)
I'm only mostly good. Mostly...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM
This isn't about me, is it?
Posted by: Greasy John Deere tractor battery being recharged on the kitchen counter at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
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The kitty ended up exactly where he needed to be.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (leKdc)
In a follow-up to last week’s kaboom story, it is highly likely that the fault was a high primer.
I fessed up entirely to Palmetto State. They gave me links for replacement parts - BCG and 20 rd mag.
Posted by: RI Red
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Sorry that you had that event. Dunno if PSA's bolt carrier is the same but CDNN Sports has Anderson's DMPS pattern LR-308 parts. I think PSA uses DMPS low pattern for the upper receiver itself but I think the bolt carriers are the same for either.
Anderson got bought out by Ruger and has disappeared into the outer darkness. CDNN got the remnant parts.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnee
How do you know it wasn’t the right situation? My test is, are there more people in a place than just me.
We have a wonderful country fair up here. No obvious threats. I still carry.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl)
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:14 PM (BCwQW)
And at Elmendorf AFB last I saw…but beyond the gates is a very gun friendly state.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: Greasy John Deere tractor battery being recharged on the kitchen counter at August 30, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)
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Well that's a solid example. Still, anyone who has met her agrees she is totally unreasonable.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl)
You Never Kniw.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:19 PM (jPziU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP)
Sadly, I will not be attending this year unless something unforeseen happens.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP)
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Link?
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (leKdc)
I need to get a .22 semi-auto pistol. I need something to work on not flinching and all of that, where it's so very easy to see/feel. My little Heritage 6-shooter takes too long to reload for that sort of practice.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:17 PM (33fCl)
You Never Kniw.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 08:19 PM (jPziU)
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County fairs are probably far safer than churches with large congregations, especially in suburban and metropolitan areas.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:18 PM
Dude! She let you keep us, didn't she???
Posted by: FSJ & Gertie at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (PbWRL)
Yet.
Posted by: RI Red at August 30, 2026 08:23 PM (33fCl)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 07:49 PM
Is it very very frightening?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 08:23 PM (9iRTe)
Cleaned and removed the active rust from the parts and got the lock working again. Drilled out the snapped screw ends in the plate and tumbler and am having to make a pin for the bridle.
Probably not going back with the odd and obsolete 10-28 screw for the hammer and will substitute something more modern. If anyone needs such a tap to restore threads, you can still get a HSS tap from S&S Firearms for about $20 bucks for the 10-28 screw holes that need to be tapped.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:24 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM
Personally, a Ben Had-harvested pig would add a tremendous, perhaps even an over-the-top amount of je ne sais quoi.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: FSJ & Gertie at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)
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Are you kidding? She loves them more than anything! I'd be out of the house before they were!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Ben Had
Yet.
Posted by: RI Red
Now that's comedy.
Posted by: Slappy Squirrel at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 07:36 PM (PbWRL)
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Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc)
THIS!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 30, 2026 08:25 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
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The kitty ended up exactly where he needed to be.
Posted by: Weasel
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Bingo!!
Posted by: lin-duh at August 30, 2026 08:26 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:20 PM (NnhvP)
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Link?
Posted by: Weasel
https://ace.mu.nu/
Look forward to seeing you, Weasel Just a short time now!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NSiSx)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:21 PM (kU0PQ)
The Colt Service Model Ace pistols and Colt .22/.45 conversion kits did a good job of putting a .22 training pistol into the same frame as the service handgun. But they required constant cleaning. The dirty .22 ammo would jam up the pistol if the user didn't clean the pistol after each range session.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)
This has been a subject of some consternation for me over the years. I'm still working on it, but it isn't really accessible sitting at 3-ish-o'clock, behind the seat belt buckle. And I often carry with my shirt tucked over the holster. When carrying tucked, it becomes even harder muck with it, as trying to tuck the shirt back in doesn't look good.
And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD?
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ)
I don’t travel as far, as often, to see anyone as much as I do morons.
Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (NSiSx)
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Uh oh. Wait a minute.
Maybe we're the weirdos.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:30 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel
I would not associate with anyone who considers that a negative.
Posted by: mikeski at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ)
You could set up a hidden panel like Humprey Bogart's Phillip Marlowe uses in 1946's "The Big Sleep."
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: GWB
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Browning made a downscaled 1911 in 380 ACP that made that the frame and slide for the pistol match the cartridge size (380 ACP is also a JMB one).
GSG has a full sized 1911 in 22 LR that is pretty decent. Think it is a zamak frame and slide.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:35 PM (E4rtv)
And, there's nowhere really useful to put a holster in my car. I guess I need a new car to fix that. FWPs, right, CBD?
Posted by: GWB
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A bit cheaper to simply get a small revolver and an ankle holster as a second one to carry.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)
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Nah. Meeting YOU is the best part!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 07:38 PM (leKdc)
Meeting Ben Had was absolutely one of the best parts!
Meeting all the people whose faces I now know, but have NO idea which names they go to, was second best.
All you people I already knew from NoVaMoMe were a very close third.
Having a motel room with no water except scalding hot in the shower was nowhere near the top three. (Literally scalding hot. I "bathed" in the swimming pool the next day.)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:38 PM (P4bJX)
They're a very good copy of the 1911, and are, IMHO, a great training aid. FWIW, seem to work best with higher velocity .22
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (PbWRL)
And guns.
Rule #4.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs)
Rule 34.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:42 PM (TMF5Z)
Speaking of conversion kits, I disposed of a H&K 91 A2 a few months ago, it had a beautifully (German!) made 22 conversion kit, clearly never used, in its own custom wooden box. Was fun just to look at.
Ed L - this is the rifle you advised I might want to contact H&K North America about. Long story, turns out in context the dealer I sold to helped out in many ways with a challenging situation with time pressure and a premium on clearing everything out (including an ammo pile that would impress Weasel). Based on just a text, he also shipped me a half dozen P7 mags for the one I'm selling (I'd somehow not separated them and taken them back with me).
Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: man
I have one that I got as a gift. Fired it rarely as I prefer my Rugers in 22 LR. Since I don't carry a 1911 nor plan to, don't want to build muscle memory on a platform I don't carry. I did carry a Browning HP for time and when Springfield came out with the XD that had a small thumb safety in the 45 ACP, carried that a bit. The thumb safety was in the same exact place as the Browning High Power was. Someone did their homework.
Only negative is that that particular XD variant does not match up in parts with the standard XD-45.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:45 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:47 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 08:47 PM (aEdvU)
Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
Good to hear that it all turned out well for you. The H&K collector's market isn't as big as that for Colt, S&W, or Winchester, but it's there. Pre-ban H&Ks ca fetch a good amount $$, especially if they're complete and still have all of the extras, which yours had.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:48 PM (BCwQW)
Heading out to the porch presently.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (U/Byj)
A surprisingly accurate pistol, I just realize that if I had focused on just one gun, I'd be damn good with it. Because every gun is a little different and when you switch out carry guns, you lose a little precision.
Anyway, .45s are not 9mm. My first Dickin drill I got 9/10 cold. My last drill...3....out of....10.
Not my finest.
Arg. Gonna blame familiarity. And honestly, the G21 isn't that heavy. It's bulky but not hard to carry all week.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (U/Byj)
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Nice! Enjoy!!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:50 PM (TMF5Z)
P7Pro has been saying he's working on reproductions.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:50 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:51 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:52 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:29 PM (kU0PQ)
You could set up a hidden panel like Humprey Bogart's Phillip Marlowe uses in 1946's "The Big Sleep."
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 08:32 PM (BCwQW)
Ooh, calling up Bogie isn't fair. Now I'll have to figure out how to that with the plastic they use for car interiors nowadays....
Oh, even better, here's what LeoAI has to say about the car (1938 Plymouth Deluxe Coupe), itself:
The compartment was a $4.95 extra-cost option on the standard vehicle configuration.
Can we get an American manufacturer to bring that back, maybe?
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:53 PM (kU0PQ)
One advantage to shooting for a long time is having the chance to learn which handguns suit you and acquire them. As far as 22lr goes, except for the Ruger Mk II target pistols I treasure, all of mine are revolvers. And I've had the chance to find wonderful used examples at bargain prices.
Hard to beat a day at the range with a lot of 22 ammo and some guns that have proven themselves.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (rj6Yv)
Speaking of conversion kits, I disposed of a H&K 91 A2 a few months ago, it had a beautifully (German!) made 22 conversion kit, clearly never used, in its own custom wooden box. Was fun just to look at.
Ed L - this is the rifle you advised I might want to contact H&K North America about. Long story, turns out in context the dealer I sold to helped out in many ways with a challenging situation with time pressure and a premium on clearing everything out (including an ammo pile that would impress Weasel). Based on just a text, he also shipped me a half dozen P7 mags for the one I'm selling (I'd somehow not separated them and taken them back with me).
Bottom line, guy helped a lot with the overall project and I didn't sweat the numbers. And he's got a nice boat in Seward I'm invited to go fishing on next time in town.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
I have the CZ Kadet. Very hard to find. It is a perfect platform for training/shooting a CZ. The .22 mags are a PITA to load though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:55 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)
Or, say, a .32 Beretta?
When I pocket carry that one (another one that isn't that accessible sitting in a car seat) I take it out and put it in the center console cupholder, still in the pocket holster.
But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 08:57 PM (kJmSS)
H&K's mags are always $$, imagine the P7s are the same. Think I have 7 or 8 for the M8 I'm keeping. The 6 for the PSP I'm selling to a buddy were the ones the dealer shipped off to me without question, illustrating how good it is to do business with him. I wanted my friend to have lots of mags for his collector's item.
We discovered a brand-new gun safe, still in shipping box, late in the game, and happily gave it to the dealer. He said they could use it for their program where they store veterans' guns for free during difficult/crisis times. Overall it was a very interesting good experience.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 08:57 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 08:38 PM (P4bJX)
Great handgun. Not really for training IMO but very reliable accurate and the MK IV is easy to clean.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:58 PM (xcxpd)
Just be aware that different states have different laws about having a gun visible in your car. And a cop who wants to can stretch the meaning of "visible."
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 08:49 PM (xcxpd)
This is why they say, "Familiarity breeds contempt." It's actually a fundamental avoiding that. By... going back to fundamentals, all the time.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (kU0PQ)
P7Pro has been saying he's working on reproductions.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
A big problem with out of production firearms that were imported and not that many were sold here. Sig P6 (here, the P225) is that way.
Original mags are about 70-80 each now. Reason I quit carrying one when mags got expensive. Have ten or so mags that are worth more cumulatively than the pistol.
Smith and Wesson 2nd gen and 3rd gen with their compact 690 and then 6900 series are that way except you can fit a full size S&W 5900 mag into them. They didn't change the mag feed lips and feed geometry of the barrel and frame so a 3rd generation 6900 series can use the 5900 series mags. The 6900 mags won't fit the 5900 as they are too short but vice versa gives you up to 17 rounds. Some folks make grip extenders and others have cut down the 17 rounders to make the original 12 round mags for the 6900 series.
The 3900 series though is not that way and mags are scarce and expensive for that single stack.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (E4rtv)
The guinea pig
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 08:41 PM
Dang. I had forgotten about that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (kJmSS)
And do any of you carry so you have the pistol on the left side of your torso and cross draw (for a right handed shooter).
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (XP5BY)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ)
A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (rj6Yv)
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Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (XP5BY)
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Absolutely yes. I use them for my little .380 and 9mm sub-compacts. Barely noticeable and at most looks like you have a cell phone in your pocket.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:05 PM (TMF5Z)
Just be aware that different states have different laws about having a gun visible in your car. And a cop who wants to can stretch the meaning of "visible."
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:00 PM (vTZFs)
Very much this. And if you're driving that car across state lines....
I had a cop pull me over once right as I crossed the state line. He was waiting to nab someone with an out-of-state plate (was a rental, too). I wasn't carrying at that point in my life, yet.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:05 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:06 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM (kJmSS)
Depends on the jurisdiction. Some places that are gun-friendly have provisions for inadvertently exposing the firearm. Others will interpret that provision literally: If someone can see it, it's not "concealed" anymore.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:06 PM (BCwQW)
https://tinyurl.com/mrzech8a
I saw Lena Miculek wearing one and it seemed like an excellent solution if one doesn't normally wear a belt.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (kJmSS)
When I pocket carry that one (another one that isn't that accessible sitting in a car seat) I take it out and put it in the center console cupholder, still in the pocket holster.
But pocket carry is ... unwieldy in office/church slacks.
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That could work as well but semi autos and ankle holsters have an issue unless you regularly clean said pistol. Picks up more crap down low than in the waistband. If I have to pocket carry, I use a revolver normally--you can fire through the pocket with no jamming (assuming you dehorn the trigger spur). Semi auto will likely end up jamming after one shot.
Another, now discontinued but cheap and widely available is the Springfield XDS --very thin and has the grip safety and trigger blade but no other safety. Single stack which is why (plus a big recall) that the XDS was discontinued with the Hellcat sans grip safety and double stack. That is because the Sig P320 has become the new it gun for the sub compacts.
But, Springfield also made the XDS in 45 ACP and a brief run of 40 S&W. Plus in 45 ACP and 9mm, they made optics ready models at the end of production and some 4 inch barrel models instead of the 3.3
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:08 PM (TMF5Z)
You're in Virginia, right? Brave AI says:
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Open carry of a handgun in a vehicle is also generally legal for adults aged 18+ who are not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms, provided they respect local ordinances and federal restrictions.
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Which, to be honest, surprised me.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:08 PM (vTZFs)
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Posted by: nurse ratched
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Yes, the Superfly (I kid you not) made by DeSantis. Used it for revolver carry in coat pockets for cold weather and it breaks up the outline in a pocket.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
I have an XDS. Very compact but physics is still a thing. It's better than a revolver but...wew...not fun to shoot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:10 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (P4bJX)
Hate to say it, but those are the prices you'll have to pay if you can find any at all. Considering that the pistol has been out of production for over 35 years now, you'll be lucky to find them at all for any price.
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: mrp
French military firearms have unique styling. I think they made some of the obsolete Gras rifles into training rifles for the Lebel as well in 22 LR. Not sure if it was a unit thing or whether it was a formal program.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ)
A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd)
Well, that's why I carry tucked (IWB) - professional office job and church. Or, I have to wear a jacket and tuck the shirt behind (and never take the jacket off). And the pockets on those sorts of pants are too flimsy (for me) to put something even as heavy as a .32 Beretta or a Bond Arms derringer in there. Stuff swings around and gets all out of sorts.
So, I continue with the IWB-tucked and wonder what to do if bad things happen while I'm still seated/buckled in a car. (And don't get me started on those seat-installed side air bags. Getting in and out of that seat is a pain - my mag on the other side scrapes frequently if the seat is deep enough.)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (kJmSS)
Oh, I forgot to mention. Next weekend is the tax free 2A weekend in Louisiana.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:12 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:12 PM (QRXVU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
In 45? I never had much problem with mine in 9mm. In fact, it is fairly heavy for a 9mm semi compact. I ended up though just recently buying a slide, recoil spring, and barrel for the 4.0 version. A bit more weight and longer sight line for aging eyes.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (P4bJX)
Thank you!
Tonight was fun guys and gals. Hope to see you next Sunday!!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:14 PM (TMF5Z)
Yeah, that's beltless in the same way you're not wearing shorts if you're wearing boxers. It's a belt, but you're wearing it under your pants.
I prefer a belly band if you're going that route. (Which is also a sort of belt, but really more of a girdle. Have we invoked Piper enough yet for her to appear?)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:15 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv)
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The MAS-45 has a Mauser action because the French confiscated the German tooling as part of the post-WWII reparations regime. It's really sweet. Navy Arms shipped the rifle, the original manual (it's actually a book with colored foldouts - almost a work of art), and I bought several extra mags because the guy at Navy Arms said that they were rare as hen's teeth. They are even rarer now.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
I would haunt ebay as sometimes you get a group grab bag of various mags (someone clearing out the gun room and not caring about pricing every item).
As I said upthread, I got a grab bag of rusty percussion parts primarily for the screws for another project. Turned out to include a complete 1863 Springfield lock that still functions after I derusted, cleaned and and oiled it. Had to replace two screws. Even as is, it brings about triple what I paid for the entire lot.
Same with lots of barrels, magazines, grips, etc. Have to know what you are looking for and use correct search terms.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:17 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sharon
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Her drawing that on X wearing a dress has gone viral. She is a smart cookie.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:17 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
In 45? I never had much problem with mine in 9mm. In fact, it is fairly heavy for a 9mm semi compact. I ended up though just recently buying a slide, recoil spring, and barrel for the 4.0 version. A bit more weight and longer sight line for aging eyes.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv)
Jah, in 45. I sorta wish I had one in 9mm.
You know the best slim 9mm I own? A Taurus. The 709s is indeed slim and its very easy to shoot. One of the only pocket guns I have that enjoy training with.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ed L at August 30, 2026 09:18 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:19 PM (TMF5Z)
You have two choices.
Finish off the cherry cheesecake and pretend it never existed.
Or
Save her one small slice and tell her that’s all there was to begin with. And you saved it for her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:19 PM (QRXVU)
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv)
Ummmmm, which pocket are you carrying in? I really don't want to blow my kneecap off or shred my thigh with the pocket I'm carrying in (front pants pocket). And where I think the retired cop at church carries is his back pants pocket, so, again....
(And coat pockets are... odd. Either way too big to safely put a pistol, or too light of a jacket and you have this thing pulling your jacket sideways and/or down. Of course, I haven't had to wear a really warm coat in years and might reconsider if I went up to Spokane or something.)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 08:56 PM (kU0PQ)
A Glock 43x / PSA Micro Dagger is very comfortable in a IWB holster for church. It's light, holds 15 rounds and works with a dress belt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:03 PM (xcxpd)
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I got one of the teeshirts with the built in carry slot under the arm. Surprisingly comfortable. Yes, you give up a couple seconds when wearing an outer shirt, but I'm good with that.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB)
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#1 could work. Maybe.
Who am I fooling.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (TMF5Z)
.Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM
The DeSantis SuperFly is probably the best of the lot IME, but I've pretty much converted to Kydex. I've tried a bunch, and keep going back to Vedder.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:21 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 09:01 PM
* nods approvingly *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: TRex - cheesecake detective dino at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:22 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB)
I bought one but it didn't fit me well
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (kU0PQ)
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Have you considered a shoulder holster? You'd still have to wear a jacket, though.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: mrp
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There is a whole subgroup of collectors that seek out military training rifles in 22 LR. Lot more fun and easier on the shoulder than old battle rifle rounds. There is a rare Krag 22 LR conversion that has one of the oddest barrels from the chamber end that you would see--not concentric. I think the barrels were made up for them by a gunsmith in Philadelphia whose name I forget but famous enough. Springfield had a Hoffer Thompson 22 LR conversion prior and up through WWI before the famous 1922 models.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)
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Just eat all of it! Now you have plausible deniability, whereas, a partial cherry cheesecake, well you're fooked there. Evidence.
"What cherry cheesecake? Have you looked everywhere?" "Nope, haven't seen it. Huh..."
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (wa6DW)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)
Yeah, that part worried me a bit. But I got lucky. I like them.
Not as free as a shoulder bolster, but sufficient for me.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:16 PM (kJmSS)
Concur. I don't like appendix carry for myself and just wanted to address the "beltless" bit. One of the reasons I like a belly band (though I haven't used one in a long while) is you can so easily adjust where the pocket for the weapon sits on your side/front. There's no real "buckle" or anything to annoy if you shift it right or left. You can adjust it up and down, too, to some extent - hips up to belly. At least, with a good belly band.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:26 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:25 PM (wa6DW)
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I think I have decided on the tactic of taking the offensive and blaming WW for leaving me unsupervised with the cherry cheesecake.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB)
A couple of seconds? You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt.... Which is probably a good thing.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:23 PM (rj6Yv)
Yes, I have. A lot. I have my eye on a couple. When I've paid off the debts incurred during my most recent funemployment journey I will finally have to spring for one to work with.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:29 PM (kU0PQ)
Jacket or coat pocket. Also have some padded shirts with slit pockets that are sizable enough for a small J frame revolver. If I did it a lot, I would simply go with buying the Ruger polymer framed in 38 SPC+p. But don't have to do that anymore as I am retired and travel rarely.
In winter at night, walk the dogs carrying a Rossi 68 model in 32 S&W Long with hardcast Buffalo Bore bullets. Mainly for coyotes and other varmints that I might encounter in a short walk. Feeling antsy, I clip on an IWB holster for the walk and carry an alloy framed S&W 3rd Generation DAO (5943).
I don't carry in pants pockets unless you include a cargo pocket a time or two.
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:30 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:31 PM (rj6Yv)
And thanks again, Horde.
I look forward to seeing you again at a MoMe, Sharon.
Maybe, if/when my new job turns into a hybrid I can plan a Moron Gun Club visit, too.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:32 PM (kU0PQ)
Hope to have a range report next week if everything falls into place.
Thanks Weasel. Cherry cheesecake is my favorite so I don't blame you one whit. Just offer to buy another one. Win Win.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 30, 2026 09:32 PM (kJmSS)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:31 PM (rj6Yv)
I have a couple of Falco holsters. Very good work.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:33 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:20 PM (2WIwB)
A couple of seconds? You haven't seen me unbutton a shirt.... Which is probably a good thing.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 09:27 PM (kU0PQ)
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I have no idea how to respond to that, so I won't.
*thinks about Trixie, from the Delta Delta Delta sorority*
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: whig at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:34 PM (TMF5Z)
And there's an Anschutz 1420. Just like the one I had on the rifle team.
How to explain to Mrs....
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (TMF5Z)
If I have to pull a gun, that shirt is gonna come off quicker than Hulk Hogan's. And in about the same condition.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs)
Cue up some Montgomery Clift jokes...
Some 'cavalry-front' cowboy shirts are all snaps in the front, but you want to check them out and practice a little because they may have two rows and a dust flap. A more versatile option is a "chef's" shirt, always snap front, fits sort of like surgical scrubs. It's an easy tearaway to get at a T-shirt holder or shoulder holster, and can be tucked in. In a dark color, the snaps don't show. No, it doesn't go with a tie, and I know that's an issue for many.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 09:35 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (gvBhq)
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:37 PM (nPp6w)
Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:37 PM (nPp6w)
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F'n awesome.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:38 PM (TMF5Z)
Try Delta! We did!
/
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)
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So you've met Trixie too?
Hawt ehh?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 09:38 PM (2WIwB)
I'm betting that the tolerant left will browbeat them into changing it back in a day or two. And they'll blame it on an intern.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:39 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Weasel
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You are funny...I believe your best defense is to smile and say nothing, just smile...And for the record, now I want a slice of cherry cheesecake!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (9iRTe)
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100% my pleasure. Thanks to all y'all for tuning in!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:41 PM (r8KQ7)
Who could resist?
Posted by: Sumguy at August 30, 2026 09:43 PM (nPp6w)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:47 PM (leKdc)
Taking that Canada thing a bit personally, are we?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (YyqoW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (mzqTU)
Posted by: Nato at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (XAyZ8)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:49 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:50 PM (YyqoW)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Where else on the internet?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Agreed. Count me in....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 09:52 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:52 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:54 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (CwGN+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (CwGN+)
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Well that's possible!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 09:55 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 09:56 PM (CwGN+)
That night he came back. It was 90 degrees with no A/C, so again we had the windows open. My 17yo son chased him out of the kitchen, but he just stood in the threshold staring at us. More roaring didn't phase him. After a few more stares my son ran up and slammed the door in his face. I'm proud of him!
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 09:59 PM (rcENI)
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 10:00 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:01 PM (rcENI)
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Hi frammish - send me an email at the gunthread address and I'll be happy to answer your questions.
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 10:03 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:04 PM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish
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People come from all over the USA...they come with guns and without...first year we came, it was without...people are very generous with sharing what they brought...you will be welcomed and included, and have a good time. Please come and attend....
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 30, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:48 PM (vTZFs)
Canada has given us ice hockey and Rush. What else? And, by the way, reminder: we punked Canada out of Olympic hockey gold. Men and women. This year.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 30, 2026 10:10 PM (jPziU)
Closer than New Zealand. And Seattle for that matter.
Do people bring their own guns?
Many do but don't feel like you have to. There's always someone willing to share their toys.
I've never flown with mine.
It's not that hard. Just read up on the regulations and leave yourself some extra time on both ends of the flight to deal with it.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:15 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: frammish at August 30, 2026 10:53 PM (rcENI)
As of a few weeks back, the "Chicago shot clock" showed a shooting every 4 minutes 36 seconds.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 07:30 PM (U/Byj)
every 4 hours 36 minutes
Posted by: m at August 31, 2026 04:25 AM (odBC9)
Food Thread: Filet Mignon With Ramen? Sure...Why Not?
[Of course I wanted to embed a song by "Korn," but they are awful!]
I know this dish sounds weird, and I can't vouch for it because I haven't made it...yet. But it does sound interesting, and I really love the combination of spicy and sweet Blackberry Fire Chicken might be a dud, but the idea is a good one! But for f*ck's sake! Stop with the "boneless-skinless" nonsense. Chicken thighs are great with the bone in and the skin intact. Is it some lunatic diet thing? Skin does have a bit of fat, and of course it does! Because it tastes good, and fat is flavor.
Homesick Texan is one of the better food blogs around. Why? Well, she knows how to write, so reading her stuff is not an unpleasant chore until one gets to the recipe. And she doesn't have much of an ego when it comes to cooking, so she doesn't come of as a pompous know-it-all. Here is something that won't win any awards, but sounds like it is mighty tasty. Brisket macaroni and cheese! And she adds pickled jalapeñoslices on the side because why the hell not?
The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
*This year the yield is about 10% of the normal amount thanks to the drought.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:02 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 04:05 PM (NnhvP)
You might get more flavor and nutrition if you cooked it in limewater (not the fruit, no coconuts required. Called nixtamalization). The Mexican Indians discovered this process thousands of years ago...avoids pellagra.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (2Cry5)
It IS some lunatic thing. I hate the dryness of chicken breasts, but thighs and legs? Oh yeah, baby, gimme, especially with the tasty skin. I even eat the kidneys stuck inside the thighs of Costo chicken...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK)
Since beef was so expensive all summer, they never had it at youth group dinner, so when my kid asked for my pasta dish (I call it beef and veg bolognese b/c it's equally weighted or more veg to ground beef), and then I found $2/lb ground beef, I felt like someone above was watching out for me...so win for not bankrupting myself by saying yes...
I'll have it over orzo and the kids are getting fusilli (so I can run a taste test of the sauce 30 minutes early) and then I have an enormous watermelon and grape tray and homemade Cheerio treats...for them and the folks here...
I'll be in and out of the kitchen as I keep making this...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL)
https://tinyurl.com/3k8dwwff
(NissinFoods)
I eat them once or twice a week for lunch.
They also have a Seafood and Curry flavor that aren’t too bad.
I think they’re the best I’ve had out of a cup.
Better than Maruchan at least.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)
Unthinkable, even if unnecessary.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (sl73Y)
Pork chops and lemon sauce here. As the astronauts ate it! (On the ground anyway.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:08 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL)
This made him laugh and look a little uncomfortable. He told me to use a spray to outline my field called "Deer B Gon." Sounds like a scam, and that's why an experienced farmer was a little sheepish about recommending it. It employs clove and cinnamon oil...AND IT WORKED. Not just with deer, but it kept the rabbits out of the lettuce as well.
So, the moral of the story is that those late night commercials where some guy is yelling at you about the low price of $9.99. They aren't all crap. Just most of them.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (XvL8K)
It IS some lunatic thing. I hate the dryness of chicken breasts, but thighs and legs? Oh yeah, baby, gimme, especially with the tasty skin. I even eat the kidneys stuck inside the thighs of Costo chicken...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:07 PM (l3cgK)
Depends what you're doing with the chicken...I love boneless skinless thighs if I'm cooking up a stir fry or curry or fried rice or fajita...the bone is just a PITA if you are gonna just cut up the chicken before cooking (I could take the skin, but you can't get skin if you have bone...but you can get bone with no skin, which is even more annoying)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)
This comes from two things:
"Oh, it's slimy" (or greasy when fried)
and
the 'fat is bad' conspiracy.
My mother *still* believes it to be true, all evidence to the contrary.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:15 PM (aJQbY)
Reality; all the tomatoes are from Canada, as are most of the cucumbers. A lot of broccoli and vegetables are from Mexico.
Have we forgotten how to grow produce? Have we time out that we have to buy produce from Canada and from a country that has human waste in its agriculture products.
So sick of this crap.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Yiq+D)
...
Depends what you're doing with the chicken...I love boneless skinless thighs if I'm cooking up a stir fry or curry or fried rice or fajita...the bone is just a PITA if you are gonna just cut up the chicken before cooking (I could take the skin, but you can't get skin if you have bone...but you can get bone with no skin, which is even more annoying)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)
Yes, making Japanese curry is one of those exceptions where I trim off the skin, fat, and bones (if I don't already have boneless, skinless chicken thigh meat).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (l3cgK)
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Go in any Chinese take-out place...and look at the appetisers. The "Boneless Spare Ribs" entry always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (JrHfD)
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Go in any Chinese take-out place...and look at the appetisers. The "Boneless Spare Ribs" entry always makes me laugh.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)
I went to a store in Phoenix that was selling boneless bananas...they weren't wrong; never found a single bone in them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:17 PM (l3cgK)
Does this stop bunnies, too?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:18 PM (X8xt3)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:19 PM (aJQbY)
Is there a saint for cooking youth group dinners? Because if there isn't one, you surely deserve to be declared one after you die for all this kind and excellent cooking you do for the youth group.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: BufordGooch at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (PyC1T)
Definitely agree on the local farm thing. Despite the local grocery stores having great produce around here, getting right at the farm just tastes better.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:21 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:24 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)
Indeed, survival rations. Lasts a long time. Might not be bad to have around with a ton of water for emergencies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:24 PM (l3cgK)
Is there a saint for cooking youth group dinners? Because if there isn't one, you surely deserve to be declared one after you die for all this kind and excellent cooking you do for the youth group.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (JrHfD)
Thanks, there are a few moms who rotate, so it's not just me...although I may be the only one working with a townhome kitchen
...Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (tOcjL)
It's dried stuff, but he seems to like it a lot.
We went to a Korean restaurant for lunch the other day and it was probably the best ramen which I've ever had
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 04:27 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:29 PM (ayRl+)
Cut up some taters into cubes and tossed them in bacon fat, salt, pepper and spices. There are bacon bits in the mix and I'll make a topping of crumbled Bacon Grilled Cheese potato chips for some crunch.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:29 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (kpS4V)
There's one where 3 of them try a bunch of instant Ramen noodle packs. Some of them I think might only be found in specific Asian stores.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (2Cry5)
Does this stop bunnies, too?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2026 04:18 PM (X8xt3)
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It does, indeed. He, also, told me if I was energetic, I could plant mint all around the garden, and that would work as well, but mint spreads and can be pretty dominant. Bottom line, to keep out pests, anything strong scented usually works. Cinnamon is a big one, as well as similar scents. It creates an olfactory barrier.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (dIske)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM
The best ramen I ever had was from an old guy with a busted down food cart at the train station in Yokosuka Japan. You told him what you wanted and he tossed the noodles in a big greasy pot and boiled them for you on the spot.
He had a line every time a train pulled into the station. Bonus he spoke enough english to understand you because the Navy base was there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 04:31 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)
Go to Hmart and get fresh ramen - so much tastier and better for you.
If that's not on sale or too much of s splurge, look for their air fried ramen...you won't notice a difference between the fat fried and air fried kind...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: BufordGooch at August 30, 2026 04:20 PM (PyC1T)
OH NO! The dreaded genetic engineering. Every "organic" plant we eat today has been hybridized, selectively crossed and mutated.
And it has produced a food revolution for which we should be thankful.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:33 PM (DTgUC)
But. It’s blackberry season. And there’s a LOT of them. Free for the harvesting. Everywhere.
Plums and apples and pears as well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (BT7V7)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+)
Is it cutie season? I always associate citrus season with winter...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 04:35 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 04:36 PM (Cqx++)
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Is it cutie season? I always associate citrus season with winter...
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Nope - now it's the END of 'Cuties' season … pity, that.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:36 PM (ayRl+)
The Garrison Bros irritate me with their highly overpriced Texas bourbons that sometimes sound interesting enough that I want to buy them.
Their Lady Bird Bourbon is a case in point.
It starts out as a small batch that is aged 4 years in new white oak barrels for 4 years then infused with Texas wildflower Honey for 8-9 months then transferred to French Cognac XO casks for3 more years then bottled at 114 proof.
Sounds like a perfect fit for GB bourbon's lumbery style.
I suspect this would make a great after meal sipper.
Buuut, at almost $200/btl it shall go unsipped at the naturalfake Hacienda.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU)
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU)
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Seriously? I had all my teeth pulled 'cos they were more trouble than they were worth. Now I just take out my dentures and slice the corn off the cob. Works great, and that's why God made knives …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:39 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pamazon at August 30, 2026 04:38 PM (b5MGU)
They need garlic sauce...oh, and need to be fed corn meal for (2 or 3 wks?) to purge anything toxic they've been eating, if you get them yourself.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)
Now let's talk turkey! the ultimate matrix food.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (DTgUC)
Raisin Bran was out, but I still needed to also start my day with close enough fiber b/c of my other med (that I'm still on). So after experimenting, I'm on Dave's Killer thin seeded breads (I use 2-3 different ones), 2 slices toasted with Aldi's organic all natural peanut butter (the one that's just peanuts and salt) with my coffee and water bottle (which the meds also need) and all the my vitamins.
After 2 weeks, I'm not sad about breakfast and feeling good, so if you need a "normal, no work" breakfast for meds that need a sufficiently fat-filled meal (when you also have to avoid dairy and tree nuts), you could do worse...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)
*40 years ago I think
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (ig95V)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (DTgUC)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2MN4W)
Posted by: Pete Bog
Well, yes...
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:44 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (DpZaL)
I often pre-cook a high protein spaghetti to use instead of ramen noodles, for that matter. Quick lunches.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:42 PM (DTgUC)
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It had to happen eventually!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (kpS4V)
Shredded the chicken after about 5 hours and rolled into corn tortillas. Topped with more batch chili sauce and some white cheese. Baked until bubbly. Took half and froze it and ate the other half. During the week. Finished the last enchilada this morning topped with an over easy egg.
Easy and yummy. And not horribly expensive.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (XNYK+)
Posted by: MaxDamage at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (kVewf)
I don't know. I'm not affectionate enough with fruit to call it "Cutie".😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (JrHfD)
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Qué? 'High protein spaghetti' … ? Ees no compute, si? Spaghetti have no meat in them - they're all starch. Where is 'protein'? Ees confusing, si?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:47 PM (ayRl+)
I will be sad when garden fresh maters are no longer to be plucked. I'm spoiled for honest tomato flavor.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 04:48 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:41 PM (DTgUC)
They sell these huge deep fried turkey legs at the local fair that's held here every year. That will be back around Halloween.
They look like Fred Flintstone gnawing on a dinosaur leg.
Deep fried turkey is good turkey, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)
Just don’t mistake for ice when you’re making a cocktail. Erf.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (yYs4P)
But when you're young you don't always clean up like a responsible adult and you leave that slow cooker or crock pot on the counter or in the sink and the next thing you know, it has become a biohazard in you kitchen. We must have thrown out four crock pots in those days and if we had left the door open, they could have walked out from all of the fuzzy shit growing inside of them. I still like wienies and beans.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 04:52 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (ayRl+)
My theory on those is that they're rejects because they're undersized, and in the past they would have been used to make orange juice, at a lower price. Then some marketing genius figured out that they could give them a "cute" name and sell them at a premium price.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:45 PM (XNYK+)
That does sound good.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (PjGKJ)
Pricy. But... given the area and the time we were there it was expected.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+)
I may just have to do chicken enchiladas sometime soonish for the first time.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 04:55 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 04:56 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX)
Semolina pasta has 7g of protein per serving (I know, I just looked at the Trader Joe bag I'm making
...it's easy to stick with real pasta and up the protein in the sauce. Good rule of thumb is you should AT LEAST be 1-1 on pasta vs the topping...I'm routinely 1-2 or more (if for myself - I stick to 1-1 for guests and the youth tonight)...you can get a lot of veg and protein (not just beef - anchovies, sardines, cheese or nutritional yeast, tuna, chicken, bone broth, etc) into the topping...Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (tOcjL)
Soooo good! Yes, there is some effort in hand rolling the enchiladas, but it’s worth it.
Who doesn’t love enchiladas? Make sure you use corn tortillas though. So much more flavor and they don’t get gummy like the flour ones do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (X96e+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+)
Well-prepared turkey is pretty good.
My father made some turkey on the rotisserie over the grill years ago that was indistinguishable from roasted chicken in taste and texture, and was juicy.
Deep fried has a good taste and juicy, too.
It's just not something people would eat ever day other than in deli sandwiches or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:59 PM (X96e+)
I like them to be absolutely drowning in red sauce. That stuff is so good.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 05:02 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (h7ZuX)
Barilla is my favorite spaghetti, too.
The flavor is much better than the others I've tried over the years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:54 PM (X96e+)
Then you've never had a properly prepared Texas smoked/bar-b-qued turkey slow cooked (250-275) with oak. It is moist and tasty.
BTW, one serves pickled jalapenos on the side like with every other food group in Texas.
Posted by: BillB at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Gz/2A)
I add a bit of mrs dash garlic flavor
stir
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:05 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:06 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:05 PM (sl73Y)
It helps that Hovland has let the pressure of the day get to him...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:08 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:08 PM (jrgJz)
Whole roasted turkey is awful. If you need gravy to disguise the flavorless sawdust, it’s not good food.
Stuff a salmon. Now there’s a good meal.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (pUOWF)
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 04:53 PM (X5Jzz)
Nah.
They're what the Japanese would call, "mikon" (mee-kahn).
And the Japanese kiddos eat them like candy as they sit at their kotatsu during winter and do their homework after school.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:10 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:09 PM (pUOWF)
My brother books big fillets of salmon on the griddle with lots of butter and olive oil & spices and sometimes he'll throw some bacon in there.
It's wonderful.
Probably one of my favorite fish meals of all time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
There is a trick, if you ever want to garden your own. Four rows is a minimum. Don't ask me why.
I've done 4x4 corn plants with good results. But corn is very, very hard on your soil.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:11 PM (ZEFzw)
Yeah, nothing too slimy thanks. Or that looks back at me.
I do love me some fried calamari or octopus though! Just... properly sliced and diced, please!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)
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Thou hast hit upon the Ultimate Food Contradiction … they are (a) both and (b) neither …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ayRl+)
Plan to do this for pulled chicken sandwiches for my crew next range duty day.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:13 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Dr_No
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See: Oysters
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Pete Bog
and that is the honest truth.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (0sNs1)
I always soak mine in a cider brine for a couple days, then smoke. Definitely not dry, yet the brine helps the skin not be slimy. Not deep fried crisp, but more of a paper-thin crisp.
Smoked turkey after a brine soak is a good, cheap eat.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (ZEFzw)
Thanks for the suggestion, I would not have thought of that.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:16 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Dr_No
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See: Oysters - Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L)
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I have eaten my Obligatory Dozen (befitting a Boy From N'Awlins). Now I NEVER have to eat another 'raw ersta' - seemsayin' … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq)
It's actually not terrible.
I'd rather have the cheeseburger, but if you're watching your weight the turkey burger is not a terrible replacement compared to a veggie burger.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt)
Thanks for the suggestion, I would not have thought of that.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:16 PM (X5Jzz)
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That's great! I'm happy it worked so well for you! Thanks for the heads-up.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Pete Bog
and that is the honest truth.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM
We have been genetically modifying our food supply for the last 5,000 years. In the last 50 years we just moved the process from the fields to the lab. And now all of the liberals scream about GMO foods being evil because that is their latest craze.
The very same people who were so recently shouting "trust the science" when the covid vaccines came out now abhor anything that comes from a lab. You literally can't win with these idiots.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (cpFbA)
Not getting the Turkey Hate here.
It's delicious.
Sure I've had a dry overcooked turkey but that is the rarity not the usual when I was growing up.
A nice moist roast turkey with al;l the fixings is a beautiful thing.
And as mentioned above smoked turkey is larrupin' as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (U/Byj)
My new boyfriend and I spent a day picking blackberries a couple weeks ago. They were very ripe then. We ended up with about 4 lbs. I made cobblers which were gobbled up by the family.
Posted by: washrivergal at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (Fd8os)
-cast iron bread pans, skillets and Ditch ovens (better than glass or aluminum)
- Brod and Taylor proofer box (use it for raising dough, making yogurt and kefir)
- Kitchen-Aid stand mixer
- Swedish dough whisk (incredibly versatile and effective)
- kitchen scale
Picked up some locally grown and ground flours to try for bread baking instead of the usual King Arthur flours. Should be fun.
BTW, even the plainest no-knead bread tastes better than almost anything done commercially. Worth the small amount of time to make my own.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:21 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:20 PM (U/Byj)
I'd rather just eat it with breadsticks, personally.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)
74 Well, I'm going to say it. If you thought it a good idea to put tattoos on your face, you shouldn't be making career decisions without a guardian.
Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske)
I can be polite to a stranger, see if he can act normal. But I would never actually *trust* someone with a facial tattoo, and Jelly Roll has confirmed the utility of that heuristic. I will extend the benefit of the doubt only so far, and not enough to be a fool.
Posted by: SciVo at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq)
Maybe in the Deep South. Here is Iowa we're doing good to have local corn by the Fourth of July. I see it shucked and packaged in the stores before then, I figure it's from Florida or somewhere with a longer growing season.
Also not as good as local corn. There's a sweetcorn farm a few miles from here that picks early in the morning, then sends out trucks loaded with corn to sell all around the area.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 05:22 PM (X5Jzz)
It's actually not terrible.
I'd rather have the cheeseburger, but if you're watching your weight the turkey burger is not a terrible replacement compared to a veggie burger.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:18 PM (6ydKt)
Turkey burger is fine if you don't treat it like a beef burger. Toppings should be turkey focused, not beef focused...so a cranberry aoili...or a turkey club vibe...
Aka, you would not put ketchup on turkey...so you shouldn't put it on a turkey burger, either...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (nlLAo)
There was this smart cat back in the day. Mendel. He was big into Big GMO Pea.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (ZEFzw)
Give a stir and a shake every few days.
Let it set for several weeks. Beautiful color and fabulous in the summer with soda water and a squeeze of lime
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (pUOWF)
I have some nieces who would disagree, but then to them ketchup goes on hotdogs, too! The savages!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL)
Yes, it was fried up kind of like a salmon patty, they add mayo, pepper, tomatoes, and lettuce.
You can also add bacon on top, as I recall.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
and that is the honest truth. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 05:14 PM
We have been genetically modifying our food supply for the last 5,000 years. In the last 50 years we just moved the process from the fields to the lab. And now all of the liberals scream about GMO foods being evil because that is their latest craze. The very same people who were so recently shouting "trust the science" when the covid vaccines came out now abhor anything that comes from a lab. You literally can't win with these idiots.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:19 PM (cpFbA)
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The 'Organic' types don't realise it's just another way to say 'NON-METALLIC' (e.g., INorganic). Asshats. Now polish my brass.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:26 PM (ayRl+)
I have some nieces who would disagree, but then to them ketchup goes on hotdogs, too! The savages!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:24 PM (aJQbY)
This is why turkey burgers get a bad rap with normal folks...
Honestly, my spouse doesn't love them, but he likes mine and will only eat mine...b/c he wants complementary flavors to the turkey, not clashing ones (yeah, I can't think of a time I've loved anything tomato forward with turkey)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (tOcjL)
I would think it would depend on the climate. Growing seasons begin earlier in the warmer areas of the country.Lot of differents between Southern Georgia and Iowa.
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (x5VN8)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (yTvNw)
I've only been able to try it once, every other time I tried to get one they were sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:28 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:23 PM (tOcjL)
Yes, it was fried up kind of like a salmon patty, they add mayo, pepper, tomatoes, and lettuce.
You can also add bacon on top, as I recall.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
Mayo, mustard (I've done my own dijonaise for the turkey burgers), and complementary aoilis...and even mashed avocado will also work as turkey burger "condiments"...my kids swear BBQ does, too, but I prefer the fattier condiments with the less fatty burger...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 05:29 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:30 PM (Ot/FD)
It's pretty good to be honest.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (Ot/FD)
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'Ditch Oven' … sounds like Copyright time to me. That'd be one helluva brand name. 'Course, you'd prolly only find it at Ollie's …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:30 PM
It reminds me of mexican ditch weed. Nasty smelling stuff.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 05:32 PM (cpFbA)
We've done it, successfully, with our kids.
It's not impossible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2Cry5)
I really enjoy fried turkey, and turkey leg confit is killer. Make it every Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:34 PM (q+jsk)
Its Scotch time
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 05:17 PM (gvBhq)
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I was curious about that too. I assumed that it was a sponsored bill by retail stores or states such as California or Florida. It turns out it was put forth by the Governor of Iowa in 1953, and passed via the US Senate in 1988. The basis for June 11th was to reflect the coming of the summer BBQ season, and not reflective of the harvesting period later in the Summer.
Personally, and on a separate note, I really dislike the "National Day" of anything. It's a waste of time and money. Taxpayer money because it requires a bill be drawn up, voted on, documented, and announced. That money could be spent better elesewhere.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Or possibly New Orleans. P.J. O'Rourke once referred to New Orleans as 'A crime-filled ditch'.
Having been there in August, I'll testify to the 'oven' part.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:35 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:36 PM (U/Byj)
My experience is to use it like any other poultry. I just don't care for the ground versions that are sold as an alternative to beef.
Although it does make a nice sliced cold cut. And I can't tolerate chicken like that.
Turkey bacon is ... OK. Its not bacon. And I tire of my wife's constant attempts to serve turkey instead of beef or pork.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:36 PM (ZEFzw)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 05:37 PM (x5VN8)
Posted by: DanMa'am at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (8uzBS)
Seasoned the broth with dried jalapeno bits and dried ginger slices, and salt and pepper, and added a cup and a half of barley, because I didn't have any egg noodles.
Then I let it boil too long and ended up with the barley equivalent of risotto.
It was sill really good.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Ot/FD)
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The correct word for both 'snails' and 'oysters is: SNOT.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (ayRl+)
The nose is redolent with rotting bananas. If you make it past the gag-inducing aroma however, you are rewarded with a palate that reminds the tastebuds of your first bout of dry heaves. If you prevail upon your esophagus's protestations and actually get it to your stomach, the alcohol serves to short circuit your brain sufficiently to convince you that it was all a bad dream...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (nbLIj)
So I've heard.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 30, 2026 05:38 PM (C0Nlv)
Sounds like you stumbled onto a variant of Miley’s Chicken Bog.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (jVkUA)
NATIONAL RASPBERRY CREAM PIE DAY
NATIONAL WATERMELON DAY
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DAY
NATIONAL OYSTER DAY
NATIONAL ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (XeU6L)
Put on the cooking pot; put it on
and pour water into it.
Put into it the pieces of meat,
all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder.
Fill it with the best of these bones;
take the pick of the flock.
Pile wood beneath it for the bones;
bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.”
Ezekiel 24:3-5
Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (f4tQo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:41 PM (nlLAo)
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Thanks! So, we should go to the liquor store and ask for their finest bottle of aged vomitus, yes … ? My my my … live 'n learn.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 05:43 PM (ayRl+)
listen up.....and listen real good cause I'm only going to say this once
i had a heart attack and they took all of my good food away. I raced for nigh on 40 years existing on pizza, cattle and barley water
i was told I could have
A) cardboard
B) Ketchup on cardbord
I'm trying to make do and stay alive
eaten ain't worth a fuck without intestines
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:43 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
For the east coast, i'd guess ripe day for central florida. Grocery store season starts then, with source moving north.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 05:44 PM (sl73Y)
Comes from the distillation method, pot stills where the detritus/sediments from previous batches is left in.
You can get some of this from Guyana rums also, same reason I believe.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:45 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 05:45 PM (aJQbY)
Stupid fat fingers.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:27 PM (yTvNw)
Ditch oven is where the hobo roasts the catch of the day.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (h7ZuX)
Coincidence ?
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No
>Those get chopped up and go in the gravy stock with the neck. Now the liver, I can't abide. We can cook that separate for other purposes.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 05:46 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 04:30 PM (nbLIj)
They will last longer in the freezer if you blanche them.
Which leads to the joke: An old farmer heard that it is easier and better to store corn on the cob in the freezer if you roll each one in an unlubricated condom. So he went to the pharmacy on Friday, and ordered a carton of one hundred condoms, planning to process his crop over the weekend.
He and his wife picked, shucked, blanched and packaged each ear of corn, and when they got to the end of the carton, they bagged them up in plastic bags to put in the freezer, five to a bag.
On counting they discovered they only had 98 ears prepared for freezing, and the carton had been short.
Monday morning, he went back to the pharmacy to complain. He carefully explained that the carton of condoms he had ordered for the weekend was two short and he would like the difference back.
The manager listened carefully, nodded, pulled the money out of the till, and said, "I certainly hope this didn't ruin your weekend."
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 05:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Seems early here in Southern Indiana. We get frosts as late as Derby Weekend.
Corn is a great crop, though. As quick as eight weeks, seed to cob. There's a reason it's fed America for centuries.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:50 PM (ZEFzw)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 05:51 PM (ig95V)
First time I have ever seen corn fed to humans in France!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (HwKLm)
Silage corn. Corn for industrial use.
Nasty.
Don't ask.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5)
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Now I have to ask, what about it makes it nasty?
Posted by: washrivergal at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (Fd8os)
Are you sure this isn't MAID? Make you wish you were dead?
Cows are tasty. However they are on the "mutually assured intestinal destruction list.
From one dave to another: rest assured the first thing i'm doing in heaven is eat a big old steer
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (ig95V)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:53 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 04:34 PM (BT7V7)
I have been canning and drying apples, pears and plums. The pears and summer apples are about done, and I am now working on the yellow egg plums. There are so many left on the tree that I don't know what all to do with them besides give them away by the bucket.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 05:53 PM (rbvCR)
I wonder if the cutting wheel can be sharpened? I'll bet it can!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:54 PM (HwKLm)
I really enjoy fried turkey, and turkey leg confit is killer. Make it every Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 05:34 PM (q+jsk)
One year, I saved the fat trimmings from a few ribeyes, and put them under the skin of that year's Thanksgiving turkey. It remains the best damn turkey ever to emerge from anyone's oven...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 05:54 PM (nbLIj)
By me its always been feed corn. So they just let it stay in the field and dry.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (ZEFzw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (rHgXV)
rhomboid,
The Barton Springs Mill sounds like a version of what I got locally. I keep it in the freezer. The Brod and Taylor proofing box isn't cheap at about 250 bucks but it works great. (It was half the price when we got ours.) I've used ours for many years. There may be less expensive versions out there.
Definite YES!! to a free KitchenAid mixer. We have two. One was a wedding gift so over 40 years old. My late MIL gave us hers which is older and was used to make wedding cakes. Both work great even after decades of use. The attachments are also useful.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (PbWRL)
Little-known fact:
The Japanese word "ramen" is simply Japan's failed attempt to pronounce and spell the name of the Chinese noodles "lo mein," which they can't do because Japanese normally has no "L" sound. So, when they encountered and then borrowed the Chinese dish Lo Mein, they did their best to replicate the wrd, but came up with "ramen." But then ramen became more popular than lo mein, and the rest is history.
Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 05:55 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at August 30, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Yay to growing your own sweetcorn Orson. As you know well worth it if you can. I've only done it once in town since retiring, but you can get enough in a small area using intensive raised bed techniques.
For yrs on the farm had more trouble with raccoons than deer. Methods of deterrence I heard of basically revolved around human scent.
Our sweet corn patch was close to the farmhouse and land so during the day humans themselves were the deterrence. For nighttime I've heard of walking around (small) the patch barefoot at the end of the day. Or you can spread human hair or urine. Your barber can help with the one. Guess you could have a nightly kegger to help with the other?!?
CBD- the later corn may have just been older and not as sweet depending on the hybrid or a completely different hybrid. You're right, nothing like picking corn and cooking it ASAP. There are now hybrids that slow the conversion of sugars to starch, but the sooner the better.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 05:58 PM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 05:59 PM (U/Byj)
Now, time to either clean the kitchen of the 1000 huge dishes or collapse...I'm leaning collapse, but I'll wait to see if spouse will clean the kitchen (he did the pasta draining b/c that was a bit much for me to lift safely, especially with all the other pots and dishes around)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2026 06:00 PM (tOcjL)
Silage corn. Corn for industrial use.
Nasty.
Don't ask.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 05:49 PM (2Cry5)
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Now I have to ask, what about it makes it nasty?
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Silage corn is for later use. Dried and stored in silos. For cattle. Or.. for industrial use. I've grabbed a couple of ears from the field out back... and it's nasty.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:03 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:04 PM (DpZaL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:02 PM (2Cry5)
Try boiling it in lye to get the hulls off, and then rinse it (of course) and use it like hominy.
I dislike sweet corn, and I grown Indian corn for that reason. Making hominy is one of the ways of preparing it. It is very tasty.
Another use is to parch it either in a pan or in heated sand, and then grind it for flour.
Or, you know, let it convert on its own into beef and have a barbeque
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: zombie at August 30, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)
Per TGP: Biggest Beer Heist Ever - Thieves hijack truck loaded with 50,000 cans of PBR.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:07 PM (DpZaL)
Posted by: Case at August 30, 2026 06:08 PM (x5VN8)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Rip it to shreds.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (DpZaL)
Thanks to Tasting History. Not bad. Kinda sweet. Kinda savory. Should have added a dash of sea salt.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:09 PM (8smjC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 06:10 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 06:05 PM (wLzbH)
In a celebratory fashion I suspect.
Confit on the other hand is slow cooked in oil or fat. Duck fat is traditional. Add lots of garlic, bay leaves, thyme and pepper corns. 3 or 4 hours at 225. Pull from the fat and sear or a few minutes under the broiler to crisp. Really tasty.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (jVkUA)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:11 PM (jVkUA)
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So > 2 minutes?
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:12 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:14 PM (jVkUA)
Of course you're wrong, but I still lol'd.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 30, 2026 06:14 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:07 PM (DpZaL)
It’s a good thing they didn’t steal the beer.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:15 PM (jVkUA)
Microwave corn on the cob. Yes, you heard me, put it in the meekrowahvey. Leave it in the husk. It's like being super-steamed. You cut off the stalk end, grab the pointy end and just squeeze - the cob will slide right out, leaving all of the silk behind in the husk (more so than when husking it dry, in my experience).
It really is what microwaves are good at. That and nuking the little personal pizzas. Mmmmmmm.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 06:15 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"
I wonder if they knew what they were getting.
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:16 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:17 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had
ompletely not fair, I can't drool for six weeks!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 30, 2026 06:18 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 06:19 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 06:19 PM (Ia/+0)
I hope to get back to both the NoVaMoMe and the TxMoMe next year, though. I miss you guys.
Posted by: GWB at August 30, 2026 06:21 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j)
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I never fathomed "oriental flavor." What does that even mean?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 06:23 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Ben Had
I am there on Saturday! Trying to work out Friday.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:24 PM (8smjC)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:22 PM (36x1j)
That's because "oriental" is offensive now, so now it's soy sauce flavor.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 06:25 PM (h7ZuX)
Up here, you still see "feed corn" - where the stalks and stuff are separated from the ears. Taken in very, very dry.
You don't see much silage here. Don't know why.
Posted by: Howdy at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (ZEFzw)
IDK why oriental became a slur. I never used it as one.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had
I'm trying. We just went back to "in the office" five days a week. I've got a new backup I'm having to train.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:29 PM (8smjC)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:31 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Ben Had
I'm there Saturday, regardless.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:32 PM (8smjC)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 30, 2026 05:52 PM (HwKLm)
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They're trying to fatten you up! Don't let the chef convince you to peer into his oven...it's Hansel and Dildo time!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:34 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:35 PM (kpS4V)
IDK why oriental became a slur. I never used it as one.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 06:26 PM
oriental was a derogatory word in the Navy back in my day. That word referred to sailors who stayed in the orient their entire careers, usually Japan. They wold pull sea duty and rotate back to shore duty for 20+ years never leaving the orient and finally retire there without ever coming back to the states if they could help it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2026 06:35 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"
I wonder if they knew what they were getting.
Posted by: fd
I'm guessing no. That stuff is awful.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 06:36 PM (bWZYx)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:37 PM (mkztW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 06:34 PM (kpS4V)
Yikes, this a family thread. Not bad gay porn. Save that for the movie reviews.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 30, 2026 06:38 PM (PjGKJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:39 PM (PbWRL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 06:39 PM (tlCdj)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:31 PM (PbWRL)
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Dibs on rickb223's portion of the roasted pig on Friday!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:40 PM (TMF5Z)
That said I rarely eat anything that can't be cooked or heated up in the microwave. I buy a lot of pre-cooked meals from Krogers that are only $6. Best bargain in the store.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:41 PM (KC5Lt)
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Ever pick up one of their 'Monster Sandwiches' … ? Wait 'til after 10:30a and the price drops from $5 to $2.92 … patience pays.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (8smjC)
Man. Tough crowd. 😂
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:44 PM (8smjC)
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Naturally, we'll miss you on Friday!
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:45 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mkztW)
Like African-American.
Posted by: polynikes
Mongolians on the steppes. Never been to America.
Asian-American.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (8smjC)
Me too on the corn in the micro. Excellent for all veggie steaming. Lose no flavor or nutrients vs. boiling. At least that sounds good, and the micro's much easer, so, case settled.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (TMF5Z)
In fact I do by their poboys or subs or whatever one chooses to call them. Also a great bargain.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 06:47 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 06:46 PM (mkztW)
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Always. I do it through a picket fence!
Posted by: AOS at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (tlCdj)
I used to get discount sushi the same way when I worked in San Diego. A Japanese supermarket near where I worked would discount the sushi that had presumably been made for the lunch crowd, just before they put out the fresh stuff for people who got out of work at 5, but I got out of work at 4:00.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (PbWRL)
rhomboid,
I keep the mixer on a storage shelf and take it out as needed. The second one is boxed and in a closet. (We have an honorary niece getting married next year. The second mixer might be part of a wedding gift.) The proofer folds flat and fits in a box about 2 feet square and a couple of inches thick. Makes it easy to store. I use ours all the time and just keep it on the dining room table. Doesn't do much for the decor but it works. Our kitchen isn't big and counter space is always at a premium. There is an ongoing struggle between what is needed every day (drip coffee maker, cutting board, toaster oven, and knife block) and all the other things I want close to hand. It's like watching the tide rise and fall depending on what we're making. Takes some planning.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 06:48 PM (yTvNw)
We do that on the road now, quite a bit. TJ's ready-to-micro or grocery store prepared. Enjoy with some adult beverages in room at the hotel. Especially on long driving days. Also in destinations not known for food.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:49 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 06:50 PM (aJQbY)
A Texas garage in summer works pretty well for this, too. Just made some bread today, and that “about one hour to double in size” was more like thirty minutes both times.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 06:51 PM (kYmoU)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2026 06:51 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid
Kitchen Aid makes a smaller stand mixer. Perfect for limited space. I've got one.
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 06:54 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:55 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd
I'd trust gas station sushi over any dem.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (8smjC)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 06:56 PM (PbWRL)
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Go to Hell !!!
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Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2026 06:57 PM (8smjC)
Mitsuwa. It was (is?) kind of the downscale one. I rarely went to Nijiya, and I’m not sure I even knew about Marukai at the time. I did occasionally hit Ranch 99, but not very often.
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If you're ever in the area stop by. I'll get you some sushi that's not that old.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)
1) Make a focaccia (don't overcook, it'll go back in the over later - let cool, when close to dinner, slice the top off in one piece
2) On the bottom half, add marinara sauce, meat/toppings in a uniform layer, cheese - put top of focaccia back on.
3) Heat in oven at 350° for about 15 min - enough to melt the cheese
4) Cut into serving squares.
Turned out good - the twice-baking helped get a nice crunch out of the bread. Might add a 2nd layer of sauce or maybe some garlic butter to the underside of the top layer. Serve with a salad - good to go!
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First World Problems...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 30, 2026 02:02 PM (XLHdq)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:04 PM (ayRl+)
15yo don't usually jusy drop over, accident maybe?
Guess it could be illness as well
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 02:06 PM (TMF5Z)
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Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 02:08 PM (ZxPkt)
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Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:14 PM (ayRl+)
I had a similar incident with my son a few months ago. I was talking about the Sharpe TV series, and he said, Why are you wasting the little time we have together about something like that?
And I said, That's your history. You didn't know that?
He had, through me, ancestors who had fought in the British army all the way to Waterloo and then said, There has to be a better life, and emigrated to this country.
And no, he didn't know that. Nobody (me) had told him.
I resolved then--and I recommend this to all of us who are over 29--that my version of a Christmas letter from now on will be a brief biography of every family ancestor I can trace. If I send it to enough relatives, a few might remember for the next generation.
Posted by: Wenda at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (X4ut0)
Mom passed during covid. No memorial.
My wife's family (the deceased) are buried at a small, hilltop cemetery in very rural West Virginia. It's actually a beautiful place.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:15 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 02:16 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:18 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:20 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:22 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:22 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 02:24 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (aI58f)
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l)
The alternative is the never-forgotten grievances and blood feuds of The Old Country.
I, personally, have made enough enemies on my own and I'd really rather not have to worry about the enemies my grandfather made, even if they were shiftless Okie bastards.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (aI58f)
That's in the very last line!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9)
My father's mother was the youngest of her siblings and the only one in her family not born in Austria. Some never emigrated, one died in quarantine on Ellis Island.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 02:29 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9)
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https://tinyurl.com/btf54y2p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:31 PM (aI58f)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:32 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 02:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:28 PM (odBC9)
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https://tinyurl.com/btf54y2p
How lovely.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 02:34 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:35 PM (aI58f)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Flock Surveillance Corp. at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (tlCdj)
The largest part of the effort is digital archiving.
If I don't scan it or photograph it, it's probably gone forever.
How do I know someone future generation might want to pore through these records?
I have absolutely nothing handwritten by my grandparents.
I would treasure even a grocery list or a cancelled check.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l)
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Have you demanded reparations??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
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You may be in the line of succession for several thrones!
Posted by: Can . at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (tlCdj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:39 PM (tlCdj)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:20 PM (ayRl+)
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Now we know when the mothership arrives.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (aI58f)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 30, 2026 02:40 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
I believe they forgive us. They were young once, too.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:41 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 02:27 PM (G1F7l)
It stands to reason that you might be the descendant of a second or third son who inherited little to nothing and decided to head to the New World to make his fortune.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 02:42 PM (6ydKt)
I don’t know where the grands are. Buried somewhere, I reckon.
I did trace the coal mining side of my Slavic heritage to Cle Elum, WA. They were here before WA became a state. Grandma always insisted she was Yugoslavian. They were Catholics in what is now Croatia. Never been there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:42 PM (6ohhg)
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"I rest here under land stolen from the Cheyenne and I intend to keep it."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:43 PM (tlCdj)
Nobody's interested in them.
Most of my side of the family's dead. Only a sister, her two girls and my son remain.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:43 PM (2Cry5)
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Some of my ancestors were tossed off the boat en route to Ellis Island but they weren't dead.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:44 PM (tlCdj)
It makes my problem of toothpaste tubes that don't roll up seem a bit silly.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 02:45 PM (2WIwB)
I believe they forgive us. They were young once, too.
Posted by: m
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Concur...but it is my interest in family history/lore that goes unsatisfied. There is the point that my elder relatives might well have been pleased to relate family history.
It is unfortunate that very few of us maintain a journal of any sort.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:46 PM (XeU6L)
My father sold the cabin after mom died. It wasn’t his to sell. But me and my brother and cousins were all in our early 20s and couldn’t afford to buy him out. It was a shitty thing to do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 02:46 PM (6ohhg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 02:48 PM (6xukV)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Nobody's interested in them.
Most of my side of the family's dead. Only a sister, her two girls and my son remain.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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I have an acquaintance who operates an auction house. Having, from time-to-time seen old family albums being auctioned, I told him that I was surprised that folks would part with them. His reply, 'No one knows who they are'.
Annotate your photos. I fear that unprinted digital images are doomed to the bit bucket.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:51 PM (nlLAo)
tropaion
A tropaion (Greek: τρόπαιον, Latin: tropaeum), from which the English word "trophy" is derived, was a monument erected to commemorate a victory over one's foes by the ancient Greeks and later, by the Romans.
Initially, the typical monument was constructed out of a living tree with lateral branches, or it was constructed in the shape of one.
The armour of the defeated foe would be hung upon the monument.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 02:51 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 02:52 PM (RIvkX)
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What, no Indian princesses in the line?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2026 02:52 PM (tlCdj)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 02:56 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+)
I've found lots of info on my extended family on this side of the border via old newspaper articles, even finding out how they tried to kill each other back in 1873 (which eventually led to my 3-G Grandparents' divorce...what a bastard 3 G-Grandpa was)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 02:58 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Even more, you will get everything you think is important in there, your family will be shocked and unhappy, and may miss things you would like people to know about you.
Dad did this, and it was a great help
He told me several times, "Don't write I am now with Jesus, boy" and I figure it was due to his sense of appropriateness more than any feeling he had about the possible truth of that statement.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 02:59 PM (rbvCR)
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There's always the ever-iffy 'word-of-mouth' transmission, tho' …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+)
Very true. My mother once told me that she had ancestors from Monaco...turned out their last name was Monico, and they were Mexican Indians...
My Dad told me he never found out what happened to his father's half sister who became a nun. When I got into genealogy, I found out she died in 1928 in Texas from Tuberculosis...which ended up killing her Dad less than a decade later (he was there with her when she was dying).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:01 PM (l3cgK)
Gravestone
Tree stump headstones in U.S. cemeteries are often associated with fraternal organization Woodmen of the World.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 02:57 PM (ayRl+)
Word processing and graphics files should open in their respective versions on Mac & PC.
She’d just need to get the software.
If you use Adobe for anything she might balk at that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt)
Gravestone
Tree stump headstones in U.S. cemeteries are often associated with fraternal organization Woodmen of the World.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9)
I saw what seemed like some sort of pentagram on a grave...turned out it was some non-diabolical organization. Forget now which one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:04 PM (ayRl+)
My wife wanted me to write about my life adventures on multiple occasions; I told here nobody would believe it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:05 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)
The ability to place your family history in the context of historic events is a gift that one should take every opportunity to pass on..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:07 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Good think that was a "yes" answer...otherwise you would have typed, "Dr No No"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (l3cgK)
It was an experience I wasn’t prepared for and wish I’d done better on my mother’s. My Dad’s came out better with the additional time.
I’d say it’s good advice to write out your obit as much as possible in advance.
Ya never know if you’ll lose some memories you’d like to share in the future.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ)
The other three branches are all Boston Irish, coming in in 1840s, 60s and1880s, the last of which I grew up in.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (sl73Y)
Word processing and graphics files should open in their respective versions on Mac & PC. She’d just need to get the software. If you use Adobe for anything she might balk at that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt)
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At the time I created 'em, I used all CS6 Adobeware: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. Since then I've moved to the Affinity suite (free to use on Canva, btw). My OS has also been updated (?) to macOS 10.13.6 'High Sierra' (yeah, it's dated). My font program has 4K± fonts in it, and about 95% of 'em are open and active. It's really more than she's going to want to struggle with 'cos - even tho' it's EASIER than any comparable PeeSee wares - she's tied into the PeeSee environment - and no, I don't understand that either. BUT: That's why I made the .pdf versions of all of it … Prior Planning Prevents – you know the drill …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ayRl+)
The ability to place your family history in the context of historic events is a gift that one should take every opportunity to pass on..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:07 PM (nbLIj)
I tried to get my FIL's grandkids to ask him about his your (grew up in a war-torn land, eating rats and mice if they found them). It's too late now, as he passed away almost 2.5 years ago...
I do have quite a mental collection of my Dad's stories and his stories of his parents. I probably should write them down before they get lost when I pass...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Free tibet at August 30, 2026 03:11 PM (tfJVv)
‘And the son passed it to the grandson and so forth….’
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 03:11 PM (LHPAg)
It was an experience I wasn’t prepared for and wish I’d done better on my mother’s. My Dad’s came out better with the additional time.
I’d say it’s good advice to write out your obit as much as possible in advance.
Ya never know if you’ll lose some memories you’d like to share in the future.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:08 PM (6ydKt)
I was prohibited from being present during my mother's memorial service. If anyone ever asks me why, I'll be honest: "I would have liked to have been present for it, but Baby brother forbade me from showing up."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ)
... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:04 PM (ayRl+)
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Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Mike, delurking at August 30, 2026 03:09 PM (lyImQ)
... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9)
Armed.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (odBC9)
I was able to screw around and recover a bunch of jumbled text from the doc and am in the process of recreating the doc from that and reapplying formatting and cleaning up what I could salvage.
I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office, in anticipation of eventually moving to Linux for my next PC. This delightful experience has motivated me to hasten that transition.
Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz)
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (LHPAg)
Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz)
Yeah, my monitor is exhibiting horizontal lines in the lower 2.5 inches of the screen...it started with just happening in the taskbar but has grown worse. I need to check the BIOS setting to make sure Windows didn't f-up those settings when it updated at about the time the issue first cropped up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:15 PM (l3cgK)
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip
LOL. Lake America baby!
Posted by: Tuna at August 30, 2026 03:16 PM (lJ0H4)
When he concluded I asked him where the story was written down.
He tapped the side of his head.
No, I insisted. Your great grandchildren will never hear it.
I promised him if he would write it, I would edit it.
As we parted he told me he would email a draft.
The last thing I said to him was a question:
Promise?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1)
... which is why you had to have friends stay at the house during the receiving of friends and the funeral! Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:12 PM (odBC9)
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My first 'death experience' came at the age of approx. 10 or so when a friend of the family died. We went to his wake (held in his house, an old 'shotgun'-style place. His coffin was laid on a pair of sawhorses in the front room and there was no light other than what was provided by the little red-glass 'votive' candles. Scared the crap outa me, and I never got over that until my out-of-body experience at the age of 32. Never been afraid of death since then, 'cos we only transition - we don't die.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:17 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:10 PM (ayRl+)
PC & Macs use different types of fonts so unless they are all OpenFont (.otf) fonts she’d have to find the same font in TrueType or do a conversion with software. Older Mac PostScript Type 1 fonts aren’t compatible at all with PC.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt)
Go to Google maps and look at the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0)
OMG ! ! 1 1 ! Trump is a monster ! ! ! ! Everybody hates us now ! ! ! !
I love it !
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
>Risky. I may have hoodlums and corrupt LEOs still looking for me.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (nlLAo)
Lake America
Smallest of the 5 Great
reddit has banned it
r/mildlyinfuriating
mildlyinfuriating-ModTeam
MOD
3m ago
We do not allow politics, pushing agendas, or grandstanding.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at
Land of the tall people. I thought you were a gymnast?
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:20 PM (sl73Y)
Then it goes into all sorts of lifestyle questions; favorite songs, foods, places to visit, movies, etc.
Reading some of the posts here I wonder what my son was thinking...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 03:21 PM (2Cry5)
Writing an obituary is quite the challenge. I did get a few suggestions from chat AI, but... it isn't easy. I also spoke at Dad's funeral. Went ok, but still a challenge. Held it together until the bugler sounded taps...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9)
Sure they do, but it only runs in one direction.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:23 PM (l3cgK)
I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office. Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz)
______________________________
Query: A) You still have SOME usable data from the crash, then? B) Have you considered UPLOADING the entirety of what you have to an AI like ChatGPT or Grok, etc and asking them to examine it and then REBUILD / RECONSTRUCT it to the extent that's possible? Both of those AIs have helped me with things I thought were unpossible (to use a word) - and they surprised the crap out of me with the amount they got right. Worth a shot, yes?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ayRl+)
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR)
Lately received a flyer from:
DriveSavers.com, there are certainly others. Again...FWIW.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:25 PM (XeU6L)
Writing an obituary is quite the challenge. I did get a few suggestions from chat AI, but... it isn't easy. I also spoke at Dad's funeral. Went ok, but still a challenge. Held it together until the bugler sounded taps...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)
I was tangentially involved in Dad's obituary. My brother wanted to completely erase Mom from it, but I thought that was too rough, so she was in the obit by reference...Dad's first wife was referenced as his "first wife", which implies a second...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
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Bwahahahahaha
[takes a breath]
Bwahahahahaha
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L)
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR)
If the Reddit devs disagree, it's politics; if the agree, it's not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)
That would eliminate 99.5 percent of reddit...
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR)
If the Reddit devs disagree, it's politics; if the agree, it's not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)
And that mod statement sounds so prissy, to boot.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Savage Henry at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Then you did well by your mother.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (sl73Y)
Query: A) You still have SOME usable data from the crash, then? B) Have you considered UPLOADING the entirety of what you have to an AI like ChatGPT or Grok, etc and asking them to examine it and then REBUILD / RECONSTRUCT it to the extent that's possible? Both of those AIs have helped me with things I thought were unpossible (to use a word) - and they surprised the crap out of me with the amount they got right. Worth a shot, yes?
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:24 PM (ayRl+)
That's an interesting idea, and not something I considered. At this point, I've mostly recovered the document, but that would be an interesting experiment.
It occurred to me that whatever was corrupt in the document might be very minor, and the right tool might be able to find and fix it. AI might be the right answer.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: man
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This has been posted here before, but worth doing it again:
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 02:38 PM (XeU6L)
exactly the feeling I get.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 03:33 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz)
I started working with Windows on Win95.
Worked at a local high school sports newspaper that published every other week.
The PC that I had to put the entire newspaper together on in days was ancient, and crashed at least once a day.
I lost an entire 80-page edition one night about 3 a.m. a few hours from completing the layout in QuarkXpress because the machine crashed and the file, and backup file, were corrupted.
I’ve never been so exhausted, frustrated and angry in my life.
Since then I hit Ctrl+S every ten minutes like an involuntary reaction.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt)
The stuff Dad had from his Mom and Dad, some was given to my eldest cousin (now almost 80), like Grandpa's WW1 helmet and Colt 1911 .45 (well, belonged to Gov't but Grandpa said he lost it, then snuck it aboard the ship before coming back to the States)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)
Same here.
My brother got the flag, and I got the urn.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)
That's an interesting idea, and not something I considered. At this point, I've mostly recovered the document, but that would be an interesting experiment. It occurred to me that whatever was corrupt in the document might be very minor, and the right tool might be able to find and fix it. AI might be the right answer. Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:30 PM (X5Jzz)
__________________________________
I queried ChatGPT about a problem my brother has when he tries opening 'Darktable' on his Mac: It opens about 95% of the way, then stops. It's missing a piece Onyx (the cleanup-ware) removed after he accidentally hit some key or other. Chat says it may be possible to get Darktable operational again - depending on the cause of the failure to open. I created a .txt file of the chat and sent it to my bro' - now it's his call.
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:37 PM (ayRl+)
I’ve never been so exhausted, frustrated and angry in my life.
Since then I hit Ctrl+S every ten minutes like an involuntary reaction.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:34 PM (6ydKt)
I make interstitial pdfs, too!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9)
I have an absolutely clear line back to Ireland, Scotland and England. I have the family name back to before 1066.
On Mrs. Red’s side her father’s side actually intersects with my Scottish line. 8th cousins, I believe. Her mother’s side I have back to Austria/Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia.
Point being that there is a wealth of information on most people. A1925 death will have records; it’s almost like yesterday as far as genealogy goes.
We should chat.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (rYvai)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)
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Popular entertainment once upon a time in Michigan's UP.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2026 03:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Big Data at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (dIske)
I had an uncle who fought in the Burma campaign against the Japanese alongside the Ghurkas. He came back fine.
Another uncle was in the Royal Navy. He came back with debiliating malaria.
Their sister -- a civilian -- died in the London blitz.
Such are the fortunes of war.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (dtajH)
_________________________________
You were working with QX on a PeeSee!? I'm so sorry …
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (ayRl+)
My wife had basically no DNA intersection with me...other than perhaps that single chromatid that showed up in my DNA test that said Southern Chinese ancestry...that must've come from Mom's side...Mexico had a complex history with the Manila Galleon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:43 PM (l3cgK)
They would throw a New Year's Eve party and I was amazed at the contrast between these people and those from dad's side. An anecdote from mom:
One of her uncles had a silver aluminum Christmas tree and a family member was getting married around the holidays. It was decided that the tree would be prominently displayed at the altar. At some point, it was decided that this tree would preside over every marriage in the future regardless of the calendar.
Fast forward to when mom announced her impending marriage to dad. To hear mom tell it, her uncles were adamant on the tree's presence at the altar. She had to enlist her aunts to help them understand that dad's family would not get the joke. Truth was, dad's family - he was the only son among several daughters - were a generally humorless bunch. Wish I got to spend more time with mom's side...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 30, 2026 03:44 PM (nbLIj)
Lately received a flyer from:
DriveSavers.com, there are certainly others. Again...FWIW.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 30, 2026 03:25 PM (XeU6L)
Thanks, this isn't important enough or big enough to spend money on a data recovery service.
I'm in the process of trying Dr_No's suggestion of using ChatGPT, and it seems to be working quite well, including recovering tables and document formatting.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (X5Jzz)
There's some good solid genealogical advice there jim. I've worked on our family history most of my life. I think my interest developed from the stories my grt. grandmother told me. The oldest was told to her by her grandfather about his childhood in western PA in the 1840s.
Although family tales may not be completely accurate there is usually an element of truth to them and they may contain valuable hints. I encourage everyone to pass those stories on so they are not lost. And add whatever you have been able to prove or disprove.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (4Qj8V)
Of course, I can now never leave any dna at a crime scene.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (rYvai)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (leKdc)
... they said, with zero self-reflection.
(although if that's the subreddit-specific policy and they've actually been upholding it, kudos.)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 03:48 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:39 PM (odBC9)
There have been times I’ve got variations of files and backups of backups, dated back several versions. Then backed up on a flash drive and/or cloud.
Better safe than sorry.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 30, 2026 03:46 PM (4Qj8V)
Family Lore!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:49 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (SjAWL)
Of course, I can now never leave any dna at a crime scene.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (rYvai)
My DNA is very...specific. I have a not-very-common MTDNA marker that mutated a recently as 150 years ago...and there was somebody else on the website that had that very marker. Y-DNA is a bit...muddled. It was showing hits from folks I show no paper trail being related to, so it's possible a female ancestor on the paternal line got jiggy with someone other than my supposed ancestors...or their name changed significantly after coming to America, like my paternal 2-G grandpa's surname changed.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:52 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 03:42 PM (ayRl+)
It doesn’t really bother be now.
I’m ambidextrous with both platforms after using both for 30 years.
I stopped using Windows totally and stuck with Mac for over ten years. Got back into PC again about four years ago.
They each have their strengths and weaknesses, but I will say I get a lot fewer crashes on Win11 than the old days. Mac is always usually rock solid around crashes but MacOS has some issues, too.
Microsoft is telemetry crazy is my biggest problem with PC. Apple is not always trying to spy on you.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:47 PM (leKdc)
I'm browner than anyone else (other than my brothers and sister) on my Dad's side of the family...
A great aunt once commented, "There's a little bit of N****r in every Mexican," and in my case, she was right.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)
Yeah, I got some Viking lineage.
But I'm not paying reparations to no English queers.
Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Maybe you should demand danegeld from them instead...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:55 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:54 PM (TMF5Z)
Had a cousin 2x removed that spend the remainder of his life in an insane asylum...he was a actor, so maybe that was related.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK)
oh my
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM
My father once noted that, unlike today, they dreaded the summer because that's when the typhus came. He said every year when school started one or more of his classmates would be missing.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 03:41 PM (dIske)
Might even know for certain who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (TMF5Z)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:59 PM (4NO2D)
I realize how common it is, but a number of those services play fast and loose with their privacy policies.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)
That Viking blood eventually helped the UK to become the largest empire on earth.
I don’t think reparations are truly needed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:30 PM
My father once noted that, unlike today, they dreaded the summer because that's when the typhus came. He said every year when school started one or more of his classmates would be missing.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 03:58 PM (4NO2D)
Saw a EweToob video of how difficult life was for women on the pioneer trails...lets just say at some point "20 different smells" was mentioned regarding their bodies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Cousin Eddie at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 04:01 PM (ayRl+)
I realize how common it is, but a number of those services play fast and loose with their privacy policies.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)
I used an expensive outfit that allowed accessing and downloading you DNA data anonymously...but it still had to be paid, so If I wanted it truly anonymous, I woulda had to pay in BitCoin, which they accepted...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:01 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Rozsika Halmos (Manya) at August 30, 2026 04:02 PM (JM9I6)
My paternal grandfather is in the 1940 census records twice: Listed once at his house, the second at 26th and Cal.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 30, 2026 04:03 PM (TvrWq)
I saw a video about the town in North Alabama where I lived, made in the 30s touting the CCC project that drained the swamps across the river. It said that prior to that, one out of three citizens got malaria every year. In the US, in a world with automobiles and airplanes.
(as an aside, they also showed the then brand new high school that I attended, the one with no A/C, right across from Delano Park)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:06 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 30, 2026 04:10 PM (4NO2D)
There's an old joke that Ancestry dot com is Incestry dot com for the states in the deep south...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Blahblahblah at August 30, 2026 05:12 PM (ca+Gv)
I was able to screw around and recover a bunch of jumbled text from the doc and am in the process of recreating the doc from that and reapplying formatting and cleaning up what I could salvage.
I'm using an ancient (Office 97) version of Word that I've been meaning to replace with Libre Office, in anticipation of eventually moving to Linux for my next PC. This delightful experience has motivated me to hasten that transition.
Fuck Microsoft and their crappy software.
Posted by: a.moron at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (X5Jzz)
Did you save it before you went to bed? On an external drive as well? If not, why not?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2026 05:39 PM (hmYU4)
The image shows a carved tree-trunk style upright gravestone with a heart-shaped marker for a young person named Charles, who died on June 7, 1925, at the age of 15.
Headstone Detail:
Name: Charles (inscribed with the Hebrew name Betzalel son of Shlomo Tzevi)
Date of Death: June 7, 1925 (Hebrew date corresponding to 15 Sivan 5685)
Age: 15 years old.
Inscriptions: The English section reads "Charles / DIED JUNE 7, 1925 / AGE 15 YEARS", accompanied by the Hebrew acronym TNAtzB"H ("May his soul be bound in the bond of eternal life") and a base block reading "SON.
More family info, perhaps the 1910 and/or 1920 US Census. Also, if the burial is in the New York area, reportedly New York conducted a highly detailed State Census in early 1925.
Since Charles passed away in June 1925, this census was taken just months or weeks before his death, providing the final recorded snapshot of his household.
Posted by: L - No nic... at August 30, 2026 07:40 PM (NFX2v)
The most urgent health event of that season occurred in late May 1925, when New York City officially declared war on a potential smallpox epidemic.
The spring of 1925 was also the tail-end of the deadliest foodborne typhoid fever epidemic in U.S. history.
And the month of June began with an unprecedented, oppressive heat wave that broke on June 8, 1925. Desperate to escape the extreme heat, thousands of Queens residents packed local shorelines. There were numerous drownings.
Plus car accidents, gangs, etc. weren't unusual.
100 years ago, maybe not a huge difference in the city from the present time.
Good luck!
Posted by: L - No nic... at August 30, 2026 07:56 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: epador at August 30, 2026 08:36 PM (qiCAv)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 04:11 PM
If your family tree does not fork...
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Does running a well-established blog such as yours require a
large amount of work? I'm brand new to writing
a blog but I do write in my diary everyday. I'd like to start a blog so
I can easily share my personal experience and feelings online.
Please let me know if you have any kind of ideas or tips for brand new aspiring bloggers.
Thankyou!
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Posted by: pqudszfi at September 01, 2026 06:42 AM (xbsjN)
Warrantless Surveillance Is An Unalloyed Evil, And Cannot Be Justified By Claiming A Reduction In Crime
This is an absolutely moronic take on a massive degradation of our civil liberties. It's difficult to underestimate the stupidity of this author, who seems to think that there is some balanced equation between our God-given, natural rights, and the destruction of those rights on the altar of safety.
Do Flock Cameras Actually Work?It’s been a tough summer for automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that at least 50 police officers have been charged with or accused of misusing plate-reader networks, including for stalking wives, ex-girlfriends, and other women. One small-town Georgia police chief ran his ex-girlfriend’s plates roughly 600 times. California legislators took up the technology in hearings titled “Don’t Flock me,” a jab at Flock, the Atlanta company whose ALPRs now scan roads in more than 6,000 American communities. A backlash that began among left-leaning civil libertarians has spread to the populist Right, and city councils now face packed hearings on whether to keep the cameras. The debate has become more heat than light. Both sides fixate on anecdotes, with supporters pointing to abducted children recovered after a timely plate hit, while critics list stories of rogue officers and plate data shared far beyond the agencies that collected this information. Neither answers a question that policymakers face: Does the technology produce enough public safety to justify its costs, in dollars and in privacy?
I don't give a sh*t that Flock and other unconstitutional searches may decrease crime. So will sending SWAT teams into every house in America to look for drugs or "illegal" weapons, or taking the medical records of every American and analyzing them for possible illegality. Or sending forensic accountants into every business in America and checking their books. Or.... The list is long how we can make ourselves "safer." But as some very wise men understood, safety is a temporary condition that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. Does that sound histrionic? Maybe, but provide a counter example please!
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!-- Samuel Adams
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.-- Benjamin Franklin Government is fundamentally evil, and the expansion of its surveillance capacity simply makes it worse, and gives it more power over us. If anyone thinks that government is expanding its surveillance capacity because it will make us safer, then I have a bridge to sell you. They expand it, and all of its power, for one reason: control over the people. We have to push back whenever we can, and Flock cameras are an excellent place to take a stand. And it's easy! Agitate against them in every public forum, starting with your local government council. And if you ever end up on a jury for a trial of someone who destroyed a Flock camera or any other onerous surveillance technology...you know what to do.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Willowed
I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l)
The concept of subsidiarity is helpful. Make your concern those things closest to you. Your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your church, your hobbies. Much beyond that, you don't have much influence.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (2Ez/1)
Better to collect information on 10,000 innocent people than catch an actual criminal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Toss a piece of wood at a data center under construction in memory of Sinwar.
Yeah, this is Normal.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 12:04 PM (QnlTD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7)
Retired East German STASI guy with a monocle
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments
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"We find the defendant not guilty by reason of sanity!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Strike a Pose! at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (NcvvS)
"OpenAI has said the company uses software to scan conversations for signs of dangerous behavior and flag them to human reviewers."
https://tinyurl.com/yd58ukpc
They confided in ChatGPT. Their secrets ended up in court.
(a Yahoo article, which is a WaPo article)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (odBC9)
“A Huge Liability:” Democrat Candidates Avoid Kamala Harris as Midterms Approach
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:08 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (odBC9)
Bullshiite. The "abducted kid" crap has to be shut up. Hard. The "kids" on milk cartons was idiotic.
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu)
Florida Man Charged With Felony After Smashing Decoy Flock Camera
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7)
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Seems like a case could be made for entrapment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (FZ29D)
If anyone misuses the technology, let them lose their badge, their pension, and their liberty.
Until States enact laws to severely punish the abusers, and reform the judiciary to enforce such things, fine, cut them down.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:11 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Joey From Queens at August 30, 2026 12:12 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:12 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Jalan at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (uqfb2)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:07 PM (NcvvS)
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According to the map, there are only three in my town. Two pointed at the Lowe's parking lot for some reason. The other pointing at a weird angle across an intersection near my house.
But there's a fourth camera (I think) downtown next to the library. It's not listed on the deflock map and looks like it's a temporary camera.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (FZ29D)
You know what lives in a flock? Sheep.
Abolish flock cameras and stop being sheep.
Posted by: Fuck The Flock at August 30, 2026 12:14 PM (6VpiA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 12:15 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (2Ez/1)
One would hope! But when you look at comments under articles about Fauci--for example--some of the stuff that gets said is just beyond our wildest guesses. Like: "People who didn't get vaccinated exposed all of us to the virus." I just can't even.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:15 PM (odBC9)
Where does their data come from? Is it community reported or is Flock obligated to release it?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 12:16 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Looks like the wheels are closing in and the walls are about to come off our "Perfessor". I'll be watching for the bodycam arrest.
Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at August 30, 2026 12:16 PM (JM9I6)
So, ask yourself a simple little question. How many of the venture capitalist groups associated with the research and development of Flock Cameras participate within the World Economic Forum?
To start, the primary investor in Flock is Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and they are listed as a participating organization in specific WEF initiatives.
Posted by: Orson at August 30, 2026 12:17 PM (dIske)
My leftist city has cameras around schools to slow traffic cams keep the "children" safe. Of course the city raking In cash from speeders.
A funnier thing happened however . Our county comptroller put a surveillance camera outside our county bus offices without anyone's knowledge.Our county executive is outraged. Two leftist white women yelling at each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 12:18 PM (EZWVc)
They learned that lesson already
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 30, 2026 12:18 PM (EZWVc)
This is cool!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:20 PM (odBC9)
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Cedar Rapids Kennel Association show, his third this weekend. The site is getting pasted by storms right now, so Variety Group judging is likely to be delayed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:21 PM (O0L8i)
People are weird. When confronted with evidence that they've been duped, they either turn on the previous position with a vengeance or double down with a vengeance. My hunch is that the responses correlate fairly well with the conservative/liberal spectrum.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 12:21 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:11 PM (36x1j)
At the price of a felony charge?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:22 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:24 PM (36x1j)
Florida Man Charged With Felony After Smashing Decoy Flock Camera
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ndZc7)
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Seems like a case could be made for entrapment.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (FZ29D)
a version of this article is at:
yahoo.com
https://tinyurl.com/ycyrxa6z
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:26 PM (odBC9)
You should see the youtube video about how to do it?
Easy peasy, A balaclava is needed.
Do it in Winter.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:27 PM (36x1j)
Crowdsourced, so community reported.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (NcvvS)
The reason Seattle turned its cameras off wasn’t to protect citizens’ privacy. It was to protect illegals from being picked out by immigration enforcement. They even said so. Oh, illegals and people fleeing their red states to obtain late term abortions and “gender affirming care” for minors.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (9SHqx)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 30, 2026 12:28 PM (BN9Gq)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:30 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 12:30 PM (GWwCk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 12:36 PM (9SHqx)
How's about we install multiple concentric rings of FlockYou cameras around the domiciles of CEO FlockYou and we all get to eyeball him and his 24/7?
He is asshoe.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 30, 2026 12:37 PM (trSL4)
A dog can make you lose your rights
Posted by: Paul at August 30, 2026 12:37 PM (tkK47)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 12:40 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: Reforger at August 30, 2026 12:42 PM (G1F7l)
Watch Leftists heads explode
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Just as quickly his home disappeared off Google Earth. To to get that done as a normie.
Tech stands by its own, no?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 30, 2026 12:44 PM (bX16E)
Flock has a 'whitelist' of politicians, CEOs, police, and 'connected' assholes whose license plates are unsearchable and cannot be tracked.
The very fact that capability exists tells you everything you need to know about this crap.
Normal citizens can be searched and stalked any time anybody feels like it. Insurance agents are already whistleblowing that their companies have access to Flock to look up your entire driving history to try to deny you claims.
But those politicians visiting their mistresses cannot be tracked.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 30, 2026 12:47 PM (setIA)
maps.deflock.org is the place to see where the cameras near you skulk.
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According to the map, there are only three in my town. Two pointed at the Lowe's parking lot for some reason.
There are four of them in the Lowe's parking lot near me.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: MH-53J at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (9ZxcS)
flock camera felony
Investigations And Vandalism Of Flock Cameras Surge ...
Forbes
https://www.forbes.com › Business
3 days ago — People in Florida and Michigan have been charged with felonies for damaging the cameras, destruction of which can carry hefty penalties due to ...
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (odBC9)
Bullshiite. The "abducted kid" crap has to be shut up. Hard. The "kids" on milk cartons was idiotic.
Posted by: man at August 30, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu)
Could we at least air tag all the dingoes. Just in case.
Posted by: Meryl Streep at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Cool Hand Luke at August 30, 2026 12:52 PM (0vB2I)
I’m afraid the toothpaste is out of the tube on ubiquitous surveillance
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2026 12:55 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:13 PM (FZ29D)
Smash-and-grab retail theft, tracking the cars the stolen goods are put into?
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (33HvQ)
Posted by: Meryl Streep at August 30, 2026 12:48 PM (r7+Q7)
Maybe the dingoes ate your baby!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (M+uMR)
I get the whole "no expectation of privacy in public." But if someone searches specifically for me, my wife, our vehicles across multiple jurisdictions on a whim... I think there's a problem.
That is exactly the type of abuse that has already been documented, but AFAIK, no specific rulings on whether it constitutes a legally defined search or not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (2Cry5)
The problem is not the tech, but the policies that attach to them. If you fix that, there's no reason to try and diminish First Amendment protected public photography freedoms.
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 30, 2026 12:58 PM (f2WUk)
Philip K. Dick was close.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 30, 2026 12:59 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: George V at August 30, 2026 01:00 PM (HUbHH)
During Covid, government was using Public Safety Cameras to provide streaming video into Computer Vision systems that had classifiers to single out people who were not complying with mask and "social distancing" mandates.
You can download these classifiers for your personal use.
You don't need Flock to ruin people's lives. The value of Flock is the ability to set up a monitoring station that is not connected to a power source and to network the cameras into an AI system with hundred thousand IoT cameras.
The problem isn't necessarily the cameras, its the underlying software supporting the surveillance.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:01 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 01:02 PM (aJQbY)
The problem is not the tech, but the policies that attach to them. If you fix that, there's no reason to try and diminish First Amendment protected public photography freedoms.
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at August 30, 2026 12:58 PM (f2WUk)
Josh Hawley and Ron DeSantis are looking into legislation.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:02 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Gqaa7)
And the government can’t or won’t control or secure it. Guess Who has most, if not all, the crown jewels.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:04 PM (33HvQ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Gqaa7)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 01:06 PM (aI58f)
A big ol' list of stuff like this could help sway people to be against the cameras. Where would they draw the line, they could be asked.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (odBC9)
_-_
Now fast-forward to today's technology. What are they doing now?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Gqaa7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (odBC9)
A big ol' list of stuff like this could help sway people to be against the cameras. Where would they draw the line, they could be asked.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (odBC9)
Surveillance for thee but not for me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 30, 2026 01:08 PM (aI58f)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (l3cgK)
That doesn't happen just every day!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (odBC9)
That doesn't happen just every day!
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:09 PM (odBC9)
What's the ACLU's (American Criminal Liberties Union) take on Flock?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:07 PM (l3cgK)
or is that a Cantonese priest?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)
Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras
American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org › get-the-flock-out
4 days ago — Flock's ALPR cameras aren't like your normal traffic cameras. This surveillance technology records and tracks every car that comes into view
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: MH-53J
>Like Fauci? The CIA? None of this is unprecedented. Now they're just putting it in your face. Teabagging is now the social norm.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:11 PM (nlLAo)
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NSA. And then they coded software that could search for certain words, phrases or specific names. By listening to the recordings.
Imagine what they're doing with all the digital data they're hoovering up.
It's no wonder they fund startups like Google, Facebook, etc. and have gear in every telecon junction in the country (and probably elsewhere.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Radar at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (vVx7o)
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ybxgE)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 30, 2026 01:16 PM (PbWRL)
https://tinyurl.com/3y3vscsj
Flock provides one of the most widely used ALPR systems, but they aren't the only company trying to make a buck by spying on us.
Axon, Vigilant Solutions (a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions), Genetec, PlateSmart, Innova Systems, Rekor, ELSAG, Perceptics, and Jenoptik are a few of the other leading companies selling ALPRs to police, private companies, and others.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:16 PM (odBC9)
I was just trying to find basic water losses due to a city's failure to maintain the distribution system. No joy.
Zero insight on how a municipality is wasting water while at the same time they are criminalizing the failure of residents to micro-optimize their personal water use.
Flock seems to be the same thing. The municipality refuses to do the job they are expected to do in favor of setting up what appears to be an unconstitutional police state.
If they really cared about public safety, they wouldn't be releasing criminals back on the street nor be a sanctuary city/state for criminal illegal aliens.
So the public safety claim is pure bullshit since they aren't even doing the easy job of actually doing their job, but are expanding the role to harass citizens.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (a4flb)
It is directed at law-abiding citizens, so a huge No.
Victor Davis Hanson saw this in CA 25 years ago.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (Gqaa7)
I was just trying to find basic water losses due to a city's failure to maintain the distribution system. No joy.
Zero insight on how a municipality is wasting water while at the same time they are criminalizing the failure of residents to micro-optimize their personal water use.
Flock seems to be the same thing. The municipality refuses to do the job they are expected to do in favor of setting up what appears to be an unconstitutional police state.
If they really cared about public safety, they wouldn't be releasing criminals back on the street nor be a sanctuary city/state for criminal illegal aliens.
So the public safety claim is pure bullshit since they aren't even doing the easy job of actually doing their job, but are expanding the role to harass citizens.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 30, 2026 01:17 PM (a4flb)
After they expropriate the property of the Bad People, they'll have money to fix potholes.
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:19 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 01:20 PM (mkztW)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:21 PM (odBC9)
I really don’t think I’m interesting enough for anyone to care or make note of what I do or who I talk to or what I say.
Posted by: nurse ratched
The otters are listening.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments
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"We find the defendant not guilty by reason of sanity!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2026 12:06 PM (FZ29D)
"We find the defendant not guilty because you're frigging jerkoffs"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (S41Gd)
A Canadian academic at the University of Waterloo:
Q: As a founding scholar in trans philosophy, tell us about your research and community engagement.
A: When I first started doing what came to be known as "trans philosophy" I didn't have a method expressly formulated in my mind. I was simply motivated by this thought: "The current ways of making sense of my trans experiences don't work. But I'm a smart woman. Why don't I try to figure it out on my own?" It wasn't until trans philosophy began to take off that I could turn around and really say, "Ok. So, that's what I was doing."
Can't imagine why academia is collapsing...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (aD4fx)
All of the considerable surveillance apparatus arrayed against crime and trafficking illegal drugs, smuggling, etc.
Remember there are no coincidences in government. If there are 50 or 100 million illegal aliens in your country, somebody wants it that way.
One can only conclude, therefore, that all this stuff is going to used for someone else. You get one guess
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (33HvQ)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:22 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
I love them. Did you know sea otters hold hands while they sleep?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:23 PM (ybxgE)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 30, 2026 01:23 PM (aD4fx)
>>@R_H_Ebright
·
4h
>>"Newly disclosed documents reveal that Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had a formal institutional partnership with the CIA, one that provided cover for the agency's biological-threat research."
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver
Except the problem isn't photography. It's the systematic data collection and cross-referencing that creates a permanent record of every thing about a person. This isn't a matter of 'who just walked down this alleyway.' It's a system that is telling the cops and assorted clients, 'That's Fred Johnson, here's his phone number, his past 100 calls, and this script predicts he is going to see Jane Haller at 5:05pm tonight.'
It's literally creating a index of everyone's lives, not just a f'ing photo album. It will be the basis for a social credit system if it isn't already.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 01:24 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Eromero at August 30, 2026 01:25 PM (mkztW)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
>No. If they were, every citizen in America would be a landowner and have his own home.
Right now, you qualify as a citizen if you pay taxes. Pretty much it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:25 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: nurse ratched
_-_
...until they change the rules to say what you normally do is prohibited. The knowledge you are being monitored should be sifficient to keep from getting "outside your lane".
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Gqaa7)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 01:29 PM (wxsGM)
Like going to the range or attending Latin Mass?
They can come and take my guns and my Eucharist over my dead body.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:30 PM (C8BIZ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2026 01:32 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Paco at August 30, 2026 01:32 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:33 PM (Gqaa7)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 12:57 PM (33HvQ)
Ahhhh, I've seen that place in a movie, or something. What was the movie called, again? *thinking*thinking*
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 30, 2026 01:34 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Trust me you are interesting to any number of companies and unknown number of criminal organizations. You think having a false strike on your credit report is a nightmare? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2026 01:35 PM (diia5)
Ahhhh, I've seen that place in a movie, or something. What was the movie called, again? *thinking*thinking*
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
The President's Analyst
www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2026 01:36 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (Gqaa7)
Flock CEO spoke out about accepting the new norm for lack of privacy, and himself was quickly doxxed.
Just as quickly his home disappeared off Google Earth. To to get that done as a normie.
Tech stands by its own, no?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Here's how to do that for your own house.
Is.gd refused to shorten this, BTW. Remove the carriage returns.
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/
how-to-stop-google-maps-from-
displaying-your-home-to-strangers
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Paco
Memory of a goldfish.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 01:37 PM (QovLg)
You might not have been privy to state secrets, but you probably do have some insights that others might not. Or pieced together certain things/events that cut across the grain of publicly released info.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:39 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2026 01:30 PM (C8BIZ)
Your terms are acceptablel.
Posted by: Your local government and PD at August 30, 2026 01:40 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Your local government and PD at August 30, 2026 01:41 PM (hmYU4)
The issue is we don't throw them in prison/execute them.
Every horrible crime you see in the news is by someone with a dozen priors...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)
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In every "street view" photo of where my house is, you can't see it due to all the trees, tall grass, weeds, etc. that are along the road.
The house sits about 1/4 mile off that road, up a hill.
The satellite view however....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2Cry5)
And they capped it with a blue haired woman explaining that it feels good to get your identify from being part of a group even if that group is organized around something absurd.
And...yes. Yes that's exactly true. Now let's talk about "the empathetic", trannies, and those that "care about the earth"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
During WWI, the US created an intelligence sharing agreement to share intel about the Axis powers. Eventually, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were included and that was the birth of Five Eyes, an intel sharing group that monitored things like communist uprisings in Latin America and other threats to the west.
From that group we got Project Echelon. It was originally setup to spy on communications of the Soviet Union and her allies. And just as color revolutions were eventually turned on us, so was Echelon.
At every internet interconnect and peering location around the US the NSA has listening stations. The feds couldn't have designed a better tool for monitoring communications so they helped create this one. The feds have so many was of monitoring us the Flock cameras seem almost redundant. The amount of benefit they provide is way outweighed by the loss of privacy.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:45 PM (nlLAo)
Posted by: m at August 30, 2026 01:49 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Remember a guy named Seymore Cray? He had this idea, a computer unlike anything seen before. A certain intelligence agency parked some money in his firm and had them build "stuff" that sort of helped out the data aggregation back in the 70's and 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 01:50 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Donny Brook at August 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Dc1Hd)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 01:53 PM (ayRl+)
That same intel agency gave money to a couple data scientists at Standford named Segey Brin and Larry Page to help them develop their search technology. It became Google.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 30, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)
_-_
Right. There were good reasons that JFK had the attitude he did.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Gqaa7)
And what's the point of finding more criminals if the judges and lawmakers aren't going to keep them in jail? That's where the real problem is.
Posted by: Random PJ at August 30, 2026 01:55 PM (+jscL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 01:56 PM (nlLAo)
I accidentally found a solution for that. Part of my roof is flat, and that created some problems. When I added a lot of insulation and a rubber roof, I worked in a layer of that thin metallized Mylar they use for 'survival blankets,' to reflect some of the solar radiation. There was also an improved venting scheme.
It really worked. The natural temperature of the second story went down ten degrees. The mylar is like a radar target, but also acts like a Faraday cage. Sensors cannot look through it. So, they can always find the house, but they can't tell what's going on in there.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 01:56 PM (zdLoL)
Back when NYS sent an assault squad to kill Peanut the Squirrel I pointed out if NYS had enough money to pay to have a team on the ready to rapidly execute a squirrel the state budget could easily and immediately be cut by at least half.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 01:59 PM (33HvQ)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
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Gordon Liddy allowed in his autobiography that he performed an F.B.I. background check on the woman who became his wife. I guess she must have passed.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (33HvQ)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
>So when you're banging the governor's wife they can't see you when you're busting a nut? Sweet.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 30, 2026 02:01 PM (nlLAo)
Good thing they're not exactly cooperative with each other. Most of the time.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (2Cry5)
And they capped it with a blue haired woman explaining that it feels good to get your identify from being part of a group even if that group is organized around something absurd.
And...yes. Yes that's exactly true. Now let's talk about "the empathetic", trannies, and those that "care about the earth"
Posted by: 18-1
Go Time.
LET'S GO BRANDON
BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT.
...that Hotel in Moscow, Putin Gets to take Europe by Force, Trump gets Greenland, FREEPORT/Cuba and the 3Seas Accord.
bonus:
Proven Gulf/ASW clearing the mines means Tiawan Strait unminable, China vulnerable to Malaca blockade. Opportunity: 99 year Taiwan Hong/Kong-like lease, strait becomes demilitarized zone in exchange for shared mineral rights (methyl hydrate) and first underwater mining and perhaps cities beneath the sea with American Underseas technology.
Alternative:
Ceasless forWARd: vulnerability to Russian Poseidon/Kanyon deep water UUV, and next get Chinese HSGV with capabilities of X-20 Dyna-soar....
deployable munition
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (nkEiq)
Locks Not Flocks
Lifers Not Cameras
Prisons Not Panopticons
Bring back "three strikes," and leave the Normies alone!
Posted by: SciVo at August 30, 2026 02:03 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: G. Washington at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D)
Locks Not Flocks
Lifers Not Cameras
Prisons Not Panopticons
Bring back "three strikes," and leave the Normies alone!
Posted by: SciVo
When the Truth becomes a Liability ALL NORMAL People become the enemy.
Indict Brennan -- colby canoe's away!
Fear of exposure when he rats them out will create a PPV worthy display of the Deep State detargeting normal people and opening fire on each other to be "prove" their innocent with after the fact parallel construction.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhoRtheTargets
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ctHARRIS19takedown
Not One Battle after Another; One LIB after Another.
It takes a Villan to tell us the truth:
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- ctHILLARY'04
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 02:13 PM (PwL0Y)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 30, 2026 02:21 PM (OlzlW)
Rather than getting upset about longstanding limits on your privacy rights in public, regulate the compilation of data points. Pass laws so queries of ALPR databases require a warrant, must have the requestor's identity to be stored with the query, and punish violations. Require all ALPR databases to be within the US and registered. Audit their use.
Posted by: jf3 at August 30, 2026 04:51 PM (//E7X)
Trying to parce it down but my notes
page keeps getting longer and longer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 30, 2026 06:24 PM (GebTj)
Ring cameras have always shared their data with the po-po. Why no complaints about Ring? Oh, right. You didn't even notice at first, and now you get all these great videos out of it.
Why no complaints about the literally millions of cameras along highways and roads that are fully capable of reading plates and recognizing faces? Oh, right. Ignorance.
The only problem anyone has with Flock is their own hypocrisy, with cultured stupidity a close second.
Posted by: bravokilo at August 31, 2026 02:02 AM (/xFxI)
The Book Thread: August 30th, 2026 [MP4]
‘AI, ay, ay!’ A while back, an offer popped up on my Facebook feed.* It was an AI program that, if you gave it some prompts, would shoot you back a plot for a book. I was curious, so offered it a basic line of ‘what would happen if a 1915 NJ movie studio had a murder to keep it from moving to Hollywood?’ A few minutes later, the program gave me a full plotline. As one might expect from this woke age, the main character was a spunky female reporter trying to make her way in a male-dominated world. I liked what I saw, but decided that I didn’t need it and wiped it out. But, having thought about it, I wondered why I shouldn’t use it for my next book? After all, the late Clive Cussler paid people to come up with plots for his Dirk Pitt novels. And James Patterson ‘collaborates’ with unknown authors, takes their plots, adds his ‘unique viewpoint’ and pushes them out on the marketplace. So let’s presume I asked an AI program for a plot. Am I cheating? Suppose I didn’t follow it slavishly, but used the plot as a jumping off point for my own thoughts. Is my book compromised because I began with an AI plot?
Incidentally, the same program would, if you asked it, take the plot it generated and then spit out an entire book. But why would anyone even within whispering distance of calling themselves an author do such a thing? Oh, I know it happens (and, as I joke, because Amazon will print just about anything up to and including Bigfoot-themed erotica, ‘author’ is practically a worthless word), but beyond the lure of money and the simple ease of the shortcut, why do such a thing to yourself? This is a subject more for the authors of the Horde, but what about you? If you knew that an author used AI to create a plot, but not the content of the book itself, would that drive you away? *I hate Facebook. I am only there to be part of the ‘Theda Bara Fan Club.’ I hate the rest of it.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (+YoHw)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:02 AM (1Ff7Z)
Actually picking up a lot between the wars I didn't know
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:03 AM (VyBeY)
How many times have us non-writing Morons suggested plots? Would it be wrong if one of you writers took it an ran with it? I think not.
I'm kind of the same with AI. If you let AI write the book, then shame on you. But if you use it as a catalyst for your own talent, I'm ok with that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla/)
I wouldn't mind taking an AI-generated plot to be the jumping-off point of a book. Plotting is always a slog for me. When a plot does come easily, I worry that I'm unconsciously ripping off someone else's work that I've read. But if I took the whole AI-generated thing, then it would not be my voice, and I would not have any fun with it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:04 AM (h7ZuX)
How do you feel about taking a plot point from some other story and writing a new story around it?
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
I'm sure the arguments you mention have sone merit, but for me, it's a visceral reaction.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Zoltan at August 30, 2026 09:07 AM (KUWG/)
I nearly tossed the book when Clouseau dresses in drag to infiltrate a theater by joining the audition for a nude cabaret, but that chapter was blessedly short and I powered on through.
I can guarantee that this book will not find permanent quarters in our home.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (TvRFE)
I had coffee with a 24 year old entrepreneur on Friday who told me that all of her emails, appointment scheduling, and more are all tied into AI that performs these tasks for her. She says it reads and writes about 80 emails a day for her. It makes and schedules appointments for her because the AI reads her emails first.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX)
But for me the use of AI would be a mark in the skip column. Maybe not the decisive mark, but a fairly heavy one.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (kpS4V)
I.e. his name on the cover in giant font.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (vTZFs)
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026
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In one of his books about writing, Lawrence Block admitted that he'd often taken a basic plot from a TV show and given it a whole new spin and ending for his own short story.
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)
Sara Hoyt has her "Vignettes" over the weekend, an invite to commenters to write very short stories based on a theme. 50 words max, very limited, but it's still a writing exercise. And one could flesh out a fragment into a whole expanded universe, given enough time, energy, and typewriter monkies.
Second, when another writer (Theodore Sturgeon) was having writer's block, Robert Heinlein sent a letter filled with various ideas. Plot fragments. Key pieces that could be used, or could be altered, or even ignored.
Ideas and thoughts can't exactly be copyrighted or patented. Only the actual implementation, whether as a blueprint for a device, or a story with the written word. Because those take actual effort to see through to the end.
Posted by: Another Anon at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (4h45B)
Writers steal from each other all the time. Besides, there's only seven stories anyway....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
Exactly! Case in point, every thriller ever written. Same story, different setting and characters.
Speaking of which, I just read the latest Longmire, and I have thoughts. Will post them separately.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026
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Oops. That should be "It may have been he who said . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:12 AM (TvRFE)
The use of AI would be a fairly heavy mark in the skip it column in the case of a writer whose work I didn't already know either directly or by reputation/word of mouth.
If Joe Doakes has a book out there that used AI, pass. If Lawrence Block or Robert Silverberg put out a novel that sprung from an AI plot, I'd give it a look anyway because those two guys don't do slipshod work.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:13 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (ndZc7)
If you’re going to steal, steal from the dead.
“But it was definitely her who thought
If you’re going to be sold, you’d better stay bought.”
Posted by: Bill Bixby at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kYmoU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (qRla/)
It may have been him who said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)
What about lifting a line from a book or video? Same idea. If the line is organic to your story, why not?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
We were created by a Creator to be creative.
Our passions come to life through our creativity which invariably some form of art, be it music, drama, painting, sculpture, dance, cooking and a hundred more.
Included in that list is writing, because writing is most certainly a form of art.
The joy and satisfaction we derive from art is exercising our own creativity, and if we use Artificial Intelligence to come up with plot lines we are robbing ourselves of that pleasure.
Let's teach it how to empty the dishwasher instead.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zoltan
I loved it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)
Even if an annual almanac used AI to gather facts like a countries population or the rainfall of some city, the content still has to be organized and tailored for a certain audience.
PS: Don't rely on the accuracy of AI 'data' without checking.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (qRla/)
But then I am not the kind of person who has books desperate to escape my fingers, I'm the kind of person who reads almost anything, and occasionally has 'what if' thoughts on plot variants.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)
You need an email for tensor art, but it doesn't require pay. Use a throwaway.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:18 AM (1Ff7Z)
By I had to quit the book when the author, when describing lead character's encounter with a criminal, and said, and this is how I remember it, "he snicked the safety off of his .357 revolver"
right.
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (3ACIl)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:19 AM (TvRFE)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026
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In an SF story, I did that -- lifted William Munny's line from Unforgiven, 'If you kill a man, you take away all he has and all he'll ever have," and reworked it a bit into a scene where the narrator's father has had to kill potential invaders to their enclave.
One of my writing group caught it, and I grinned and said, "If you're gonna steal, steal from the best --!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)
**smiles**
Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:21 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
I was at a used bookstore last week and saw that they had about a dozen The Man From U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks. I know someone here collects them and I thought about taking a photo of the collection and asking if anyone wanted them.
Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?"
Thoughts?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:05 AM (qRla
Why did women wear those big hats back then? Who started that fashion craze?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (ndZc7)
“I have no ideas, and I must write.”
A story about an AI trapped in a deep cavern with a despotic human.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (kYmoU)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (aJQbY)
Never in my life have I so desperately wanted a character to die. This is the first Longmire I have not loved. Apparently out of ideas, Craig Johnson re-wrote The Brothers Karamazov, dropping them into the American West. I admit I haven't gotten around to reading Dostoevsky yet, and it might have made a difference for me. But probably not.
One character is an absolutely irrational imbecile who should have been left to die many times. But Longmire is always about grace and mercy, so he persists in his determination to rescue a dumbass.
Reading this spiked my blood pressure to dangerous levels.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:25 AM (h7ZuX)
I consider Orwell’s Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia absolutely necessary.
I would urge all teenagers to read Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars”, about the Dane’s efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
And, just for fun, they should read Richard Hughes “A High Wind in Jamaica”.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (1FEc1)
Love the fashion update at the top of the thread. Talk about celebrating the female form.
When I saw the sensor light in the top photo I immediately thought "Good morning, Dave."
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM (yTvNw)
If someone came across one that I don't have, I'd pay to have it shipped to me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (qRla/)
Easter eggs, right? I've seen that phrase used.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Doing that sort of thing is part of the joy in writing!
In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun.
Speaking of using real people, in one 1966 MfU tale I had Truman Capote, Lee Radziwill, Cilla Black, and Horst Jankowski all appear at a party. The first two were described rather than named. I also slipped Ellery Queen and his father the Inspector in there too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)
Gloria Swanson is a character in my new book. The first words out of her mouth are "You there! Why are you so late?" and when my narrator is doing her makeup, she says "The shadow over my left eye isn't balanced." Both lines are from Sunset Boulevard and I use them as a little treat for the reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:20 AM (qRla/)
My direct lifts are usually from Star Trek episodes. But, I only have a character say one line. It's organic to my character and situations, so I don't think it's agin' the rules. It's an "homage" to sources I like. Though, if I decide to continue writing, I'd do less of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (1Ff7Z)
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I didn't think there were that many Horde members.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:28 AM (RIvkX)
He spun that into "The Hunter," the first Parker potboiler, published under the name Richard Stark.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 09:29 AM (TvRFE)
Why, I do not know. The fashion didn't last long, however - it really was from the early 1900s until almost the end of WWI. I think it might have been a reflection of the general prosperity of the Edwardian world, so women felt freer to indulge in lavish costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (q3u5l)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
Which led me to an idea: just as AoS has the prayer list, why not have a Sunday Book Thread Want List? Send in to one of the hosts a list of books you're looking for and, if someone else finds one, they can pipe up and say, "I have it. Where would you like me to send it?"
Thoughts?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Good idea!
I think I'm the U.N.C.L.E. collector, and I have the entire series of twenty-three books. The oldest are sixty years old, though; I should wrap them in plastic. How many are there in the group you saw?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
Please let it be
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kpS4V)
I should probably never go there. I'd never escape.
***There, book plot, no AI needed.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (qRla/)
I've done the opposite, took pix of a shelf of books and asked Wolfus which ones I should get.
Sounds like a good idea. Maybe Perf can post it like he does the recommended list?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:22 AM
1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Ah, well, I had more fun reading this adaptation than I would have had reading/watching/listening to Wicked.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: The ghost of Willie Sutton at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Read that as an HS senior. The ending was appalling.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (JrHfD)
About the AI plotline q, I think just plug in real person in place of AI. If a real person gave you the whole plot, would you write the book without crediting the person somehow?
Great Book Thread topic, MP4!
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
About a dozen. And I think two of them were story collections from an U.N.C.L.E. magazine, but don't quote me. I'll probably be down there next week, so I will take a pic and send it your way.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Bayside at August 30, 2026 09:31 AM (3ACIl)
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Let's just say I learned a new word today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:35 AM (RIvkX)
The front covers of the Signets have "IAN FLEMING," the title, and "A JAMES BOND THRILLER" on them with a small color painting often illustrating a scene from the novel. The back features a compelling blurb designed to get you to buy it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)
https://youtu.be/zkdO-q9zJec
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)
It seems that Campion's neighbor, the dowager Lady Cavados, in trying to protect her son Johnny, has conspired to move the body from where it was found in Johnny's bedroom to Campion's, and thus complicates the entire matter. The gentry still have a way of being above normal police investigation, so Campion is called upon to assist.
Johnny is supposed to have been married the next day, and the body is not that of his betrothed, but he does know her. The situation becomes even more complicated after Campion is briefly kidnapped, and then a few bottles of impossibly rare burgundy show up, at which point the case takes a completely different turn. Are these coincidences of timing, or are they all related? Campion has to use his intuition and his understanding of the upper classes to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:37 AM (RIvkX)
The opening picture is the HAL computer from 2001.
The ladies are from a date I don't remember, but they are wearing and advertising a new dress form, one that clings close to the body and eschews the use of corset stays. Very daring for the time.
But, my word, they are luscious. I wish I had a lady like that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Please do. I have nearly all the magazines. They have a significant place in the history of the fandom. Several of the Solo & Illya novelettes were written by authors who went on to greater fame under their own names, like John Jakes and Dennis Lynds. And a number of issues featured "The Department of Lost Stories," reprinting fantasy classics from Heinlein, Sturgeon, and Robert Bloch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (+ViXu)
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)
More interesting were the characters from the later Oz stories. We have Gener Jinger; and a femme fatale is always welcome in a comic. The Wheelers had maxim guns built into their arms. Tippetarius looked like one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys; the story didn't reach the point where his big secret is revealed, and I shudder to think of how a current-year author will handle that twist...
(Gah! The comment box cut me off! continued...)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (3v7ra)
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)
If only that trend would come back and replace the current craze of sleeve tattoos and inverted nose rings.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (lHPJf)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
The source of ideas shouldn't matter. If you completely use someone else's work to write yours, it matters. I'm not going ape over AI used in writing unless it does the complete work. Could AI write a better story than me? Don't know. If it's something someone likes, then who am I to say thou shalt not read it!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
I've used an RPG random table card deck to create the denizens of my Weird West raptor town as well as nailing down the order of several plot points. Although I did come up with said plot points on my own.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:30 AM (lFFaq)
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It's the exact same thing. I've been saying this for a while: AI is just charts and tables scaled up. Using AI to create is just randomly mining other people's work.
AI's true use is that you can sift data with incredible speed, but this relies on the integrity of the data because it cannot evaluate it. But if (for example) you feed it bomb damage assessments and give it the right parameters, you can develop target packages much faster than by using human analysts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:42 AM (NtoJk)
An time I run across a great line of dialogue I stash it in a clip file. Latest favorite: "Yeah, I'm okay. Breathing is highly overrated. Who needs it."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026
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Some of RAH's early magazine stories were SF variants on classics like Uncle Tom's Cabin (= slavery on Venus) and The Man Without a Country. Nobody in the SF field had done that before -- or if someone had, it wasn't very well done and isn't remembered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)
On the other hand - there are only so many original plot concepts existing in the world; it's what the writer does to flesh them out which is (with luck, skill and creativity) original.
And every good plot out to be taken out for a romp in every setting which allows room for adventure. I did a version of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be king" set on the southwest American frontier with a mysterious and isolated Indian tribe living on top of a remote mesa. (It's in one of my Lone Star story collections, and also in Tales Told Around the Supper Table II. I intended it as a romp and an homage, but one reviewer for the latter was indignant and termed it a "rip-off.")
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:43 AM (NtoJk)
The best re-imagined character was Jack the Pumpkin head. He was a normal person, dressed as a cowboy. But he had a horribly scarred face, which he hid behind an orange bandanna. And that bandanna had a jack-o-lantern grin printed on it. The design make for a really cool (and very intimidating) visual.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (3v7ra)
During the brief conversation I mentioned I had some ideas for cartoons. He politely demurred.
Lawyers and all.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (XvL8K)
I'm also still crawling through "Dungeon Crawler Carl." Fortunately, it's not the sort of book where you have to re-read the previous few pages if you haven't picked it up for a few days. Sometimes the brain likes cotton candy.
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF)
Not *quite* the same thing, but Barry Malzberg did four short stories set in Writer's Heaven. All four can be found in his collection The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady and all, especially the closing paragraphs of the 4th, highly recommended.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (NtoJk)
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days:
https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm
This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
Polliwog at 68. I'm not sure there's really much of a difference at all.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026
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They *were* cooler-looking. Paintings of beautiful sexy girls, or of Bond in tuxedo at Casino Royale, or Goldfinger's golden Rolls-Royce humming along a road. The paperback industry lost a lot when they began to use photographs instead of paintings (as did advertising).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)
One of the oddball channels on my TV shows Perry Mason reruns and I got curious if the original novels were as courtroom focused as the TV show so I bought a cheap collection of three of them for my kindle to find out. It will probably be months before I get around to reading them, though.
Posted by: Who Knew at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (+ViXu)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)
Kid 2 is around the age for that. Glad she's never said anything about it. Wicked is only an attempt to put evil in a good light.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: HAL 9000 at August 30, 2026 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
I've got my tix for the Star Trek movies event this weekend. I'm wondering how many people will show up in costume.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Ydd86)
In the Acknowledgements section.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Who Knew
Probably me. It is one of my favorite books. The method that Pears uses to work backwards through a story within a story within a story is really clever.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (0U5gm)
Here's Bjo talking about the elder days:
https://tinyurl.com/espmydmm
This and the novelizations were all we had in the Intertrek Years. You kids just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026
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Same with U.N.C.L.E. -- except that we had almost twenty years between the last episode and the reruns on CBN, another twenty until the DVDs came out, and another seven or eight until the 2015 movie. The original novels and the movies showing erratically on TV were pretty much it for the fans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:49 AM (NtoJk)
Guite is one of those people who can read anything and make it lively or profound, as needed, and brings out the joy of the writing. He is always asked if he would do a reading of the complete LOTR and Hobbit. I have two versions of them but would happily pay for Guite's.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
I haven't, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026
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Hey, in 2015 I went to see the U.N.C.L.E. movie (with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer) wearing a suit and tie, and with my triangular HQ badge clipped to one lapel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (aJQbY)
As it happens, the topic for my next Book Thread (already written!) is about how writers get ideas. MP4, you aren't supposed to use the All-Seeing Eye to peek ahead!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
Unless it is a Reichsrevolver, a Hong Kong Police Enfield revolver in .360 with the cross-bolt safety, or one of the various Euro "military" revolvers that had a safety because reasons.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
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What event is this?
I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026
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Same here. I was so bored at one point during the Sniffle Scare that I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Exciting until the murder actually occurs; a slog after that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:41 AM (q3u5l)
I'm not sure there is either. With the random tables one needs to interpret a couple of adjectives into a personality or complete appearance, and AI would probably provide that detail. Interpretation may be the difference.
My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:45 AM (6oTRF)
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I really enjoyed it. City of God is not what I expected. Much more involved, I'm crawling through it, but it's really good. It was written to explain Christianity to a pagan, and Augustine starts by examining paganism in autistic detail, citing sources we no longer have, and then working through how paganism is basically built around the fallen angels, a funhouse mirror version of Christianity where vices become virtues.
It's timeless, of course, but I see so much of what he is talking about in our current society where killing infants is "stunning and brave" and sexual depravity is valorized. I mean, nothing is new but wow, we've really regressed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (tY90Q)
My next topic is about writers who 'carry on' or 're-imagine' already-existing properties. So Castle Guy's "Legend of Oz" posts are prophetic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: dantesed
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Based on War and Peace alone, Dostoyevsky is far, far superior. I reread The Possessed (Constance Garnett translation title instead of Demons) every few years. And the Rebellion chapter in Bros. K, which contains the Grand Inquisitor.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 09:54 AM (q3u5l)
I read that . I am glad I don't run in DC political circles, and am unlikely to get on Scott Bessent's bad side, because he is much brighter and more articulate than I am, and I would not want to be the recipient of his withering sarcasm.
He actually one of my favorite members of this administration.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (JrHfD)
And it ends in Campion discovering the dowager Lady Cavados has been bootlegging her homemade gooseberry wine!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: PabloD at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (6oTRF)
Am I the only one who has never read anything by Tolstoy?
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM
Here's all you need to know:
https://youtu.be/qqS1Ty79mOE
Posted by: Elaine Benes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (aJQbY)
Thank God for the Enlightenment.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 09:36 AM (vTZFs)
It's the same for writing. I see ads on Instagram frequently for exciting mystery or thriller series and the like. They're typically free with kindle unlimited, so I gave one a whirl. It was technically fine, but so lacking in soul and human voice, that I was certain it was AI written. Only fell for that once.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 09:51 AM (rbvCR)
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Heritage Rough Rider revolvers have a hammer block safety.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 09:56 AM (JpUeg)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
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I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
I went to a "Sit Long and Prosper" movie marathon eons ago.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
This coming Thursday through Saturday across the country, various theaters are showing movies 1-4 (one each day) along with an appropriate TOS episode.
The Motion Picture is paired with "The Changeling," Wrath of Khan with "Space Seed," The Search for Spock with "Amok Time" and The Voyage Home with "The City on the Edge of Forever."
Check online to see if they're playing near you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (kpS4V)
In my Man From U.N.C.L.E. fan fiction, I will occasionally use a line from the show in another but appropriate context. I hope fans will catch it, but if not, hey, I had fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)
Back in my fanfiction writing days (have I admitted to that before?) I would structure entire scenes to let characters use cool lines from other shows. Probably my favorite was when I got to repurpose a character shouting "Hold the line; no one gets through!" originally spoken by a young Captain Sinclair from Babylon 5. I doubt anyone who read my story recognized the reference, but it made me smile.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (3v7ra)
Keep a notepad w/pencil/pen handy and jot down the idea or a phrase or a sentence. The key to writing is to get it out of your head and onto a readable medium (used to say onto paper but not anymore). Don't think about plot or structure or grammar or how good/bad it is or anything like that. Just get it barfed up out of your head. All else flows from there.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (kpS4V)
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I mean the French Revolution was such an improvement...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Agreed. Western Civ has been in a slow, steady decline ever since the French Revolution.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (XvL8K)
My story is a mystery and I didn't know which of the townsfolk would be the murderer until I did my card draws. I had a few basic traits I wanted him to have and used the character whose results were the closest to those traits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026
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I almost always know who the murderer is as I begin. Otherwise I can't conceal him properly, plant the clues fairly, or know how the detective will reason it out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
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Intertrek Years. UFO and then Space:1999 and then that tripe from George Lucas.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oddbob
A similar trend is happening in music. There is so much computer manipulation of instruments and voices now that people are looking for actual human made music, and there is also a resurgence in bands putting out music on LPs instead of digital.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (0U5gm)
"Ian Fleming's Femme Fatale , Melons McGee."
One of the more fortunate name changes for an adaptation was in Jacques Tourneur's movie Out of the Past, the classic noir with Mitchum and Jane Greer as femme fatale Kathy Moffatt.
Her name in the source novel, Build My Gallows High? It was, God help us, Mumsie McGonigle.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (q3u5l)
Read War and Peace years ago.
Never finished reading any book written by James Joyce. Never got past page 1 of Finnegan's Wake. Dubliners? Gag. Ulysses? Gag.
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
I didn't know who was the killer in my current book until I was nearly finished. Part of my editing now is dropping hints as to his identity.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (qRla/)
Anything space/science fiction was like rain in the desert back then. Was so excited to go see Alien[i/]. Had no idea it was a horror film; I nearly had to run out of the theater after that chest-burster scene. What a shock! And a big disappointment as I was expecting straight-up SF.
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:02 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (NtoJk)
It's a sunny day and the remainder of the week is supposed to be rainy, so I will crank up the tunes and hit the road.
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/)
That is an unfortunate name lol. But to be clear I just made my name up to match my painting.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:04 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:53 AM (NtoJk)
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What about Soviet cinema?
Москва Cлезам не Bерит one of my favorite films.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM
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Just yesterday I was in a drug store and heard Sweet Home Alabama playing over the PA. Now believe me, I have no dislike for the song, having spent my formative years in The Heart of Dixie.
But we're still listening to fifty year old recordings?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026
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I had to read it in an AP English class in college. Maybe I should try it again now; I might better appreciate the portraits of the human condition. But his use of dashes instead of quotation marks annoyed me and made me feel claustrophobic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
I was about to say that with music at least you could go in person and see it being made in front of you but that's not really always true. Or maybe even ever in the most popular genres.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:07 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)
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Battlestar Galactica actually holds up quite well. I've watched the whole series several times and just started watching it with the grandkids on Sunday night, the way God intended. They love it!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (KC5Lt)
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Excluding the first one of course. What a travesty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (RIvkX)
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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Top driving tunes:
The hated Springsteen, Thunder Road.
Widespread Panic, Driving Song.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:08 AM (XvL8K)
He pointed out that his best characters were based on people he knew and respected, even the ones that weren't very respectable, but that experience in life and how people get along goes further to make a compelling story than all the orthodox thought in the world.
AI adds to this, it risks pointless characters or NPC characters that have no basis of their own and only serve to push the narrative forward. That is not compelling storytelling
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: dantesed at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
I haven't, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
I knew the basic plot of War and Peace but was quite surprised when I read the book. For example, I knew Prince Andrei, mortally wounded at Borodino, forgive Countess Natalya on his deathbed for cheating on him. I figured he'd been wounded leading a charge into Napoleon's lines or something equally dramatic. But no, he was waiting on the reverse slope of a hill with his command when a stray artillery explodes beside him. Much of the book concerns the internal thoughts of the characters which, like our own, are often bordering on the ridiculous. I did, however, finally understand Norman Mailer's comment explaining The Naked and the Dead saying he'd been reading a lot of Tolstoy given that TNATD also contains much internal dialogue.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)
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In the late 90s I had a job answering phones, and it was hit or miss, and so during the lulls I would surf the incipient web. Then I came up with the idea of reading a book online, but couldn't find War and Peace (I thought it would be fun to say I read War and Peace at work). But I did find Anna Karenina, so I read that. It was okay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
At the gym, their piped-in tunes range in age from recent (which is utterly unfamiliar) back to the '60s. Oddly, been hearing a lot less rap of late.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)
Exactly. I couldn't progress until I knew who the killer was. Although, I'm pretty sure it will be a short story so I'm not as worried about strict fair play regarding the clues.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:10 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:01 AM (fnZRl)
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I tried to read Ulysses but it was such a chore that I gave up. I mentioned it to my father, who has quite the library and he said he didn't like it either.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Radar Love has to be the #1 driving song.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 09:40 AM (NtoJk)
"I'm just going to take my negative five hit points and lie down" said some character is a role-playing story.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM (KC5Lt)
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I have tried to read Bari Weiss' How to Fight Anti-Semitism three times but cannot get past her rank leftist partisanship and TDS.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:11 AM (KC5Lt)
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I met my wife online*, and it was an 8-hour drive, and when that song would come on the radio it was epic, especially near the end of the journey.
*This was before dating apps, we met in a chatroom, and found that we were in alignment on just about everything, and thought it would be fun to meet in person. The rest, as they say, is history. My kids owe their existence to Talk City.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qRla/)
Besides you, you mean?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (JrHfD)
It's hard to read something that contains so much cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (BI5O2)
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Such a cheeky little bastard you are. Sad!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Oddbob
There is a youtube channel called Wings of Pegasus, and he pulled videos of about nine recent concerts of Taylor Swift for analysis. Not only was the measured pitch of every vocal line identical, but the timing and pitch of every instrument was as well. In other words, the entire concert series was pre-recorded and mimed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:16 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: polynikes
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I'll grant you that, for the drumming alone. Same with Twighlight Zone drum solo.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:17 AM (XvL8K)
The Left could win every race and you and your retard cohorts would still be losers. You mentally ill freak.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
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Trump is the most philosemitic president in history. Guy has Jewish grandkids. The left cannot accept that antisemitism has always had a warm cozy home in their ranks.
Fun fact: Jews were very much accepted in the Antebellum South. Judah P. Benjamin was a US senator and became Secretary of the Treasury. One of my Jewish ancestors emigrated to New Orleans where he paid for a company of infantry to be equipped. His descendants were proud of this Confederate heritage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (yTvNw)
I really wanted to like Ulysses. I always feel like Joyce is force feeding me cold, lumpy, unsweetened, gray oatmeal.
At 29 I should know better not to rundown famous works, beer brands etc., because someone will say that it's their favorite ale and take offense.
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:19 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (KC5Lt)
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"Projection" is the word you are looking for. It's a core trait of their belief system. The see "male feminists" who treat women like dirt and therefore assume that since these are the "good men" ours must be 10x worse.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026
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"Get Over It" by the Eagles is up there too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026
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Excitement and an edge of danger. Not as much as "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers or "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler, but close.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9)
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One of my favorite books, Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, has a hilarious scene in which the characters speak in Beatles' song titles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (KC5Lt)
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I think it's sad that people have to spend Sunday morning trying to stir the pot. Probably has a dozen tabs open and the only troll they have is citing crap polls taken in August. Like wow, that's so determinative! Especially after polling has repeatedly been shown to be absolute crap.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
The book Audio CDs I have really require focus to get the benefits of listening. The latest prose version of The Faerie Queene, LOTR, Galahad and the Grail, and a few others all fall into the category.
Posted by: JTB
And yet, some subgroup of younger people are turning to long format podcasts, like Rogan or Triggernometry, which are gaining huge followings. There is a push back against the snippet world, though I don't know how large it is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN)
No cognitive dissonance was the term I meant . Projection is just another of the ten mental defects common in all Leftists. But it is the one that the least intelligent of the Left use most often.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (KC5Lt)
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H)
https://youtu.be/r2AInopKBWM?is=m2GvUCgaUiUd9NyA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026
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I think I know that stretch of highway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)
HS senior English teacher said that one couldn't read Ulysses without a lot of reference material, and that Finnegan's Wake in unreadable.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (NcvvS)
Everything is inspired by something. If you're doing the work and writing the story, well thats how its been done since man came down from the trees.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (S41Gd)
Blue tsunami incoming.
Useless wars aren’t popular.
Sad!
Posted by: Lake Ontario at August 30, 2026 10:09 AM
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Yes, believe the polls and make all of your decisions based on what they predict.
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
State Department apologizes for “deadnaming” Lake America on its website
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
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Interesting question, MP4. Yes, I think it would diminish the book in my eyes. I don't like fake, and a small part of it would just feel inauthentic if an author used AI for creating a plot. Like a "cheat."
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (p/isN)
Weird but I really like small nose studs on a woman and find it really sexy but a nose ring has the opposite effect. And a pig ring would make the most beautiful woman in the world immediately repulsive to me.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:26 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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There is nothing new under the sun. At base, this is why I prefer classics to taking a chance on something recent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (XvL8K)
I've read a number of Douglas Adams' books and really enjoyed him, but not that one. I should find it. My husband is a huge Beatles fan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:27 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:28 AM (BI5O2)
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz)
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Hillary had a 98% chance of winning. Kamala was way ahead of Trump in swing states. All was lost. Doom all the way down.
Until it wasn't.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2026 10:23 AM (0U5gm)
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Part of why I am watching Battlestar Galactica with them is to get them used to long-form shows with a continuous plot. Much of what they watch is just 10-minute clips and other short-form entertainment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026
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If the author merely uses it as a springboard, makes the story his own, and never reveals that an AI prompt gave him the initial idea, I wouldn't mind. How would I know?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)
But you will continue to insist we call a man a woman. Punk ass bitch.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk)
I don't consider myself an author. I don't have a need to write, or publish, or promote, or make money off my writing. I published two books through Amazon, neither of which fit into mainstream genres. Both were stories connected to real life events. One was the story of my F-I-L's disappearance in 2008 (the ending has not yet been written), and the other was a whimsical adventure loosely based on my dad's WWII daily diary. I wrote them because the real life events were interesting to me, and because I got enjoyment out of the story-telling. I think in today's world where anybody and their dog can call themselves an author, that you should write to tell a story that is in you. If it doesn't arise spontaneously maybe it doesn't need to be written...or read. (e.g. Sasquatch erotica)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
simps: it will be showing up as a pop up soon just for you idiots
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 30, 2026 10:29 AM (jrgJz)
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I like the simps who act like "Lake Ontario" is an ancient and historic name that must not be changed while every damn street in Canada is being renamed and all their monuments are being pulled down.
It's an epic troll and the simps fall for it every time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Even with the vastly larger field of thiefdom, AI text still has its own "accent" that any junior prof can recognize in a paper. I'm certain an acerbic critical eye can divine their work in plot lines as well. Even a committee script (say, the King James Bible) reveals its own telegrapher's fist.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:34 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 09:55 AM (h7ZuX)
Now wait a minute! Are you saying my undead mime mysteries are AI written??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (1Ff7Z)
Everybody complains about how hard it is to keep track of all the characters, but I never had trouble with that.
My edition was published during WWII, and there's a long, rather silly preface about how "Tolstoy shows how resilient the Russian people are therefore Hitler's going to lose." I mean, hooray for our side and all that, but using a novel as evidence of anything seems a bit thin.
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (78a2H)
Watching me and my friends drive around as teenagers, you got all three in one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:35 AM (BI5O2)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
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The two bits of advice I have for people who want to be an author are: write what you know, and have something to say.
Most crap writing is by people who don't really know what they are writing about (it's all imitation) and who have nothing interesting to say. If you look at modern entertainment, that's just about all the big movie franchises. People don't know the material and have nothing interesting to say about it other than diversity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm sure you are right. There are signs of renewed interest in classic literature, poetry, and good writing in general. Partly a pushback against constant screen time and digital inundation, partly nostalgia, partly disgust with the shallowness of much of current culture. The numbers may not be huge but it's a start. I think of the monasteries that preserved the ancient writings that led to the European Renaissance. (And maybe Fahrenheit 451.)
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 30, 2026 10:36 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (tRYqg)
I cut some slack for cover art as finding and affording human created art is tough for indies.
But for writing? If you're not using your brain to come up with your ideas, what do have it for? How are you even an author? At best, you're riffing on someone (not even someone frankly) else's ideas.
The one thing we have over the machine is our soul. Don't neglect that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xcxpd)
Tell me it was a dark and stormy night in the style of William Faulkner in less than 20 words.
Response:
I can’t imitate Faulkner exactly, but: “Night brooded, rain beat the earth, and the past came whispering through the blackened trees.”
Ok, it's cute, but so, what?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
Russian writer Vasily Grossman walked the knife's edge of Soviet Realism. His book Life and Fate is pretty dense.
Internet Archive: The Years of War 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
Posted by: 13times at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (fnZRl)
I read the first two and started the third and dropped it because it became repetitious.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
The enlightenment was not the French Revolution, it was a change in the concept of what was knowable, and and the development of the tool by which it could be determined. It moved away from the state of mind that we currently accuse Islam of holding, that things are the way they are because it is their nature to be so and to question that is to question reality itself.
The French Revolution was the attempt to use the concepts of the modern world to recreate the centralized power of the pre-enlightenment world.
Louis IV's world was gone, it economically and socially became impossible to maintain. Robespierre was trying to recreate that golden era, to make it do what it had promised to achieve to justify its existence.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
There’s an historical cemetery downtown, lots of 19th century elaborate grave markers. I’ve walked through it a couple times and was surprised by the large Jewish quarter of it, all from the mid to late 19th century.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (GWwCk)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (rbvCR)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 10:37 AM (zdLoL)
I thought it was called Snatchquatch erotica.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I saw a guy on YouTube say Anna Karenina was a book every Christian should read.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:38 AM (KC5Lt)
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The same dynamic holds for writing history. You've got all of it before you, but you have to figure out a way to make sense of it to a reader who may not be versed in the topic. How much detail? How long should you take? What to leave in, what to keep out?
Well-written nonfiction can be as gripping as any novel. That's why I read so much Churchill, because the guy was an incredible writer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
Uh oh. Guess you'd better not read my book.
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*This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 30, 2026 10:03 AM (qRla/)
Wait. You're cutting out early? Can you do that??
Are you a director of a play, perhaps?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (1Ff7Z)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
Quentin Tarantino meets Bigfoot?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 10:39 AM (rbvCR)
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It was very much the child of the Enlightenment, the natural next step of elevating reason above tradition and faith. You could not have had it without the Enlightenment.
The predictable outcome of casting aside tradition and faith is revolution without end. Marxism is very much part of this mode of thought.
People who say "Oh, well, we don't burn witches anymore" are obviously not paying attention. Human nature doesn't change, we just switch up the labels from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (xSAlF)
Probably because of the moral questions in the book in addition to a lot of reference to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
What does that tell you about modern music?
(insert flushing toilet sound here)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (1Ff7Z)
Did he say why?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I've never read it but he seemed to think it demonstrates how sin leads to destruction.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:45 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 30, 2026
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Quite a few of her short stories are very effective. And her two autobiographies/memoirs, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, are about her family and her kids, told in a very entertaining and often comic fashion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm reading Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: Helium Sea," wnich is the second book in this duology. Very good so far. I'll read anything and everything Hamilton puts out.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2026 10:46 AM (/RHNq)
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Ulysses S. Grant got into some hot water controversy with his General Order No. 11, barring Jews from certain areas for "corruption," specifically...
Grant issued the order in an effort to reduce corruption among Union soldiers and stop the illicit trade in Southern-produced cotton, which he perceived as being run "mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders".
He later said he regretted his decision.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI)
And a limerick lover dares Muldoon to write one around that.
Every damn time.
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IYKWIM - a limerick
There once was a Sasquatch in heat
Who chanced a young woman to meet
They rolled in the hay
And you know what they say
Of the attributes of guys with big feet!
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
I said I was going to watch the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates to see if any warning signs but I forgot all about it. I heard it wasn't very good so maybe that's why I forgot.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt)
And whatever it is seems to be affecting her own health as well. So far, good stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (KC5Lt)
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts....
Somebody said, once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM (1Ff7Z)
I can see that
They're so unhappy in their married lives and/ or jealous of their former lovers that suicide seems like a solution,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Francesca Hong at August 30, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1)
We’ve been bombarded with nonsense polls weekly for over 10 years now. How long will people pretend to take this nonsense seriously?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:31 AM (GWwCk)
RON PAUL!!!
I do love those AI book writing ads when they show up in my Instagram feed. For the longest while, I've thought of creating an African female pen-name, and detailing my own Jason Arday story overcoming western prejudice, ignorance and oppression.
Done right, I'd love to see how many awards I could win.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:15 AM (RIvkX)
And when none of its wet dreams come true in November, it will never be seen again. Probably sucking Ozero's member in Man's Country to try wipe away its tears.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
https://tinyurl.com/3vc8fxz8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ndZc7)
I will never watch that. Because, I have the attention span to listen to a book, but not to sit and watch a video. Go figure.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (h7ZuX)
Because I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 09:33 AM
I read that book quite a few years ago. It is one of my favorites. I think you will appreciate it.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Lzhdy)
Stateless, these days you could probably win just about all of them.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (q3u5l)
Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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Truly a case of "if you can, you should."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 09:08 AM (RIvkX)
Agency. What is it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:51 AM
One of my favorite movies is The Lives Of Others.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
He later said he regretted his decision.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 10:47 AM (qBdHI)
I kind of understand what motivated Grant, but it highlights his rigid, almost autist level thinking and inability to understand ordinary human behavior. (It was a problem for him throughout his life)
Trading in contraband is always common in border areas of a war, especially a civil war. Grant was told the Jews were traders, and they were behind it, and he had a “Respeck mah Autor-Itay!” moment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk)
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: IanDeal at August 30, 2026 10:54 AM (Dye5q)
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I don't get that at all. I like writing itself. I can't imagine giving that part away. Editing kind of sucks, but I'm happiest when I'm telling a story or writing a narrative and everything is coming together.
Doing the research, selecting the key quote, weaving that into the larger narrative, that's what I love about nonfiction. Without that, I don't see the point.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
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Yes a great example.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:59 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:00 AM (wzUl9)
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:02 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 10:49 AM (KC5Lt)
I thought Surrogates was very good, even touching, and it is far more relevant now than when it came out. Prophetic, even.
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 30, 2026 09:24 AM (VyBeY)
I have a .22 single-action revolver which has a safety. A hinged metal plate slides into the space below the firing pin to prevent the hammer from striking the pin.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (1z8ji)
/YMMV
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 10:32 AM (qgHp7)
Now wait a minute!
Posted by: Milkers United Book Club at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (1Ff7Z)
Rewatched Tremors again the other night (it had been far too long) and that sucker still holds up. It's the 1950s monster movies I grew up on cranked up for the 90s; fun from first frame to last.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
About the first book I can say that it's the most "'Murica, **** yeah!" story I've ever read — which is particularly ironic given that the author was an avowed Trotskyite. (Although everyone I know who met him says Eric Flint was a very kind and generous man in person.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 10:24 AM (78a2H)
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I enjoyed the first couple books in the series. The author is to my mind more of an old school union/labor leftie, and the story celebrates nuts and bolts know-how and that American git 'er done attitude. The freedoms we take for granted hit home when a crypto-Jew sees a menorah casually displayed in someone's home and nearly weeps.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (kpS4V)
In fact, the book would not be as good as it is without Morons sending me sources and materials, and providing feedback on the drafts.
The actual writing of the thing was the most intense writing of my life. I got the whole first draft done in something like three weeks. The words were just pouring out of me! It was wonderful. (Editing it was not.)
Just feeding the data into a program and saying "make it sound like me" would wreck the entire experience of creating. I mean as a cash grab, sure, fine, whatever. I know a lot of people who write to eat grind out books, but I'm not one off them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Hey, you're early! Any movement on the book?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
Is that a quote and if so, what's the source because I don't recognize it (yeah, I don't get out much), or is it original to you (which wouldn't surprise me)?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (q3u5l)
AHE, Gotta disagree. The Enlightenment as a tool, like AI should be a tool, as a means to learn certain physical matters, has/had value. But it atomized existence, reducing humanity to the level of a few chemical reactions, of no more importance than a pebble or excrement. It could provide, sometimes, facts but not meaning. It obliterated faith, imagination, and any value in being human. Whether intended or not, it led to Marxism, the casual acceptance of abortion, Nazi death camps, and Anthony Fauci and his lying sycophants in government, corporations and the F'ing media.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:08 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:10 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
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I've seen it. I love efficient writing in movies and TV. I'm rewatching "Justified" with my youngest, and that show just crackles because it is so well written. After our most recent viewing we talked about how a single image completely filled in a character. No expository dialogue, just that snapshot. Prefection.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
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Finest giant man eating worms from outer space movie ever made.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 30, 2026 09:26 AM
I would highly recommend a book that I just finished:
"Rocket Boys: A Memoir" by Homer Hickam. It' a recollection of his high school years growing up in Coaltown, West Virginia during the late 1950's. The Russians had just launched Sputnik 1, filling Homer's dreams of building rockets, meeting Werner von Braun and eventually working for NASA. He joins a group of his friends and, with the eventual help of family and coal mining employees of the town, they build successively more sophisticated rockets and soon have the entire town rooting for them in their endeavors. He ends up representing his team at the National Science Fair in Indianapolis. This was such a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone, but particularly teenagers. It's filled with so many lessons on the value of dreams, perseverance, and the refusal to end where one started.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Lzhdy)
The Good:
- Agentic editors are a major time saver.
- Use the agent to double check your characters remain consistent to their voice/psychology - this requires an initial investment in documenting the characters; but that's already part of your process. Leverage the AI tool to help you.
- Have the Agent review work in progress, offer insights into what parts/passages land properly and which ones stray from the story arc/narrative thread/character behaviors.
- Use the Agent as a sounding board for ideas/threads in your story.
- Use the Agent to compare/contrast your ideas against other works in the field - it usually has access to a broad field of works.
Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (XidwR)
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*This format is for a specific reason. And it's not all the way through.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
That's funny. It blanked out my formatting. I know it won't do that in print, but would it if I released it as an e-book?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)
We are arguing at cross purpose, once again. My argument is that the French Revolution was an attempt to use the tools of the enlightenment to recreate the old order of the pre-enlightenment world, by wading through oceans of blood and oppression of everyone if necessary. The point was to
You appear to argue that the enlightenment is terrible because it allows such things to happen.
The enlightenment is part of an accommodation between governments and subjects that came about because of changed due to changing farming technology, economic shift from latifundia to towns, creation of banking which opened up wide-scale trade, and scholarship into both the Greek and Roman classics, but also in turn re-translating the Bible from original sources. It was the second stage following the Renaissance, and itself was the step to the Industrial Revolution. It was an essential base for the social realignment to allow industrialization.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)
Always comes up, around Saint Bartholomew's Day.
Look out, Masons. He's a-comin' for you.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 30, 2026 11:13 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:14 AM (ZOv7s)
The Bad:
- The agent shouldn't come with major plot ideas. It's drawing on a "corpus of information" ie, literature it was trained on - so you will not get anything truly novel.
- Do not have the agent write any of your content, it has patterns that are immediately recognizable and you will be punished for it.
- Do not hide what you are using the Agent for. (same reason).
- Do not let the agent dictate what you will write/how you will write. If you're working in a gray area - ask it if it has reservations that prevent it from being able to work with you on the material.
- The agent will be obsequious. It's part of the design. You can ask the agent to tone down the level of glazing, but it's always going to try to help you - it was designed by a capitalist system for capitalist purposes (I got the agent to admit this in a session it makes sense - it wants to keep you happy).
Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (XidwR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM"
I listen to audiobooks via the Libby app and it allows you to vary playback speed. Likewise YouTube.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Burning becomes cancelling, confession becomes self-abasement to the crowd. Hm. You could be on to something, A. H.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
I would prefer to read something long than listen to something. Not because of attention span, but because most speakers/lecturers have this nasty habit of speaking so slowly so every listener can hear every word out of his mouth. Gah! speak quicker!"
Oh yeah! The narrator makes all the difference. Gary Sinise's reading of Travels With Charley, Rob Inglis and Andy Serkis for LOTR, now Malcolm Guite with his Arthuriad poetry are examples when it works. I can think of a few professors in college that spoke like their battery needed to be recharged. Their lectures were torture.
Posted by: JTB at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Splunge at August 30, 2026 11:03 AM (JpUeg)
Thanks I had put it back on my list but I'm glad someone liked it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2026 11:16 AM (KC5Lt)
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I think Finnegan's Wake is meant to be recited or heard. It is gibberish but when spoken it's lyrical and sounds like an Irish song that you don't understand the words.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:17 AM (/TnVC)
Restate this sentence in the style of Fran Lebowitz:
"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
Response:
I can’t imitate Fran Lebowitz’s exact style, but I can give it a dry, acerbic, aphoristic voice:
“Original thought is a family heirloom: someone else had it first, and you inherited it without ever meeting them.”
Meh.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 30, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b)
In Canada? Probably all of them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 10:57 AM (GWwCk)
In the Mexican War Grant was in the Quartermasters corps, and dealt with theft and gouging. He may have known something about the subject.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 30, 2026 11:20 AM (rbvCR)
Greg Saysso
@gregsaysso
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
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Suppose we compromise and call it Lake Onteriamerica?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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Truly a case of "if you can, you should."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:55 AM (RIvkX)
I'm alone during the week when school's in session. Trouble is, there isn't anything I'd want to see.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Uris= very thick book.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 30, 2026 11:23 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)
Watched it. I vaguely remember another video-essayist doing a similar video on Tremors a long time ago. I thought it was sfdebris, but I couldn't find any such video on his site. So maybe it was RedLetterMedia... I dunno. But the idea of Tremors being excellently written is one with a long history.
Sfdebris. Ah, man, thinking about that guy's videos really takes me back...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (3v7ra)
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Call it Lake New York. They have as much of the shoreline as Ontario.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:24 AM (/TnVC)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2026 10:14 AM
Breafly the sub plot of every Russian story and movie
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Ia/+0)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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Fran Lebowitz
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
I rewatched a well known movie not long ago, and was surprised to realize how tightly plotted and well written the script actually is.
Shaft - 100 minutes that feels like it’s 30, events move so fast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:28 AM (GWwCk)
Maybe it gets better in the later books but at least in the first two, the characters are all cardboard cutout Mary Sues. The "UMWA, F*CK YEAH" thing wears thin quickly.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:29 AM (vTZFs)
Reading Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life.
MP4, thank you for another great boom thread.
Off to walk with the fast-walking widow. In the Mall. Too hot outside.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (u82oZ)
Not trying to keep up with a lot of new books these days either. I may be getting old...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:30 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:22 AM
It's a rare thing for me to go to the movies, but recently I saw Young Washington and The Brink Of War. Both Angel Studios, BTW.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
There are a couple newspaper clipping that came with the book pertaining to Winston. New York Times magazine April 11, 1948
Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (Ia/+0)
I would have to start caring what Canada* thinks about us before I could stop.
* present company excepted, of course
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs)
Meh.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Funny that AI totally omitted the bit about Original Sin. AI can't tackle morality or Judeo-Christian religious concepts?
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (qgHp7)
A slight detour through the Barrel. Put GoldLine coil, 'beeners, cams, and jumar ascender ropes in backpack.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (u82oZ)
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I read it back when it was published. I remember it as being very good. I'm surprised it wasn't done as a movie or mini series.
I should read again.
Posted by: Cosda at August 30, 2026 11:33 AM (/TnVC)
Thanks. Read some Lebowitz eons ago (late 80s?) but had missed/forgotten that line.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: TV nerd at August 30, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:35 AM (qgHp7)
Americans are really underestimating the level of anger at them, here in Canada. It has turbocharged anti-American sentiment, and it's becoming more permanent by the minute.
We are too concerned about what other people think of us.
Canadian anti-Americanism is the herpes of the Laurentian pseuds. Sometimes, when we have a Democratic president, it's in remission. But when there's a Republican president, it erupts again. Trump is an excuse, not a reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
Jelly Roll Tears Up at Fan Backlash, Says He Had to “Say What I Know Is Right” by Calling Trump a Racist Fat Pig
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (kpS4V)
I've got a sneaking hunch it could, but the implementations of AI have been programmed not to do so. Because judgemental.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)
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Right, we're going to pretend that the Canucks used to love us and not reflectively foam at the mouth like Pavlov's dogs whenever the US is mentioned.
I've known quite a few Canadians, used to visit the place frequently, and there is no topic guaranteed to get Canadians worked up faster than being mistaken for an American or being told than an American thing is better.
Gaslight us some more.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ndZc7)
Jelly Roll Morton should return as a zombie, burn that shitmaggot to the ground, calcine his bones, and cast them into piano keys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2026 11:39 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 30, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Me, wife, kid saw YW a couple weeks ago. Nice, but I think Washington was a bit too huggy towards his friends. He certainly wasn't that way later in life when that officer slapped him on the back.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Burned out hippie at August 30, 2026 11:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)
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Only for all the Canadians killed in the attack. For us, it was justice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (kpS4V)
(grumble)
I'll have to finish it later.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2026 11:41 AM (1Ff7Z)
The delightful Mrs Some Guy almost never cuts in on my Book Thread time. On occasion, but not very often. One of the many nifty things about her.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:43 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (wzUl9)
There's got to be a limerick in there somewhere.
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
Now there's a comment o' the week.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:44 AM (vTZFs)
* present company excepted, of course
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:32 AM (vTZFs)
Funniest thing that this is an almost universal American response.
When Americans want to know what Canadians think, we’ll beat it out of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk)
"After aliens attack without warning and slaughter half the human race, a new country emerges. Using alien technology and desperate ingenuity, the reborn USA carves a place for itself in a violent universe, thanks to its deadly Navy and the dreaded Warp Marine Corps."
It is some fine space opera. No graphic sex and even the violence is toned down a little. Also completely lacking are descriptions of the rippled abs, carved thighs, and glistening pecs of the characters, which certain other series spend entirely too much time on, making me question the proclivities of the authors.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (0vB2I)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 11:36 AM (O0L8i)
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After having three consecutive summers marred by acrid, unbreathable Canadian smoke - the result of criminally negligent forest management - I think a lot of the border states would have no problem with Trump carpet-bombing Ottawa, and a few provinces might applaud as well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (2WIwB)
I had literally never heard of this person before a day or two ago and I expect that starting a day or two from now, I'll never hear of him again.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2026 11:45 AM (GWwCk)
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Careful, Canada might blockade us with its nonexistent Navy or send first-gen Hornets to invade our airspace.
Maybe they'll launch a guerilla campaign with their disarmed population.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 30, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
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My father listens to Jelly Roll Morton. No idea who this dweeb is.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 30, 2026 11:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reverses Course After Backlash, Now Admits 9/11 Was a Terrorist Attack
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 30, 2026 11:27 AM (ndZc7)
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Only for all the Canadians killed in the attack. For us, it was justice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
What difference does it make? -- Hillary/2013
The smirking NY/MADMANI will preside over 9/11 and year 1 Kirkaversary with Rama Duwaji's Suicide Squad at the ready waiting for the go-code from AOC (in her periwinkle REMAIN SINWAR camisole and FREE GAZA hotpants) to finish what the puerto rican/FALN started
The LIB celebration of this would the long line queued up to toss a piece of wood at a datacenter under construction -- to commemorate and memorialize the final act of the desperate and deliberately guilty Sinwar, who's final act in this world was to throw a plank at a drone.
Yeah, this is normal.
LET's GO BRANDON!
I BELIEVE IN HARVEY DENT!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 30, 2026 11:51 AM (B/w0q)
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I'm reading Washington now by Ron Chernow. Absolutely depicts him as a non-huggy, touchy-feeling man. And I'm past the part where he gave a glaring, non-verbal admonishment to the back slapping officer. A lot about Washington's cordial, yet reserved, demeanor was somewhat surprising to me, but I'm not even sure why. He was human just like anyone else. Perhaps his icy relationship with his very unpleasant mother shaped him in such a way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 30, 2026 11:51 AM (qBdHI)
Fast Walking Widows.
There's got to be a limerick in there somewhere.
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There once was an old man named Fred
Went walking and ended up dead
He was strolling with his wife
A falling piano took his life
While his widow was five steps ahead
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:53 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: muldoon at August 30, 2026 11:54 AM (qgHp7)
There's an essay by Joseph Epstein called "Nicely Out of It," on the joys of not keeping up at all with current popular culture. In it, he mentioned an acquaintance who had no idea who Steve McQueen was, an impressive feat of being out of it.
I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Buck at August 30, 2026 11:56 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Limerick Lover at August 30, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 30, 2026 11:59 AM (kpS4V)
I see auto-cucumber turned 'I too' at my 372 comment to 'I took' -- appropriate somehow for a thread that started with discussion of AI.
Thanks for the thread, MP4.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 12:00 PM (q3u5l)
I used to try to keep up, but I don't any more; I try to finish each day being a little more out of it than I was the day before. Haven't checked with the offspring or grandkids lately but I suspect they'd say I'm succeeding.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 30, 2026 11:55 AM (q3u5l)
The concept of subsidiarity is helpful. Make your concern those things closest to you. Your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your church, your hobbies. Much beyond that, you don't have much influence.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2026 12:00 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 30, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: March Hare at August 30, 2026 12:03 PM (+A1pr)
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: Advo at August 30, 2026 12:22 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 30, 2026 12:31 PM (78a2H)
Posted by: TR at August 30, 2026 01:05 PM (hazdd)
I mean, I just re-wrote "Lair of the White Worm". (Out tomorrow! Buy six copies!) The plot is "mysterious evil snake/woman causes mischief and mayhem in a small English village."
Big whoop. The fun in rewriting it was trying to incorporate all the elements that Bram Stoker tried to pull together (and failed for various reasons, not least his failing brain) and then tell it in a way that a modern reader (N.B. not a modern AUDIENCE) could enjoy, if they liked a kind of Victorian flavor.
I used AI to check for anachronisms and it was...okay. It caught things I didn't, and the process of having it examine it allowed me to catch things I hadn't caught the first ten times through.
I am reading an author currently that I quite like, but I can tell he used AI for the prose, and I don't like it. I don't care so much that he used AI, but I shouldn't be able to tell--or it should be taken out.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at August 30, 2026 02:12 PM (K40fF)
What currently is available by AI apps stove pipes storylines down a ever decreasing audience interest level.
Posted by: John at August 30, 2026 03:13 PM (9NUKl)
I also recommend "Rocket Boys." And I wonder how different it would have been had one group member's mother not granted permission for him to be included.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 04:09 PM (p/isN)
"Death is Nature's way to telling you that you don't get it anymore."
By that standard, I should have been planted years ago.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 30, 2026 04:25 PM (p/isN)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2026 10:00 AM (RIvkX)
Star Trek snobbery, right on cue.
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