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The Morning Report — 9/ 30 /26

Good morning kids. As CBD and I yammered on about, yet again, on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as the top of the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of this post . . .

we can bitch and moan all we want about the quality or lack thereof of our candidates, but we have to get out and vote . . . . early and often. I say that half in jest considering the Democrat/Left's history and penchant for election thievery,

The left-wing League of Women Voters is on notice after allegedly trying to pay high school students to register to vote earlier this year in Kansas. . . On Friday, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter to the League of Women Voters of Kansas and the LVW chapter in Leavenworth County, demanding the groups “immediately stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…”

as I and my fellow Wisconsinites witnessed a few weeks back when the Dems feared the leading candidate Francesca Hong an avowed DSA freak would win the race and then come this November get thrashed by Tom TIffany and so Milwaukee and environs somehow came up with the necessary ballots for David Crowley.

David Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive, defeated socialist State Representative Francesca Hong by approximately 3,000 votes in Wisconsin’s Democrat gubernatorial Primary election, Tuesday, after a late night counting error delayed the results.
Five of nine USB sticks from Milwaukee’s central count facility delivered to the county courthouse shortly before midnight Tuesday night, were missing election results, containing only audit logs instead of vote totals.
Paulina Gutierrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results. Gutierrez said the human error affected approximately 15,000 absentee ballots. Officials were forced to return to the Bay View central count facility with a police escort to re-download the correct results from the five machines. The mistake delayed the final tally for the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary by more than an hour, pushing the announcement of David Crowley’s narrow victory over Francesca Hong into the early morning hours.

Crowley is touted as the so-called "moderate," but in a party of racists, criminals, perverts and tyrants who have spent the past 200 years doing all they can to destroy the nation as founded to secure absolute power for all time, what does that word even mean anymore?

Most Americans are busy working, raising families, paying mortgages and trying to figure out why their grocery bill suddenly looks like a car payment. They aren't spending Tuesday night reading the Democratic Socialists of America's political program. But perhaps they should. Because DSA isn't merely a group of activists holding signs outside city hall anymore. Its candidates are winning elections. New York City's DSA chapter says its endorsed candidates won nine of ten Democratic primary contests this summer. Two of those victories came in congressional races. The organization says its volunteers knocked on more than 800,000 doors during those campaigns. . . Again, those aren't Republican talking points. Those are DSA's own standards. So let's have the argument.
If Americans want public ownership of major industries, make the case. If Americans want to abolish the Senate, make the case. If Americans want to eliminate the Electoral College, fundamentally restructure the presidency and change the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, make the case. That's democracy.
But voters should understand what they're voting for. And Republicans shouldn't cheapen that debate by calling every Democrat a communist. Joe Manchin wasn't a communist. Neither is every liberal member of Congress. When every political opponent receives the most extreme label available, eventually voters stop listening. There is a much stronger argument available.

So when we say vote early and often, more and more it's less in jest and a reflection of the reality we face.

And not just in the blue wastelands but the threat is actually in solid bastions, or what we perceive and believe are solid bastions of Americanism like Texas. Please tell me that this maniac doesn't have a shot in hell!!!

Come November, Democrat James Talarico will face off against Republican Ken Paxton for the Lone Star State’s highly coveted Senate seat. Talarico has been flagged as a rising star for a party desperately seeking to regain momentum after a bruising 2024 loss, and some think he might be the man to deliver Texas to Team Blue. Politicos coo at his youthful vigor, his “aw-shucks” personality, and, most importantly, his frequent appeals to Christian theology. The aspiring senator boldly proclaims his alleged Christian bona fides in interviews and on the campaign trail. In an interview with The New York Times’ resident wonk Ezra Klein, Talarico detailed how his Baptist grandfather initially instilled in him Christian values, and how this seed of theology led him to seek ministry after finishing his studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Yes, it's Texas but still. I fear he has more of a chance of taking a Texas Senate Seat than of California or New York ousting the cancerous lesions occupying their senate seats and governor's mansions and replacing them with latter day Rockefellers let alone Reagans.

Early and Often, yo!!!!!

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Do the American people have a right to know?
Who Killed DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney and DNC Official Seth Rich?

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Foreign influence, ideological networks, and institutional capture.
Fifth Columns in America, Part One
Raw Egg Nationalist: Why is a Republican candidate portraying a slovenly welfare scammer as a young white man by default? (if the melanin content reflected reality, cities would burn again! - jjs)
Cheese Balls: The Race of Welfare Fraudsters Actually Matters in 2026
We are well past the time of thinking we can sit out of politics because we might not have gotten everything on our political wish list.
Poll Shows Democrats Want To Deep-Six Not Just Trump But The Entire American Order
An unmistakable consensus is forming across the political spectrum: a selective weaponization of our justice system has grown like a malignant cancer.
Overcoming the machinery of rogue prosecutions
While I don't think that the 2026 midterm elections are a last stand proposition for the United States of America, I do believe that we are getting closer to an election like that. A strong showing by the Democrats in November that allows them to take back even marginal control of Congress will bring the country closer to the brink. Not exactly end times, but end times adjacent. Please bear in mind that, until now, I've never been much of a gloom and doom type when it comes to politics. I've spent the last decade chronicling the Democrats' downward spiral deeper and deeper into madness, however, and know that these people should never be in charge of anything again.
Dems' Haplessness Makes Them an Even Bigger Existential Threat to the Republic
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike.”
Supreme Court Lets Trump Resume Third-Country Deportations
Capitulate, and then you can win again. This is RINO 101, and it’s everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party.
Legacy Media Falsely Argue That Republicans Are About To Lose Because Americans Hate Deportations
A new congressional proposal could help break the deadlock on reform.
A Path Forward for Skills-Based Immigration
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Why are they not fighting the Houthis?
Saudi Arabia Comes a Cropper
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Jerusalem Post: Muin al-Arabid “gave Israel tremendous intelligence which has helped create a spike in locating and assassinating other top Hamas officials, funds, and weapons.”
Captured Hamas Spy Chief Helps Israel Take Out Three Senior Terror Commanders

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Handing Israel an automatic win.
Pakistani Pulls Out of Chess Match With Israeli
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Minnesota fraud scandals may not be over, as a recent audit found that contracts handed to community groups in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death may not have had proper oversight at all.
Minneapolis Audit Points to Possible Fraud in Tim Walz’s State
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
In Trump v. Slaughter, a 6-3 majority ruled that Congress cannot shield members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being fired by the President at will.
Trump v. Slaughter And The Limits Of Presidential Power
Tuesday as a judge ruled the city must scrap its bungled rollout of the new pied-à-terre tax and start anew.
Pied-a-Fail NYers battling Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax snag big win — as casino mogul joins fight Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration was dealt a blow
City government is subsidizing independent food stores while big grocers flee crime-plagued neighborhoods.
Seattle’s Grocery Store Debacle
On November 3, 2026, the right and only path is clear. (every election now for 60 years! - jjs)
Blue city blues — the failure of progressive governance
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
‘I have a kinship with Lindsay Clancy’
Media Trying to Make Monster Who Tortured College Student to Death Seem Sympathetic
“And we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy running. His name is Eliott Rodriguez. Give him a look!”
Ana Navarro Accused of Violating Broadcast Rules by Urging Viewers to Vote for FL Democrat
No, Wilber Perez was not here legally. No, he was not confused about who was behind him. No, he was not denied medical care. But the media think you are gullible enough to believe all of that anyway.
The Story The Media Told You vs. The Story That Actually Happened

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Tom’s Hardware reports that NorthPoint Development wants to build a 1,300-acre data center in the Pocono foothills near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. To smooth the way, the company has offered roughly 4,500 households a $10,000 check each, payable only if the facility is approved. The offer letters started showing up in June. Hazle Township’s median household income is $60,000, so for a lot of families in the community, the payment is significant.
Data Center Developer Offers Rural Pennsylvania Households $10,000 Checks to Drop Opposition
John Stossel: The cost versus the benefits.
Free AI
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The law in question prevents designated nonprofits, known as 501(c)(3) organizations, from "endorsing candidates, soliciting campaign contributions, distributing campaign literature, hosting candidates with no evident equal opportunity for opponents, and publishing editorialized voting records timed to elections," according to MEF.
In Direct Violation of Federal Tax Laws, Mosques Openly Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed
The mosque in ‘Little Yemen’ has multiple ties to Muslim extremists and Hamas supporters
Sen Kirsten Gillibrand Dons a Hijab at Bronx Mosque, Alongside Cleric Who Praises Hamas and Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor, in Under-the–Radar Visit
Miami mosque speaker raises questions about what it considers “Muslim family values.”
Family Night with Alleged ‘Taliban Imam’ Izhar Khan
"We've achieved a historic win for California Muslims." (A Jew In Every Pot, except the self-gassers...for now! - jjs)
Dems Will Officially Celebrate Islamic Holiday That Includes Ritual Animal Slaughter
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Jews were called names like ‘racist,’ ‘genocide supporter,’ and ‘spiritually disfigured’
'Long Live Yahya Al-Sinwar': Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop Slapped With Discrimination Suit for Rampant Antisemitism, Crushing Dissent Over Israel Boycott
'You fan the flames of antisemitism and then shout, "Fire!"'
Mamdani Strategy on Protecting Jews Is Denounced by Jews
SHAMPEACHMENTS (past, present & future), 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
According to a committee press release, Smith and his team “acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023.” Obtained via subpoenas, the checks disclose the donor’s bank account and routing numbers, signatures, and home addresses.
Jack Smith Seized Nearly 5,000 Checks Written By Trump Donors
There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left.
Another Attempt to Impeach Trump Has Begun
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The quits rate for manufacturing workers, a signal of confidence, rose to the highest in nearly two years.
Manufacturing Hiring Picks Up, Openings Remain Strong, Quits Rise
Protecting the great generator of wealth should be a priorty for those who have benefited the most from free enterprise.
Why Do The Defenders Of Capitalism Never Have Any Money?
Indigence stands at a record low, inequality at a historic high. Which matters more?
Is Poverty Relative?
This is an exciting story for the American heartland, and also for America in general.
The Mesabi Steel Plant: Trump’s Tariffs in Action
Farmers, ranchers, energy producers, shipbuilders, mariners: these aren't competing versions of American strength.
Save the Cows, Sink the Ships?
America can restore affordable suburban housing by embracing smaller homes, larger lots, deregulation, infrastructure investment, and technological innovation.
Sustainable Suburbs and The American Dream

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
RNC spokesman Hunter Lovell told Breitbart News, “Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t want to punish fentanyl traffickers; he wants to make their job easier. While fentanyl kills Michiganders every single day, El-Sayed is out here defending the people poisoning our communities.”
EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed Called Laws Against Fentanyl Dealers ‘Draconian,’ Backed Supervised Drug Use Sites(supervised by Nicky Barnes and Frog One?! - jjs)
The 75-year-old defense attorney spent six weeks telling a Massachusetts jury that his client, Lindsay Clancy, killed her three children because of postpartum psychosis and therefore she was not criminally responsible. On Tuesday, he stood in Plymouth Superior Court and asked the judge to acquit her because, suddenly, nobody can prove she did it.
Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Has Gone Completely Nuts With This Move
“It’s a Philly Thing.”
The Brothel Next Door
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The current lack of job prospects for college graduates is a painful but long overdue correction.
Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face
ABORTION
A proposed amendment in Virginia is presented as protecting ‘reproductive freedom’ but goes much further than the ballot language suggests.
Deceptive Amendment Would Effectively Ban Limits On Abortion In Virginia
Virginians are going to the polls to vote on an amendment to their state constitution that enshrines abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy.
Why every parent should vote no on Virginia Amendment 1
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Kansas AG tells League to ‘stop offering cash, gift cards, or any other item of value in connection with voter registration or voting…’
Kansas League Of Women Voters Accused Of Buying High School Voter Registrations
"Problem Is Four or Five Republicans Who Are Going to Stand with the Democrats..."The SAVE America Act ensures only American citizens decide American elections. It includes requiring valid identification before registering to vote in a federal election, proof of citizenship, and limits the use of mail-in ballots with exceptions for illness, disability, military service, or travel.
JD Vance Says He and President Trump Have ‘Wargamed’ Plan to Pass SAVE America Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Cognetti promised to ‘make the big guys pay their fair share,’ but Caravia Fresh Foods uses a business arrangement that reduces tax burdens
Dem House Nominee Paige Cognetti Uses Husband's ‘Upscale’ Food Store, Which Doesn't Accept Food Stamps, To Accuse Corporations of Exploiting ‘Little Guys’
Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, told guests at a Monday night fundraiser that he has known Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed since 2012, when he interviewed him for a family fellowship that later helped pay for the candidate’s graduate education.
Soros Nephew Says Family Fellowship Paid for El-Sayed’s Education
Talarico embodies Democrat failures to connect with religious voters.
The Gospel According To James Talarico
The Washington Democrat’s auto shop also didn’t offer its employees health insurance, former mechanic says
Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Says Expanding Health Care Access Is ‘Top Priority’ But Doesn’t Provide Coverage For Campaign Staff
POLITICS
His polling shows a rough cycle for both parties, but the details favor the GOP. Trump and Republicans aren't polling well, yet Democrats are doing even worse, and they've dug themselves deeper into their media bubbles. Even the turnout advantage Democrats are banking on turns out to be pretty thin.
Frank Luntz Just Gave Democrats Devastating News About the Midterms
Instead of exaggerating what the DSA believes, Americans should simply read what the organization says for itself.
Midterms and the socialism of the DSA: Know what's on the ballot
That is a public-relations failure on part of the GOP, yet also a shortcoming of American voters in identifying the clear facts of their reality.
American Voters Are So Ignorant, It’s Almost Funny
So the question remains: Why is Emanuel running? It seems most likely that he will use the nomination debates and the primary system to secure a higher profile and reenter the political machine he has inhabited for decades.
The Man Behind the Machine: Who is Rahm Emanuel, and Could He Go All the Way for the Democrats? (White, male, straight, Jew, Israeli, no shot in Hell - jjs)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The list of targeted individuals includes current and former government officials, lawmakers, members of the judiciary, police officers, judges, businessmen, and other nationals from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru — all members of the U.S.-led Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), also known as the Shield of the Americas.
U.S. Strips Visas from Latin American Officials and Others for Undermining Democracy
While group membership is not necessary to serve in the Senate, it is highly advantageous. Senate groups receive representation on parliamentary committees, speaking time, increased recognition, parliamentary funding, and other resources. Groups are also guaranteed the right to request parliamentary investigations. As such, the results have given the National Rally a boost ahead of next year’s presidential election, which Le Pen is projected to win against all potential rivals. “This is a historic victory, and a major milestone with the formation for the first time of a group in the Senate… The results have exceeded our expectations,” said the National Rally leader in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.
The French Elections Explained: Populists Score ‘Historic’ Senate Breakthrough as Le Pen Poised for Presidential Power.
A laughable delusion.
Canadian Socialists Are Not Leading the ‘Free World’ (the Freebie world, maybe? - jjs)
China’s challenge to the U.S. is not merely a new great-power rivalry.
China And The Return Of The 'Evil Empire’
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"We must address the structural mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute our focus on lethality."
Hegseth Ends Civilian Tenure For Military Academies In Bid To Boost Warfighters Over Academics
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
In 2021, as part of Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan, the administration created Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), which saw the resettlement of roughly 75,000 Afghans in mere months — some of whom were not interviewed in-person beforehand.
Federal Watchdog Reveals Vetting Errors in 40% of Biden’s Afghan Migrants Resettled in U.S.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Meanwhile, scientists are testing a new drug that may be effective against the larvae.
Texas Lifts Screwworm Quarantines as New Mexico Reopens Cattle Crossing
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Perseverance has been busy. The rover has spent 2026 exploring the “Lac de Charmes” area, an area of valleys and ridges west of the Jezero crater rim that represent a “wild west frontier” for the mission.
The Perseverance science team finally publishes an update!
Other organizations have since confirmed the fragmentation event, including the private satellite-tracking company s2a systems, which photographed the largest remaining piece of USA 32 in orbit.
A defunct American reconnaissance satellite from the ’80s breaks up
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The spike in these numbers between 2019 and 2021 is not a mystery. America’s embrace of progressive identity politics had reached a fever pitch and the COVID lockdowns gave students endless time to spend online.
New Survey Shows Dramatic Decline in Share of High School Students Identifying as LGB
“Raising a child according to his or her sex is not abuse,” the bill declares. “Removal from fit parents is contrary to the best interests of children, creates trauma for the child, damages familial bonds, and exposes the child to well-documented risks in state custody.
Republican Senator Introduces Bill To Protect The Parent-Child Relationship From Trans Ideology
“I still think these should be local decisions, sport by sport, athlete by athlete, and I think I have the most inclusive policy of any candidate who’s running,” Talarico said. “So I know things are getting clipped and stuff, but my views, my position hasn’t changed.”
Talarico Pledges in Undercover Video to Use Senate Seat to Fight for Trans Children: ‘I Will Fight for Them’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“The layoffs, the third round this year under recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro, are primarily in Disney’s human resources and IT departments across corporate and within different divisions, according to a source familiar with the cuts,” reports the far-left Variety.
Disney Grooming Syndicate Cuts Hundreds of Jobs In Third Layoff of the Year
Aaron Sorkin, once a free speech giant, turns on Facebook in new film
Jan. 6 Themed ‘Social Reckoning’ Expected to Bomb at Box Office (Goebbels produces Holocaust documentary - jjs)
HITHER & YON
Dickens never made a secret of the pain and emotional trauma heexperienced when as a boy of twelve his parents — bankrupt and about to be placed in debtors prison — sent him off to live and work in a factory, spending twelve hours a day putting labels on containers for the blacking polish used for boots. That experience shaped many of his novels, including most especially Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Dickens: His childhood made him.

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1 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

2 Excellent pod cast today guys, thanks! (wasn't allowed to leave a comment there, as is usual).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (bVoR9)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

4 2 Excellent pod cast today guys, thanks! (wasn't allowed to leave a comment there, as is usual).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (bVoR9)

Thanks... and hmm?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (x0n13)

5 From CATO (among the most open-borders group there is): legal immigration from Muslim nations has been cut 96%.

While legal immigration in general is down, Trump has practically halted Muslim migration and completely ended Muslim refugee resettlement.

‘Annual Muslim immigration may be the lowest in over 30 years.’

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I love that they say this like people will be outraged by it.

I VOTED FOR THIS!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (gLYp7)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (RORbl)

7 > ‘Annual Muslim immigration may be the lowest in over 30 years.’
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Yeah, but the ones already here are out-breeding everyone else.

But there are solutions. Some easy, some hard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:21 AM (RORbl)

8 According to prominent Democrats, that was all part of Trump’s collusion with Russia. With that ploy exposed as a hoax, the people have cause to wonder. With Rich’s personal laptop, the FBI wanted 66 years, a proxy for “never,” to produce data the bureau previously denied it even possessed. This year questions are emerging about the FBI’s handing of records related to Rich, possibly marked for destruction.
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The FBI continues looking suspect, in this as in so many other things. Has anyone fixed the FBI lab, for example? What about the Hopkinson "investigation"?

Patel may be doing a good job, for all I know, but I continue thinking the FBI is beyond redemption.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:23 AM (ALmBW)

9 Saying that Tallerico went to a presbyterian theology school tells me everything I need to know about his progressive/commie standpoint. Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Episcopalians and one sect of the Baptist church might as well be listed in the DSA handbook of acceptable religions.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (2noDb)

10 >ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
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There's talk of re-launching the SR-71 program

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

11 G'mornin' everyone! and, as always, thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (VyBeY)

12 I enjoyed the article on Dickens. I assume the author knew- but chose not to talk about it- that Dickens had a long term affair with the actress Nelly Ternan, dumped his wife and family and when he died it was covered up so this would not reflect badly on the champion of family life and Victorian morality.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:25 AM (JrHfD)

13 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:27 AM (RIvkX)

14 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

Wouldn't the best way to do that be to send roving gangs around to beat the crap out of them?

Posted by: Either Clodius or Milo at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

15 Medicare For Everyone!

Posted by: National Debt $40.10 Trillion and counting at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (w+jhU)

16 COULD BE (not confirmed and may never be known) that the Mossad knew of an Iranian plan to hijack A plane and had plainclothes personnel onboard the Air Dubai craft.

That would explain how anyone got into the cockpit. Of course another explanation would be that the knifed Israeli crewman managed to unlock the door from within.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (yMCWt)

17 15 Medicare For Everyone!
Posted by: National Debt $40.10 Trillion and counting at September 30, 2026 07:28 AM (w+jhU)

Everyone on Planet EARTH!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

18 Posted by: Jaimo at September 30, 2026 07:24 AM (2noDb

Depends on the church and pastor. The hierarchy is crazy in many churches. The ministers who are more conservative just ignore it and do the best they can through the grace of God. I had a talk with a Congregationalist Pastor in NJ several weeks ago. He has a"Respect Life" and "Choose Life" signs on front of his church. It's clear from his website that his personal theology is quite conservative, and Bible centered with a strong emphasis on evangelism.

That being said, Talarico's church is beyond nutty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (JrHfD)

19 Unfortunately, this biography did not provide me a greater sense of the reality of Dickens’ later life. He married young, had a decades-long family life producing a lot of children, but then he dumped that wife late in life for reasons that the book does not clearly explain.
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One reason might be that the 45 year old Dickens took up with 18 year old Nelly Ternan, with whom he had a son (died in infancy). That seemed to anger his wife.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:30 AM (1utmP)

20 Good Morning Pixel friends. I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get a mass in my left kidney irradiated in around 8:00.

The dawn sky is beautiful.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

21 Yesterday my X feed was full of Jack Smith, mostly 'Republicans' breathily describing all the ways in which Smith broke laws and is generally awful. All sound and fury, signifying nothing. We have fun here, throwing 'nothing will happen' around like pennies in a wishing well, but the hard fact is we KNOW that actually nothing will happen. Yesterday was just another one day dog and pony show for the cameras. A one day story. Jack Smith is perfectly safe.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)

22 Paulina Gutierrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results.

Officials were forced to return to the Bay View central count facility with a police escort to re-download the correct results from the five machines.

So they don't actually count the votes in the 'central count' facility? What is the purpose of a central count facility if you are counting somewhere else you need a police escort from?

Is this just a journalism's terrible writing or am I missing something else?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

23 Jacks Smith & Co. are traitors who mist be hanged by January 20, 2029.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

24 Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

Will keep you in prayer. Thanks for the comment about the sunrise. Nature can certainly help our spirits.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:34 AM (JrHfD)

25 The Lindsay Clancy trial is one of the many fronts in the civil war between the United States of Reality and Gay Retardistan.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 30, 2026 07:34 AM (WagEk)

26 Jack Smith is perfectly safe.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)

Until I decide he isn't...

Posted by: Hillary! at September 30, 2026 07:35 AM (gLYp7)

27 I will fight for them
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and by fighting for them, Talarico means he will fight for hospitals to experiment with drugs and surgery on unsuspecting mentally deranged young people.

Everything about this "fight" is perverse, from the reality to even the language used. If he were really fighting to protect these kids, he would be getting them the therapy they so obviously need, and he would be trying to fix a civic culture that somehow regards abuse of these young people as a good thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:35 AM (bUohG)

28 20 Good Morning Pixel friends. I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get a mass in my left kidney irradiated in around 8:00.

The dawn sky is beautiful.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Q/FnY)

Mish a'beirach for a full and speedy recovery.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2026 07:36 AM (x0n13)

29 Morning, Horde. Today's interview will be around lunchtime, so prayers during that timeframe would be appreciated: If it's the right one, let it go well, if it's not the right one, let it be clear, and either way may the results be known soon.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:36 AM (aJQbY)

30 >> ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
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There's talk of re-launching the SR-71 program
Posted by: Don Black
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There's speculation that the SR-71 "borrowed" from a CA museum is going to be picked apart, digitally scanned, and the materials used analyzed for a digital mock up. This, in turn, would be the basis for building a next generation SR-71-ish spy plane or research aircraft.

"Aerospace Paleontology"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RORbl)

31 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

32 Smith and his team “acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023.”

Ted Cruz asked "Is it illegal to be a Republican," and Smith wouldn't answer.

They're not even being coy about what they intend to do when they're back in power.

I'm ALSO a person with a job and a family and a home and dogs and responsibilities and obligations, but nothing is going to change until we start making things change.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:38 AM (gLYp7)

33 ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ makes you wonder, not just about giraffes, but how you would express the gallonage of a normal spring thunderstorm, or a widespread gentle rain.
OK, well, at least it's not metric.

Wife had to do a metric conversion problem over half a dozen times the other day, swapping the terms around. I almost made an internet moron kind of comment, until I realized she literally could not believe a medical doctor would recommend I eat no more than two ounces of protein a day. Do not chortle: "normal" for someone with no health issues of any kind is only twice that. You'd do the math over, too.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2026 07:38 AM (zdLoL)

34 "And Republicans shouldn't cheapen that debate by calling every Democrat a communist.." Wisdom indeed! The shrill panic and demonization of the opposition is making me think the GOP is panicking. They had 2 years to pass legislation and suddenly we are all going to die if a few seats flip; they require massive majorities but somehow the Dems will overthrow the constitution if they get a 1 seat majority. Yes, some of them are crazy but don't you have faith in the majority of your fellow citizens? You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!

Posted by: Jalan at September 30, 2026 07:39 AM (uqfb2)

35 Thank you JJ

I was assured by all the smart morons here yesterday that the polls are all crap. I sure hope so… and maybe I need to stop my daily check in at RCP because man does it paint a glum picture!

My common sense brain tells me Tala-freak has zero chance, but the polls still have him ahead

It’s more than a little annoying I must admit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Dkvax)

36 What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

No, you're a kidney.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 07:41 AM (1Ff7Z)

37 On X, people translated a recent speech from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “Please don’t come to me with free speech … That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still be able to protect its citizens from false information, from personal degradations, from discrimination.” German police conducted a criminal investigation of a man who mocked Merz as “Pinocchio” on a Facebook page. So much for the “Free World.”
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The totalitarian impulse is strong, from Germany to the EU, the UK and, of course, to Canada, where socialists worried about "misinformation" claim the only solution is to control speech and arrest 92 year old widows in bunny slippers who call Burnham names online, as just happened yesterday in the UK.

"Fuck all y'all", as I believe Thomas Paine once said so memorably.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (N3b7w)

38 31 What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney

Not yet, Moose at the door should have explained.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (Q/FnY)

39 My common sense brain tells me Tala-freak has zero chance, but the polls still have him ahead

It’s more than a little annoying I must admit

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Dkvax)

Of course they do. Because they're averaging known garbage polls in with known mediocre polls. There are no good polls. RCP gave the woman who said Harris would win Iowa by double-digits the exact same credence as they gave Rasmussen or USAToday who had Trump winning by 4ish.

Data fidelity is real. Garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 30, 2026 07:42 AM (gLYp7)

40 100 grams Beef protein is about right. A pound of burger is approx. 975 calories and 75 grams protein.

They want to turn everyone into simping mincing soy-boys near as I can figure. It’s working

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (q3N/z)

41 LinusVanPelt

Happiness is only seeing the Left in the rear view mirror. Using their thoughts leads to unhappiness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

42 the SR-71...is going to be picked apart, digitally scanned, and the materials used analyzed for a digital mock up.

It is as foreign to them as a UFO being reverse-engineered.
Some snotnose super genius says he can 3D print one with AI.
Also, snacks come out of that drawer on the side.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (zdLoL)

43 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: GMAC's Right Kidney at September 30, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)
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With enough fried onions, no one will be able to tell the difference.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (yMCWt)

44 but I continue thinking the FBI is beyond redemption."

The Founders were correct in not establishing Federal Policing.
The "progressive" tilt of the early 20th century was what ended the Republic.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:43 AM (pfXMo)

45 "and maybe I need to stop my daily check in at RCP because man does it paint a glum picture!"

That sounds like a good idea. I try to avoid all polling. All I can do is vote and encourage everybody I know who is a Republican or a non nutty Democrat to do so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:44 AM (JrHfD)

46 You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!
Posted by: Jalan at September 30, 2026 07:39 AM (uqfb2)

Sorry, I don’t have faith in humanity. It does not have a good track record…. Check out my fellow citizens in NYC and LA…. Go nose around your neighborhood Walmart… Faith in your fellow citizens may dampen a bit. I don’t think all is lost yet on the other hand I can’t help but notice a certain cultural decline in the past few decades

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 07:44 AM (Dkvax)

47 from parts of the USA that I personally do not share."

I don't give a rat's fuzzy arse what a kraut says about us...

"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade"

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (pfXMo)

48 Latest summary of Fly Dubai terror attack:

https://tinyurl.com/5y7763tu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (yMCWt)

49 On Sept. 17, Space-Track — the satellite observation arm of the U.S. Space Force — announced that USA 32 suffered a sudden “fragmentation” event four days earlier, on Sept. 13. This essentially means the spacecraft exploded, potentially breaking apart into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of pieces.
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Sounds like someone experimented with shooting a satellite, doesn't it?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (N3b7w)

50 Jeffrey Dahmer has entered the chat...

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (Q/FnY)

51 Troll, do they hang fags in Bangladesh? Or is it the tall buildings?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

52 Republicans need to flood the media with one simple ad across the country for the next month.

"Thinking about voting democrat?"

Insert montage of hordes of illegals bum-rushing the border, accident scenes of illegal truck drivers killing American citizens, murder statistics, inflation numbers.

That's their vision for America.

Vote to celebrate success and strengthen America.

Close with shots of barren borders, recent economic statistics, military induction numbers, lowered crime statistics, improved health statistics, etc.

Vote Republican.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (b4LBp)

53 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (Az7Eg)

54 Delta is ReaDEI:

https://tinyurl.com/yj2cepmt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (yMCWt)

55 Mr. Sefton posts The Morning Report both early and often. Please follow his example.

Posted by: The Masked Voter at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Fn+3X)

56 LinusVanPelt, there's several bloggers I used to enjoy more than I do now, who seem determined to guzzle black-pills these days, where they'd once point out the problems but also point out the good things. I try to skim over those black-pill paragraphs because reading too much doomerism gets you in/reinforces a doomer mood. And doomerism is the last thing I need in my head right now!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY)

57 Legacy Media Falsely Argue That Republicans Are About To Lose Because Americans Hate Deportations

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Trump won his reelection because Americans wanted deportations.

Now R's will lose because Americans hate deportations?

I'd say make it make sense, but I know it's just another lying "media" tactic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

58 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM78)

59 Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:50 AM (aJQbY

Sounds like good advice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (JrHfD)

60 Socialist's gonna be socialists.

UK Premier Andy Burnham rolled out his vision for the UK yesterday with his new "Social Care" program that will provide NHS type coverage for everything not covered by the NHS such as subsidized or free heat, electricity, water, and sewer. Apparently it doesn't cover housing and food costs as those are already covered by existing programs.

For extra credit he signaled he is going to make a run at rejoining the EU.

He plans to pay for this plan, perversely named Hope Again, by cutting funding for elderly pensions beginning in 2030. While not stated during the rollout speech it does seem the Islamic invaders, now plaguing the UK, will be key beneficiaries of Hope Again.

I take all this as coming attractions for what the Communist left here in the USA will do if they ever get control of the government, especially the part where illegal aliens get preferential Hope Again benefits.

What seems certain is the UK is hell bent on destroying the principles of Western civilization such as freedom and liberty and for good measure surrendering it all to Islamic radicalism.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (VyD10)

61 You cannot love America while think the majority of its citizens are fools and communists! Vote for the long term and have faith in your fellow citizens!
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Well fools, obviously. But not communists, no.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

62 Sounds like someone experimented with shooting a satellite, doesn't it?"

*coupla rednecks high five each other*

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (pfXMo)

63 “….Yes, it's Texas but still. I fear he has more of a chance of taking a Texas Senate Seat….”

This is merely an anecdote so take it as you will. Next door neighbor was a former prosecutor in Harris County back in the day but works for a small private firm. He still has contacts with judges, etc. He told me this weekend that he was told that the reason we’re seeing so many Abbott ads is because the TX GOP is worried Paxton will bring down the rest of the ticket. (I’ve hardly ever seen an Abbott ad prior to this election). IMO, Paxton is running a terrible campaign and (in my best Rhett Butler voice) frankly my dear, I’m worried. Even when Cruz barely beat Beto, you knew Cruz would win. This time seems different.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (SjAWL)

64 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM7

That too . It's certainly not Christian . People in leadership there should just resign from the ministry, but I suppose they want the salary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 07:53 AM (JrHfD)

65 • The attacker is reported to be an Omani and the co pilot.
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Oman and Iran are longtime friends, but the country is reportedly largely Sunni. Could Iran be involved? Who knows...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:54 AM (Zjq06)

66 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 30, 2026 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

67 Israeli officials have announced a terrorism investigation, with one confirming “one pilot stabbed the other and tried to do a 9/11,”

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 07:55 AM (EKMrJ)

68 “Fly the friendly skies”

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:56 AM (q3N/z)

69 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Hump Day.

I'm shocked that the League of Women Voters would be corrupt. The GOPe allows them to run debates after all.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 07:56 AM (jivel)

70 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 07:52 AM (fuM7

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So you're saying that Talerico's church is horny?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (yMCWt)

71 He plans to pay for this plan, perversely named Hope Again, by cutting funding for elderly pensions beginning in 2030. "

No, he plans on paying it with resurrected USAID cash.

*my thoughts*

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (pfXMo)

72 "Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade"
Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:48 AM (pfXMo)
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A Casablanca shout out!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:57 AM (Zjq06)

73 UK Premier Andy Burnham rolled out his vision for the UK yesterday with his new "Social Care" program that will provide NHS type coverage for everything not covered by the NHS such as subsidized or free heat, electricity, water, and sewer. Apparently it doesn't cover housing and food costs as those are already covered by existing programs. For extra credit he signaled he is going to make a run at rejoining the EU.

"Boy, did I call it, or what?" -- George Orwell

The protests and the growth of Reform and Restore parties in the UK are what gives me hope for them. But they'll still have several years of things-getting-worse to get through, alas.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 30, 2026 07:58 AM (aJQbY)

74 TX GOP is worried Paxton will bring down the rest of the ticket. "

Should be. The damage wrought by the Bush family in their hissy fit is severe and ongoing. We'll be paying for them for decades.
The Bush Presidential libraries (current and future) should be moved to Saudi Arabia...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 07:59 AM (pfXMo)

75 A Casablanca shout out!"

Of course. It's the 2nd greatest movie ever. Behind Prometheus.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:00 AM (pfXMo)

76 Belieeeeeeeeeve the polls!

Posted by: Sen. Beto O'Rourke at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

77 Republicans need to flood the media with one simple ad across the country for the next month.

That's their vision for America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 07:49 AM (b4LBp)

The GOPe will never do that, for you see, that's their vision of America too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

78 Smell the Glove

Kansas is not full Republican. The 2.8 million people are 80% urbanized. Especially around Kansas City, the left is strong. The two largest Universities (KSU and KU) have a lot of clueless socialist-curious students.

Kris Koback is a gem, but the RINO elites in the State torpedoed his run for Governor, saying vote for the Dem. Which is why we have a Democrat two-term governor, Laura Kelly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

79 Andrew Wilson and two other Trump-supporters recently debated Alex Wilson, Joe Kent and some other doomer on Brandon Straka's platform. Wilson flayed the hyperventilating Jones and exposed the self-defeating idiocy of trying to punish Trump for his "endless war" by sitting out the midterms. Jones has now launched war against Wilson. What a buffoon.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (b4LBp)

80 The protests and the growth of Reform and Restore parties in the UK "

Are extremely limited. And useless.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (pfXMo)

81 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

82 The current lack of job prospects for college graduates is a painful but long overdue correction.

When Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro came into office, one of the first things he did was remove the requirement of a college degree from 98% of Commonwealth jobs, while looking at the other 2%.

This can’t do him any favors with his party zealots.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:04 AM (EKMrJ)

83 RCP’s poll mod is built on a badly flawed assumption. They assume that all polls have errors, but that they are random, it holds that some are too high, some are too low, so the average will be close to the truth. BUT if all polls are skewed to the left, then none are “too high” and the average simply represents the average skew being applied.

Which tells you nothing about the actual state of the race. Betting markets are also no longer reliable, now we know that results can be purchased by campaigns which make large bets just to move the odds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 08:04 AM (fuM78)

84 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 30, 2026 08:05 AM (b4LBp)

85 The current lack of job prospects for college graduates"

Ok, that's funny right there. That same trope has been trotted out since I went to kolledge. A long, long time ago.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:05 AM (pfXMo)

86 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us."

It's highly likely (thanks, Bush), and God will only save those who work at it.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:06 AM (pfXMo)

87 Fast Food

1988 - Taco Bell "Make a Run for the Borfer"

2026 - Door Dash "Make a Run from the Border Patrol"

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (I0N4X)

88 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (QwZKw)

89 Talerico’s church is not “ nutty”, it is satanic..

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He and his "church" are so unbelievably anti-Christian, and contradictory to the teachings of the Holy Bible, notably the New Testament, that it's surprising lightening doesn't shoot down from heaven and burn the place to ash.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

90 Trump had his message for the midterms:

https://tinyurl.com/4b695762

And I'm out till the art thread. So much doomerism is fatiguing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 08:09 AM (JrHfD)

91 In Trump v. Slaughter, a 6-3 majority ruled that Congress cannot shield members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being fired by the President at will.

And, yet, the same Congress can, somehow, shield the same President from firing members of the Federal Reserve at will.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

92 Is it really conceivable that this deviant Talarico could win?

God save us.

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It's hard not to be extremely concerned the likes of this freakish heretic, and just as horrible El Sayed in MI, will win.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

93 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas."

Predictions are hard...

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:10 AM (pfXMo)

94 sounds like why you hate him, you cock-biting fuckstick

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

95 baseball playoff tournament started last night and Boston's own Cam Shlittler pitched a gem for the hated Spankees in the victory over the Red Sox. Could be a very quick series for the Sox.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (jyC3p)

96 When I see a photo of Talerico, I can't help but think 'now there's a guy who has had a penis in his mouth at least once'

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

97 man, getting out and working to make sure it doesn't happen is hard but you don't back down in the face of evil.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (QwZKw)

98 “We’ve apparently landed in Saudi Arabia. There’s a pilot that’s seriously injured.

They’re taking him to a hospital. There’s another terrorist who … we don’t know his condition, but he was involved somehow. It was rough. It was rough. We’ll be home in a few hours. I need a change of clothes. Everything is drenched in blood,” the passenger recounted.

“That’s it. I love you. I’ll tell you what happened when we get back,” he added.

“Your dad is a hero. One of the heroes. [I didn’t do it] alone. I’ll see you later. I gotta let my heart rate go down.”

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:12 AM (EKMrJ)

99
Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 08:13 AM (ZxPkt)

100
Talarico is a Kappa????

I didn't even know he was Japanese!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (YSUhf)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

102 man, getting out and working to make sure it doesn't happen is hard but you don't back down in the face of evil."

Of course not. But I don't have the resources of ... the family who shall remain nameless.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:14 AM (pfXMo)

103 Talarico is a 1 to 10 favorite to take a cock in his ass and mouth, brining pleasure to other members of his "church".

Posted by: Vegas Insider at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w+jhU)

104 Troll, you finally wrote English that makes sense. Bravo. Now fvck off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

105 Crash victim speaks out after alleged hate crime

She says immediately after the crash, dozens of men living in the Detroit neighborhood came out, removed the 18-year-old driver from her car and then turned their attention to her, verbally insulting her and threatening to attack her with a baseball bat while she waited for police to arrive.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (EKMrJ)

106 Talarico has a shot simply because Republican voters are stupid and Ken Paxton isn't sexy enough for them to get off their ass and go to the polls and cast a vote against the anti-Christ.

We really are the stupid party.

But, I hold out hope that with the trouncing Cornyn got, they'll carry that over into the primary.

Much like Beta cuck, Talarico should be finished in politics after this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

107 There's a podcast?

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (Fn+3X)

108 Talarico is a 1 to 10 favorite to take a cock in his ass and mouth, brining pleasure to other members of his "church".

Posted by: Vegas Insider at September 30, 2026 08:15 AM (w+jhU)

That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

109 ADP has jobs up to 90k for September. Expected 70k.
The government numbers come out Friday.
Excellent news if Republicans use it properly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (jivel)

110 There's a podcast?+-

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at September 30, 2026 08:16 AM (Fn+3X)

Pshaw....next thing you'll be telling me there's content.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

111 We’ve apparently landed in Saudi Arabia. There’s a pilot that’s seriously injured"

No offense intended, but you flew "FlyDubai"?
Really?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (pfXMo)

112 Imagine going through life as a Shlittler.

Posted by: Boy Howdy at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

113 Excellent news if Republicans use it properly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (jivel)

BWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

114 Much like Beta cuck, Talarico should be finished in politics after this."

The Wendy Davis gambit?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (pfXMo)

115 78
Kris Koback is a gem, but the RINO elites in the State torpedoed his run for Governor, saying vote for the Dem. Which is why we have a Democrat two-term governor, Laura Kelly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

Kobach is one of the best. I wanted Trump to pick his as AG or head of DHS in first term. And I hoped the same thing in his second term, but alas….
KS is one of those states perceived as deeply red, but that’s not the reality.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 30, 2026 08:19 AM (SjAWL)

116
The Wendy Davis gambit?

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:18 AM (pfXMo)

The Abortion Barbie dolls FLEW off the shelves.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:20 AM (ccf/V)

117 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

118 Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football
Posted by: Don Black

All of pro sports hates and insults you. Why give them a second of your time? Life is too precious and short to waste on it. Even pretty girls stop being cheerleaders at age 22.

Posted by: Drop The Pom-Poms, It's Unseemly at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (Fn+3X)

119 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

Seems GWB forgets they called him Bushy McChimpHitler all those years........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

120 Imagine going through life as a Shlittler.
Posted by: Boy Howdy at September 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)
================
As he says, "I am good at keeping receipts"

He relishes kicking the Red Sox in the teeth, as payback.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (jyC3p)

121 IMO, Paxton is running a terrible campaign and (in my best Rhett Butler voice) frankly my dear, I’m worried. Even when Cruz barely beat Beto, you knew Cruz would win. This time seems different.

I saw something yesterday which said that the latest poll (strippers!) has Paxton up by 3.

Talarico's entire campaign is lies coupled with Republicans crying, "OMG! Could he actually win?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

122 Please
baseball is moot
hockey has returned
it's what you watch when there's no football
Posted by: Don Black

I got my ass handed to me last night in Fantasy Hockey.

There's a reason I haven't done that shit in 25 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:23 AM (ccf/V)

123 The Abortion Barbie dolls FLEW off the shelves......."

That and pink shoes were at all the discount/flea market sales for a year afterwards... funny, it was.

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:23 AM (pfXMo)

124 Hopefully Talarico wins a seat in the senate and he can have sex with his staffers Dirksen, Russell and Hart in the various rooms in the senate office buildings and post the videos on Tik Tok which I can then play on Sundays during church.

Posted by: Babs Miller, Reverend and Lesbian at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (w+jhU)

125 ...baseball is moot
hockey has returned...
Posted by: Don Black

*********

Yeah. Baseball would be more interesting if they played it on ice. And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball.

And if when a fight occurred everybody besides the combatants would go back to the dugout and root for their teammate rather than rushing out onto the field for a group hug...

Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (I0N4X)

126 The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats. The MSM hardly ever reports "bad news" on their behalf. It's always "spin."

I'm a bit amazed that there are still people who take what these whores spit out as some sort of gospel.

It's no wonder cults thrive in today's world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (RORbl)

127 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected."

Of what I know of them, that's pretty much correct. (remember, I used to live in Fairfax and worked for the VA GOP back in the day)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (pfXMo)

128 Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth. King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:25 AM (EKMrJ)

129 Didn't know Israelis go on vacation to Dubai. Seems as smart as a mouse attending a Cat Convention.

Posted by: Ignatz the Mouse at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)

130 I would love to hear the Bush and GOPe thought process on Paxton. He beat them , so they'll show Texans by helping a lunatic leftist get elected. Do they think the lunatic left will thank them for the help ? News flash , they'll kill you first.
If that isn't what they're thinking than I have no idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 30, 2026 08:21 AM (jivel)

They're thinking that the graft won't flow to them if Paxton is elected. And their machine has held power and graft for years.

It's the old thing, that has the Democrats inviting in the muslims and other third world yahoos. They'll use them to gain power and then, and here's the genius part!,

they'll just toss them away once they regain power.

That's it. Nothing to do with principles, everything to do with rice bowls.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (YSUhf)

131 REVEALED: Inside the Plan to Build ‘Trans Schools’ and Spread Their Lessons Nationwide Its new grant comes from a fund backed by MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s billionaire ex-wife.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:27 AM (EKMrJ)

132 And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball."

Or the Bob Gibson move...

*90 plus MPH to the batter's head

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:27 AM (pfXMo)

133 That's it. Nothing to do with principles, everything to do with rice bowls."

This. X 10,000.

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others"

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:28 AM (pfXMo)

134 How I feel about "America" has fuck all to do with how I feel about "sheeple". I'm not anti social, I'm anti lazy idiots

Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 08:29 AM (LOZbR)

135 Vance Says He And Trump War-Gamed A Senate Floor Takeover To Pass SAVE America Act

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:29 AM (EKMrJ)

136 Didn't know Israelis go on vacation to Dubai. Seems as smart as a mouse attending a Cat Convention.
Posted by: Ignatz the Mouse at September 30, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)
=====

Not a whole lot of places they can go as nearby. Thailand is popular.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

137 Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, told guests at a Monday night fundraiser that he has known Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed since 2012, when he interviewed him for a family fellowship that later helped pay for the candidate’s graduate education.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:30 AM (EKMrJ)

138
Yeah. Baseball would be more interesting if they played it on ice. And the opposing team could body check you into the backstop while you were trying to hit the ball.

And if when a fight occurred everybody besides the combatants would go back to the dugout and root for their teammate rather than rushing out onto the field for a group hug...
Posted by: muldoon at September 30, 2026 08:24 AM (I0N4X)

Reminds one of the old NHL commercials........

https://shorturl.fm/4uVT1

Apologies for the farcebook link.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

139 Share this letter with any Republican or Independent you know that might be considering sitting out the midterms. Even muslim terrorists know who Democrats are.

>>Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections

https://tinyurl.com/48cwkzw4

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

140 Or the Bob Gibson move...

*90 plus MPH to the batter's head
Posted by: man

Bob Gibson was an awesome athlete. Was a Harlem Globetrotter before deciding to commit to baseball.

Posted by: Sweet Georgia Brown Plays In Background at September 30, 2026 08:32 AM (Fn+3X)

141 Several positive economic indicators just released.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

142 JackStraw, thank you for providing the link to that letter.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (QwZKw)

143 Estimates were way off this month.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

144 How far has Erick Erickson sunk?
He's defending Talarico.
No, seriously.
Literal quote:
"Talarico is attacking Paxton for corruption in office. Paxton is attacking Talarico for his religion."

Cornyn, Cassidy and the GOPe guy losing in GA has completely broken him.

I've got 7 flyers from the Paxton campaign on my kitchen table. Zero say anything about religion (and Talarico does not have a religion--it's a blasphemous apostasy).
5 are about Talarico and trannies, 2 are Paxton's accomplishments.

EE is as nasty and vile as Talarico, repeating his lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:33 AM (3cUTc)

145 The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats.
——-

The Democrats are the legislative wing for the media. That tracks, too. Little bit of both, I reckon.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (q3N/z)

146 >>Estimates were way off this month.

No way.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (viF8m)

147 Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to "ensure the survival" of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales.
Stelco said the decision will impact up to 500 employees.
In a memo obtained by CBC News on Monday, the company said it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with operations set to begin winding down on Oct. 9.

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 08:34 AM (EKMrJ)

148 One more day until October surprises begin.

Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

149 I don’t think that demon Talarico will win. But let’s face it, upsets happen. Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won. The Patriots (undefeated) were a lock in SB 42 until the Giants beat them. The US hockey team beat the Soviets in 1980’s miracle on ice.

This is why you play the game and why you actually have the election and count the votes. Paxton should win by double digits… but the Bushies are apparently throwing a tantrum and even normies are upset by gas prices. The demon needs to lose

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:36 AM (Dkvax)

150 Today Is National Chewing Gum Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

151 ... officials just clicked the wrong button on five of the tabulators, and downloaded audit logs instead of election results.
>>>

As an Election Official, you supposedly receive training and instruction, no? So, what is it you'd say you do around here. Give us the competent highlights.

Yammer on!

Posted by: Count de Monet, channeling the Two Bobs at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (wVcYX)

152 That fat slag Erickson pretty much inherited his radio job in Georgia when Neal Boortz aged-out and retired. He's not worthy. He's everything we hate about the GOPe.

Posted by: The Lights Went Out at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (Fn+3X)

153 Inflation report just issued, much better than the market expected.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (5KN7H)

154 >>Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won.

Joe Namath did.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

155 One more day until October surprises begin.
Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

That's right! Have to pull out the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" dvd today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (1Ff7Z)

156 Stelco Holdings Inc. said on Monday that it plans to idle part of its Hamilton plant in order to "ensure the survival" of the company, as U.S. tariffs squeeze its sales."

Two questions - why would a US company buy a Canadian firm in 24, and I was told that "tariffs" were "crushing" US based steel/iron/metalwork jobs...

Or are reporters/journalists that stupid?

/I know, I know

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (pfXMo)

157 I guess we can be happy stabbings in cockpits are somewhat rare.

Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side at September 30, 2026 08:39 AM (Fn+3X)

158 Vance Says He And Trump War-Gamed A Senate Floor Takeover To Pass SAVE America Act
Posted by: SMOD
_____________

It wouldn't matter at this point. Need six months or a year lead time before an election in order for the SC to play whack-a-mole with all the Hawaiian judge injunctions.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 30, 2026 08:39 AM (JzUSu)

159 Boortz was the guy that got me listening to talk radio.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (yOEUM)

160 Using a sports analogy, no one thought the Jets could even come close to the mighty Colts in Super Bowl III… but they won.

Joe Namath did.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

Ive often wondered if Broadway Joe really believed his own prediction or he was just running his mouth for the attention. Either way, it came out golden for him

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (Dkvax)

161 but the Bushies are apparently throwing a tantrum and even normies are upset by gas prices"

This - and the media keeps up on "gas prices"... which fell by about $.20 over the past weekend here (N of Houston)

Posted by: man at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (pfXMo)

162 Keep On the Sunny Side

who landed the plane?

Was it Otto Pilot?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

163 Erick Erickson.

Having his first name twice like that is kinda douchey.

He had no chance......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

164 And Boortz was good radio.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (yOEUM)

165 Can I kiss you?

Posted by: The quotable Joe Namath at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

166 Elbows up, icebacks.

>>Canada’s economy stalls before latest US tariff wave as manufacturing drops 0.9%

https://tinyurl.com/rnddvhcy

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (viF8m)

167 He had no chance...

Tell me about it.

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

168 ‘I have a kinship with Lindsay Clancy’

-
Well, she's got a point.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:42 AM (ndZc7)

169 Two off duty pilots deadheading in economy landed the plane, reportedly (see Biden's Dog X thread at 48, read down at Open Intel)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (5KN7H)

170 > The media is the propaganda organ for the Democrats.
——-

The Democrats are the legislative wing for the media. That tracks, too. Little bit of both, I reckon.
=======
And the judiciary is the legal wing for the Democrats. For some definition of "legal."

It's a circle jerk of epic proportions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RORbl)

171 >>Posted by: The quotable Joe Namath at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

Whoever thought it was a good idea to interview Namath on the sidelines that evening must have been drunk, too.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (NcvvS)

172 Before podcasts we had the radio on all day. Howard Stern to Dr. Laura to Michael Savage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

173 Boortz was the guy that got me listening to talk radio.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:40 AM (yOEUM)

Boorts was good. A little rough around the edges but in a good way. He coined the term "urban outdoorsman" for the worthless bums living out in the wilds of urban America.

Posted by: Zombie Royal Marshall at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (w+jhU)

174 >>Canada’s economy stalls before latest US tariff wave as manufacturing drops 0.9%

Oh, what a shame.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

175
Joe Namath did.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

Best Joe Namath moment ever.......

https://youtu.be/QoEdSpFa3hI?t=80

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)

176 Erick Erickson.

Having his first name twice like that is kinda douchey.

He had no chance......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)
---------
*sigh*

Posted by: Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (amcLV)

177 Fox-

IRGC makes direct appeal to US voters weeks before midterms
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is appealing directly to American voters ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, urging them to oppose President Donald Trump and pressure Washington to end the war.

The message appeared in a 25-page letter addressed to Americans and presented by IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi, according to the New York Post.

The letter blamed Trump and U.S. support for Israel for the conflict while accusing the president of misleading Americans about Iran’s nuclear program and the economic consequences of the war.

“The US economy is on the precipice of collapse, and yet he keeps on telling Americans that the economy is booming and the prices will soon start coming down,” the letter said.

The message comes as Iran faces mounting economic pressure of its own, with the rial falling Tuesday to a record low of more than 2.5 million to the U.S. dollar

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

178 Talarico is NOT going to win Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:07 AM (QwZKw)

There is iron in the words of Ben Had for all Texans to see.

Posted by: Ten Bears at September 30, 2026 08:44 AM (wVcYX)

179 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

180 The GOP had two years to make an ad about their vision for America. It's called a "legislative record."

They didn't make it because their vision for America is "stall and stonewall until Trump is gone and we can get back to Uniparty business as usual."

Their bad outlook in these elections is nobody's fault but their own.

However it turns out, the Trump voters who don't show up for them are not complacent, or lazy, or any of the other nasty names the GOP faithful call them.

They're obviously highly motivated. They elected Trump three times, in the face of stiffer opposition than any President including Abraham Lincoln has ever seen.

They're just not motivated by the GOP. And that is 100% their fault. If you don't like it, talk to your suckass Party about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

181 Huck Follywood

Thanks.
This is not the first instance of Instant Jihad among pilots of passenger planes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

182 >>Ive often wondered if Broadway Joe really believed his own prediction or he was just running his mouth for the attention. Either way, it came out golden for him

Being an unrepentant lifelong Jets fan, I've seen Namath give a couple interviews on the topic. Obviously, he thought the Jets had a chance, they were a damn good team that year. But he said he got so tired of having reporters ask him if the Jets had any chance against the mighty Colts he fired back with his legendary reply.

It's often a good idea to ignore people, particularly the media, who tell you that you are going to lose. If you don't think you are going to win go sit on the bench.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (viF8m)

183 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

When is that going to happen again?

Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

184 "How far has Erick Erickson sunk?
He's defending Talarico."

I wish that blanking blanking blank blank blank would go ahead and blank blank and blank.

Posted by: fd, curbing my tongue at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (MWfyi)

185 Boortz - "Somebody had to say it"

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:47 AM (MWfyi)

186 150 Today Is National Chewing Gum Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I remember doing a small drywall job at the American Chicle Plant in Long Island City, Queens in 74-75 era. The whole neighborhood had a sweet gum smell and the floors and even the sidewalks outside had a fine coating of sugary dust. I was wondering if this was safe. On November 22, 1976, there was a massive dust explosion, fire, and dozens of workers were burned, injured. Lawsuits, etc. Six story plant permanently closed in 1981. That's my chewing gum story.

Posted by: Chewing The Scenery at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (Fn+3X)

187 The media have harped on gas and diesel prices. They will remain silent as prices ease.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 30, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

When is that going to happen again?

Cuz, my F250 just sits there......unable to move......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

*wistfully eyes F950 Earthfucker*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

188 Joe Namath's brother was my mother's insurance guy for decades. Nice guy

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (yOEUM)

189 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders proves she inherited the tone-deaf pretentious sanctimony of her father.
Released an ad attacking welfare scammers and leaches.

Her example?

White, young, gamer men.

So she joins not just the liberal dog pile on men, she betrays how deep she has internalized the Boomer traits, the pathalogical and destructive refusal to speak the truth about minorities--better to lie and pretend than risk being called a racist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

190 Best thing about Erick Erickson?
I can ignore him.

Posted by: Person who ignores Erick Erickson at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

191 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

192 Person who ignores Erick Erickson

Who?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

193 And Sarah Huckabee Sanders proves she inherited the tone-deaf pretentious sanctimony of her father.
Released an ad attacking welfare scammers and leaches.

Her example?

White, young, gamer men.

So she joins not just the liberal dog pile on men, she betrays how deep she has internalized the Boomer traits, the pathalogical and destructive refusal to speak the truth about minorities--better to lie and pretend than risk being called a racist.+-

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 30, 2026 08:48 AM (3cUTc)

Is she wrong?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 30, 2026 08:50 AM (ccf/V)

194 Sponge, No she is not wrong.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (QwZKw)

195 Dow futures jump 200 points after data shows a big inflation slowdown last month
========================
How'd those words taste coming out, CNBC?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (ALmBW)

196 Am I the only one who has never read anything by Erick Erickson?

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Oy/m2)

197 If she simply went by the name "Sarah Sanders" wouldn't she just be a soccer mom in suburban Fort Smith?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 30, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

Daily Tech News 30 September 2026

Top Story

Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed. The number now looks to be closer to twice that. (WCCFTech)

The only way to win is to own the stadium.
Anthropic also listed its own IPO. (Tom's Hardware)

Seeking a valuation of $2 trillion and warning that not only will it not give humanity a home in the stars, it will very likely wipe us all out right here on Earth.

Uh...

Tech News

Bought two new PCs. Finally found what I've been looking for - a barebones 13900HX mini-PC that takes DDR4 SODIMMs.

For most people who don't have 256GB of DDR4-SODIMMs just sitting around that's not particularly useful, even at the discounted price of $400. But for me, when I do have 256GB of DDR4-SODIMMs, including 64GB in a dead laptop and 64GB in a dying one, it's exactly what I needed. It's two to three times faster than the old laptops - when they work at all, and nearly 50% faster on multi-threaded work that the mini-PCs I bought last year.

Do I need them? No. Do I want them? Yes. They let me keep on trucking with parts pulled from laptops I bought in 2021.

Minisforum M1-1390 for anyone interested though the US store is currently out of stock of the barebones model. It's a big little PC - 8" square, the size of the old Mac Mini before it shrank in the wash.
We're going to make our own Microsoft! With blackjack, and hookers, and Linux! In fact, forget the blackjack. (Tom's Hardware)

The Netherlands, irked that the aptly named International Criminal Court was sanctioned by the US and can no longer use American internet-based software and services, has decided to adopt Linux rather than stop being international criminals.
AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs are here, ranging in price up to $15,000. (Tom's Hardware)

Though that gives you a 256-core CPU with a gigabyte of cache running at 4.1GHz, which is not too shabby. Entry level models start at just $700.
You can't have one. (WCCFTech)

Not because they're too expensive, but because they've already sold out all production for the entirety of 2027 and are taking orders for 2028.
French company Mistral AI says that OpenAI and Anthropic are doing a publicity tour on "AI safety" to cover up the fact that they are retarded. (CNBC)

Well, yes.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Goo feesh!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

2 G'day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 30, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

4 I like these Australian videos, Icehouse is vaguely familiar

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

5 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 30, 2026 04:46 AM (sAmhv)

7 Slow night

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:52 AM (rdVOm)

8 JQ maybe if you weren't up every other hour

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

9 >>>a dead laptop and ... a dying one

Sad!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:55 AM (odBC9)

10 ?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:56 AM (rdVOm)

11 Slept for 4 hours, leg and foot cramps woke me up. May try to go back to sleep when I get tired again...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:57 AM (l3cgK)

12 Skip-- ???

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:58 AM (rdVOm)

13 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at September 30, 2026 04:59 AM (Ea86P)

14 Hearing that owl again, its out front this time

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

15 14 Hearing that owl again, its out front this time

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

Watch out if it happens for six nights in a row...

Also, don't follow a woman stubborn enough to chase after a stupid pony in a blizzard.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)

16 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 30, 2026 05:04 AM (Hbeqj)

17 Minisforum M1-1390 for anyone interested though the US store is currently out of stock of the barebones model. It's a big little PC - 8" square, the size of the old Mac Mini before it shrank in the wash.

I don't get to use it too often these days but my 14900K laptop is a beast at video encoding. Runs as hot as an oven but it can do some multi-threaded processing with the quickness. Beats my desktop 5900X with ease.

The cooling system in the M1-1390 looks like it can handle it the heat. It will need it for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

18 Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 05:05 AM (rdVOm)

19 WVY10’s lead is about a 4 y/o who died from flu.

Posted by: Accomack at September 30, 2026 05:06 AM (GbONR)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)

21 I am sure its a Great Horned Owl, owl species all have different calls

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:12 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Its across the street

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

23 Had my trial spinal cord stimulator attached yesterday. They said my back would be sore for a couple of days. Ha. That was an understatement.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)

24 23 Had my trial spinal cord stimulator attached yesterday. They said my back would be sore for a couple of days. Ha. That was an understatement.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)

Hope things get better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

25 @18/JQ: "Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?"

Not that I can recollect, but I might have missed him posting.

@Pixy: Can you search the comments and find his last posting date/time? I used to use Google for that but it's become useless in its search results.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

26 French company Mistral AI says that OpenAI and Anthropic are doing a publicity tour on "AI safety" to cover up the fact that they are retarded. (CNBC)

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“When you give them a lot of tools, those systems [AI agents] are very dynamic, so they can go and do things that you do not expect,” Mensch told CNBC.

“You need to have the right monitoring in place, and the enterprises we work with, we give them those kind of monitoring systems,” he said.

That's nice and all but OpenAI and Anthropic have been having problems with unreleased models in testing, which they then never release or release after re-training to alignment.

Mensch is simultaneously selling people that American AI is unsafe and monitored while also selling Mistral as safe with monitoring.

Which works as long as nobody knows the kind of crazy shit Mistral's models have done in their free time, which Mensch has no plans of revealing to anybody but French and EU regulators who have agreed to also keep their mouths shut.

While our guys are retards, at least they are being somewhat transparent about their retardedness while the EU and China are going the 'stay silent rather than remove all doubt' route.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 05:28 AM (6ydKt)

27 Hope things get better.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They will. Thanks.

Posted by: Tuna at September 30, 2026 05:28 AM (lJ0H4)

28 I wish the IT news wasn't all about how AI continues to gobble everything up and how we all can't have nice things for years to come.

I miss buying computing hardware as something fun to experiment with.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

29 mistral is like that french guy developing the wheel to compete with write bros airplane. telling everyone they are just about equal.

Posted by: juicer at September 30, 2026 05:33 AM (zFP9G)

30 mornin yall

"An unidentified toddler pulled out a loaded handgun at Children's World Early Learing Center in Canton Township, Michigan on Monday morning."

Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

31 Way early, forgot
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 05:50 AM (FpUQF)

32 30 mornin yall

"An unidentified toddler pulled out a loaded handgun at Children's World Early Learing Center in Canton Township, Michigan on Monday morning."

Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

Is he a 17-year-old toddler?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:52 AM (l3cgK)

33 Most real guns have some weight to them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 05:53 AM (l3cgK)

34
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of - except Diana, who refuses to get off the bed - coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian.

Her Majesty is home and actually will be here until Saturday, when she goes to Omaha to judge at a show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:55 AM (eRlcH)

35
Unidentified? Billy the Kahlill? Baby Face Nadir?
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:48 AM (MWfyi)

His first words were, "I keeeel you!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 05:55 AM (eRlcH)

36 >>Anyone hear from Irongrandpa lately?

Been asking that for a few months now. Think his last post here was in December.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 05:58 AM (NcvvS)

37 Oh sure, I believe this story. It could happen to anyone:

A Chicago man has been arrested after police say he allegedly pulled a gun trigger instead of a drill and shot a toddler.

"As [Washington] walked toward the couch, [he] attempted to rev the drill in order to determine if it was too loud for the sleeping baby,' the prosecution said.

'Rather than pulling the trigger on the drill in his right hand, [Washington] pulled the trigger of the firearm in his left hand.'"

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 05:58 AM (MWfyi)

38 I have not seen IGP in a while. Maybe he did the smart thing and moved to the far side of the swamp.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:00 AM (MWfyi)

39 Oh, Mornin', Horde. 50 degrees, going up to 86, in Kentuckiana. Looks like today & tomorrow are going to be the last days over 80 for the year.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:01 AM (NcvvS)

40 >>Maybe he did the smart thing and moved to the far side of the swamp.

Thought he is somewhere in the Adirondacks?

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:03 AM (NcvvS)

41 Just an expression. "The far side of the swamp" being somewhere in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, Internet, or people.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:07 AM (MWfyi)

42 >>Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:07 AM (MWfyi)

Ah. Thank you.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 30, 2026 06:10 AM (NcvvS)

43 Evening and morning, satellites, satraps, and vassals of the vast AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Woden's Day, the last of September and the end of the month as well. If you don't have quick-set date function watches, be sure to set them ahead to read "31" this evening so they will pop up as "1" tomorrow.

"What's a watch? I got time and date on my phone."

"Okay, be like that."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)

44 Here's another reason I will never fly again:

An Israel-bound passenger plane pilot was reportedly stabbed several times by the jet’s co-pilot in the cockpit — and the terrifying scenes caused the aircraft to plunge almost 20,000 feet in minutes, sparking fears of a “terrorist attack in mid-air.”

The jet, which departed Dubai for Tel Aviv just before 7 a.m., was cruising at around 34,000 feet before violence broke out in the cockpit around two-and-a-half hours into the flight, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

The co-pilot tried to take control of the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which was carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, and attacked the pilot several times.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:11 AM (MWfyi)

45 The co-pilot tried to take control of the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which was carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, and attacked the pilot several times.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026

***
Just a guess, but . . . DEI co-pilot? Adherent of The Religion of Pieces?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

46 A lot of Icehouse on here as of late.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (XUHiS)

47 Israelis fly to/from Dubai?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (l3cgK)

48 We're due for rain for the next seven days, some of it heavy. 77 again today, which yesterday morning at this time felt almost tolerable. Looks like I need to visit the big suburban library tomorrow when I'm out there for my haircut and stock up on some books and DVDs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

49 We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

50 5 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

That was my first thought when I first heard of them when I was 12.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:19 AM (XUHiS)

51 49 We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

Take some from Amarillo. And NM.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 06:20 AM (XUHiS)

52 Dentist brings in his pup to help patients with dental anxiety. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ajv87re

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:20 AM (JrHfD)

53 "Israelis fly to/from Dubai?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

You've never heard that song?

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high
Jews, fly, over the rainbow
Why would they go to Dubai?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (MWfyi)

54 Israelis fly to/from Dubai?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:15 AM (l3cgK)
-

Popular destination.

And... belated BOING from our sukkah!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (LJCmn)

55
"Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:40 AM (rdVOm)

Here in South Texas, "icehouse" means a species of tavern with an open front. Sadly disappearing, but one of the more charming aspects of the area, a symbol of a slower and more convivial time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:22 AM (eRlcH)

56 >>>the aptly named International Criminal Court

heh

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)

57
We need some rain. The lack of hurricanes has the creek as low as I have seen it. It needs a good flood and flush.
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

Droughts are ended by floods and vice versa.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:23 AM (eRlcH)

58 "Icehouse" is the name they use for a convenience store in Southern States, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026

***
Our famous TV horror host of the '60s and into the '80s, "Morgus the Magnificent," was said to have his laboratory 'above the old city icehouse." I'm not sure where that was supposed to be, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

59 Icehouse beer goes for $11 a 12 pack of bottles at Kroger. It's not bad.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:25 AM (MWfyi)

60 Terrorist pilot from Oman.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (1CdX1)

61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

I don't know how they came up with that number. Could it be expressed in giraffes?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

62 Speaking of miniforum, I just picked up an ms-01 i9 unit and maxed it out with memory and nvme and an rtx a2000e 16gb from ebay.

It's now part of my 3 agent setup that includes an apple m4 max with 64GB of ram and an i7 with an rtx a2000 6GB

It's primarily for working with sensitive client files and research.

It's all working pretty nicely.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (XV/Pl)

63 The furry thugs are doing well. Little Dagny was on the bed when I woke, but as soon as I turned on the light, jumped down and trotted off, as if unwilling to be caught doing something that could be called "affectionate."

Stirling is flying around like crazy. He can't be doing it to work up an appetite for breakfast; I know he already has one like a feline lumberjack. He's been on his diet for a while now. I should bring him round to the vet and ask them to weigh him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

64 Time I changed, stretched, and worked out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 30, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

65 Rabbi's daughter from the International Fellowship reflects on Leviticus 23:40 "Rejoice before the Lord." and Sukkot :

https://tinyurl.com/597ptndz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:31 AM (JrHfD)

66 54 belated BOING from our sukkah!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:21 AM (LJCmn)

succah (also sukkah)

a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)

67 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

I don't know how they came up with that number. Could it be expressed in giraffes?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

That's around 260 Billion Butts...a real buttload.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)

68 a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
-

1. Can be built in the middle of nowhere.

2. The Hebrew word Sukkah is from the Torah, which dates back a bit more than the 17th century.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (1CdX1)

69 Yesterday I went for a walk at the local Senior Center. There were all kinds of flowers there and a beautiful monarch butterfly resting on a purple flower, the name of which I didn't know. Then I took a walk through paths in the fields flanked by lots of Golden Rod which look really lovely in masses. I find it's good for me to take a break from news and go out in nature.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 30, 2026 06:37 AM (JrHfD)

70
"Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

Data centers rejoice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:42 AM (eRlcH)

71 "Rabbi's daughter" sounds like the beginning of a promising dirty joke, but no...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (1utmP)

72 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

According to that Yahoo article, that's Hurricane Polo.

The NOAA is less concerned.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (odBC9)

73 70
"Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"

Data centers rejoice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:42 AM (eRlcH)

Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

74 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
----
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

75 68 a temporary shelter covered in natural materials, built near a synagogue or house and used especially for meals during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

mid 17th century: from Hebrew sukkāh ‘hut’.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:32 AM (odBC9)
-

1. Can be built in the middle of nowhere.

2. The Hebrew word Sukkah is from the Torah, which dates back a bit more than the 17th century.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 30, 2026 06:36 AM (1CdX1)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)

76 74 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
----
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

Is that like a patty melt with fish?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:45 AM (l3cgK)

77 WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)
============================
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Biden, Official Depends Endorser at September 30, 2026 06:48 AM (1utmP)

78 NOAA

1005 UTC Wed Sep 30 2026
Remnants of Polo
...POLO DISSIPATES OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO...

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:48 AM (odBC9)

79
Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)

80 >>>Disclaimer: Goo feesh!

Like, when you walk around in the fish market part of a farmers' market, that's what you get on your shoes.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:51 AM (odBC9)

81 It's relatively safe in California.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:52 AM (MWfyi)

82 79
Until the power goes out and their backup generators can't get the fuel in the PDRK (People's Democrat Republic of Kalifornia)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)

A commie paradise is Hell on Earth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:52 AM (l3cgK)

83 Your oleaginous governor says CA is a paradise. Any difficulties are the result of hoarders, kulaks, wreckers, foreign spies and counterrevolutionary elements.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 06:49 AM (eRlcH)
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I don't have an alibi!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:53 AM (FZ29D)

84 And here I thought it was about all the water that's coming to Kali from the El Niño...and this one's supposed to be a pretty strong one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (l3cgK)

85 I sure was glad to hear that Jack Smith is non partisan.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)

86 72 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

that Yahoo article

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (odBC9)

"Yahoo": talk about "aptly named."

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)

87 85 I sure was glad to hear that Jack Smith is non partisan.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:54 AM (MWfyi)

Just like Judge Boasberg!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (l3cgK)

88 My wife is an Apple user in her business, and is shopping for a replacement to her current machine. Prices have increased pretty substantially, unsurprisingly. Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (1utmP)

89 WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DELTA SMELT!!!???
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

I've smelt that delta plenty of times in the olden days. We could actually boat from the old place to SF bay. Never did, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 06:56 AM (1Ff7Z)

90 "Just like Judge Boasberg!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Dedicated public servants.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:57 AM (MWfyi)

91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

92 @88/Huck Follywood: "Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?"

Actual sales with value for the customer? No, but it will bring some "sales".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (O7YUW)

93

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 30, 2026 07:00 AM (dZdRk)

94 91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

NHC--National Hurricane Center

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:01 AM (l3cgK)

95 Wow, the Rod Roddenberry vs Riach and Rivas is not over an early studio model of the starship Enterprise that vanished during the filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Riach and Rivas are arguing they are the legal owners of the model since they bought it as part of a storage unit lot and Rod has not clearly established his father's ownership.

Leonard Nimoy voiceover - "And the legal battle continues."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

96 59 Icehouse beer goes for $11 a 12 pack of bottles at Kroger. It's not bad.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:25 AM (MWfyi)

5.5% alcohol in Icehouse.
Used to buy a six pack of it instead of ~4% beer just to speed up the process.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

97 Here

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (ZxPkt)

98 61 "Monster hurricane barrels toward US with ‘34 trillion gallons of rainfall’ — and what it means for California"
Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 06:28 AM (MWfyi)

(Yahoo)

https://archive.is/pbUFU

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)

99 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 30, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

I thought he already had possession of it. I don't see how a model built for the tv show isn't the property of the studio. Defunct, sure, but whoever bought it should have the rights to it. Or the shop that made it unless Gene bought it after the show ended.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 30, 2026 07:04 AM (1Ff7Z)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

101 94 91
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

NOAA = NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 06:58 AM (odBC9)

NHC--National Hurricane Center
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 07:01 AM (l3cgK)

Yep.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:08 AM (odBC9)

102 a Florida freshman girl was briefly pictured on ESPN at the Florida Mississippi football game on Saturday, was quickly identified by the internet (using facial recognition?), and is now semi-famous. To me, this seems dangerous, but then I'm a father and the last thing I'd want for my 18 year old daughter is to suddenly be thrust into the public light.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 07:09 AM (+HKyl)

103 My theory is at a certain age people get prices stuck in their mind that things “should” cost a certain amount. When I see a 12 pack of beer costs 12 bucks it makes me a bit hesitant to buy it, just because.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (q3N/z)

104 I worked in a Camelot Music store in my local mall after high school. Once a day you were allowed to play an album on the store stereo sysrem that wasn't in the Top 10 list. This Icehouse album was one I picked to play. Great band.

Posted by: Biergood at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (PwgSL)

105 103 My theory is at a certain age people get prices stuck in their mind that things “should” cost a certain amount. When I see a 12 pack of beer costs 12 bucks it makes me a bit hesitant to buy it, just because.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2026 07:11 AM (q3N/z)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

106 How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about being proud
How about I need a friend, I need a friend
How can people be so heartless...

Posted by: Three Dog DooDoo Hippie Garbage at September 30, 2026 07:15 AM (w+jhU)

107 J.J. Sefton. Runway 04.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 30, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

108 88 My wife is an Apple user in her business, and is shopping for a replacement to her current machine. Prices have increased pretty substantially, unsurprisingly. Will the Christmas season will bring some sales?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 06:55 AM (1utmP)

You might be able to find some decent deals on Apple laptops or Mac minis on Amazon, especially around Black Friday after Thanksgiving into the next week.

The processors might be older, M2s, M3s or M4s instead of the current M5s and M6s but she probably wouldn't notice any difference.

Apple rarely does sales on their own site/shops, but their partners like Best Buy and Walmart will put them on sale along with Amazon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

109 Today I'm going to a 2 monitor setup because I want to watch 2 football games at the same time and I don't know how to do it so I'm going to have Copilot walk me through it so we'll see what happens.

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)

110 A friend recently mentioned the book "After the Applause Stops" and it kind of mirrors some of that video.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (odBC9)

111 figures
I just posted as the thread dies

Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (ZxPkt)

112 111 figures
I just posted as the thread dies
Posted by: Don Black at September 30, 2026 07:19 AM (ZxPkt)

Not last, tho.

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)

113 Good Morning Pixel friends,

I am going to the Black Tower{its real name} this AM to get irradiated in my left kidney around 8:00. The dawn sky is beautiful.

I have not seen IGP in months.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 30, 2026 07:27 AM (Q/FnY)

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 29, 2026

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT has arrived. On time, as always. Open thread, as always. Ready to be whelmed?

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I support this kind of torture!

🚨 #BREAKING: American man "kidnaps" Flock camera, subjecting it against its will to 23,040 license plates per second.pic.twitter.com/kYCJAD7CNv
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 29, 2026

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I agree with this in principle - but if Newsom thinks it's a good idea, I'm immediately skeptical

Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

California is taking action against the sale of “ghost tickets.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed Assembly Bill 1349, bipartisan legislation that targets the live-event ticket resale market. “Ghost tickets,” also known as speculative tickets, are concert and sports tickets that resellers list before they actually have them. The new law bars sellers from advertising, listing or selling tickets they don’t possess or have the legal right to receive, unless the event’s presenter or venue allows it. It’s intended to address persistent complaints from consumers about the practice.
“Buying a ticket shouldn’t come with hidden risks or unfair practices,” Newsom said on X.
The law prohibits using software to get around ticket limits, queue and presale restrictions. It restricts websites and ads designed to make resellers look like authorized ticket sources. Sellers in violation could face misdemeanor charges and penalties.
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“While there may be good reasons for exempting certain sellers from the bill’s provisions, such a carve-out deserves further discussion,” Newsom wrote.
Newsom didn’t say which sellers he meant. His concerns allude to amendments made in the final days of the legislative session. Critics say those changes in effect exempt StubHub, one of the biggest ticket resale platforms, from the new rules.

Ask the question "what the worst way this can be abused?" The logical answer likely means money in the hands of Newsom and other nefarious politicians.

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I read this multiple times and I'm still not fully understanding it!

A 24-foot tunnel borer chewed 2.7 miles under Lake Mead against water pressure of up to 218 psi, with a car tire carrying 33, to plant a drinking straw near the lake bottom, and the lake just hit its lowest level since Hoover Dam first filled it

Lake Mead hit another record low this month, which barely counts as news anymore. The lake has spent most of 2026 sliding past the marks set during the 2022 water crisis, and by September 22 it was down to 1,038.14 feet above sea level, the lowest it’s been since Hoover Dam first filled it in the 1930s.
So here’s the question I keep coming back to: Las Vegas pulls 90 percent of its water from that shrinking lake, so why does a metro area of more than two million people still have water coming out of every tap, fountain and misting system in town? A big part of the answer is a machine that finished its job over a decade ago, working under more water pressure than any tunnel boring machine had handled before, at least according to the company that built it.
Back in 2008, the Southern Nevada Water Authority started building a third drinking water intake for Lake Mead. The two existing straws sit at 1,050 and 1,000 feet above sea level, and the lake kept dropping toward both, so the new one had to pull from near the bottom. Getting a pipe down there meant boring a tunnel underneath the lake itself, through ground soaked with the lake’s own water.
The job went to Vegas Tunnel Constructors, a joint venture of S.A. Healy out of Chicago and Salini Impregilo out of Milan, and to a machine Herrenknecht built specifically for it: the S-502, a tunnel borer the water authority describes as 24 feet in diameter. It went into the ground in late 2011 through a 590-foot launch shaft at the lakeshore, roughly the height of a 50-story building, straight down. From the bottom of that hole it chewed 2.7 miles through rock toward one precise spot on the lake bed, and on December 10, 2014, it broke through.
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At the far end, the bore had to dock with an intake structure resting on the bottom of the lake. Crews blasted a shaft out of the lake bed with shaped charges, lowered a concrete-and-steel intake of more than 1,300 short tons (1,200 metric tons) into it, and anchored the whole thing with more than 1,000 truckloads of concrete, per the water authority.
Then the machine had to hit that target after 2.7 miles underground, which is arguably the harder trick. Breaking through into a lakebed with the water still sitting on top is its own special category of nervous; a much smaller machine pulled a similar stunt under a California reservoir this year, and that one only had 347 feet to cover.
Water started moving through Intake No. 3 to the valley’s treatment plants in September 2015. The whole design goal was elevation: the new straw keeps drawing with the lake below 1,000 feet, a line the older intakes were never built to survive.

Long article, which I find fascinating. Maybe too nerdy for you??

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On the subject of bodies of water -- ever wonder which US river is the oldest?

The Oldest River In The United States

The oldest river in the United States has, hands down, the most ironic name in all of American geography: the New River. Far from new, it is thought to be one of the oldest rivers on the entire planet, older than the dinosaurs, and older even than the ancient mountains it slices straight through. It is a river that was already flowing before almost everything around it existed. Here is the strange and wonderful story of America's most misleadingly named waterway.
The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile. It rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, near Blowing Rock, then runs north through Virginia and into West Virginia, covering roughly 320 miles before merging with other waters to become the Kanawha. For a river saddled with such a forgettable, generic name, it has a genuinely staggering pedigree.

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Speaking of old

Rod Stewart retiring from touring after more than 6 decades

Rod Stewart has announced he will be retiring from touring after more than six decades.
The legendary singer-songwriter, 81, announced The Final Encore Tour Monday morning, just weeks after canceling portions of his U.S. "One Last Time" farewell tour following a coronary stent procedure.
“Ladies and gentlemen, after much deliberation and sadness, I have to announce next year will be my last tour ever, ever, ever. I’m not retiring, but this will be the last rock and roll tour,” Stewart said in a social media post.
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Stewart rose to prominence in the late 1960s with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces.
His solo breakthrough came with the 1971 album “Every Picture Tells a Story,” featuring “Maggie May.”
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He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: as a solo artist in 1994 and as a member of the Faces in 2012.

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Apologies to Ace if he already covered this on a Cafe thread

Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

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DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition

Born on this date in 1963 - American musician, singer, songwriter, Les Claypool best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of Primus.

You wanted this one, didn't you?

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On this date in 1976 - Rush released their first live album All The World's A Stage

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On this date in 1979 - The Police had their first UK No.1 single with 'Message In A Bottle' the group's third Top 20 hit. The song was released as the first single from Reggatta de Blanc

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by non-cryptic car codes

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Doof Enterprises, LLC is excited about opening night of the 2026-2027 NHL season tonight. If you're not, we feel sorry for you!

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Posted by: Doof at 09:48 PM

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1 This ONT is wa-a-a-y too early.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:50 PM (DK5Sh)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:52 PM (DK5Sh)

3 Hello? Anyone?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:53 PM (DK5Sh)

4 Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

And here I hoped it was about banning Cameras from issuing tickets to drivers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:53 PM (l3cgK)

5
Hello

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (/QHx4)

6 Cue Radar Love

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (wpRMV)

7 Girls drool

Posted by: clem Kadiddlehopper at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (7o6zd)

8 Not first, apparently.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (giy4v)

9 hEADphones: someone recommended headphones a few years ago and I lost it. What bluetooth headphones do you guys reccomend?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 09:54 PM (nEUC6)

10 FUN FACT: Other than Hot Women who think he's sexy, Rod Stewart's current passion is model railroading.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:55 PM (wpRMV)

11 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.

Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS...
Repeat 30 more times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

12 Top pic:

Fresh asphalt, newly striped. The road beckons.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

13 FUN FACT: Other than Hot Women who think he's sexy, Rod Stewart's current passion is model railroading.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 09:55 PM (wpRMV)
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It's a longstanding hobby of his. I ran into a video about it, and he's been featured many times over the years.

It's a dying hobby, because so few people today interact with railroads.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (ZOv7s)

14 Every Picture and Maggie May are so well written.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (4HoLg)

15 Caught you!

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (kU0PQ)

16 The oldest river in the United States has, hands down, the most ironic name in all of American geography: the New River.

There are several rivers with that name...one that starts in Me-Hi-Co and ends up in the Salton Sea is around 1907 after the Colorado River was finally diverted back to it's banks. It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (l3cgK)

17 Early indeed, but the prior thread was getting bogged down in college sportsball discussions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (C6xWR)

18 IN around 1907...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:58 PM (l3cgK)

19 Top pic is part of a series, starting with this morning's artwork, no? yes? road trip?

halloo and salud alla y'all. Monday is almost over. Phew.

Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

20 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

21 That road in the top pic looks like it might be on the Snake River Plain in Idaho.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (C6xWR)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (sAmhv)

23 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

24 That road in the top pic looks like it might be on the Snake River Plain in Idaho.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (C6xWR)

I thought so too.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)

25
The women who are hot for Rod Stewart are hot for his money and fame.

He creeps me out.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (/QHx4)

26 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

27 Love the Radar Love shout out. My favorite driving song, when played at appropriately high volume.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (e0auD)

28 Good evening!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jCKWs)

29 Listening to Poco tonight, remembering these great songs from the ancient past

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (e0auD)

30 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

Among my favorites.

There's a recent Neil Peart documentary that aired on Canadian TV. Several drummers performed various Rush songs with Geddy and Alex. Copeland joined them for New World Man. He looked like he might pass out!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (QMAsf)

31 the water authority describes as 24 feet in diameter

I think that microwave in the background says otherwise.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (kU0PQ)

32 Monday is almost over. Phew.

So is Tuesday.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (F3Dlr)

33 25
The women who are hot for Rod Stewart are hot for his money and fame.

He creeps me out.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (/QHx4)

Rod is 81, his ex Rachel Hunter is 57...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (l3cgK)

34 Love the Radar Love shout out. My favorite driving song, when played at appropriately high volume.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (e0auD)

I am more of a Sepultura; Chaos A.D. guy. Love to play that while driving the open road.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

35 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

NERD!!!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

36 The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile.

So it follows the New Bridge rule!

If your town has one bridge over the river, it doesn't need a name. It's just the bridge.

When you build another, they're "The Old Bridge" and "The New Bridge."

When you build a third, and a fourth, etc., you probably name them. "The Dental Bridge," "The Wheatstone Bridge." And maybe eventually you give a name to the first two bridges.

But the locals still call the second-oldest bridge in town "The New Bridge."

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

37 and Rachel Hunter doesn't look bad for her age either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (l3cgK)

38 Doof, I thought the Lake Meade article was interesting.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (y171U)

Now some poor bastard is going to go swimming in Lake Mead, and drown when his toe gets sucked into the water intake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (C6xWR)

39 Good evening morons y gracias Disco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

Howdy SF!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

40 36 The New River is widely considered the oldest river in North America, and it is frequently called the second-oldest river in the entire world, trailing only the Nile.

So it follows the New Bridge rule!

If your town has one bridge over the river, it doesn't need a name. It's just the bridge.

When you build another, they're "The Old Bridge" and "The New Bridge."

When you build a third, and a fourth, etc., you probably name them. "The Dental Bridge," "The Wheatstone Bridge." And maybe eventually you give a name to the first two bridges.

But the locals still call the second-oldest bridge in town "The New Bridge."

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

Keep repairing and rebuilding them and you have the Bridge of Theseus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

41
Doofing, with the Doof!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (eRlcH)

42 It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

We're fish. Where else should we live?

Posted by: The Fish at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (Riz8t)

43 Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

At least he didn't eat pastries and leaves.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (kU0PQ)

44 Good evening!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jCKWs)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (QMAsf)

45 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

46 42 It's one of the dirtiest (if not THE dirtiest) rivers in the United States...radiological, chemical, biological waste...it's got it all. And fish STILL live in the river.

We're fish. Where else should we live?

Posted by: The Fish at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (Riz8t)

NOT in that river...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (l3cgK)

47
9 hEADphones: someone recommended headphones a few years ago and I lost it. What bluetooth headphones do you guys reccomend?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Wired. Wired only. This goes up and ranks with vinyl versus cassette, cd versus mp3.

Clarity of sound in a good headset, high quality connection cable and socket, plugged into a reel-to-reel setup with a vacuumed tube amplifier....

Get off my lawn.

But first listen to some 1968 era Credence. On a reel to reel tape system described as above.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

48 Doofing, with the Doof!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:04 PM (eRlcH)

Greetings, H7. Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

49 45 My brother loved The Police. With the exception of a few songs from Synchronicity, I found them boring and repetitive.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

I hear it as "Rocks, Sand!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (l3cgK)

50 “Every Picture Tells a Story"
I have that album. It's good. I think I'll drag it out and play it tomorrow. I've kept my turntable and stereo component setup and I really need to use them. That album is signed by Stewart. I found it at a used record store.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (0Htd1)

51 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

52 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

53
Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

__________

Sir, it will!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

54
They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski

Brah. Ear worm warning? Not. Cool.

Need to go watch Eddie in 48 hours now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (QVmho)

55 52 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

There are meds for that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

56 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

57 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

58 54
They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski

Brah. Ear worm warning? Not. Cool.

Need to go watch Eddie in 48 hours now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (QVmho)

Might I suggest "Baby Shark"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

59 Good evening, Horde!

Today's screening call didn't go so good - because the client is looking for a unicorn, apparently.

However, I have an initial interview tomorrow, an initial interview thursday, and a 'post-screening' interview friday, three different companies. And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!

Now, time to 1) put away dry clothes, 2) read the content, then 3) catch up on comments and do my nightly rituals.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

60 Repetition is a big part of ska and reggae

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

61 56 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - water authority dino at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)

No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

He has a powerful tail...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (l3cgK)

62
Here in SW Wyoming our reservoir sends water to adjoining states. We have had a severe drought here but the water must flow to other states. I need to research the agreements.

At the end of this week our floodgates will close. About damn time.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (/QHx4)

63 Lake Mead story was… boring.
😜

Rod Stewie may quit touring, but Ringo⭐ rolls on.

youtu.be/NPLqvbNZ5z0

Posted by: mindful webworker - well she was just seventy-three, you know what I meme at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (xRCm7)

64 Will this be the year you make it to the ranch for the MoMe??
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

__________

Sir, it will!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

That's some damn good news. I look forward to meeting you!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

65 RUSH!!

Doof, did see that video of Stewart Copeland and RUSH?

youtu.be/wbVrlY-YwgY

There is a documentary online about Neil Peart. Haven't watched it yet. It's new to me. Probably been out a bit.

youtu.be/WPAJytx3juY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

66 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

67 Clarity of sound in a good headset, high quality connection cable and socket, plugged into a reel-to-reel setup with a vacuumed tube amplifier....

Get off my lawn.

But first listen to some 1968 era Credence. On a reel to reel tape system described as above.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

68 63 Lake Mead story was… boring.
😜

Rod Stewie may quit touring, but Ringo⭐ rolls on.

youtu.be/NPLqvbNZ5z0

Posted by: mindful webworker - well she was just seventy-three, you know what I meme at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (xRCm7)

It would've been more riveting if it had more steel to it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:10 PM (l3cgK)

69 Wut?

Doof came too early?

Toooooo much infoooooooo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

ONT COBs are never early nor are we ever late. This applies to everything we do.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

70 Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

I think I saw that episode of "Dr. Who"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (l3cgK)

71 Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

72

Might I suggest "Baby Shark"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Sergio Leone's good, bad, and ugly as done by the vikings. (Nedderlanders)
https://youtu.be/tpcYck-ZrVw

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QVmho)

73 71 Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

Well, he spent a good part of his career stoned...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (l3cgK)

74 My cat Allie has discovered the joys of eggnog.

Tonight I served it in a martini glass, because that's the classy sort of guy I am.

Allie is loving it, as she can easily reach the last dregs in the glass.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (FZ29D)

75 He creeps me out.
Posted by: four seasons

In 1977 i lived in Calgary, 4 of us flew to Edmonton to see Rod Stewart, we left 1/3 of the way thru the concert because he was so drunk/high he was literally falling on stage. We had to rent a car to drive home because the flight back was a wait of 4+ hours.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (F3Dlr)

76 RUSH!!

Doof, did see that video of Stewart Copeland and RUSH?

youtu.be/wbVrlY-YwgY

There is a documentary online about Neil Peart. Haven't watched it yet. It's new to me. Probably been out a bit.

youtu.be/WPAJytx3juY
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

See me at #30

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

77 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

Mebbe tell Cali and Ari first. They're the number one and two recipients of water from Lake Mead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

78 Repetition is a big part of ska and reggae
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

If you have never heard the music of old-time R&B piano player Rosco Gordon, give him a listen. The originators of ska and reggae certainly did. And said as much.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (C6xWR)

79 77 All the money in the world won't buy you more water when it all runs out. Someone should tell Vegas, except like the degenerate gambler, they figure their luck will change with the next roll of the dice.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QaH55)

Mebbe tell Cali and Ari first. They're the number one and two recipients of water from Lake Mead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

And CO doesn't get to keep any...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

80 Fresh asphalt, newly striped. The road beckons.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

It wasn't striped yet, but I once had a fun encounter with fresh asphalt.

Family reunion (my mom's side) in Copper Mountain, Colorado. My one uncle was a runner and bicyclist. So, my mom and I and he rented some bicycles and rode down the mountain to a supermarket. Getting kinda close, there was a stretch of the road with cones out and we scooted over into it to stay out of the way of cars. I was in the rear, and started seeing this stuff fly up onto my mom's back. And my uncle's. It was not-quite-ready-to-drive-upon fresh asphalt. That stuff will NOT come out of most clothes. And it doesn't like to come out of hair very easily, either. (Fortunately we were wearing helmets.)

And then we had to ride home - uphill.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (kU0PQ)

81 Good early evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ktgTW)

82 I’m not retiring, but this will be the last rock and roll tour,” Stewart said in a social media post.

I take this to mean Rod Stewart may still perform American popular standards.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (y171U)

83 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

84 81 Good early evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ktgTW)

And hopefully the rest of us too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)

85 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

One of their best flat out rock songs

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

86 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

Ummm.... /looks at calendar/

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)

87 Sad, because Stuart Copeland is a helluva great drummer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Pat Mastelotto is like that.

What's he known for? Pop schlock like Mr. Mister, and playing drums for The Rembrandts on the "Friends" theme song.

When Robert Fripp wanted a second drummer for his "double trio" lineup of King Crimson, who did he ask to play alongside Bill Freakin' Bruford? Pat Mastelotto.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

88 To get more use from their water Las Vegas recycles its water in a process known as Toilet to Tap.

The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

89 I've been on the Gauley and the New River, whitewater rafting ... it's a gas.

The most life threatening part of the experience is the trip down to and up from the river gorge. Switchbacks galore that require hanging the ass end of a school bus over the edges.

Posted by: browndog says woof at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (oCio0)

90 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

It's the Flying Dutchman of planes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (wVcYX)

91 on topic of roads to Albuquerque, "Coyote vs. Acme" is hilarious

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 10:17 PM (88C+u)

92
Rod is not aging so well. He's got a Medusa thing going on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

_________

Alana Stewart looks awfully good, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (eRlcH)

93 And CO doesn't get to keep any...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:13 PM (l3cgK)

Mexico gets first dibs by treaty. Hey, Colorado river water comes from snow in the USA. Shouldn't get any if we don't want them to.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

94 76:See me at #30
Posted by: Doof

Wait, you want ME to actually take the time and read the thread?? No, I will not!

FIGHT THE POWER!! (raises fist, walks, trips over shoes left in the middle of the floor)

Ow.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 10:18 PM (sAmhv)

95 There are meds for that...
Posted by: jim

Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:19 PM (ktgTW)

96 They've found Amelia Earhart's plane. Again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

After examining it, they declared it was still airworthy. Guess it had good bones....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

97 One of the most widespread Urban Legends is about Rod Stewart.

Raise your hand if you've heard it.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (47/pr)

98 >>>It rises high in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, near Blowing Rock

Nitpick Warning: Unless the river flows uphill, it's not rising. It starts in the mountains and then it descends to wherever the hell it goes.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (syz1S)

99
Some women are happy with anything hard penetrating them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:20 PM (/QHx4)

100 The story goes that Sting was going to keep Message In a Bottle for himself and that Miles Copeland, Stewarts brother, overheard a demo of it and said nah, we're making that song.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

101 When the evenin' sun goes down
You will find me hangin' 'round
The night life ain't no good life
But it's my life

Many people just like me
Dreamin' of old used-to-be's
And the night life ain't no good life
But it's my life

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (wljQY)

102 95 There are meds for that...
Posted by: jim

Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:19 PM (ktgTW)

Spray starch...
Joke Punchline: "The $10 is from me; the other $90 is from Grandma."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:21 PM (l3cgK)

103 Orange Ent

If they did find it, someone would try. Take the dataplates and build new around them. See, Amelia's Lockheed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

104 Yes. It's good practice to vacuum out your tube amplifiers. And radios. Otherwise dust bunnies can accumulate, which might catch fire when the audions get hot.

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (C6xWR)

Absolutely. About once a year I have guitar amp vacuuming day. I pull the chassis out of all the amps and blow them out with compressed air. Every couple months I'll pull the back grills of the amps I use and hit them with a small swiffer to get the dust off the tubes and chassis tops. Dust cooking on tubes is nasty.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (vzuC7)

105 Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho)

I wonder if my dad still has the headset he had when I was a kid, listening to his "Hootenanny" reel. That reel-to-reel machine is where I learned to splice tape. And why I knew who poor old Charlie was and that there was once a strike with Boston mass transit.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (kU0PQ)

106 Back when I was a wee lad, I heard tales of men that used popsicles sticks and duct tape for that problem. While they were not hard men, they were tough men.

Their women were tougher.
Posted by: Tonypete

If we weren't satisfied, the popsicle stick went on the inside next time.

Posted by: their women at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

107 the anti predator spray on Pepe :^x

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (88C+u)

108 Happy Doofday, everyone!

Everyone getting ready for Dinoday tomorrow?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)

109 Evening, all,

Just finished watching The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer from 1947, with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple, age 18. Hilarious farce, with one of the finest last scenes I've run across in movies. I laughed out loud and applauded.

It was written by Sidney Sheldon, of I Dream of Jeannie fame and those bestselling potboilers of the 1970s. He certainly knew how to tell a joke, and to make it work more than once in the right places.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wzUl9)

110 "It puts lead in your pencil."

But I've no one to write to!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wVcYX)

111

Berserker,

You blew them???

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (/QHx4)

112 old chick ,
An old boyfriend of mine had spent a buttload of money going to a Rolling Stones concert. They were so drunk or stoned that they gave a shitty performance. That was back in the seventies, and he didn't have a lot of money to throw away.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

113 Decades ago my father was invested in Lloyds of London. Rod Stewart was playing a concert in Houston and Lloyds had insured him. Dad wanted to investigate just what he was invested in and met him at the IAH. Rode with him to the Summit and chatted with him. Decided that he was a very interesting young man. This was in the early 80's. DanMan & I were flabbergasted to listen to his story!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 29, 2026 10:24 PM (8uzBS)

114 74 My cat Allie has discovered the joys of eggnog.

Tonight I served it in a martini glass, because that's the classy sort of guy I am.

Allie is loving it, as she can easily reach the last dregs in the glass.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:12 PM (FZ29D)

Is this non-alcoholic, or is Allie getting krunk?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (jBygX)

115 However, I have an initial interview tomorrow, an initial interview thursday, and a 'post-screening' interview friday, three different companies. And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

Prayers up, man! (You almost have "a JOBY" in your hash!)

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (kU0PQ)

116 If we weren't satisfied, the popsicle stick went on the inside next time.
Posted by: their women

Oh, the first UrOWWogists.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (ktgTW)

117 No way you can swim with those tiny arms!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

Sharks don't have any arms, at all!

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:26 PM (kU0PQ)

118 Rush-Anthem. Definitely a fav of mine.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:09 PM (vzuC7)

One of their best flat out rock songs

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

Don't I know it. I spend a fucking kings ransom on a guitar just for that sound.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:27 PM (vzuC7)

119 Is this non-alcoholic, or is Allie getting krunk?
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 10:25 PM (jBygX)
----
It's non-alcoholic, but it is made by Southern Comfort.

Good stuff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 10:28 PM (FZ29D)

120 >>>Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread

Whenever I see a clip with from some local news show, what I want to see more then anything is for someone to pie those smarmy retards reading the news with their fake smiles and good cheer. Just pie their faces.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 10:28 PM (syz1S)

121 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)

Ummm.... /looks at calendar/
Posted by: GWB

When you're retired like I am, you don't pay as much attention to which day it is. It's not like you are counting the days to the weekend.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

122 and he didn't have a lot of money to throw away.
Posted by: nerdygirl

That was us, we worked in a record store so it was a big deal for us to buy concert and plane tickets.
I've often wondered if celebrities that rob their fans ever feel guilty in their moments of sobriety.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 10:30 PM (F3Dlr)

123 @118

>>Don't I know it. I spend a fucking kings ransom on a guitar just for that sound.

If the sound ain't in your fingers, it's not going to be in the guitar or the amp.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

124
I don''t know much about music. If it has a good beat and I can dance to it I am good.

Years ago we went to an Alan Jackson concert. It was awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (/QHx4)

125 Couple rather old books on the subject of water in the west- Cadillac Desert and A River No More. And yes, everyone has a bias or an axe to grind.

Personally, I blame the Mormons. They were ingenious manipulators of water.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (QaH55)

126 Its only 10:30?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (Ia/+0)

127 The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

Dude. Every drop of water you have ever consumed has been ultimately recycled from a toilet somewhere, sometime. (That's not even counting all the fish peeing and crapping in it.) And likely every adult hand you've ever shaken has had a dick in it.

Don't think about that too long, man.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

128 The used water is filtered and purified.
Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman

I think all water is filtered and purified. A lot of our water comes from Lake Michigan, and I don't like to think about what goes on in there. Fish have to defecate somewhere.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:33 PM (0Htd1)

129
And the job I currently really want of my previous interviews is 'on hold' - I'm not out of the running yet!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 10:08 PM (aJQbY)

__________

I am having an opposite and bizarre problem. Someone contacted me asking if I wanted to be a Director of Patent Intelligence for a start-up. No idea what the job is or why they're contacting me.

I said that I was retired and unwilling to extend my professional commitments beyond what they are. But it's been like trying break up with a crazy girlfriend. They don't take "no" for an answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (eRlcH)

130 It's already 9:34???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

131 If they did find it, someone would try. Take the dataplates and build new around them. See, Amelia's Lockheed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 10:22 PM (2GVsD)

Hee hee. I meant her bones.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 127 The used water is filtered and purified.

Just don't think about it too long.
Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 10:16 PM (47/pr)

Dude. Every drop of water you have ever consumed has been ultimately recycled from a toilet somewhere, sometime. (That's not even counting all the fish peeing and crapping in it.) And likely every adult hand you've ever shaken has had a dick in it.

Don't think about that too long, man.

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

If it's from an aquifer, it's at least been filtered and held below the surface for a very, very long time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (l3cgK)

133 There's a recent Neil Peart documentary that aired on Canadian TV. Several drummers performed various Rush songs with Geddy and Alex. Copeland joined them for New World Man. He looked like he might pass out!
Posted by: Doof

There's lots of great commentary in the video, not just playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbVrlY-YwgY

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (Fv808)

134 97 One of the most widespread Urban Legends is about Rod Stewart.

Raise your hand if you've heard it.
Posted by: Minuteman
Does it involve gerbils? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Richard Gere at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

135
I said that I was retired and unwilling to extend my professional commitments beyond what they are. But it's been like trying break up with a crazy girlfriend. They don't take "no" for an answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (eRlcH)

Reminds me of the joke:
"I was out of sick and vacation days, so I called in dead."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)

136
Dust cooking on tubes is nasty.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
-----
Posted by: BifBewalski
-----
I wonder if my dad still has the headset he had when I was a kid, listening to his "Hootenanny" reel. That reel-to-reel machine is where I learned to splice tape. And why I knew who poor old Charlie was and that there was once a strike with Boston mass transit.
Posted by: GWB

My first missile battery was 100% analog, vacume tubes everywhere. And yes compressed air to clean everything out was a weekly maintenance chore.

I got introduced to the reel-to-reel tube based system by the senior warrant officer that eventually recommended me to that rank. Damned good tech for audio. Good for nuking Commie Soviets too.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 29, 2026 10:36 PM (QVmho)

137 130 It's already 9:34???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

Not in Kalifornia...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)

138 Just finished watching The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer from 1947, with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple, age 18. Hilarious farce, with one of the finest last scenes I've run across in movies. I laughed out loud and applauded.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 10:23 PM (wzUl9)

Rewatched McQ yesterday. Guess this was the Wayne version of Dirty Harry. First introduction of the Ingram MAC 10.

When you see Eddie Albert's name in the credits, you always figure he's the bad guy. Like how they fooled the viewer with Kosterman.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

139 I know the legend about Rod Stewart.

Apparently everyone should get off my lawn or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

140
8:36 here in the great state of Wyoming.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (/QHx4)

141 ****Lake Mead hit another record low this month,
----

That's what the deal between the Fed and the Ranchers in Utah was about - water. The Feds were doing Search Light, NV's homeboy Harry Reid's dirty work. It was another land deal to obtain the underground water and sell it to CA.
Hilarity ensued when a blogger organized more guns than the Fed.
'Look up on those hills boys, they're pointing at you.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:37 PM (wljQY)

142 Apparently everyone should get off my lawn or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
---

Thought it was capsules of coke up the kazoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (wljQY)

143 Four seasons

4 pitches. 2 bombs. This series is over

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (YZ0Fo)

144
Thought it was capsules of coke up the kazoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:39 PM (wljQY)

_________

I thought it had something to do with a stomach pump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)

145 Richard Gere was the gerbil. Rod was the stomach pump...

Posted by: lin-duh at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (VCgbV)

146 I thought it had something to do with a stomach pump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:40 PM (eRlcH)
======

Warmer...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

147 I've often wondered if celebrities that rob their fans ever feel guilty in their moments of sobriety.
Posted by: old chick

A long time ago Joan Jett was being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. She said that she didn't make political statements at her concerts because that isn't what her fans are buying tickets for.

Posted by: Richard Gere at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

148
BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:42 PM (/QHx4)

149 This happened when everyone in entertainment decided they were ambisexual.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

150 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:43 PM (YZ0Fo)

151 If the sound ain't in your fingers, it's not going to be in the guitar or the amp.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

Bullshit. You're not going to get an ES335 sound from a fucking les paul. You need that semi hollow thing. Its the cornerstone of lifeson's early sound. 335 on the early stuff, 355 from farewell to kings up to moving pictures. Its very distinct.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 10:44 PM (vzuC7)

152 Just saw Rush preform for the first time back on the 19th in Cleveland. If I can move like those two dudes (Alex & Geddy) when I'm as old as they are, that's a win! Amazing show, glad I finally saw them in person.

Posted by: McDirty at September 29, 2026 10:44 PM (RWXeq)

153 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!
Posted by: BruceWayne

Hope all is well out there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:45 PM (YZ0Fo)

154
BruceWayne,

Hubby went to bed. He said he could not stay awake for the game.

We love the Cubs no matter what happens. Diehard fans here.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 10:46 PM (/QHx4)

155 The job went to Vegas Tunnel Constructors, a joint venture of S.A. Healy out of Chicago and Salini Impregilo out of Milan, and to a machine Herrenknecht built ..
---

The Nevadans got the bid, hired the Italians run the job who had the Germans custom build the tool. Sounds kosher to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (wljQY)

156 @151

>>Its very distinct.

You can have his exact setup, you're not going to sound like him.

Steve Vai could play through Lifeson's setup, he's not going to sound like him either.

A guitarists sound is like a fingerprint, because, it kind of is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (XV/Pl)

157 We love the Cubs no matter what happens. Diehard fans here.

Posted by: four seasons

My tombstone will say "cubs fan". But good lord I thought wed put it up a bit more of a fight.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 10:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

158 Rod was the stomach pump...
Posted by: lin-duh

Ew. I don't wanna know about that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

159 The Nevadans got the bid, hired the Italians run the job who had the Germans custom build the tool. Sounds kosher to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:47 PM (wljQY)

I wonder if the bidding was rigged to freeze out Elon's Boring Company?

Posted by: zombie Lee Deforest at September 29, 2026 10:50 PM (C6xWR)

160 Rod Stewart is the voice behind the song Ooh La LA, isn't he? That's his best as far as I'm concerned

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 10:51 PM (GBo+u)

161
What time is it? Well, right here:

Date: 09/29/2026 Local Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00:00)
Longitude: -82.17110 UTC Offset: -05:28:41 TZ Offset: -01:28:41
DUT1: -21.70440 ms Leap Seconds: 37 s DeltaT: 69.20570 s

Universal Coordinated Time: 02:51:13 UTC
Local Standard Time (TZ) : 10:51:13 PM EDT
Local Mean Time : 09:22:32 PM LMT (UT1 base)
Local Apparent Solar Time : 09:32:26 PM LAST (UT1 base)

Julian Dates (UTC base) : 9768.61891 JD2000
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: 61313.11891 MJD

Grnwch Mean Sidereal Time: 03:26:43
Local Mean Sidereal Time: 21:58:02

Current Equation of Time: 9:54.16

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

162 Gasoline Alley is my fave Stewart song.

Posted by: From The Album Of The Same Name 1970 at September 29, 2026 10:53 PM (Fn+3X)

163 4 Newsom signs ‘ghost ticket’ ban but says its carve-outs need more work

And here I hoped it was about banning Cameras from issuing tickets to drivers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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The only reason he would ban camera's is that he found a better way to screw you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 10:53 PM (wljQY)

164 Damn. Off, tube inventor sock!

Lee Deforest invented the triode vacuum tube, which he called the "audion", and demonstrated that it could amplify. Edison, IIRC, sued him for infringement, claiming that he had patented a diode vacuum tube years earlier. Edison's "invention" was mostly an attempt to prevent the inside of light bulb glass from being blackened by vapor-deposited carbon or metal, and really had no use in the then-infant field of electronics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:56 PM (C6xWR)

165
As you can see there, DUT1 has gone negative. That little speed-up in earth's rotation that started around 2020 is over.

2026 average has been about 0.35 ms longer than 24 hours of atomic time. That ends a run of about 5 years, where the average was a smidge under 24 hours (of atomic time).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (l3cgK)

167
Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

168 167
Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK)

169 BTW, I seriously doubt that the Flock camera "saw" any license plates at all during that stunt. I doubt the scan rate for the image sensor runs anywhere near fast enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 10:59 PM (C6xWR)

170 Reuters reports on a nurse who deliberately let an illegal alien escape the hospital. He's gone, she's charged. Unfortunately, I can only find out that she'll probably just get probation, but I hope it screws up her life and she never gets another hospital job. Is that evil of me?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM (mmrXZ)

I hear North Sentinel Island needs nurses. She can do probation there.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

171 🚀 For 13 flights, Starship was intentionally kept on a suborbital path. Flight 14 changed that.

On September 28, Ship 41 reached orbit for the first time, despite an early Raptor engine shutdown. SpaceX then used another engine burn to complete orbital insertion.

At roughly 275 km above Earth, Starship deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites—its first operational payload in orbit.

The flight ended early, but the milestone was enormous.

Starship didn’t just reach space. It finally entered the orbital era.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (wljQY)

172
I was just reading about NASA returning the SR-71 to flight. They've put out calls for some of the old guys to come back and help.

A retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)

173 Evening.

I'm home. And drinking.

Fuck yes.

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:03 PM (dpXJq)

174 They're far from my favorite, but I can at least deal with everything except dododada and RAAAAAAWKKKSanne.
Posted by: mikeski
.......

I was in love with a girl named Roxanne and I hated that song.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (oq9dX)

175
Good you are home and there is no problem with drinking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

176 retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
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"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."

I've been thinking about that poem a lot the last couple of years

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (GBo+u)

177 The best thing about The Police is that they are less tiresome than U2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (C6xWR)

178 175
Good you are home and there is no problem with drinking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

Just don't do any math; don't drink and derive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)

179 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

I paid $6.99 at Chevron in Watsonville.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 11:07 PM (oq9dX)

180 Ordered a copy of Excalibur (1981). The restored version from Arrow Video.

Goddamn, there's so many nice tits. Christ, I'd slob all over them.

Anyway, I've seen this movie ONCE and it didn't leave an impression on me but everyone started talking about this restoration, TJM included, and I was like, "Fuck it, I guess I'll get me a copy!" So I got the Blu-ray.

Fuck me! So good! Looked great, but it's a problem I've noticed with high def restorations. It's like you can see the seams of a movie. The goofy looking sets and all that. It takes you out of the film a bit. Regardless, excellent movie. And some nice tits. Oooohhhh yeeeeaaaaahhhhh.....

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:07 PM (dpXJq)

181
Starship could've easily made orbit from the get-go. They're just taking an abundance of caution approach (unlike the Chicoms, who don't give a shit).

Starship is so big and massive that if something went south and they lost control of it, they'd have a big hunk of dead metal in LEO, one huge chunk of space junk. And it's big enough that large pieces would survive reentry and if it came down over a populated area, it would be a mess.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

182 Great driving song: "Diamonds on My Windshield," by Tom Waits.

Posted by: Beverly at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (reMys)

183
I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

__________

$3.64 at the Costco in Pearland, TX

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

184 Hi folks

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 11:09 PM (CHHv1)

185 183
I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

__________

$3.64 at the Costco in Pearland, TX

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (eRlcH)

Kalifornia not only sucks, it swallows.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (l3cgK)

186 And it's big enough that large pieces would survive reentry and if it came down over a populated area, it would be a mess.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

It's fine if it lands in China.

Posted by: Robert at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (dpXJq)

187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

188
The Saturn V (pbuh) remains the greatest rocket ever flown. It still holds the record for hoisting the most payload into orbit.

Starship will take that crown at some point. Soon, I hope.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

189

Hi Beckoning and Robert.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:11 PM (/QHx4)

190 At the table, seating arrangements no one looked at, Jensen Huang sat on Trump's right and Elon Musk on his left.
@nicksortor - Elon Musk and Jensen Huang give an inside look at the big meeting between top AI firms and President Trump today, saying they'll now be "grading each other's homework"

Elon Musk: "We signed a JOINT DECLARATION regarding SI safety, and I think that'll be published by the White House soon."

"We agreed to a number of things that include a joint monitoring board, special committees, and just generally grading each other's homework, which is a LOT better than if people just grade their OWN homework, for obvious reasons."

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "I thought the declaration has a LOT of teeth. I thought it was REALLY well written."

"It includes everything from rigorous internal controls, well established methods, well established processes, very clearly documented intentions of the products that you're building, internal controls to make sure that you're delivering on those intentions, internal audit that escalates, external audits from a third party,
"POTUS pulled it all together. He watched over the meeting, and was able to bring everybody out

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:11 PM (wljQY)

191 Note that Sam Altman was not there and Amodei sat third from the end.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:12 PM (wljQY)

192 Elon Musk: "We signed a JOINT DECLARATION regarding SI safety

Sports Illustrated has been unsafe for many years now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:12 PM (l3cgK)

193 For me, The Police peaked with Roxanne. I don't "hate" their stuff but everything after that has a U2\Talking Heads "we are not just pop we are ART" air that annoys me. B-52s never put that out, they always seemed like they were out for fun..

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 29, 2026 11:13 PM (3/XaG)

194 some disappointment on that earlier tweet about Comey

"@Frankd06830 4h
Grok says not true….several bots have posted this in the last hour

“As of September 29, 2026, the latest court action is a September 25 order delaying Comey’s arraignment until January 2027 to allow time for dismissal motions, with no new warrant issued.”

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 11:14 PM (vbXSk)

195 >>>Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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He's right. The commies are going to kill California and the government will take over because of strategic necessity.
Sell your stuff for CA money and pick a spot, there are many to choose from.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:14 PM (wljQY)

196 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

Get out!!!

Escape Kalifornia as soon as you are able.

Love's near me (in flyover country) was $3.54 today.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:10 PM (HlyYF)

My kids are here, my wife is buried here, I still have a living aunt and living uncle (siblings) that live here, the last ones I have. I don't expect to be around more than another decade or so at the most, so I'll probably die here and be buried with my wife.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)

197 But the weather!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (Cqx++)

198
If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (mmrXZ)

199 No hitter through 5

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 29, 2026 11:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

200 Some Mondays last longer than others.

Here's something I stumbled over on the TouYubes. An unusual Beatles cover. Imagine Liberace on the Lawrence Welk show. On acid. The brown acid.🤪

https://youtu.be/CsS1znWXbnQ

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - and I'd've never been aware but as it is I'll dream of hare tonight at September 29, 2026 11:21 PM (xRCm7)

201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

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Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

202 Not a huge fan of The Police, but Sting's version of Roxanne he did for The Secret Policeman's Other Ball is fantastic

https://tinyurl.com/2mx6b8c4

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2026 11:23 PM (aadd2)

203 Greetings Fellow Hordlings, from your "old Asia hand" Publius Redux, here in Singapore, where it remains sticky and hot, and hazy. I won't make the Texas MoMe (which I believe is in October?) as I will be back in TX in November (whole month). I am flying in the day before the elections, want to make sure I and my family all get to the polls in TX and that we all cast votes for Paxton. Can't be too sure. If anyone is around the north Houston area (Spring) at that time - let me know.

Btw - in the side bar on the landing page someone mentioned a drinking story involving Peter O'Toole and mused that someone should write a book about him and his hard drinking acting buddies. Well, someone did, the book is titled "Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed" it is WELL worth the read - highly recommend.

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (Gu66x)

204 Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Take the price of his CT scan, and everything else he needed, out of her paycheck.

Paying for his healthcare is the least she can do for a poor downtrodden uncitizened human, right?

Posted by: their women at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

205 off multiple socks.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov)

206 172
I was just reading about NASA returning the SR-71 to flight. They've put out calls for some of the old guys to come back and help.

A retired USAF engineer in his late 70s got a call from NASA about coming back to help get the thing flying again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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That's what they do best. Some of those voyagers from last century are still phoning info home. Landing that rover on Mars was pretty cool. And telescopes spying on China and Iran.
They should stick with what they do best.
A Super SR-71 will be tough to beat.

We used to fly it straight over Red Square, straight over their May Day parade. They knew it but they couldn't touch it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:25 PM (wljQY)

207 Apologies - the story was about Richard Harris - but the post still remains the same, except for that correction.

Pax Ex

Posted by: Publius Redux at September 29, 2026 11:27 PM (Gu66x)

208 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

209 My kids are here, my wife is buried here, I still have a living aunt and living uncle (siblings) that live here, the last ones I have. I don't expect to be around more than another decade or so at the most, so I'll probably die here and be buried with my wife.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:15 PM

I thought that was the case.

OTOH, if you ever need a vacation break to a free country, we got your back!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (HlyYF)

210 198
If that illegal alien ends up killing someone, she has that murder on her hands for the rest of her life, doesn't she?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

================

Well, it says he was an illegal alien, not necessarily a criminal on top of that. But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.

Meanwhile, reactions include: "Not all heroes wear capes....some wear scrubs"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:17 PM (mmrXZ)

Jawolle.

Posted by: Zombie Dr. Josef Mengele at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (l3cgK)

211 Good tidings to Singapore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:29 PM (wljQY)

212
Voyager 1 will reach the one light-day mark on Nov. 18, 10:16:07 Zulu.

That's ~16 billion miles, or ~173 AU.

Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

213 121 Monday is almost over.
Posted by: mindful webworker - press 1 for English; press 0 for robonix at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (xRCm7)
******
Thank goodness! I felt it's been a very long day and am tired.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 11:31 PM (hzuYO)

214 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for whelming all of us, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

215 Voyager 1 will reach the one light-day mark on Nov. 18, 10:16:07 Zulu.

That's ~16 billion miles, or ~173 AU.

Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

I wonder if NASA knows which one will send its last message we can receive farthest from the sun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)

216 But what an absolute brat, he was brought in there by ICE and they left him in the CT room with her, and she sneaked him out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

"We found something concerning in your scan; you should come back in for a follow-up."

Posted by: totally not an ICE agent posing as a radiologist at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (VHUov)

217
I don''t who Chad Lowe is. Apparently his 13 year old killed herself.

Heartbreaking.

Daily Mail has some of the story.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (/QHx4)

218 They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius

I'm... half cra...zy... all for... the... love... of...

Posted by: V-ger at September 29, 2026 11:34 PM (88C+u)

219 I wonder if NASA knows which one will send its last message we can receive farthest from the sun.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (qx7Zg)

Probably Voyager1...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:35 PM (l3cgK)

220 214 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for whelming all of us, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

You sound medium-whelmed, JQ.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)

221 Hi four seasons, thank you. Robert the Cat (TM) thanks you as well, at least that is how I am interpreting it. (In actual space he's a brat.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 11:37 PM (CHHv1)

222 Both will run out power sometime in the early 2030s. They've been steadily shutting down instruments according to a priority list to conserve power and keep them going as long as possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

Isn't power provided by a radioactive decay thermal battery? One that makes power at a decaying rate? Or does that unit charge normal chemical batteries, and it's the recharge rate that is falling off, making conservation necessary?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 11:38 PM (C6xWR)

223 You sound medium-whelmed, JQ.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I am absolutely medium-whelmed, jim! Tuesdays are just not very exciting, after all.

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 11:40 PM (rdVOm)

224
Beckoning,

I love your stories about Robert. Give him a belly rub for me. Oh, probably not a good idea, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 11:40 PM (/QHx4)

225
Yep, Voyager 1 will probably go dead first, based on the power reserve data.

They've gone to heroic efforts to keep them going as long as they had. They did some risky trick a few months ago with Voyager 2, which worked. They're doing something similar with Voyager 1, but that's not yet complete.

It's just mind-boggling when you think about, considering the round trip signal time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

226 >> Isn't power provided by a radioactive decay thermal battery?

RTG. Radioisotope Thermal Generator. It's basically a thermocouple in reverse, the Seebeck effect, heat from decay of Pu-238 --> electrical energy.

These are ideal for deep space missions where solar power is too weak.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

227 @BigJoeBastardi · 20m

Anyone else think tornadoes are on the table tomorrow in Texas given past performances by Norma in 1981 and Tico in 1983
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Panhandle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:46 PM (wljQY)

228 The AI folks are going to police themselves. Riiiight.
Sam Altman wasn't there.
OK, I'll believe that when they put out a hit on him.
If they don't do that, thi0 "policing" organization is just a "legal", out in the open way to violate the antitrust laws.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2026 11:47 PM (iYF/u)

229
Those units lose power output at about 4W per year.

There was a supply problem with Pu-238 for a while, but they've successfully restarted production. The current Mars rovers use RTGs. You don't have to worry about dust on the solar panels, and then night and winter problems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)

230 About 7 more hours and it will be 4am

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 11:53 PM (Ia/+0)

231
"We found something concerning in your scan; you should come back in for a follow-up."
Posted by: totally not an ICE agent posing as a radiologist

================

Heh, they ought to tell that bitch nurse that they found something concerning and let her stew about him.

Oh, and the reason he was brought in is that he injured himself trying to escape ICE -- so they TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. Gee, and here I'm assured they'd drag him off to a detention center where he'd be forced to drink out of the toilet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 11:55 PM (mmrXZ)

232
Take the price of his CT scan, and everything else he needed, out of her paycheck.

Paying for his healthcare is the least she can do for a poor downtrodden uncitizened human, right?
Posted by: their women

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Ehm, being personally affected by all this is not what I had in mind.

Posted by: Nurse No-ICE at September 29, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

233 201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

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Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

I do not understand how gas can cost more in CA than it does in AK. Except for progressive bullshit, that is. I do understand that, I suppose.

Why on earth do you put up with it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:00 AM (aeKVE)

234 I ordered and received a Purgatorian Manual from Tan Books. I know my Protestant friends here will take umbrage, but the Manual is a reprint of a 1984 book and has pages in the front to list all the dead folks I should pray for, so, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends who have passed, etc. And it has many different devotional prayers to help them move from Purgatory to Heaven.

I don't really understand the argument about not praying for deceased people, or not asking Saints in heaven to pray for us, since we are all part of the Communion of Saints, the Church Triumphant in Heaven, the Church Suffering in Purgatory, and the Church Militant on Earth. But I suppose for Protestants you either end up in heaven or hell, no mercy, no help.

At any rate, I find it a lovely item considering October is the month to pray for those who can become saints if they escape Purgatory. If my prayers can help any of them, I need to get busy. I would hope others would likewise pray for me in that situation. I can't imagine making it to heaven on the first try, after all.

YMMV.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:05 AM (aeKVE)

235 NOT 1984, 1894. Oops.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:06 AM (aeKVE)

236
I think a lot of people put up with stuff because they have family and jobs.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:09 AM (/QHx4)

237 BruceWayne,

I hope you all are doing well.

Posted by: four seasons

I was good til this game started. Yeesh!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September

Bruins beat the Rangers.
It's something.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 30, 2026 12:10 AM (sl73Y)

238 I think a lot of people put up with stuff because they have family and jobs.
Posted by: four seasons
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"Just move!" Is so very much easier said, than done.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm)

239 233 201 187 166 I tanked up my car today...$6.259 a gallon at the local Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:58 PM

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Thank Gavin for driving the last refineries out of CA.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

I do not understand how gas can cost more in CA than it does in AK. Except for progressive bullshit, that is. I do understand that, I suppose.

Why on earth do you put up with it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:00 AM (aeKVE)

Kalifornia has about the highest (if not the actual highest) tax on gasoline in the entire country.

AS to the second question, see #196

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:12 AM (l3cgK)

240 @BigJoeBastardi · 20m

Anyone else think tornadoes are on the table tomorrow in Texas given past performances by Norma in 1981 and Tico in 1983
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Panhandle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 11:46 PM (wljQY)

I was thinking of the Lubbock tornado of 1970. My family had moved away from Lubbock by then, but I had grandparents who lived through that. One grandmother was weathering it in her storm cellar. She came out fine, and her house took no damage. The other took shelter in the then First National Bank Building basement. That building took severe damage from the twister which was judged an F5 after the fact (this was before the Fujita scale was developed, that tornado was used in developing that scale). Despite the damage to the building my grandmother was safe in the building’s basement, but it was so frightening she had a heart attack during the storm. She survived the heart attack and the storm and lived many more years to tell the tale to us grandchildren (many, many times).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 30, 2026 12:14 AM (jMluN)

241 I've paddled a bit of the New River.

Bear? Yeah,one got into my garbage can last night.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

242 AS to the second question, see #196
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 12:12 AM (l3cgK)

You are correct, Sir. Family comes first, last, and always. My apologies.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:18 AM (aeKVE)

243 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.

https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 30, 2026 12:18 AM (dK+Kv)

244 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.
https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yes, it is.

Ironic, no?

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (VHUov)

245 Herodotus talks about how the Greeks on Samos dug a tunnel under a mountain over half a mile long.[0] They started from both ends and managed to meet up in the middle. I'm not sure why they did it that way.

[0] Perseus has a footnote that the tunnel is actually only 1100 feet: https://tinyurl.com/4cwbcz45 My Landmark edition has some more notes about it, but I don't have that handy right now.

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (rcENI)

246 Bear? Yeah,one got into my garbage can last night.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 30, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)

A couple more weeks and at least the brown bears will go hibernate. Then we can put out the bird feeders without inviting our bear buddies. I'd rather not deal with bears since the dogs use the yard, but it should be safe once we have had a hard freeze about three nights in a row.

At least, we hope so. Hmmm...

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:23 AM (aeKVE)

247 Maybe the 'ettes have an answer for this, but I sure don't.

What the FUCK is up with the trend of young women getting ugly plain black prison-style tattoos?

The comedian Natalie Cuomo (no relation, I think) is a good example. Cute as hell, but utterly ruined the "artwork" that looks like it was done by a lifer using a tattoo gun made from a CD player motor and a safety pin, and ink made from shoe polish.

I don't really like ANY tattoos on women, but well-done colorful ones don't make me want to barf.

This shite is even worse than the other two big red flags for me: septum rings and that lipstick style I've been calling the "inflamed baboon hemorrhoid look".

Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 30, 2026 12:24 AM (qlLNh)

248
247,

Blame social media. They think stuff is cool because they see it online.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:27 AM (/QHx4)

249
I haven't seen anyone in the press needling Newsom over the closed oil refineries, but it will happen at some point. I'm sure he'll proudly say that California stood up to corporate greed and the result is what we see. We must cap gasoline prices now!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:29 AM (mmrXZ)

250 This shite is even worse than the other two big red flags for me: septum rings and that lipstick style I've been calling the "inflamed baboon hemorrhoid look".
Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 30, 2026 12:24 AM (qlLNh)

I don't understand ANY tattoos. As a Catholic, I don't get to fuck with what God created. But, I suppose if you aren't raised that way, you could consider "body art." But nasty, plain black, ugly-ass crap on your body? No thanks.

Might as well just print "I'm a whore!" on your skin and get after it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:31 AM (aeKVE)

251
tcn, yep

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:33 AM (/QHx4)

252 > I don't understand ANY tattoos.

Nor do I, really. I might consider it if there were some way to change them or make them go away easily, but I don't understand wanting to have the same art on your body for the rest of your life, even if it's good art.

And sock off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:34 AM (qlLNh)

253 Herodotus talks about how the Greeks on Samos dug a tunnel under a mountain over half a mile long.[0] They started from both ends and managed to meet up in the middle. I'm not sure why they did it that way.

[0] Perseus has a footnote that the tunnel is actually only 1100 feet: https://tinyurl.com/4cwbcz45 My Landmark edition has some more notes about it, but I don't have that handy right now.
Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:21 AM (rcENI)

Why they did it that way? Finish in half the time. If you are tunneling, you only make progress at the face, the point where new rock is being dug, and the tunnel advanced. Tunnels are cramped; you cannot speed it up by putting more men on the job. They won't all fit. But start from the other side, and you open up a second face, so you double your rate of advance. The greeks were canny surveyors and engineers, planning the two tunnels to meet in the middle was not beyond their skills.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:34 AM (C6xWR)

254 So, you tattoo yourself, and in 20 years, your sag and flab lead to the tattoos looking like something just awful, all over your own flesh.

WTF?

Just skip that.

Sure, pierce your ears a few times.

Sure, add a nipple ring if you hate yourself.

But a butterfly that looks like an old raisin? NO thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:38 AM (aeKVE)

255 As far as septum rings, a lot of these girls don't really need any help to make themselves look more like farm animals, if you know what I mean.

See one and you imagine a PA system with a state fair livestock judge in the background.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:38 AM (qlLNh)

256 This acoustic version of Big Brown Beaver is the tits.

https://youtu.be/L0fyYBXVaCU
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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For some definition of " acoustic ", but yeah, great sound from a Dobro and (I think) a metal National Resonator.

(I'm a woodwind guy, but I had a neighbor when we lived in the Bay Area, and he had three different resonators, and taught me that "they ain't guitars!"

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (iYF/u)

257
In better news, SCOTUS says deportations of illegal aliens can continue until hearings scheduled for December.

Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (mmrXZ)

258 Happy Tuesday Horde!

It was rumored that we would at long last see the sun tomorrow, but it is raining pretty heavily right now. Oh well, not much of a complaint in the grand scheme of things.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 12:41 AM (ibDUx)

259 Yeah, I've been asked by female coworkers: "Gee, JQ, why didn't *you* get any tats?" (and they all had recently acquired theirs)

I told them: I'd seen what tats look like after 20 or 30 years. No thank you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

260 Modern hard rock tunneling has the miners drill a pattern of holes in the face of the tunnel, maybe about a yard deep, and load all but one with dynamite. The unloaded hole provides a weak point for the explosion-induced fractures to propagate to, and if all goes well, the entire tunnel advances 3 feet with each shot. Since the Greeks did not have explosives, AFAIK, I am not sure how they fractured the rock. More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

261 If I were a woman, I'd be worried that nipple rings would make it difficult or impossible to nurse children.

I have no idea if that's a real issue, but it's one that I'd investigate thoroughly.

I myself have a pierced ear. I still put an earring in there for a few days every couple of years to keep it from closing up.

I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

262 I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

263 > More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

I know that was a common ancient mining technique but don't know about tunnel digging. Makes sense, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (qlLNh)

264
Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (/QHx4)

265 > I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

You'd be surprised. I have a bowler hat, too.

Never did get around to getting the cane with the silver wolf's head handle.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:44 AM (qlLNh)

266 Well, it is getting late, and I am tired. Off to the rack, I go. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:45 AM (C6xWR)

267 Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons
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Mom believed that. She refused to sign for me to get my ears pierced! Had to wait...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

268
Sleep well AOP

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (/QHx4)

269 Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's not like they haven't been told.
And told we will fly you out and we will
give you money. Just voluntarily turn
yourself in. That's all, it's easy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 12:46 AM (wljQY)

270 264
Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (/QHx4)

Mom didn't let me get my ears pierced until I was 16. I guess she figured if I were a whore I would have made that clear by then? Or maybe she figured she couldn't stop me by then, since I had my own income at that point.

She never owned pierced earrings. Ever. Ack.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (aeKVE)

271
JQ,

Me too, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (/QHx4)

272 In better news, SCOTUS says deportations of illegal aliens can continue until hearings scheduled for December.

Man, I wonder how long those deportees are supposed to last in fucking Liberia. Just live in some shitty mud hut guarded by no-apologies, no-rules, machine-gun-wielding African guards forever, or will they ultimately be released to make their way in fucking Monrovia?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 12:39 AM (mmrXZ)

They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 30, 2026 12:47 AM (qx7Zg)

273 Maybe "needed" is a bit strong.

The most recent time I wore one was for some friends who had a big to-do for their 25th anniversary.

Given that I was in the Original Broadway Cast of that wedding, I figured it was worth dressing up a bit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

274 Never did get around to getting the cane with the silver wolf's head handle.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:44 AM (qlLNh)

We'll have to work on that. You will need it so you can sit on the porch and shake it at everybody who walks by.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (aeKVE)

275 Good night, AOP.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (qlLNh)

276 The most recent time I wore one was for some friends who had a big to-do for their 25th anniversary.

Given that I was in the Original Broadway Cast of that wedding, I figured it was worth dressing up a bit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Aww... Very classy of you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

277 Night, AOP!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

278 On the prayer thread I mentioned our friend's ordination to the diaconate last weekend, and how his wife was due any day now. Well she made it through the trip to the monastery---and the six-hour vespers service and the six-hour divine liturgy. Thank you all for your prayers! My wife just left to go spend the night with their kids.

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (rcENI)

279 > We'll have to work on that. You will need it so you can sit on the porch and shake it at everybody who walks by.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:48 AM (aeKVE)

The older I get, the more I begin to see the advantages of having a sturdy stick with a heavy metal lump on the end.

You never know when the need to do some freelance social work might arise.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (qlLNh)

280 Being old I remember having your ears pierced was a sign you were easy, lol.

Posted by: four seasons
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If you were even older, you would realize that that applied, if it ever did, to a very narrow social group and cohort.

My grandmother had her ears pierced (by her mother) around one year old.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 12:50 AM (iYF/u)

281 260 Modern hard rock tunneling has the miners drill a pattern of holes in the face of the tunnel, maybe about a yard deep, and load all but one with dynamite. The unloaded hole provides a weak point for the explosion-induced fractures to propagate to, and if all goes well, the entire tunnel advances 3 feet with each shot. Since the Greeks did not have explosives, AFAIK, I am not sure how they fractured the rock. More drilling, and maybe build a fire, get the rock really hot, and then dash cold water on it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (C6xWR)

It is amazing the knowledge of Morons!

Posted by: frammish at September 30, 2026 12:51 AM (rcENI)

282 Might as well just print "I'm a whore!" on your skin and get after it.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Any lower-back tattoo is queer,
It might as well say "insert cock here"

https://youtu.be/hFSbYE5IWzw

.....NSFW, in case the quote didn't make that obvious.

Posted by: probably not Stephen Lynch at September 30, 2026 12:52 AM (VHUov)

283 A friend signed for me to get ears pierced, when I was 17. (Mom had always said to wait until I was 16.)

Mom was pissed! "I didn't approve!"

"But, Mom-- you always said '16' and I'm already 17-- I thought it would be ok by now!"

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

284 Then: "No piercings until you're sixteen, young lady!"

Now: "No more than sixteen piercings, young lady!"

Posted by: mikeski at September 30, 2026 12:56 AM (VHUov)

285 One of the guys at the memory care facility smashed out a window with his cane the other day. He hasn't been there very long and he usually just sits in the lobby area with his suitcase waiting for someone to come and pick him up. I guess he had a brief moment of clarity and realized that nobody was going to rescue him. Sad.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (ibDUx)

286
Today I can imagine girls telling their moms they are going to have their nipples pierced.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (/QHx4)

287 Speaking of getting old, I have to get out early tomorrow morning and pick up a new prescription, so I'm going to hang it up.

Two more weekly cancer treatments to go, then I get to hold off until after I get scoped again in November. I'm glad 'cuz these treatments are kicking my ass just a bit.

Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:57 AM (qlLNh)

288
Debby,

How heartbreaking.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:58 AM (/QHx4)

289

Sleep well Rodrigo

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 12:59 AM (/QHx4)

290 My grandmother had her ears pierced (by her mother) around one year old.

Posted by: buddhaha
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Grams, from another century; all the girls pierced their ears at the same time. Ice the lobe, soap bar behind the lobe, drive a needle through the spot. She said it hurt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:00 AM (wljQY)

291 Today I can imagine girls telling their moms they are going to have their nipples pierced.

Posted by: four seasons

***CRINGE***

Yikes! That thought makes me shudder, probably like when a dude thinks about possibly getting smashed in the balls!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

292 I'm glad 'cuz these treatments are kicking my ass just a bit.
---

Hang in there, they do good work. Just rest, rest and keep the calories up. You have prayer lift back here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:02 AM (wljQY)

293
JQ,

Yep

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:03 AM (/QHx4)

294 Telling them Tik Tok is a CCP op does not mean a thing.
Cheryl got hers' pierced, I want it too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:04 AM (wljQY)

295 "Ice the lobe, soap bar behind the lobe, drive a needle through the spot."

Ice is *wrong*-- it freezes the tissue and makes it more difficult to pierce! (experience here)

Better to just have a couple shots of favorite likker & sit still. Rubbing alcohol on the lobe; sharp, sterile needle; half a potato behind the ear-- BAM! More alcohol, sterile ear-stud. Have another couple shots.

Tomorrow's gonna feel like a very tight clamp on the lobe(s)!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

296 JQ and four seasons, I think that we had this conversation about pierced ears before, my Mom was exactly the same way, she wore those clip on earrings her whole life. I got mine pierced without her permission when I was in college.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 01:07 AM (ibDUx)

297 Night, Rodrigo. Prayers up for you!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

298 LOL, Debby. We did talk ear-piercing a while back.

I pierced active-duty guys ears (overseas) because they couldn't get it done on base. Mom mailed me a bunch of studs and a piercing 'gun' from The States.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

299
I remember being allowed to drive but not allowed to have my ears pierced, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:12 AM (/QHx4)

300 I guess he had a brief moment of clarity ...

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
----

All recent family were teetotalers, Gramps was in a home didn't recognize anyone, just sit and stare were his best moments.
Occasionally, a portion would come to, he would shower, shave, put on his suit, tie, hat, (he was a snappy dresser - also a story teller), walk by the nurses station, ask if everything was OK and bid them good night as he walked out the door.

Two o'clock or so the next morning two drunks would ring dad's door bell. 'Is this you father Charlie Redneck would ask, he sure has some interesting tales'. Thanks and in comes drunk as a skunk Gramps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:14 AM (wljQY)

301 >>One of the guys at the memory care facility smashed out a window with his cane the other day. He hasn't been there very long and he usually just sits in the lobby area with his suitcase waiting for someone to come and pick him up. I guess he had a brief moment of clarity and realized that nobody was going to rescue him. Sad.

That is just heartbreaking!

Couple of times, hubby has thrown *all* his stuff on his bed & demanded to leave...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

302 My daughter was 12 when her and 6 of her friends made a group trek to the mall to get matching swimsuits (synchronized swim team). While they were there, three of them got their ears pierced. Of course, my daughter's one of the three.
I was pissed. Three parents went to the mall the next day, and I channeled some old sergeants. The woman was literally crying when I finished. I pointed out that medical personnel had to get parent permission for anything, and that what she did could legally be classed as assault with jail terms attached.
If my kid had asked us, we would have tried to talk her out of it, but if she convinced us, had it done in our doctor's office.
Today, at over 50, she has 4 in one ear and 3 in the other,

Posted by: buddhaha at September 30, 2026 01:15 AM (iYF/u)

303
Wow, that is some sick shit 302.

It needs to be deleted.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:18 AM (/QHx4)

304 Clean up on aisle 302, please...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

305 Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS...
Repeat 30 more times.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 09:56 PM (0aYVJ)

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Grand Funk Railroad at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (XUHiS)

306 Prayers, Rodrigo
(adds Rodrigo to the list)

Up because we had a mouse incident- she woke me to see the one she'd dropped on the bedroom rug. I popped a trashcan over it and he returned it to the backyard.

Lovely moon, though.

Posted by: sal at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (f+FmA)

307 (z1WO3) - uggh. That ain't no lace wigs or machines for sale.

Who.has banhammering duty?

PS HI, alll.

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (zCZZo)

308 Both side of my family except for gramps and his dad were teetotalers. I come from a long line of teetotalers, both sides.
Great, great grandpa's girls better not have liquor on their breath.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:22 AM (wljQY)

309 Tomorrow's gonna feel like a very tight clamp on the lobe(s)!

Posted by: JQ
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I knew you were old fashioned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (wljQY)

310 oh my gosh, it is like raimondo stuck a fork in an electrical outlet.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (ibDUx)

311 Hubby has tried to "escape" a few times. Not lately, though.

Mostly, he just wants to have a cig but requires supervision, because he could get lost or burn himself. (There are set times for supervised smoking)

He doesn't have access to either cigs or lighter. Also, there's a transponder on his wheelchair that triggers alarm if he gets too close to exit.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

312 262 I have a sterling skull earring around here somewhere that I used to wear when I'd put on a tux, back when I would occasionally go to an event that required a tux.

Sterling skull shirt studs and cufflinks too.

Nowadays I don't like to go to any event where I can't wear sweat pants.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 30, 2026 12:42 AM (qlLNh)

I don't believe you ever needed a tux in AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 12:43 AM (aeKVE)

Never needed a tux in AK but needed my mess dress uniform which is pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:25 AM (XUHiS)

313 I am more of a Sepultura; Chaos A.D. guy. Love to play that while driving the open road.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 29, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

502 by Megadeth
Red Barchetta by Rush
Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:28 AM (XUHiS)

314
Sleep well ya'll.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2026 01:30 AM (/QHx4)

315 Night, four seasons!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:31 AM (rdVOm)

316
That is just heartbreaking!

Couple of times, hubby has thrown *all* his stuff on his bed & demanded to leave...
Posted by: JQ

=================

So sad. I've seen the exact same thing in a couple of other brain-damaged or demented souls. The things you keep (wanting freedom) and the things you lose (enough of a mind to have it).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 01:33 AM (mmrXZ)

317 The things you keep (wanting freedom) and the things you lose (enough of a mind to have it).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Hubby is such a rebel-- when they had the transponder on his ankle, he cut it off with a butter knife after his meal. No more butter knife, until this summer. Guess they realized he no longer knows how to defeat the system.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

318 272. They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Or take the plane to Philadelphia. 😉

Philadelphia and its surrounding metropolitan area are home to an estimated 14,060 Liberian residents, representing the largest concentration of Liberians in the United States.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 30, 2026 01:44 AM (NFX2v)

319 It's getting cold overnight lately, but I still haven't prepped the pellet heater or checked the chimney. Ugh. I'd better get on it soon!

Should have a couple more weeks of nice days, though. No rain in the forecast (for now).

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

320 Yay, ozone!

Thank you, whichever COB did it!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)

321
Hubby is such a rebel-- when they had the transponder on his ankle, he cut it off with a butter knife after his meal. No more butter knife, until this summer. Guess they realized he no longer knows how to defeat the system.
Posted by: JQ

================

Well, that was effective! Why didn't they fasten it with a piece of gum? If we didn't laugh at life, I guess we'd all go crazy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:00 AM (mmrXZ)

322
They can always swim the Atlantic if they're desperate to return to the US. It isn't *that* far.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Or take the plane to Philadelphia. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic.

==================

First prize: one week in Philadelphia.
Second prize: two weeks in Philadelphia!

--old WC Fields joke

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:01 AM (mmrXZ)

323 Has the judge who signed off on the Smith subpoenas been identified?

Posted by: Goatweed at September 30, 2026 02:02 AM (jK3NL)

324 >>Well, that was effective! Why didn't they fasten it with a piece of gum?

Blondie, their butter knives are so dull, hubby must've worked for quite a while sawing through that *reinforced* strap!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

325 (Aktj5)

Please, sir, may it have another?

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

326 Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley · 6h
It turns out woke rage is not an actual investment strategy. Scott Galloway, who teaches at NYU Stern School of Business, now admits that it might have been a mistake to sell all of his stock when Trump was elected. It wiped out 40% of his asset value..
---

What some don't realize is that we are headlong into the 4th industrial revolution. For instance; Right now we are in an energy transition analogous to 19th century going from candle light after dark to kerosene lamps on the walls.
Medically we are closer to being in a ward an let's see what happens to robots and lasers doing microscopic work that, skilled as he is, has to do it by hand.

It's going to be a different world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:14 AM (wljQY)

327 I found the name? No surprise!

Posted by: Goatweed at September 30, 2026 02:19 AM (jK3NL)

328 The turning point was Ukraine's drone campaign on election day. Putin said more than 1,600 drones entered the Moscow area that night, with strikes on polling stations, including one in a school he said was virtually destroyed.

The chair of a territorial election commission was killed when her home was hit. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the raid unprecedented.

According to RT, two civilians were killed in the suburbs and an oil refinery was damaged. Whatever one makes of Russian accounts of the damage, the political effect in Moscow was plain.
--

I'm tired of this war and more than annoyed with that clown zelensky. If we would simply see to it that our stuff did not get into Ukraine hands the war would be over. Someone or thing is working on Trump. He's changed on this.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:22 AM (wljQY)

329 Still more than hour to go

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:33 AM (Ia/+0)

330 That's it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:33 AM (wljQY)

331 I hear a owl outside

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 02:35 AM (Ia/+0)

332 I bought some pumpkin donuts the other day. Too much clove, imo. But still good with coffee.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

333 Eric Schmitt type republicans is why voters are fed up with these trump stooges scoring own goals. Btw 16 trucking companies have gone bankrupt from high diesel prices in the last several months and farmers in Iowa and other midwest states can't afford diesel either. Safe red state republican senators in midwest states see their poll numbers drop.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 30, 2026 02:44 AM (J7Vfr)

334 JQ, it is time for warm apple cider donuts here, they are very tasty indeed.

Sweet dreams Horde, I've got clean sheets and an extra blanket calling my name.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 30, 2026 02:48 AM (ibDUx)

335 Night, Debby. May you be warm!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

336
Good night, Debby.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 02:49 AM (mmrXZ)

337 Hot apple cider with a shot of cinnamon schnapps... warm ya inside-out!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

338 When we were in Japan, XH & I had a rag-top Jeep.

After a day of four-wheeling in the cold and snow, we stopped by a little bar and were offered hot sake...

WOOOH! Take ya breath away!!! And no more *chilly* feeling, after just one. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

339 Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 01:28 AM (XUHiS)

That is one weird track, dude.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 30, 2026 03:04 AM (aeKVE)

340 Someone or thing is working on Trump. He's changed on this.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 02:22 AM (wljQY)

Trump changed when he realized after the Putin in Alaska trip that the Russians, Ukrainians, and the EU did not want the war to end. He had a clue before then, but his final offer to Putin in Alaska sealed the deal and he determined that all three belligerents were going to continue the war no matter what the U.S. did to end it.

So Trump went another way, and decided he'd start squeezing the Russians, and EU & Chinese, from all sides.
Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are being worked on as we speak.

I don't think anybody worked Trump.
I believe he hit a wall and then devised a way to get around it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:13 AM (6ydKt)

341 “ Has the judge who signed off on the Smith subpoenas been identified?”

Nobody will be indicted, especially if that individual is a democrat. If they are the trial will likely be in D.C. , which is an automatic acquittal. The democrats have literally brought back the days of the klan trials who got off regardless of their crimes.
I used to be amused about the corrupt judiciaries of other countries. I can’t believe how naive I was about our own system. Can’t wait for the next useless congressional hearing. It is entertaining and I’m sure generates clicks for all the YouTube, instagram, etc. channels that make content from the spectacle.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 30, 2026 03:19 AM (fMu/S)

342 Interesting YouTube Russian woman writer on everything Russian. Elvira Bary, society, Ukraine, history

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:19 AM (Ia/+0)

343 I don't know if he signed all of the Smith warrants, but Judge Boasberg has been identified as the judge who signed the 'Arctic Frost' pen register warrants that allowed Jack Smith to look at cellphone records of members of Congress and Trump's team.

Boasberg probably signed more warrants, but anybody on the D.C. circuit could've done the job(s).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:25 AM (6ydKt)

344
I used to be amused about the corrupt judiciaries of other countries. I can’t believe how naive I was about our own system. Can’t wait for the next useless congressional hearing. It is entertaining and I’m sure generates clicks for all the YouTube, instagram, etc. channels that make content from the spectacle.
Posted by: Unkaren

I read -- shit, I can't remember who it was, some giant who is part of the western canon -- as a college sophomore, and it had the distinct tone of someone who basically realized there was no fixing anything, just say "Fuckit" and laugh. It was on our reading list in distinction to Martin Luther, who was PISSED AS FUCK and determined to change things.

Interesting that Luther prevailed, but Mr. Fuckit had a point.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:32 AM (mmrXZ)

345 Might as well get up, and working a lot closer to home today

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0)

346
But for those of you who want a sliver of green today, Border Patrol has been busting would-be invaders in San Diego! Yes, they're still being deposited on the sand by traffickers on jetskis. But in the Trump era, they're instantly being picked up by federal officials, and the $10,000 they spent to get to Freebie-land is all for naught.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:35 AM (mmrXZ)

347
Might as well get up, and working a lot closer to home today
Posted by: Skip

===============

Good life. There are many who would gladly switch places with you!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 30, 2026 03:36 AM (mmrXZ)

348 Just realized its last of September

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 03:48 AM (Ia/+0)

349 But for those of you who want a sliver of green today, Border Patrol has been busting would-be invaders in San Diego! Yes, they're still being deposited on the sand by traffickers on jetskis. But in the Trump era, they're instantly being picked up by federal officials, and the $10,000 they spent to get to Freebie-land is all for naught.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Excellent!
I voted for this!

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

350 My modem is acting up tonight-- cuts out sometimes.

Computer has been behaving. 🤷‍♀️

Loving the *digital age*... not...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

351 So Trump went another way, and decided he'd start squeezing the Russians, and EU & Chinese, from all sides.
Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are being worked on as we speak.

I don't think anybody worked Trump.
I believe he hit a wall and then devised a way to get around it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 03:13 AM (6ydKt)

I think those are very good observations. Can’t be peace when no one involved actually wants it. The trick with Iran is to make them really, really want it - the way that Sherman made Georgia really, really want peace.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 04:11 AM (fuM78)

352 350 My modem is acting up tonight-- cuts out sometimes.

Computer has been behaving. 🤷‍♀️

Loving the *digital age*... not...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

Resetting it might help.
There's a reboot button in your router settings in your broswer.

But you could always skip that and turn the power button off for a few minutes then turn it back on, or just unplug the router from wall and plug it in after a minute.

It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:26 AM (6ydKt)

353 It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I have done that twice tonight: unplug for a few minutes, then plug back in.

It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

354 I think those are very good observations. Can’t be peace when no one involved actually wants it. The trick with Iran is to make them really, really want it - the way that Sherman made Georgia really, really want peace.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 30, 2026 04:11 AM (fuM7

It's a waiting game at this point for the Iranians to reach some harsh realizations.

Hopefully we don't have to send in a few hundred thousand troops to burn a path from Tehran to Hormuz to get it done, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (6ydKt)

355 353 It'll reset and might work better after it gets it's bearings straight.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I have done that twice tonight: unplug for a few minutes, then plug back in.

It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

Sometimes my cable company works on the lines and my cable goes out. Fortunately they send an email beforehand...unfortunately I don't check my email that often, and only have it set up on my computer...
So I end up looking for outages using my cell phone...
Reminds me of the VHS tape on how to setup up your VCR...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (l3cgK)

356 It was new in Feb of this year! Shouldn't be failing already, imo.

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

It shouldn't.

Could be a temporary thing due to damage from the storm over the weekend.

Give it a few days and see if it clears up on its own.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:31 AM (6ydKt)

357 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 30, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

358 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

359
Hopefully we don't have to send in a few hundred thousand troops to burn a path from Tehran to Hormuz to get it done, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 30, 2026 04:30 AM (6ydKt)

What General Patton said still applies; the object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 30, 2026 04:33 AM (l3cgK)

360 That might be it, jim in Kali-- it started happening right after midnight.

Cable co. doesn't have my email, since they quit hosting email a few years ago.

Whatever. Still considering Starlink and maybe get a sm@rtphone after all...

Posted by: JQ at September 30, 2026 04:34 AM (rdVOm)

An Otter Cafe

"My parents went to France without me!!!"

Head tilts galore.

Bowling trick shot-- hitting the 3-7 spare and then knocking over the 10 in the neighboring lane.

Criminals are amateurs at violence. Marines are professionals.

Fighter pilot unimpressed by amusement park rides.

Rapid pothole repair.

Poor dog spends his days in a hospital staffed by babies.

Bad babies.

Sneaky fake-sleeping baby.

Feed me.

What in the Noah's Ark?

Swimming with a juvenile jaguar.

Basically a cloned cat.

Confirmed: The ship that Moby Dick was based on, the Essex, was sunk by a sperm whale's head butt.

A "Moby Dick" Shipwreck Survivor Had a Theory About How a Whale Sank His Ship. 200 Years Later, He's Been Proven Right

"This wasn't originally our hypothesis, it was Owen Chase's," one evolutionary biologist said of the whaler who first called the animal's forehead a weapon

* Researchers confirmed sperm whales can use their massive foreheads as weapons, validating a theory from the 1800s
* Drone footage captured sperm whales headbutting, systematically documenting the behavior for the first time
* A sperm whale's head can deliver a blow with the force of a bus traveling 40 mph
More than two centuries ago, a teenage boy watched a sperm whale sink his ship. Now, the theory that grew out of that disaster has been confirmed as accurate.
On Nov. 20, 1820, 15-year-old Thomas Nickerson was aboard the whaleship Essex, a specialized vessel designed for hunting and processing whales, when a massive sperm whale sped toward the vessel and struck it head-on. According to BBC Future, the whale swam roughly 900 feet away, turned and charged again, striking the bow. The Essex sank, stranding 20 men some 1,300 miles from land in what became one of the most infamous survival ordeals in maritime history and the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Now, 175 years after the novel's publication, researchers have confirmed how a sperm whale can take down a ship several times its size. The answer, it turns out, was predicted by Owen Chase, the Essex's first mate, who argued that the whale's enormous forehead was a weapon.
"This wasn't originally our hypothesis; it was Owen Chase's," retired evolutionary biologist Dave Carrier told the outlet. "An 18th-Century whaler argued that the forehead was a weapon, and we set out to test that." For two centuries, Carrier said, biologists had largely dismissed the whaler's account, but "the whaler's intuition and experience were probably correct."
...
"Whales are mammals, closely related to animals like deer and rams, where males compete by ramming," he said.

Well, and dolphins and orcas ram things too, and they're first cousins of whales.

At Toba Aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups helped their grandpa tidy up their toys.

As a reward, he gave them ice cubes. pic.twitter.com/iyfe7i6G8E
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 29, 2026

A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive.

[📹 emperorsofmischief] pic.twitter.com/N9rSBpMKbq
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 29, 2026

This tree fell onto a live power line during a storm in Germany, causing the electrical surges to visibly pulse through the flames. pic.twitter.com/A5yDr6XnkP
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 29, 2026

A tree after being struck by lightning.

Harrowing: A truck's brakes fail on a mountain road.

The brakes failed on a mountain road: watch what the driver does. pic.twitter.com/9ZL8isj0Xz
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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1 Aw, a baby otter.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:12 PM (hzuYO)

2 "There are anal otters! I'm shocked!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:12 PM (l3cgK)

3 You could also try double clutching and downshifting, Indian Trucker Bro.

But, a controlled crash is also an option.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (vNne8)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Re. otter cafe:

Hide You Wife, Hide Yo Kids...

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (vNne8)

6 They hold hands when they sleep.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:16 PM (4NO2D)

7 Pilot vid is pretty good

Posted by: Kratwurst at September 29, 2026 07:16 PM (9gKa/)

8 Those rats are in little driving prisons as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 29, 2026 07:16 PM (U/7CP)

9 Thank you, Señor Jefe!

Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Custodial Engineers at September 29, 2026 07:17 PM (1AUJ0)

10 "They hold hands when they sleep.
Posted by: toby928(c) "

The rats?

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:17 PM (MWfyi)

11 I don't think the guy meant to stop the truck that way.

He was lucky, based on what was going on in that truck. Plus the fact he doesn't look MENSA.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hzuYO)

12 I am pretty sure that Waymos are guided by rats.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (4NO2D)

13 Pfft. I've taught rats to do much more than that.

Posted by: Willard at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

14 Those assholes drive like Norwegians.

Posted by: Ben at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

15 I wish I was forced to drive a car.

Posted by: Bathroom Monkey at September 29, 2026 07:19 PM (4NO2D)

16 Any crow updates?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:19 PM (0sNs1)

17 The WNBA Playoffs are in progress.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at September 29, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

18 OK, so a Canuckian somehow knows the stress levels of his rats?

Oh, I guess he learned it by watching their politicians... for... stress..

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

19 I thought the mountain truck driver was going to do something amazing.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 07:21 PM (KC5Lt)

20
I think my stress would be reduced if I had a keeper who built me a hotrod to drive around the house.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:21 PM (mmrXZ)

21 10 "They hold hands when they sleep.
Posted by: toby928(c) "

The rats?
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:17 PM (MWfyi)
________________________

No, the polycules.

(oh Ho...I've used the word twice...one more time and I own it)

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 07:23 PM (dIske)

22 Corgi drag queen

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 07:23 PM (Cqx++)

23 I’ll willow myself just for fun.

Speaking of the WNBA, there is some fake-ass looking WNBA player on Wheaties boxes as of late.

Has Wheaties, at any point this year, put out a box featuring the 2026 gold medal winning men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:23 PM (ITNzO)

24 Ben and Willard were some creepy ass movies.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 07:25 PM (KC5Lt)

25 See otters are not all bad

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:25 PM (Ia/+0)

26
Everyday it is interesting what new words the evil left come up with.

We need a dictionary for *ucked left language.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:25 PM (/QHx4)

27 Use the transmission, you retard. Put it in first and take your foot off the fucking pedal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

28 Ben and Willard were some creepy ass movies.
Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 07:25 PM (KC5Lt)
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I have a very good story about the movie. I saw it with someone who is now a very famous actor at a drive in. There was an incident. Saving it for a Momee

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:28 PM (RIvkX)

29 I was pretty young when Ben and Willard came out, definitely freaky. Read Ben sometime later in my teen years

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

30 >>Use the transmission, you retard.

Either for the Gears...or, as an Anchor!

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (vNne8)

31 Recommended read:
'In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex' -- Nathaniel Philbrick

Moral of the story; Don't become a whaler.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

32 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:28 PM (RIvkX)

They have drive in actors?

😀

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (KC5Lt)

33
Saving it for a Momee
Posted by: San Franpsycho

===============

NOOooooo! Tell it now!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:31 PM (mmrXZ)

34
For many years, before the illegals were driving semis I had to "suggest" to hubby not to get in between two semis on the interstate. He said they move fast. Yeah and they move fast when we are squished between them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

35 There was a whole genre of "[blank] take over the world" movies in the 70s. Apes. Computers. The Devil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:31 PM (RIvkX)

36 Awwwww....otters!
Love 'em!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2026 07:33 PM (2WIwB)

37 Had a big-@$$ coyote scoping out our chickens today.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

38 Those rats are in little driving prisons as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 29, 2026 07:16 PM (U/7CP)

I wonder if they drove to the A&W in Bowden, Alberta. Alberta's Rat Patrol was called out to a rat sighting in Bowden the other day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:33 PM (C6xWR)

39 That jarhead was unwarranted, unrecommended, unmacerated and unjustified in his actions. They was egregious, preposterous and outrageous!

It is clear that the Gyrine is a racist and just wants to prevent the young brother of color from earning a living to feed his mammy and her 16 children.

Posted by: Ben Crump, Race Warlord & Pimp at September 29, 2026 07:34 PM (cCXR+)

40 Yeah and they move fast when we are squished between them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

After getting hit by one while in a Miata, I have a ... natural reticence not to drive beside one. Ill go 20-30 over to get ahead if one pulls up beside me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

41 Use the transmission, you retard. Put it in first and take your foot off the fucking pedal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

He would probably have to downshift through all the gears, rapidly. Downshifting a speeding vehicle into a much lower gear could be nigh-on impossible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:36 PM (C6xWR)

42 After getting hit by one while in a Miata, I have a ... natural reticence not to drive beside one. Ill go 20-30 over to get ahead if one pulls up beside me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:35 PM

A Miata can go that fast?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

43 NOOooooo! Tell it now!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:31 PM (mmrXZ)
=====
You've probably heard parts of it over the last 15 years. But I cannot put the really good parts in writing.

When we were kids, we knew this guy was going to be a great actor. He has one of those Jim Carrey faces, he can become anyone. A natural mimic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)

44 Moral of the story; Don't become a whaler.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

Thank you for this!

Posted by: stacy abrams at September 29, 2026 07:37 PM (C6xWR)

45
It is an adventure driving through mountainous areas with semis.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:38 PM (/QHx4)

46 As long as it isn't Jim Carey

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

47 Otters, all of ‘em, are overrated.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 07:39 PM (77rzZ)

48 Heh not Jim Carrey. But lead in the school play etc. our high school pumped out a few famous actors and comedians and murderers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:40 PM (RIvkX)

49 >>Moral of the story; Don't become a whaler.

Really good book. Whaling for a living was a brutal way to make a buck.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 07:41 PM (viF8m)

50 Head-butting sperm sounds awful.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 07:41 PM (nEUC6)

51 Otters, all of ‘em, are overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 07:39 PM

I'm going to prognosticate that nurse will not find that statement pleasing.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

52 Had a big-@$$ coyote scoping out our chickens today.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Crossbow.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 07:42 PM (GquHV)

53
Those rats are in little driving prisons as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir?

====================

Come to think of it, we don't see how they get in. This is some rat dystopia that will have no good end.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:43 PM (mmrXZ)

54 Moral of the story; Don't become a whaler.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

I am reading Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. He is as good a writer as Mark Twain, if not nearly as funny. No real purple prose like I expected from a writer from the middle of the 19th century

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 07:44 PM (rbvCR)

55 I am sure some of my class mates have donecwell, just none become famous enough that I ever heard about.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)

56 A Miata can go that fast?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

Youd be surprised.

But the Mustang has no such issues.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:44 PM (zZu0s)

57 Rat Rods have been a thing for years. There's a whole show about them on the TURBO Channel.

Posted by: Cheese It, The Cops! at September 29, 2026 07:45 PM (Fn+3X)

58 Otters, all of ‘em, are overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 07:39 PM (77rzZ)

Why . . . I otter . . .

Posted by: Do the Curley Shuffle at September 29, 2026 07:47 PM (rbvCR)

59 Come to think of it, we don't see how they get in. This is some rat dystopia that will have no good end.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:43 PM (mmrXZ)

it is probably just the Calhoun rat experiment in miniature.
Utopia never arrives, no matter the size.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 07:49 PM (rbvCR)

60 47 Otters, all of ‘em, are overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 07:39 PM (77rzZ)

Sea otters are awesome critters. They are good moms, they take care of the kelp forest, and the eat a shit ton of sea urchins, which otherwise would destroy the kelp and trash the environment.

Plus they are cute as heck, and very trainable.

When the boy was young, I took him to the Sealife Center in Seward where they were rehabbing a sea otter pup for release in the wild. He got to feed it and help teach it some hand signals. Both the otter and the boy were stinkin' cute.

Now I wonder if the otter wasn't the smarter of the two.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 07:50 PM (2bnFA)

61 57 Rat Rods have been a thing for years. There's a whole show about them on the TURBO Channel.
Posted by: Cheese It, The Cops! at September 29, 2026 07:45 PM (Fn+3X)

But, can they run the rat rods through the rat mazes?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 07:51 PM (2bnFA)

62 Whaling for a living was a brutal way to make a buck.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 07:41 PM

Codfishing was hardly better.

Posted by: Manuel Fidello at September 29, 2026 07:51 PM (4NO2D)

63 He got to feed it and help teach it some hand signals. Both the otter and the boy were stinkin' cute.

Now I wonder if the otter wasn't the smarter of the two.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 07:50 PM

He fed it, you fed him. I'm sensing some data here ... ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

64 Squeeeeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 07:52 PM (fV7JW)

65 Codfishing was hardly better.
Posted by: Manuel Fidello at September 29, 2026 07:51 PM

Try codpiecing.

Posted by: Fifi LeFleur at September 29, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

66 Driver's clothes not quite so white after that ride.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 07:55 PM (sl73Y)

67 Posted by: VA is for Haters at September 29, 2026 07:54 PM

I hope Big Penguin is compensating you well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

68 Pretty bleak for the GOP thus far .. an absolute wipeout in VA is incoming and Dems are surging in FL, IA, MI, NC, GA, AZ, basically everywhere
Posted by: VA is for Haters at September 29, 2026 07:54 PM

Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:56 PM (4NO2D)

69 The Indians in Alberta used to hunt whales by herding them into small groups, and driving them off cliffs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:57 PM (C6xWR)

70 A truck's brakes fail
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Ya Hoo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 07:57 PM (wljQY)

71
Here we go again. Woman in Spartanburg charged with attempted murder after stabbing her children 50 times. One child might have to have his arm amputated.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:57 PM (/QHx4)

72 Here we go again. Woman in Spartanburg charged with attempted murder after stabbing her children 50 times. One child might have to have his arm amputated.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:57 PM

She wants in on the AWFL fan club thrill.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:58 PM (4NO2D)

73 four seasons I read that, wonder if the Feminists will back her

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

74

toby,

I think you are right.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:59 PM (/QHx4)

75 Posted by: VA is for Haters at September 29, 2026 07:54 PM (nTw67)

Sounds like yesterday's troll has transitioned.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:59 PM (C6xWR)

76 four seasons I read that, wonder if the Feminists will back her
Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:59 PM

She is white so better chance than some.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:00 PM (4NO2D)

77 Captains Courageous is my all time favorite book.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 08:00 PM (KC5Lt)

78 I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

79
Skip,

Sleep well!

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:01 PM (/QHx4)

80 A Waffle House four

https://tinyurl.com/4tu4adn7

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:01 PM (4NO2D)

81 Use the transmission, you retard. Put it in first and take your foot off the fucking pedal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

He would probably have to downshift through all the gears, rapidly. Downshifting a speeding vehicle into a much lower gear could be nigh-on impossible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Jake brake...if you got it.

Posted by: Jacobs VehicleSystems at September 29, 2026 08:02 PM (XeU6L)

82 Shoes on babies, toddlers. Tie the laces from both together. (Taught that by my mother, grandmothers.)

Saves time, reduces aggravation. (Probably prohibited in public nowadays.)

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:02 PM (NFX2v)

83 But, can they run the rat rods through the rat mazes?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 07:51 PM (2bnFA)

too bad the old Speed network is gone......sniffle

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 08:02 PM (jrgJz)

84 Fighter pilot unimpressed by amusement park rides.
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What air force does he fly for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:03 PM (wljQY)

85
Heh.
Posted by: toby928(c)
======
We are getting mail vote requests and about to begin early voting. Little sign of that bullshit from polling. Douchebags doing their same demoralization campaign with pollster aid that they have done for decades now.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 08:03 PM (E4rtv)

86 I've never read Moby Dick. I probably should.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 08:04 PM (CHHv1)

87 Yeah, if the Republicans don't go +2 in the Senate and +7 in the House I'll buy Average Joe a Coke.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:04 PM (4NO2D)

88 Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:01 PM (4NO2D)

I may be crazy but she's much higher than a Waffle House 4. She's an 11 on the crazy matrix though.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 08:05 PM (KC5Lt)

89 I may be crazy but she's much higher than a Waffle House 4. She's an 11 on the crazy matrix though.
Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 08:05 PM

I'd have to see dat azz to go higher than a 4.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:06 PM (4NO2D)

90 But, can they run the rat rods through the rat mazes?

Posted by: tcn
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Slaloms. Better yet, demolition derbies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 08:06 PM (XeU6L)

91 What air force does he fly for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:03 PM (wljQY)

Freddy Mercury AF

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 08:06 PM (KC5Lt)

92 Rat Rods have been a thing for years. There's a whole show about them on the TURBO Channel.
Posted by: Cheese It,

Rad Rod theft rings are a big thing. They ship them off to Norway, and from there down to West africa.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 08:07 PM (sl73Y)

93 Watching Hassan Piker acting out in a feminine pussycat outfit.

I have Qs. El-Sayed's side piece?

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:07 PM (NFX2v)

94 Watching Hassan Piker acting out in a feminine pussycat outfit.

I have Qs. El-Sayed's side piece?
Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:07 PM

They are in the same polycule.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:07 PM (4NO2D)

95

L,

Seriously?

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:08 PM (/QHx4)

96 Moral of the story; Don't become a whaler.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 07:30 PM (XeU6L)
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Whaling was a very lucrative industry, and its success was its undoing as the Atlantic whales were destroyed and so the whalers had to range ever farther afield. An ecological lesson if there ever was one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:09 PM (ZOv7s)

97 >>>He would probably have to downshift through all the gears, rapidly. Downshifting a speeding vehicle into a much lower gear could be nigh-on impossible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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If he did shift, the trailer coming round would have caused him to lose control.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:09 PM (wljQY)

98 Rad Rod theft rings are a big thing. They ship them off to Norway, and from there down to West africa.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 08:07 PM (sl73Y)
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California is famous for licensing them to drive the big rigs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)

99 Rat movies?

Never saw Ben. Willard was kinda fun, and I seem to recall the source novel, Ratman's Notebooks, as being okay.

But for a nifty not-as-well-known rat movie, check out Of Unknown Origin with Peter Weller and Jennifer Dale. It's delightful.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 29, 2026 08:10 PM (q3u5l)

100 >>>the Atlantic whales were destroyed and so the whalers had to range ever farther afield. An ecological lesson if there ever was one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Get the Chinese out of the East Pacific.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:10 PM (wljQY)

101 They are in the same polycule.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Orsen owns that word.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 08:11 PM (sl73Y)

102 She wants in on the AWFL fan club thrill.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Local radio talked about this yesterday.

Here come the copycats.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 08:11 PM (GquHV)

103 I've never read Moby Dick. I probably should.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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The above mentioned 'In the Heart of the Sea' is a much more enthralling book, and not fiction. Melville wrote 'Moby' based on what he could learn about the Essex.

Posted by: Ishmael at September 29, 2026 08:11 PM (XeU6L)

104 96. Seriously?

Yes.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:11 PM (NFX2v)

105 We are getting mail vote requests and about to begin early voting. Little sign of that bullshit from polling. Douchebags doing their same demoralization campaign with pollster aid that they have done for decades now.
Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 08:03 PM (E4rtv)
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I've been banging this drum for a while. Show me which swing voters who are swayed by gay twink vegan pagan Talarico or Abudulrachman Death To America Jihadi Al-Sayed?

Where is this purported surge of support coming from?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:12 PM (ZOv7s)

106 Ratatouille !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 08:13 PM (QwZKw)

107
L,

I want you to know I did not doubt you. I am amazed about the stuff going on.

Crazy times.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:13 PM (/QHx4)

108 Get the Chinese out of the East Pacific.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:10 PM (wljQY)
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Don't trust China. China is asshoe.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:13 PM (ZOv7s)

109
*tucks into large Café steak*
*laughs at urchin watching through window*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (eRlcH)

110 I've never read Moby Dick. I probably should.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2026 08:04 PM

Start with Billy Budd, a fast-paced thriller.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (4NO2D)

111 She wants in on the AWFL fan club thrill.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Stop giving them attention when they do this and they'll stop.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (vJrRc)

112 Yes.
Posted by: L - No ni

Big family?

Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (sl73Y)

113 I can't believe the troll left out Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 08:15 PM (QwZKw)

114 The only "surge" the democrats are having is down the shitter.

Only an idiot would come up with this crapola.

Posted by: Crap In, Crap Out at September 29, 2026 08:15 PM (cCXR+)

115 Stop giving them attention when they do this and they'll stop.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM

Alternately, hunt them through the streets with dogs.

That might put off a few copycats.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 08:15 PM (4NO2D)

116 Whaling was a very lucrative industry, and its success was its undoing as the Atlantic whales were destroyed and so the whalers had to range ever farther afield. An ecological lesson if there ever was one.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Yup, "
"The Essex sank in the southern Pacific Ocean after being rammed by a sperm whale on November 20, 1820, approximately 2,000 nautical miles from the coast of South America. The crew then attempted to reach land in whaleboats, eventually landing on Henderson Island."

All the way from Nantucket.
.

Posted by: Ishmael at September 29, 2026 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

117 Rat movies? Try the Amazing Maurice and his Educated rodents, a pretty decent animated adaptation of the Terry Pratchett book.

Posted by: SimoHayha at September 29, 2026 08:16 PM (IeYnM)

118 I was busy with other stuff, but monitored the threads and was kind of disappointed that Ace didn't jump on the Candace Owens lesbian allegations. Or the defamation suit being filed. Maybe he wants to see things develop more and run with it tomorrow.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:16 PM (ZOv7s)

119
Many many decades ago one of my aunts worked for the State Department. She always said don't trust the slant-eyed bastards.

This was many decades ago when things were not PC.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (/QHx4)

120
Yeah, if the Republicans don't go +2 in the Senate and +7 in the House I'll buy Average Joe a Coke.
Posted by: toby928(c)

And sing in perfect harmony.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (Cqx++)

121 Mein Fuhrer ... das thread ..

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421557

Posted by: toby928(c) tugs collar at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (4NO2D)

122 I was busy with other stuff, but monitored the threads and was kind of disappointed that Ace didn't jump on the
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

He did yesterday. Catch up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (nEUC6)

123 No love?

Posted by: Mrs. Frisby at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (RIvkX)

124 Stop giving them attention when they do this and they'll stop.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (vJrRc)

The only "attention" they need is a percussive reboot of the meat computer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:19 PM (C6xWR)

125 I can't believe the troll left out Texas.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 08:15 PM (QwZKw)
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The one yesterday was very lame. Phoning it in. "Oh Trump led all the polls, Harris never led."

Like the RCP polling archive is hard to find or anything.

I feel bad though, because it's just degrading to tell stupid transparent lies.

That's David French territory, not work for any decent human being.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)

126 Here we go again. Woman in Spartanburg charged with attempted murder after stabbing her children 50 times. One child might have to have his arm amputated.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 07:57 PM (/QHx4)

A man did it. The system failed her. She asked for help over and over and each time they said no.

Posted by: Working the playbook at September 29, 2026 08:20 PM (TbWk/)

127 He did yesterday. Catch up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 08:18 PM (nEUC6)
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There was some newer stuff on X today, like Milo deleting all his posts calling her a dyke. Pretty funny.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

128 Ace jumped on those allegations like Candace jumping on a freshly opened set of legs.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 08:21 PM (88C+u)

129 Mrs. Frisbee made rat pies too?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 08:21 PM (rbvCR)

130
The crew then attempted to reach land in whaleboats, eventually landing on Henderson Island."

All the way from Nantucket.
.
Posted by: Ishmael

On a sleigh ride.

https://youtu.be/ME9EcizjMQc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 08:22 PM (Cqx++)

131 *tucks into large Café steak*
*laughs at urchin watching through window*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 08:14 PM (eRlcH)
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*takes teacup of hot water*
*adds ketchup to make tomato "soup"*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:22 PM (RIvkX)

132 Ace jumped on those allegations like Candace jumping on a freshly opened set of legs.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 08:21 PM (88C+u)
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Huh. Figures it happened when I was out and about. Dammit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

133 95. They are in the same polycule.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I had to go briefly to read about Polycule(s).

I agree with Four Seasons. WTH!?

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:23 PM (NFX2v)

134 There were 20 commenters who said "Who cares?"

Ace said, "Someone's got to take out the trash."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:24 PM (RIvkX)

135 108. Crazy times.

Posted by: four seasons

No, I completely agree. 👍🏼

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:25 PM (NFX2v)

136 They are in the same polycule.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I had to go briefly to read about Polycule(s).
I agree with Four Seasons. WTH!?
Posted by: L - No nic.

Poly- : many
-cule : small

It's a group of small-dicked guys, and the women who ~~love~~ live off them.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 08:26 PM (VHUov)

137 A word of explanation (and an update).

Mrs. Lloyd gets her chemo on Saturday, meaning Sunday is rough. I am taking Mondays off so that I can somewhat recover, but also catch up on things, so I must have missed it. Mrs. Lloyd is experiencing some abdominal swelling so more appointments and scanning later this week.

They also gave her steroids. She uses the "medible" marijuana (which works great!) so now she's literally doing pot on steroids.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

138 I'm so sorry your wife is having to go through this, AHLloyd.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 29, 2026 08:30 PM (FGA9/)

139 All the way from Nantucket.
.Posted by: Ishmael at September 29, 2026 08:16 PM

And thus, kids, were the tales about "There once was a man from Nantucket" born.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

140 They also gave her steroids. She uses the "medible" marijuana (which works great!) so now she's literally doing pot on steroids.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

Uh-oh! You know you are going to have to give up your guns, now. Illegal drugs in the household.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:32 PM (C6xWR)

141 Uh-oh! You know you are going to have to give up your guns, now. Illegal drugs in the household.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:32 PM (C6xWR)
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Bless your heart.

This is Michigan. Fully legal. Anyone over 21 can buy as much as he wants.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

142 Everybody wanted to get rid of Jake Brakes.
"They're noisy."

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2026 08:34 PM (bXghQ)

143 Is it true that the Café's steaks are dry-aged in The Barrel for at least 21 days?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

144 I'm so sorry your wife is having to go through this, AHLloyd.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 29, 2026 08:30 PM (FGA9/)
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Thank you. Overall, she's been handling it pretty well, and it may be the steroids will do the trick. The chemo is a precaution to prevent recurrence, so if she can't take it, they will stop.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)

145 This is why my husband is extremely reluctant to do chemo. Actually, there are many reasons. However, he is still considering it as we look into other options. He knows he may have to do several rounds to get the metastases under control, while we give other protocols time to work.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 29, 2026 08:36 PM (FGA9/)

146 This is Michigan. Fully legal. Anyone over 21 can buy as much as he wants.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:34 PM (ZOv7s)

BATF just might have a contrary opinion, you know.

If pot edibles help the Missus, good for her. That seems to be one of the few claimed benefits of legal pot that actually does occur. But there is a conflict between State law and Fed law on the matter of pot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:38 PM (C6xWR)

147 This is why my husband is extremely reluctant to do chemo. Actually, there are many reasons. However, he is still considering it as we look into other options. He knows he may have to do several rounds to get the metastases under control, while we give other protocols time to work.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 29, 2026 08:36 PM (FGA9/)
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It can be daunting. Getting the port put in, and then having to do the infusions is a bit of work. The first week wasn't bad, and right now they're trying to see if she's reacting to it or something else is going on.

I have to say that she's been binging on supplements and that could be the culprit. We'll just have to run it to ground.

The big thing is that once that chemo is in them, they will sweat it out, which I why I have a separate "infusion day" bed because I got sick just from being in the same bed on the first week. This week, I avoided it.

It was awful. Stuck in the den watching football on Saturday night. The horror.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:40 PM (ZOv7s)

148 Coming home today there was a Semi that had so much smoke coming out of both stacks you couldn't see the road behind him. I kept expecting to see flames but didn't.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 08:40 PM (QwZKw)

149 Everybody wanted to get rid of Jake Brakes.
"They're noisy."
Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2026 08:34 PM (bXghQ)

There are some truckers who use the Jake brake just to get attention, but when it is not really needed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (C6xWR)

150 There is a two handed technique for getting babies legs into strollers. Not sure why it's not employed more. Like these parents think the babies will automatically go into the proper position when being lifted into a stroller or seat.

Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (SwyyQ)

151 Now that rats have invaded Alberta, they will commandeer AOP's fleet the minute he leaves for the USA. Best to at least remove the coil wires, Sir.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (Fn+3X)

152 133 Ace jumped on those allegations like Candace jumping on a freshly opened set of legs.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 08:21 PM (88C+u)
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Huh. Figures it happened when I was out and about. Dammit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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She's more of an opportunist than a sexually aroused lesbian.
If muff diving provides her with opportunity she's 100% otherwise the probability of asexual is high.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (wljQY)

153 OT: looks like the pride of the AL-West ran up against a real team today

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 08:43 PM (88C+u)

154 If pot edibles help the Missus, good for her. That seems to be one of the few claimed benefits of legal pot that actually does occur. But there is a conflict between State law and Fed law on the matter of pot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:38 PM (C6xWR)
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You're telling a guy who was in the military with a clearance while his wife was using the stuff. I consulted with the JAGs and there was no problem, so long as I did not use.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:43 PM (ZOv7s)

155 There are some truckers who use the Jake brake just to get attention, but when it is not really needed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (C6xWR)

Yeah. Ruined it for everybody.

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2026 08:46 PM (bXghQ)

156 >>>Poor dog spends his days in a hospital staffed by babies

I liked where she gave the dog a c-section and delivered a cat.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 08:47 PM (syz1S)

157 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd --Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 08:48 PM (XeU6L)

158 >>>Bad babies.

What you have to do is make them go out to the tree in back to pick a switch for you to whip them with.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 08:49 PM (syz1S)

159 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd --Thoughts and prayers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 08:48 PM (XeU6L)
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Thank you! It's very much helping.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 08:49 PM (ZOv7s)

160 102 They are in the same polycule.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Orsen owns that word.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2026 08:11 PM (sl73Y)
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Only used it twice. So, it's still on the market. The rule(s) is 3 times you own it...and 5 seconds or less on the floor, you eat it.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 08:51 PM (dIske)

161 This is Michigan. Fully legal. Anyone over 21 can buy as much as he wants.
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Every paved road crossing the border from Indiana to michigan features at least 2 or 3 pot shops.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 08:51 PM (4HoLg)

162 My Dad was diagnosed with cancer on his ear a couple of years before he died. They said they'd have to do radiation, but Dad didn't want his brain irradiated. It was his decision. He died from a stroke, not the cancer at the age of 95.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 08:52 PM (l3cgK)

163 162 This is Michigan. Fully legal. Anyone over 21 can buy as much as he wants.
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Every paved road crossing the border from Indiana to michigan features at least 2 or 3 pot shops.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 08:51 PM (4HoLg)

Kalifornia has plenty of pot places to purchase from.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 08:52 PM (l3cgK)

164 113 Big family?
Posted by: From about That Time

If about tying baby shoe laces together, yes, my parents had 16 grandkids, 11of which were very close in age.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 08:53 PM (NFX2v)

165
It would be interesting to know the number of breast cancer cases before women started using birth control pills.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (/QHx4)

166 Kalifornia has plenty of pot places to purchase from.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Could we entice you to take several thousand dumbass Hoosiers and obnoxious FIP's off our hands?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (4HoLg)

167 159 >>>Bad babies.

What you have to do is make them go out to the tree in back to pick a switch for you to whip them with.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2026 08:49 PM (syz1S)

When they disobey, when they cry when you don't want them to, when they don't go to sleep when you want, get to beating the little bastards with a switch. For Jesus!

Posted by: Michael and Debi Perl at September 29, 2026 08:57 PM (TbWk/)

168 166
It would be interesting to know the number of breast cancer cases before women started using birth control pills.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (/QHx4)

Or abortions on demand.

But nobody will tell you that because there is way too much money in both.

You see, giving birth causes women to be crazy and murder their kids, but messing with a woman's hormones artificially is just... well....

It must be hard to be that obtuse.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 08:58 PM (aeKVE)

169 167 Kalifornia has plenty of pot places to purchase from.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Could we entice you to take several thousand dumbass Hoosiers and obnoxious FIP's off our hands?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (4HoLg)

And add that to the homeless and the tweakers? You have to be kidding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 08:59 PM (l3cgK)

170 >Coming home today there was a Semi that had so much smoke coming out of both stacks you couldn't see the road behind him.
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My rig's a little old, but that don't mean she's slow.

Posted by: A kiss stealin' wheelin' dealin' truck-drivin' sonofagun at September 29, 2026 08:59 PM (ZxPkt)

171 Only used it twice. So, it's still on the market. The rule(s) is 3 times you own it...and 5 seconds or less on the floor, you eat it.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 08:51 PM (dIske)

But not if you have a two second dog.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:00 PM (aeKVE)

172 166
It would be interesting to know the number of breast cancer cases before women started using birth control pills.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (/QHx4)

It would be interesting to know if there's any correlation between taking fertility drugs and cancer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:01 PM (l3cgK)

173 When they disobey, when they cry when you don't want them to, when they don't go to sleep when you want, get to beating the little bastards with a switch. For Jesus!
Posted by: Michael and Debi Perl at September 29, 2026 08:57 PM (TbWk/)

My father was in favor of "giving you something to cry about." We didn't cry. Big girls don't cry, and I believe the age of "big" was about 2 years old.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:02 PM (aeKVE)

174 The top pic looks like the otter version of “The Scream.”

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

175 174 When they disobey, when they cry when you don't want them to, when they don't go to sleep when you want, get to beating the little bastards with a switch. For Jesus!
Posted by: Michael and Debi Perl at September 29, 2026 08:57 PM (TbWk/)

My father was in favor of "giving you something to cry about." We didn't cry. Big girls don't cry, and I believe the age of "big" was about 2 years old.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:02 PM (aeKVE)

When my kids said they were bored, I made them do math problems. Soon, they were NEVER bored...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:03 PM (l3cgK)

176 151 There is a two handed technique for getting babies legs into strollers. Not sure why it's not employed more. Like these parents think the babies will automatically go into the proper position when being lifted into a stroller or seat.
Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 08:42 PM (SwyyQ)

Nobody likes to be stuffed into a restraint system. These babies get props from me. Do not go quietly into that good night....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:04 PM (aeKVE)

177 And add that to the homeless and the tweakers? You have to be kidding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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Sigh

Understood. We'll keep 'em.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:04 PM (4HoLg)

178 It would be interesting to know the number of breast cancer cases before women started using birth control pills.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 08:56 PM (/QHx4)
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It's tough because people died of lots of other causes before cancer would appear. Childbirth was quite dangerous, and without antibiotics, a scratch could kill you.

There's an argument that tiny caliber weapons (which were common) were popular because *any* gunshot could be fatal - not right then, but a slow, lingering, painful death.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

179 The top pic looks like the otter version of “The Scream.”
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)
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Spartan fans are reminded of the Michigan fan when they "had trouble with the snap!" in 2015.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:07 PM (ZOv7s)

180 Our girls wouldn't pick up after themselves. So... I saved a big cardboard box from something we got and would toss all their toys, clothes, dirty dishes in it if they didn't pick up after themselves. On the night before trash day I'd haul it down to the curb.

Only took twice before they got their shit together.

Losing clothes, toys, whatever.... yeah, that made an impression because we didn't replace any of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 09:07 PM (RORbl)

181
Introducing lab created drugs into one's system has to have a negative affect. I get it that a lot of drugs are helping people. No problem with that.

I would like to see more research results.

Of course we probably can't trust some research.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 09:07 PM (/QHx4)

182 Fight the power, babies.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (ZxPkt)

183 180 “Spartan fans?” Who are they?

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (77rzZ)

184 When my kids said they were bored, I made them do math problems. Soon, they were NEVER bored...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:03 PM (l3cgK)

We did math and poetry at the dinner table, frequently. We recited a lot of stuff, and did "pie radians" when dessert was on the table. That sort of incidental show-off smarts that leads to real learning.

My dad said that there was a good education to be had from our high school, but that we had it better than most because so many households didn't reinforce any of it. We had shelves of books, old and new, and a huge slide rule on the wall in the basement, and I knew how to hand draft long before I took it in high school. We got all the good magazines before they went to crap, like Scientific American and National Geographic. I'm utterly amazed at how little other families did to learn stuff.

We also had Chilton Manuals and fixed our own cars, had a full wood shop in the basement, and knew exactly how repair everything that broke. Nobody got paid to fix anything around our place.

I don't know how anyone survives without basic training and knowledge. I'm just not that smart, but I was trained.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (aeKVE)

185 The talk of ATF reminded me that we are in a time of wonders and miracles regarding self defense and firearms law. Republicans have finally learned to use sue-and-settle, and it is glorious. DoJ is now writing regulations that declare various laws and regulations unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.

The blue states keep passing retarded gun laws, defying SCOTUS, and SCOTUS has responded by *expanding* the scope of earlier rulings. Some of these cases are still being resolved and "nationalized" but the restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled rifles are legally a dead letter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:10 PM (ZOv7s)

186
There's an argument that tiny caliber weapons (which were common) were popular because *any* gunshot could be fatal - not right then, but a slow, lingering, painful death.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

__________

Tell me about it.

Posted by: James Garfield at September 29, 2026 09:10 PM (eRlcH)

187 184 180 “Spartan fans?” Who are they?
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (77rzZ)

I believe they are a lot like Minnesota ViQueen fans. Kinda pathetic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:11 PM (aeKVE)

188 183 Don Black, the power is overrated.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:12 PM (77rzZ)

189 Spartan fans are reminded of the Michigan fan when they "had trouble with the snap!" in 2015.
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I'm a proud UM alum, but that ranks up there as about the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:12 PM (4HoLg)

190 “Spartan fans?” Who are they?
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (77rzZ)
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Michigan State University Spartans. Arch-enemies of the University of Michigan Wolverines.

In 2015, Michigan was forced to punt with almost no time on the clock, but the snap was bad, and MSU picked up the ball and ran it into the endzone with zero time on the clock. Lots of videos but as the network camera got the crowd reaction a nerdy Wolverine had something close to that expression. They had the game and lost it.

They do that a lot. As Iowa about last weekend.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)

191 189 183 Don Black, the power is overrated.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:12 PM (77rzZ)

Then again, when the power whips out a tit to feed you, you might want to get along a bit better. Just sayin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:13 PM (aeKVE)

192 I'm a proud UM alum, but that ranks up there as about the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:12 PM (4HoLg)
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Watched it live with a buddy and fellow grad. We were quietly resigned to our fate and then jumped up and all hell broke loose. Kids came downstairs worried that there was a fire.

By happy circumstance we had some champagne on hand. It was a good night.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

193 Michigan State University Spartans. Arch-enemies of the University of Michigan Wolverines.

In 2015, Michigan was forced to punt with almost no time on the clock, but the snap was bad, and MSU picked up the ball and ran it into the endzone with zero time on the clock. Lots of videos but as the network camera got the crowd reaction a nerdy Wolverine had something close to that expression. They had the game and lost it.

They do that a lot. As Iowa about last weekend.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)

Wisconsin Badgers will inform you that Ann Arbor is a whore.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:14 PM (aeKVE)

194 The blue states keep passing retarded gun laws, defying SCOTUS, and SCOTUS has responded by *expanding* the scope of earlier rulings. Some of these cases are still being resolved and "nationalized" but the restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled rifles are legally a dead letter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:10 PM (ZOv7s)

Stupid is as Stupid does.

Posted by: Forrest, Forrest Gump at September 29, 2026 09:14 PM (l3cgK)

195 Only to wonder how many have already entered the country, and, why aren't we droning the asshole who are creating these fake passports?

@nypost
Chinese nationals busted in bizarre passport scheme at California airport

"Their account described a passport-for-passport exchange in Mexico. Wei and Lei allegedly said they bought the US passports from an unidentified person and surrendered their genuine Chinese passports to that same individual."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 09:16 PM (nEUC6)

196 “Spartan fans?” Who are they?
Posted by: Bulg

Oh, I know the answer to this one!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at September 29, 2026 09:17 PM (88C+u)

197 Wisconsin Badgers will inform you that Ann Arbor is a whore.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:14 PM (aeKVE)
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I want Minnesota to take care of business next weekend and get the Brown Jug back. Row the Boat!

You guys looked pretty good and we just lost our running back. Not great.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

198 Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:09 PM (aeKVE)

I was at Disneyland with the family. My elder child was around...4th grade. I was giving him problems involving adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators and he was doing it in his head. A guy saw it, said it was great, and asked what the answer was to one of the problems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:18 PM (l3cgK)

199 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I did not see Part VII posted on your site. The series is of great interest to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:18 PM (u82oZ)

200
Iowa beating Michigan as time expired is proof that God is just.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 09:19 PM (eRlcH)

201 Bulg, you mentioned emailing me. My addy is on ahlloyd.com. Click "About" and it's there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)

202 I did not see Part VII posted on your site. The series is of great interest to me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:18 PM (u82oZ)
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Yeah, I'm behind. It's in draft, I plan on posting it tomorrow.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:20 PM (ZOv7s)

203 You guys looked pretty good and we just lost our running back. Not great.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

I don't quite qualify as a Badger, but DH was one for a couple of years, majoring in beer and pool, ergo no diploma. Plus, Badgers are a disease in Madison, and everything revolves around drinking before, during, and after a home game. The only time Camp Randall was overwhelmed by anything else, it was the Pink Floyd concert, which I heard but did not attend, since tickets started at something like $500. But I saw the pig, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:20 PM (aeKVE)

204 "Their account described a passport-for-passport exchange in Mexico. Wei and Lei allegedly said they bought the US passports from an unidentified person and surrendered their genuine Chinese passports to that same individual."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 09:16 PM (nEUC6)

And that, folks, is how modern slavery works in the United States...
It is a very common method. It's used to force foreign women and girls into prostitution.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:20 PM (l3cgK)

205 Iowa beating Michigan as time expired is proof that God is just.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 09:19 PM (eRlcH)
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Yep, and now they're 2-2 for the season.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

206 Just for the record, I’m a VT guy now.

Go Hokies!

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:22 PM (77rzZ)

207 A guy saw it, said it was great, and asked what the answer was to one of the problems...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:18 PM (l3cgK)

Why wouldn't you do that for your kid? I used to teach the boy to recite Ogden Nash when I drove him to school. "I eat my peas with honey...." etc. I'm not sure he was ready for Robert Service, but maybe if we spent more time on it.

And he learned fractions by cooking with me. Nothing like a glass measuring cup to teach adding odd fractions.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:23 PM (aeKVE)

208 Watched it live with a buddy and fellow grad. We were quietly resigned to our fate and then jumped up and all hell broke loose. Kids came downstairs worried that there was a fire.

By happy circumstance we had some champagne on hand. It was a good night.
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I watched with a Sparty friend. Before the snap I said - buffs nails - the only way they can lose is if the punter puts the ball into the air.

He still credits me for it happening.

There's a school of thought that UM kept their gunners split out because Jim Harbaugh, asshole that he is, had called for a fake punt. The punter, tasked with getting off a pass, panicked when he mishandled the snap, and forgot that he could just fall on the ball.

True? Maybe . . .

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:23 PM (4HoLg)

209 201 A. H., I have absolutely no recollection of that.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

210 I don't quite qualify as a Badger, but DH was one for a couple of years, majoring in beer and pool, ergo no diploma. Plus, Badgers are a disease in Madison, and everything revolves around drinking before, during, and after a home game. The only time Camp Randall was overwhelmed by anything else, it was the Pink Floyd concert, which I heard but did not attend, since tickets started at something like $500. But I saw the pig, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:20 PM (aeKVE,
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I've been to Madison on business, and it's a neat college town. Of course, that was before St. George Floyd martyred himself, so things may not be as cool.

Michigan State is a couple of miles from the Capitol, in a different city (Lansing vs East Lansing) so it's a bit more sheltered.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:24 PM (ZOv7s)

211
Those damn evil Chinese are coming at us in every way possible and it will take serious prevention to stop them. Did anyone read Christopher Rufo's latest? They've bought a pot farm in California and they're using illegal pesticides and shyte on the plants. The plan is to make Americans sick. Maybe kill us. We need to start excluding them from every damn thing. Yes, I said Exclusion.

Beware the medibles, folks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 09:25 PM (mmrXZ)

212 A. H., I have absolutely no recollection of that.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:24 PM (77rzZ)
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Maybe it was someone else! I am easily confused.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

213 Beware the medibles, folks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 09:25 PM (mmrXZ)
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Always buy local. Michigan is the Texas of the North. We label our produce because reasons. And yes, in-state pot is the stuff people want.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:27 PM (ZOv7s)

214 Punt Bama punt or go ahead and try the long field goal, Nik.
Don’t take Moby Dick seriously.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 09:28 PM (T8bqm)

215 /adjusts tinfoil hat to jaunty angle

The early 70s TV program Kung Fu was a CCP OP.

Posted by: davidt at September 29, 2026 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)

216 There's a school of thought that UM kept their gunners split out because Jim Harbaugh, asshole that he is, had called for a fake punt. The punter, tasked with getting off a pass, panicked when he mishandled the snap, and forgot that he could just fall on the ball.

True? Maybe . . .
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:23 PM (4HoLg)
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The greatest cheater in college football history is currently 0-3 with a brutal schedule ahead of him.

Guy would have been fired in 2020 if Ohio State boat-raced him yet again, but the team got sick. So sad.

And then the cheat began...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

217 Madison is... a mess. I refer to it as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Madison. It is full of militant lesbians, some of whom have a lot of money and influence (Tammy Baldwin, anyone?). Mix that with alcoholic undergrads, "intersectional" assholes, and a bunch of aged hippies, and you get the rabid "protestors" that ravaged the Capitol Building under Scott Walker, where they took Sharpies to the ancient marbles and banged on drums 24/7. It is also in the most beautiful setting, between two gorgeous lakes, and has the oddest funding sources, so it avoids things like downturns in the economy, and you get a great deal of silliness and oddity.

I don't particularly miss it, but it was entertaining.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:29 PM (aeKVE)

218 >>> are legally a dead letter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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What about shotguns?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 09:29 PM (wljQY)

219 Always buy local. Michigan is the Texas of the North. We label our produce because reasons. And yes, in-state pot is the stuff people want.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Now we know why the Green Giant was so jolly!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:30 PM (C6xWR)

220 The early 70s TV program Kung Fu was a CCP OP.
Posted by: davidt at September 29, 2026 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)
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Counterpoint: it was a Taiwanese OP, because the CCP at that point had declared war on its past.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

221 How much of post partum is due to birth control? It does seems strange that is often liberal women who complain the most about post partum. Like maybe they want to get back focused on their career, no more kids, so on the pill they go again.

I dunno, this is wild speculation. But I know from just taking shit like ashwanganda (or now NAC) has radically altered my responses to things when there are other factors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

222 What about shotguns?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 09:29 PM (wljQY)
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I think those are in a different class. That being said, the .410/.45 Long Colt loophole has been out there for 30 years.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:32 PM (ZOv7s)

223 Ryan Day lost those games. The only cheating was Day getting paid to coach those last few games.
Underwood is the worst Michigan QB in 20 years.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 09:32 PM (T8bqm)

224 Harbaugh has two problems: his OC is a fruitcake pothead and Justin Herbert is not Josh Allen.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 09:35 PM (T8bqm)

225 Bee
Hegseth orders any military personnel with Low T be Transferred to the Navy

Sent my son (ex Navy) that and he said,

Think about it. It's the manliest sex you can have!

Posted by: MkY at September 29, 2026 09:37 PM (q6tQZ)

226 I dunno, this is wild speculation. But I know from just taking shit like ashwanganda (or now NAC) has radically altered my responses to things when there are other factors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

The latest murderous bitch did not have enough pharmaceuticals in her system to affect much of anything, regardless of what her "lawyer" maintained. She had the sads, I assume because she had changed her mind about having kids. She was going through who knows what, but she also had daycare for her kids, relatives who spelled her, and a husband who was getting her help. She just wanted to not have kids, so she killed them. She is evil.

No way to interpret that any other way.

I think many women have weird experiences after giving birth. Hell, I had a bit of meltdown after adopting my son, not related to hormones at all. It's a lot of work, you can't really be prepared for it, and it can be overwhelming. At no time did I consider harming my son. At no time did I consider NOT asking for help. Being sad is not the same as losing your mind.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:38 PM (aeKVE)

227 Ryan Day lost those games. The only cheating was Day getting paid to coach those last few games.
Underwood is the worst Michigan QB in 20 years.
Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 09:32 PM (T8bqm)
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No, the NCAA was pretty clear that they cheated, and while many people (including me) expected them to vacate the games, there was no precedent for doing so.

I think the assumption was that U-M would do the right thing and not claim wins tainted by cheating. You know, Leaders And Best, but Michigan is awash in scandal, always another one emerging, and apparently incapable of self-correction.

They're up to half a billion dollars in settlements with no end in sight. The Matt Weiss thing could push them to a full billion, maybe more. Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:39 PM (ZOv7s)

228 At no time did I consider NOT asking for help. Being sad is not the same as losing your mind.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 09:38 PM (aeKVE)

To be fair, you are 'probably' not a psychopath addicted to social media.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

229 Sent my son (ex Navy) that and he said,

Think about it. It's the manliest sex you can have!
Posted by: MkY at September 29, 2026 09:37 PM (q6tQZ)
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It is said that sailors invented sex, but it was Marines who introduced it to women.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)

230 Think about it. It's the manliest sex you can have!
Posted by: MkY at September 29, 2026 09:37 PM (q6tQZ)

Right!

Posted by: ace and garrett at September 29, 2026 09:42 PM (zZu0s)

231 To be fair, you are 'probably' not a psychopath addicted to social media.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 09:41 PM (zZu0s)
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This is nothing new. Magna Mater. Cybele. The mother who consumes her children. It goes waaay back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)

232 220 The early 70s TV program Kung Fu was a CCP OP.
Posted by: davidt at September 29, 2026 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)
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Counterpoint: it was a Taiwanese OP, because the CCP at that point had declared war on its past.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

"Who controls the Past controls the Future."
The CCP did a bang-up job of erasing large swaths of inconvenient history, but they weren't the first to do this in China...emperor Qin Shi Huang did it to Confucian texts he didn't want around way back in the 200s BC/BCE...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:44 PM (l3cgK)

233 229 Sent my son (ex Navy) that and he said,

Think about it. It's the manliest sex you can have!
Posted by: MkY at September 29, 2026 09:37 PM (q6tQZ)
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It is said that sailors invented sex, but it was Marines who introduced it to women.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)

Muslims invented condoms; Europeans removed it from the goats and sheep first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:46 PM (l3cgK)

234 "Who controls the Past controls the Future."
The CCP did a bang-up job of erasing large swaths of inconvenient history, but they weren't the first to do this in China...emperor Qin Shi Huang did it to Confucian texts he didn't want around way back in the 200s BC/BCE...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:44 PM (l3cgK)
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Yep, I cover that in Walls of Men.

The thing is, the CCP then reversed course, and is now hyping Chinese Imperial history because class solidarity only gets you so far. Just like the Soviets embraced the Great Patriotic War.

The funny part is dissidents putting Xi Jinping in Mandarin Imperial regalia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:46 PM (ZOv7s)

235 This is nothing new. Magna Mater. Cybele. The mother who consumes her children. It goes waaay back.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)

I maintain that a parent who kills their own innocent child is a worse monster than a predator that rapes and kills a stranger's child. Predators predate, it's what they do. And for that we should kill them out of hand. But a parent who kills their own child is also betraying a sacred trust.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:47 PM (C6xWR)

236
I think the assumption was that U-M would do the right thing and not claim wins tainted by cheating. You know, Leaders And Best, but Michigan is awash in scandal, always another one emerging, and apparently incapable of self-correction.

They're up to half a billion dollars in settlements with no end in sight. The Matt Weiss thing could push them to a full billion, maybe more. Sad.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

====

It was a long time ago, and people conveniently forget - but when that asshole was hired, there were internal voices pointing out that he was only coming to Ann Arbor to stay on the NFL's radar, that this was anything but a local boy coming home to save the day, and that he'd do anything it took toget back to the NFL.

Self-disciplining would have vindicated that crowd, and there's no way the arrogant asses in the athletic department could allow that.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 29, 2026 09:48 PM (4HoLg)

237 Muslims invented condoms; Europeans removed it from the goats and sheep first.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:46 PM (l3cgK)
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Hmm, I'd tighten that down a bit.

"Muslims invented condoms made from animal guts. Europeans came up with the idea of removing it from the animals."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)

238 234 "Who controls the Past controls the Future."
The CCP did a bang-up job of erasing large swaths of inconvenient history, but they weren't the first to do this in China...emperor Qin Shi Huang did it to Confucian texts he didn't want around way back in the 200s BC/BCE...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:44 PM (l3cgK)
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Yep, I cover that in Walls of Men.

The thing is, the CCP then reversed course, and is now hyping Chinese Imperial history because class solidarity only gets you so far. Just like the Soviets embraced the Great Patriotic War.

The funny part is dissidents putting Xi Jinping in Mandarin Imperial regalia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:46 PM (ZOv7s)

Or the book about the worst Chinese Emperor in history, and that book being banned because it ran with so many parallels to Winnie the Xi...
FYI, the book is "Chongzhen: the Diligent Emperor of a Failed Dynasty": "The book describes the reign of last emperor of the Ming dynasty. It described how the king purged senior officials and mismanaged his kingdom and as the rebels closed in on Beijing, hung himself on a tree outside the Forbidden City."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)

239 Yes, should be hanged, not hung. Reporters don't know grammar.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 09:50 PM (l3cgK)

240
Lol AHL!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 09:50 PM (/QHx4)

241 I maintain that a parent who kills their own innocent child is a worse monster than a predator that rapes and kills a stranger's child. Predators predate, it's what they do. And for that we should kill them out of hand. But a parent who kills their own child is also betraying a sacred trust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 09:47 PM (C6xWR)
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My point is that infanticide is nothing new, and these derangements have a spiritual element, though we have been trained not to pay attention to it.

The flood of support and validation tells us that the ancient demons are still out there and working diligently to degrade and defile humanity.

The whole tranny thing is very much of Cybele - men castrating themselves in orgiastic rites. Wild to see it make such a strong comeback.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)

242 Nood!!!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 29, 2026 09:52 PM (DK5Sh)

243 179 It's tough because people died of lots of other causes before cancer would appear. Childbirth was quite dangerous, and without antibiotics, a scratch could kill you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 29, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

Antibiotics were probably the greatest invention of the 20th century, based on the millions of lives saved around the world.

Posted by: Joemarine at September 29, 2026 09:52 PM (y171U)

244 I maintain that a parent who kills their own innocent child is a worse monster than a predator that rapes and kills a stranger's child. Predators predate, it's what they do. And for that we should kill them out of hand. But a parent who kills their own child is also betraying a sacred trust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So tell me more about the love that you rejected
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
I still don't know
Why did you hurt the very one
Why did you hurt the very one
That you should have protected?

https://youtu.be/AlIs2_DIG2w

Posted by: Marillion at September 29, 2026 09:53 PM (VHUov)

245 Where are those whales again?

Just thought I should consider that before signing up for the church's spring trip to Alaska.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (NFX2v)

246 245 Where are those whales again?

Just thought I should consider that before signing up for the church's spring trip to Alaska.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 09:59 PM (NFX2v)

Las Vegas has lots of whales...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 10:00 PM (l3cgK)

247 246. Las Vegas has lots of whales...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

😳. Say what?!

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 10:02 PM (NFX2v)

Quick Hits

Seattle passes bill to make polyamorous fruitcakes and whores a protected class.

Of course.

So the law will stop landowners from refusing to rent to sleazy smelly polycules with rotating homeless bang-bums.

Seattle passed a measure on Tuesday to extend civil rights protections to non-monogamous people and multigenerational households, and recognize additional sexual orientations and gender identities as protected classes under local law. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the bill.
As the largest city yet to pass such a law, Seattle joins a growing group of local governments acknowledging non-monogamous and polyamorous people as frequent subjects of housing and workplace discrimination, and in need of commensurate protection. Boston suburbs Cambridge and Somerville, and Berkeley and Oakland in California's Bay Area, have previously passed similar policies; Seattle is the 10th city to do so. Advocates say the efforts help local governments serve the many family structures that actually exist, not just the ones that are easy to define.
Research cited by the city council suggests that 10-20% of North Americans have engaged in consensual non-monogamy during their lives, while 5% are currently non-monogamous. More than 50% of respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported experiencing discrimination due to their consensual non-monogamous practices, including in medical settings, workplaces and family court.
Local advocate Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy. Davis said the experience exposed which forms of discrimination were still "not illegal" in Seattle, even as targeting her partner "based on her sexual orientation or her gender identity or political ideology" would have been "covered in Seattle".
Following engagement with advocates, Seattle's Human Rights Commission penned an open letter in December 2025 in favor of a bill to address discrimination "on the basis of family and relationship structure" and to close "loopholes that currently allow exclusion, harassment, and denial of opportunity to persist unchecked".

"Decarceration" comes to Main Street USA.

EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania -- The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher, who lives a few doors down, told WPXI, the local NBC affiliate, that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the street to her house.
It's the kind of street where that still happens. It's also the kind of street where people don't think much about whether the kitchen window is open on a warm September night.
Just after midnight on Thursday, police say someone came through that window.
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Evans, 46, and his wife, Gina, woke up in their third-floor bedroom to find a man in his underwear attacking them with a kitchen knife. Gina Evans later told police, according to the criminal complaint, that the man was "psychotic" and kept talking about God and being God. She yelled for their boys, 8 and 12, to run to a neighbor's house, and they did. Then, badly wounded, she ran to another neighbor's house herself.
Her husband died in the hospital. He was a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; co-medical director of its pediatric transport team, the doctors who go get the sickest children by helicopter and ambulance; and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Police found the suspect hiding in the overgrown part of neighbor Sandra Trappen's garden, bleeding from deep cuts on his hands.
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"This is not a place, you know, where you would generally feel fearful," Trappen said.
His name is Elijah Hemingway. He is 32 and from Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood. He is charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide, burglary, and aggravated assault. He is presumed innocent.
What has unsettled people well beyond this block is what came out over the next 72 hours. Hemingway had been arrested in Allegheny County in July on a felony burglary charge and released without posting a dime. He had spent most of 2025 in a Florida jail and a court-ordered mental-health commitment after allegedly beating a girlfriend and fighting sheriff's deputies. And on Saturday, county police charged him with raping a woman on a footpath in Wilkinsburg, a working-class borough bordering Pittsburgh, about 14 hours before the Evans family was attacked.

Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her cross-dressing "bimbofication" husband. If you forgot that scandal, he would dress like a girl while wearing ludicrously oversized prosthetic breasts.

Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband Bryon, citing irreconcilable differences months after a bombshell report detailed his affinity for "bimbofication" fetish models.
The former South Dakota governor and Homeland Security secretary filed Monday in Hamlin County Court in her home state.
The couple have been married since 1992 and have three children: daughters Kassidy, 31, Kennedy, 29, and son Booker, 23. Kassidy and Kennedy both have children of their own.
In late March, days after Noem was fired as DHS chief by President Trump, the Daily Mail reported that Bryon Noem regularly chatted up women from the so-called "bimbofication" scene, in which adult performers augment their breasts with massive amounts of saline to achieve a "Barbie doll"-like appearance.
Citing "hundreds" of messages sent to three models, the Mail reported that Byron Noem said he coveted "huge, huge ridiculous boobs" -- and even shared a photo of himself wearing pink hot pants and a flesh-colored, well-endowed bodysuit.
A rep for Noem told The Post at the time that she was "devastated" by the revelation, adding: "The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time."

Nancy French reportedly sighed and said, "What I would do to have a manly husband like that."

These people are not our friends.

Martha Raddatz telling JD Vance that only �a handful� of Venezuelan gangs took over apartments in CO., was not the own she thought it was. pic.twitter.com/8OoAznHe4t
— Bob Loblaw 🇺🇸 (@1BobLoblaw) September 29, 2026

Helen Joyce
@HJoyceGender
The last "woman" to be executed in the US is actually a man. I cannot express how tired I am of this. Nothing makes media outlets write this sort of nonsense, even if governments promote it. What happened to speaking truth to power? https://thetimes.com/article/0d5029

Wesley Yang
@wesyang
Scott McLaughlin stalked, raped and stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death. He was executed by the state of Missouri in 2023. He was not a woman. He was a man. He was a man when he stalked, raped, and murdered his ex-girlfried. He was a man while waiting on death row for his execution.
The Times of London calls him a woman because he began calling himself a woman named Amber while he was in prison. But calling yourself a woman when you are a man does not make you woman. A man who calls himself a woman remains a man who calls himself a woman.
The state of Missouri kept him housed in a men's maximum security prison while awaiting his execution. They allowed him to start taking estrogen in prison because of a successful lawsuit by another male prisoner demanding the right to take estrogen in prison. Taking estrogen did not make Scott McLaughlin a woman. A man who injects himself with estrogen remains a man.
If Scott McLaughlin had never stalked, raped, and murdered his ex-girlfriend, if he had declared himself to be a woman while being a duly employed citizen in good standing and not while a death row inmate, he would still have been a man. Scott McLaughlin was not a woman because he was an adult human male. Because he was an adult human male, he was a man. A man is an adult human male. All adult human males are men. No adult human males are women.

Scott McLaughlin stalked, raped and stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death. He was executed by the state of Missouri in 2023. He was not a woman. He was a man. He was a man when he stalked, raped, and murdered his ex-girlfried. He was a man while waiting on death row for his� https://t.co/QR5czTTHKU pic.twitter.com/pPcxs9RhFs
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 29, 2026

Meanwhile, many upper-income women have adopted a new fad in nail treatment. They're skipping the polish.

The BBC decided this must be racist, because it must be that white women are attempting to distinguish themselves from lower class women, particularly black women.

Has to be racist -- because literally every choice a white person makes throughout his or her day is racist, definitionally.

In recent months, artsy shots of glossy naked nails have been flooding social media and taking over fashion runways and red carpets, which some are viewing as the latest symbol of "quiet luxury".
But critics argue the bare nails trend actually says something about class, the hamster wheel of beauty standards, and who gets to define what is considered tasteful.
Nail art's historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say.
"That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities," beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo tells the BBC.

They deleted the article due to the backlash, but left up the tweet promoting the New Racism Detected article:

Can�t even talk about nails without bringing up race and white supremacy, you absolute fucking melts. And you wonder why your funding is going down the drain. Pratts.
— Murdocke (@murdocke) September 26, 2026

This is partly due to racism -- and partly due to leftwing women's demand that they be validated and praised by everyone else for literally every single trivial thing they do. If some women aren't doing the exact same thing they are doing, then that's not validation -- in fact, that's a covert attack, which must be answered with blistering attempts at cancellation.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM

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1 Smack!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:02 PM (W2Pud)

2 And YEET!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:02 PM (W2Pud)

3 I have short, clean, unpolished nails because I touch patients EVERY DAY and no one wants those nasty germ ridden claws touching them. Do
You know how much filth and grime live under this things?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:03 PM (W2Pud)

4 Hey-o!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (4KUe5)

5 Proud of my white superior nails with no polish.

I wish someone would say, "Well, Martha, bless your heart." While thinking she doesn't have one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (hzuYO)

6 I have grease and grime for fingers

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (jrgJz)

7 "Seattle passes bill to make polyamorous fruitcakes and whores a protected class."

protected class is a completely made up term that now unfortunately has legal meaning. It's just like the liberals completely made up the right to an abortion as a constitutional right.

Hopefully scotus will smack down and eliminate the term protected class from law just like they did with the right to an abortion.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 06:07 PM (I43vL)

8 Meh. Seattle is just trying to be edgy.

Honestly, it’s all virtue signaling and very few people care.

It’s all a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:08 PM (W2Pud)

9 " literally every choice a white person makes throughout his or her day is racist, definitionally"

I've known this for years now.
next time I care will also be the first.

"hate us and want us dead"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 29, 2026 06:10 PM (VyBeY)

10 Bob Dole endorses Elric The Blade. Bob Dole approved this message.

Posted by: Bob Dole at September 29, 2026 06:10 PM (xg/DD)

11 I have short, clean, unpolished nails because ...

The day that I have to defend my nails has not come and will not any time soon.

Oy vay, what has become of us that we need to respond to such nonsense?

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (F3Dlr)

12 I've finished testing my multi-agent setup. Works pretty damn well.

It consists of an 64GB M4 Max as "The Architect" doing the high level reasoning, a minisforum ms-01 with an rtx a2000e with 16gb pf vram as the main coding platform and an i7 with an rtx a2000 6gb vram card running scripts and text vectorization.

Basically a local version of chatGPT for augmenting my ERP devlopment and other projects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)

13 Melts and Pratts?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)

14 The point of the bare nails story to make sure whites can do NOTHING without as it being declared white supremacy. Can’t be on time, do math, hike, read to your kids you guys - that makes you ultra-extreme-righting nazi raaacist!

We get no “safe space.”

It’s like climate change - there’s nothing that can’t be attributed to it, just like our inherent, permanent all-encompassing white supremacy. Gah!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (4KUe5)

15 13 Melts and Pratts?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)
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Wankers, Limey Ginks?

Posted by: Beats me at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (xg/DD)

16 Polyamorous? Is that someone who can't keep his fly zipped?

Posted by: Randy Senior Citizen.. at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (Fn+3X)

17 England hit rock bottom, finally.

They arrested a 92 year old widow in her bunny slippers for calling Burnham a bastard or something.

https://tinyurl.com/2wdyj6ub

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (CnE10)

18 I have short polished nails. I like nail polish. I always choose tasteful colors. No nail art for me.

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (lJ0H4)

19
I thought the nail thing was a joke at first.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (/QHx4)

20 beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo

Beauty Journalist? Who do you have to blow to get that silly gig?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 06:14 PM (wzoIG)

21
C'mon Y'all! Time to put on your Talarico pants and Dance!!!

https://tinyurl.com/482s3vms

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 06:14 PM (YSUhf)

22 What makes us have to respond is fatigue.

Enough with this crap, we see the op.
It’s like Radio Rwanda, continuously dehumanizing us so that it’s easier to kill us, should that moment arrive.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:14 PM (4KUe5)

23
Polyamorous? Is that someone who can't keep his fly zipped?
Posted by: Randy Senior Citizen

Parrot love

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:15 PM (Cqx++)

24 England hit rock bottom, finally.

They arrested a 92 year old widow in her bunny slippers for calling Burnham a bastard or something.

It's the Gunpowder Plot all over again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 06:15 PM (wzoIG)

25 >>>ludicrously oversized prosthetic breasts.

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:15 PM (dK+Kv)

26 Living or work in a city that hates normals is short sighted.

Looking at Seattle.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (NnhvP)

27 If you're a Leftist and can't find something legitimate to complain about, make something up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (l3cgK)

28 Local advocate Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy.

I'm going to guess "partner" tried to put too many un-related non-minor "dependents" on its health insurance.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (vJrRc)

29 >>The BBC decided this must be racist, because it must be that white women are attempting to distinguish themselves from lower class women,....

Other ways many white women are "racist"..
- Not wearing wigs
- Not weighing 300 lbs.
- Tipping.
- Only having one baby daddy, and he is husband
- Using English to name their kids
- "inside voice"

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (+UEwf)

30 25 >>>ludicrously oversized prosthetic breasts.

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:15 PM (dK+Kv)

Falsies

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (l3cgK)

31 Nail art's historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say.

Okay, given that, I don't see the problem with white women not wearing fancy nails.

Can't be culturally appropriative now, can we?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:17 PM (vJrRc)

32 ***More than 50% of respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported experiencing discrimination due to their consensual non-monogamous practices, including in medical settings, workplaces and family court.***
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They were being discriminated against while having group sex
in medical facilities and in the court house. What? Go to the end
of the line or Wait your turn.
Wow

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (wljQY)

33 When my wife's hair fell out the first time due to chemo, she was able to get wigs to cover her head, listed as "cranial prosthetics"...wouldn't a cranial prosthetic be a fake cranium? We both laughed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

34 14 The point of the bare nails story to make sure whites can do NOTHING without as it being declared white supremacy. Can’t be on time, do math, hike, read to your kids you guys - that makes you ultra-extreme-righting nazi raaacist!

We get no “safe space.”

It’s like climate change - there’s nothing that can’t be attributed to it, just like our inherent, permanent all-encompassing white supremacy. Gah!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (4KUe5)

Next we'll be told white women using clear nail polish is culturally appropriating a custom of prehistoric aborigine women in Tasmania.

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (5rh/l)

35 >>>Scott McLaughlin was not a woman because he was an adult human male. Because he was an adult human male, he was a man. A man is an adult human male. All adult human males are men. No adult human males are women.

Everyone look at the biologist!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (dK+Kv)

36 Other ways many white women are "racist"..
- Not wearing wigs
- Not weighing 300 lbs.
- Tipping.
- Only having one baby daddy, and he is husband
- Using English to name their kids
- "inside voice"

- Showing up on time
- Paying for your cosmetics
- knowing who your kids' daddy is

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (wzoIG)

37 Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions

Posted by: an old joke, but still applies at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (88C+u)

38 gender identities
_________________________

Hi there. Just a simple question....to which gender identities does this law apply?

(the point being that laws that don't define and outline exclusively to determine to whom the law applies and addresses...really can't be enforced).

You could make shit up on the spot to gain advantage.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (dIske)

39 Seattle passes bill to make polyamorous fruitcakes and whores a protected class.

Of course.

So the law will stop landowners from refusing to rent to sleazy smelly polycules with rotating homeless bang-bums.

With apologies to our Washington State morons, we need to dust off and nuke the Seattle area from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Next stop Portland at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (TbWk/)

40 Seattle passes bill to make polyamorous fruitcakes a protected class.

I had no idea that fruitcakes had active sex lives or needed to be protected. I never liked fruitcake😉 Please take care of yourself , Ace . Thanks for finding and writing about all this crazy stuff. I hope you find things to do to decompress. The cafe threads helps us with that. Thanks.

Off to read "The best of James Herriot" it makes me laugh .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (JrHfD)

41 I let my granddaughter paint my toenails 3 weeks ago after her 6th birthday party. I thought the stuff would wash off quickly...but no.
I do, however, get lots of compliments from women when I wear flip flops. I think they want a gay man to shop with or something.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (UjdFS)

42 The guy deserved to be able executed for that look alone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (jivel)

43 The Dems using Soviet/Russian prosecutorial methodologies:

The quote “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” is most commonly attributed to Andrey Vyshinsky, the Stalin‑era Soviet prosecutor who orchestrated the Moscow show trials.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (aOPL9)

44 32 ***More than 50% of respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported experiencing discrimination due to their consensual non-monogamous practices, including in medical settings, workplaces and family court.***
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They were being discriminated against while having group sex
in medical facilities and in the court house. What? Go to the end
of the line or Wait your turn.
Wow

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (wljQY)

No, they weren't allowed in as family because they weren't legally married...since, you know, polygamous and polyandrous marriages are illegal, for now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (l3cgK)

45 Eh. I could see women not wanting to get their nails done. But at the same time, that is a thing women 'do for themselves'. No guy is going to look at your nails and decide youre not the one.

I mean, unless they are really hideous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

46 Nail art's historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say.

Okay, given that, I don't see the problem with white women not wearing fancy nails.

Can't be culturally appropriative now, can we?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:17 PM
(vJrRc)
----
The ultimate no-win scenario.

Go with plain nails and you are racist.

Go with fancy nails and you are culturally appropriative, which just so happens to also be racist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (FZ29D)

47 Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 06:19 PM (aOPL9)

"Death of Stalin" has Laurence "Pedobear" Beria say this, or quote it

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (88C+u)

48 More than 50% of respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported experiencing discrimination due to their consensual non-monogamous practices, including in medical settings, workplaces and family court.***
---

Every dude gets fucked in family court. It is known.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (nESHF)

49 - knowing who your kids' daddy is

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (wzoIG)

There was a TV show called "Paternity Court", which I called "Who's Yo Daddy". Wife laughed at that one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (l3cgK)

50 What's the saying? When everything is racist, that's your only hammer for nails.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 06:21 PM (47/pr)

51 When my wife's hair fell out the first time due to chemo, she was able to get wigs to cover her head, listed as "cranial prosthetics"...wouldn't a cranial prosthetic be a fake cranium? We both laughed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

Don't lose your fake head over it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:21 PM (dK+Kv)

52 37 Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions

Posted by: an old joke, but still applies at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (88C+u)

And they still celebrate it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:21 PM (l3cgK)

53 He had spent most of 2025 in a Florida jail and a court-ordered mental-health commitment after allegedly beating a girlfriend and fighting sheriff's deputies.

Wow. It didn't take his therapist long at all to dose him up to murder.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 06:21 PM (OX0hA)

54 Byron might be a shoe-in with the Dems.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 06:22 PM (wWIcc)

55 The ick factor is, and should be, a valid political factor for voters to consider.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (4NO2D)

56 ***woke up in their third-floor bedroom to find a man in his underwear attacking them***
---

How did they find him? Like, with a flashlight?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (wljQY)

57 I thought the nail thing was a joke at first.
Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 06:13 PM (/QHx4)

Technically it is, however it is also the tyranny we live under if we accept their framing

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (rbvCR)

58 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (+UEwf)

59 Just remove all your fingernails and toenails.

You'll be much happier then.

Posted by: AWFLs at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (YcOeP)

60 They've been interjecting critical theory into "beauty standards" and cosmetics and shit for ages now. Hair extensions, colors of foundations, eye makeup, false eyelashes, braids, and now nails. Cultural appropriation, racism, sexism, blah blah blah. Worthless intersectional scum grasping for relevancy. Shut the fuck up and drink a fatal dose of acetone already.

Posted by: So...fucking...tired of it at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (TbWk/)

61 They hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

62 55 The ick factor is, and should be, a valid political factor for voters to consider.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (4NO2D)

They'd do better with more tentacles...

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (l3cgK)

63 There was a TV show called "Paternity Court", which I called "Who's Yo Daddy". Wife laughed at that one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:20 PM (l3cgK)

Meal-ticket bingo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (dK+Kv)

64 They hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

The polyamorous fruitcakes and whores?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:25 PM (dK+Kv)

65 Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Coloring the nails was allegedly a thing in ancient China.

Probably spread to Japan from there, if they didn't have a home-grown version of it.

No clue when people started in with colored laquer

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

66 58 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (+UEwf)

AI sez: "Painted nails originated in ancient China around 3000 BCE, where people used a mixture of egg whites, gelatin, beeswax, and vegetable dyes to color their nails. Other early instances of nail coloring were found in ancient Egypt and Babylon, where different colors indicated social status."

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 29, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

67 So we all knew the left was going to legalize muslim polygamy but the question was how since in theory feminists HATE polygamy.

And now we have our answer. Legalize polycules with one land whale married to a few male losers. And when Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed then marries Aysha, Fatima, Laquisha and Karen he'll have an established legal precedent.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:25 PM (sKqQm)

68 58 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Vietnam judging by the salons near here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (nESHF)

69

Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

The Mayor: I think he's got a point.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (Cqx++)

70 Just remove all your fingernails and toenails.

You'll be much happier then.
Posted by: AWFLs at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (YcOeP)

I would gladly remove your fingernails and toenails. Slowly. With a pair of pliers.

Posted by: Be awful to AWFLs at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (TbWk/)

71 off cephalopod appendage freak

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

72 Is there a limit to a polycule? Seattle government may find itself wanting to define a reasonable number of wives and husbands a city employee has in having beneficiaries.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (47/pr)

73 ***His name is Elijah Hemingway
---

Missing from this story is the part where her husband called out, 'Elijah', the assailants name. They knew each other.
There are missing parts to this story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (wljQY)

74 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Vietnam judging by the salons near here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

China around 3000BC

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (lJ0H4)

75 AI says it was a french woman that mostly introduced modern nail painting in the 1920s

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (sKqQm)

76 Well if they insist Whites are superior just go with it. That should make them happy.

Posted by: Case at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (9+0gc)

77 64 They hold hands while they sleep.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:24 PM (Cqx++)

The polyamorous fruitcakes and whores?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:25 PM (dK+Kv)

At Christmastime, I only buy the regular fruitcakes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

78 Is there a limit to a polycule? Seattle government may find itself wanting to define a reasonable number of wives and husbands a city employee has in having beneficiaries./i]

Get a gubmint job

Charge $20 to add someone to your health insurance family plan by polyculing them

Profit

And this time the underwear gnomes are onto something

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (sKqQm)

79 72 Is there a limit to a polycule? Seattle government may find itself wanting to define a reasonable number of wives and husbands a city employee has in having beneficiaries.
Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (47/pr)
------------
I think we can be of service.

Posted by: Your friendly local Imam at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (xg/DD)

80 58 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (+UEwf)

_____________________

I'm going to guess the the Kidney Disease Ward somewhere. Kidney disease makes your fingernails two-tone pink and white. Some alcoholic there for dyalysis thought..."Hey, there's money in this!"

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (dIske)

81 What didn't originate in China?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Cqx++)

82 72 Is there a limit to a polycule? Seattle government may find itself wanting to define a reasonable number of wives and husbands a city employee has in having beneficiaries.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 06:26 PM (47/pr)

I would tell you, but it involves M-A-T-H...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

83 At Christmastime, I only buy the regular fruitcakes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

If you're the only one that eats it, does that make it monogamous fruitcake?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (dK+Kv)

84 So, just out of curiosity, where did nail painting originate? I am guessing France. No Africa. Not Latinoland. Maybe China or Japan though.

Anyone know?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:23 PM (+UEwf)

Don't know about coloring, but I think the super long nails thing started in Imperial China, as an indication of royalty. It made it impossible to work with your hands and showed you weren't one of those filthy peasants who had to work with his hands. It might have just been the emperor who did the nail thing but it's been ages since I read that little factoid.

Posted by: Nailed it at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (TbWk/)

85 Keep my nails trimmed super close. Always have. Guy thing I guess. Cannot imagine putting polish on them. Again, guy thing. How do women manage long nails, have no idea. Seems pretty limiting.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar8)

86 Most violent crime comes from a dedicated 1% or so.

Remove them from society via prison or the death penalty and crime will go down

Let them roam free and crime will go up

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (sKqQm)

87 81 What didn't originate in China?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:28 PM (Cqx++)

Blacks. Whites.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

88 Martha Raddatz must work to present herself as ugly as she appears.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (wljQY)

89 85 Keep my nails trimmed super close. Always have. Guy thing I guess. Cannot imagine putting polish on them. Again, guy thing. How do women manage long nails, have no idea. Seems pretty limiting.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar

Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

90 Activists trying to destroy the nail salon business?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (wWIcc)

91 Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy"

The bovine excrement stinks all the way to here...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (WYc5K)

92 Nutcase and fruitcakes overtook Minorities as #1 protected class
Ha ha

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (Ia/+0)

93 Okay, what’s a polycule? Is this something I should know about?

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (Gqar8)

94 "It’s like Radio Rwanda, continuously dehumanizing us so that it’s easier to kill us, should that moment arrive."

which is why Happy Fun J-Frame goes everywhere with me

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 29, 2026 06:31 PM (VyBeY)

95 If you're the only one that eats it, does that make it monogamous fruitcake?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (dK+Kv)

How many gammas are in it normally

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 06:31 PM (rbvCR)

96 83 At Christmastime, I only buy the regular fruitcakes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

If you're the only one that eats it, does that make it monogamous fruitcake?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (dK+Kv)

Hmm...I'm generally the only one that does eat it...might also explain my weight gain...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

97 89 85 Keep my nails trimmed super close. Always have. Guy thing I guess. Cannot imagine putting polish on them. Again, guy thing. How do women manage long nails, have no idea. Seems pretty limiting.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar

Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

Nope. I imagine it’s entertaining.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar8)

98 Having fancy nails is another thing women do to impress each other.

I don't even notice when the GF gets hers done.

And I gotta imagine having long nails is annoying when you are trying to do anything with precision

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (sKqQm)

99 Spouse of 40 years has never painted her nails. Who knew she was on the cutting edge of a trend?

Posted by: RS at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (GYx3d)

100 Coloring the nails was allegedly a thing in ancient China.

Probably spread to Japan from there, if they didn't have a home-grown version of it.

No clue when people started in with colored laquer
Posted by: FeatherBlade
-------------------
I should keep quiet but I can't help myself.

10 years ago, I would just check wikipedia.

However, China has an active program to saturate wikipedia and now all historical writing with made up bullshit about how China invented everything. I used to get annoyed because their evidence was always very very thin, and mostly lies.

I don't know if it came from China as people are saying, or if that is just another example. Anyway, thanks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (+UEwf)

101 respondents to a 2018 academic survey reported"

Hmm. So more BS...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (WYc5K)

102 I also, had my nails done.

Posted by: Barrabus at September 29, 2026 06:33 PM (YcOeP)

103 I dozed off at work. Not even deskcycling is keeping me awake.

I'm going to blame the soothing voice of the podcaster I'm listening to and take no responsibility for my own failure to go to bed before midnight.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:33 PM (vJrRc)

104 97 89 85 Keep my nails trimmed super close. Always have. Guy thing I guess. Cannot imagine putting polish on them. Again, guy thing. How do women manage long nails, have no idea. Seems pretty limiting.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar

Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

Nope. I imagine it’s entertaining.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar

https://youtu.be/gVhf6JBFawU

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)

105 Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?..."

The DMV lady?

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:33 PM (WYc5K)

106 THERE. ARE. FOUR. GAMMAS.

Posted by: Jean Luc Piggggard at September 29, 2026 06:34 PM (rbvCR)

107 Okay, what’s a polycule? "

It's polly with a cracker and a speech impediment...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:34 PM (WYc5K)

108 Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy"

And how do you know someone is into polycules?
Same way you know someone's a vegan...

Posted by: MkY at September 29, 2026 06:34 PM (q6tQZ)

109 Someday, footbinding will make a resurgence. Just get an influencer or two, with the proper amount of influence to promote it. People are stupid, per the internet.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:35 PM (Gqar8)

110 However, China has an active program to saturate wikipedia and now all historical writing with made up bullshit about how China invented everything. I used to get annoyed because their evidence was always very very thin, and mostly lies.

I don't know if it came from China as people are saying, or if that is just another example. Anyway, thanks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (+UEwf)

Bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, COVID...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:35 PM (l3cgK)

111 What didn't originate in China?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,

Can't be coo-coo clocks, that is Russia's gig.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 06:35 PM (NnhvP)

112 THERE. ARE. FOUR. GAMMAS."

Gamma, gamma, gamma, gamma, gamachamelion...

/

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (WYc5K)

113 I don't know if it came from China as people are saying, or if that is just another example. Anyway, thanks.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

I'm sure it's one of those things that was independently invented everywhere, so that AI summary that it "originated" in China ... uses the wrong word.

It's just something that appears in historical-setting novels, and I've never considered the question about anywhere else.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (vJrRc)

114 104 97 89 85 Keep my nails trimmed super close. Always have. Guy thing I guess. Cannot imagine putting polish on them. Again, guy thing. How do women manage long nails, have no idea. Seems pretty limiting.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:29 PM (Gqar

Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

Nope. I imagine it’s entertaining.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar

https://youtu.be/gVhf6JBFawU
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)

My immediate thought was spiders.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar8)

115
>>on Saturday, county police charged him with raping a woman on a footpath in Wilkinsburg, a working-class borough bordering Pittsburgh, about 14 hours before the Evans family was attacked.

==================

I feel evil every time I ask this, but it's a legit question. How do the people of Edgewood vote? Guess what? 85% Democrat. They got what they voted for.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (mmrXZ)

116 What didn't originate in China?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

All our personal data.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (OX0hA)

117
My immediate thought was spiders.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar

Yes, me too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

118 51 When my wife's hair fell out the first time due to chemo, she was able to get wigs to cover her head, listed as "cranial prosthetics"...wouldn't a cranial prosthetic be a fake cranium? We both laughed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

Don't lose your fake head over it.

everybody wants prosthetic foreheads for their real foreheads

Posted by: they might be giants at September 29, 2026 06:37 PM (v3pYe)

119 Same way you know someone's a vegan..."

So, a bike rider...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:37 PM (WYc5K)

120 Activists trying to destroy the nail salon business?
Posted by: Anna Puma

The opposite, I think.

Trying to shame white women into continuing to go to the salons because they see a downturn in the fancy nail business.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:37 PM (vJrRc)

121 I’m guessing the push to recognize polyamorous relationships is about benefits, not being able to visit a loved one in the hospital.
Yeah, we remember that exact emotional argument with the push for SSM. Aaaaand then look what happened. A lot more than new visitors to sick people.

Hard to imagine all of the fallout should the left succeed in legalizing polygamy. Probably would make current benefits fraud today look quaint, same with chain migration (Ilhan Omar marries not just her brother, but all of her cousins).

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:37 PM (4KUe5)

122 Fangernayls

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 06:38 PM (UYYJi)

123 117
My immediate thought was spiders.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar

Yes, me too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

Boy, did we dodge a bullet.

Posted by: The hiring manager at the balloon factory at September 29, 2026 06:38 PM (xg/DD)

124 People are stupid, per the internet."

Yep.

Say, anyone wanna buy some tulip bulbs?

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:38 PM (WYc5K)

125 123 117
My immediate thought was spiders.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar

Yes, me too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

Boy, did we dodge a bullet.
Posted by: The hiring manager at the balloon factory at September 29, 2026 06:38 PM (xg/DD)

Lol

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:38 PM (Gqar8)

126 Hard to imagine all of the fallout should the left succeed in legalizing polygamy. Probably would make current benefits fraud today look quaint, same with chain migration (Ilhan Omar marries not just her brother, but all of her cousins).

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:37 PM (4KUe5)

Imagine divorce court...how much does the wife who's leaving get? Half? I doubt it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (l3cgK)

127 Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her cross-dressing "bimbofication" husband.

She should have put him down like the dog.
Or should I not say that sort of thing?

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (kU0PQ)

128 To paraphrase a popular YouTube video:
“It’s not about the nails!” Lol

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (4KUe5)

129 100 However, China has an active program to saturate wikipedia and now all historical writing with made up bullshit about how China invented everything.

you know who else invented everything?

Posted by: wakanda at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (v3pYe)

130 127 Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her cross-dressing "bimbofication" husband.

She should have put him down like the dog.
Or should I not say that sort of thing?

Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (kU0PQ)

Joke punchline: "You Americans, always getting it wrong; you threw off the wrong bitch."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

131 I heard Martha Raddatz actually Is George Ssnagglepus doing the trans thing.

Posted by: Fuller brush salesMan at September 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Mx+TJ)

132 Boy, did we dodge a bullet.
Posted by: The hiring manager at the balloon factory

*fistbump*

Posted by: Posted by: The hiring manager at the condom factory at September 29, 2026 06:40 PM (YcOeP)

133 Did China invent dog eating??

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:40 PM (Gqar8)

134 Polycule - fancy name for a throple.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 06:41 PM (wWIcc)

135 I’m guessing the push to recognize polyamorous relationships is about benefits, not being able to visit a loved one in the hospital
Posted by: Lizzy

But think of the bright side, if they succeed in making benefits too expensive for employers, maybe employers will decide to just add the benefit amount they're paying to people's paychecks and stop offering benefits.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:41 PM (vJrRc)

136 95 How many gammas are in it normally

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at September 29, 2026 06:41 PM (v3pYe)

137 "you know who else invented everything?
Posted by: wakanda"

The Russians!

Posted by: Chekoff at September 29, 2026 06:42 PM (MWfyi)

138 134 Polycule - fancy name for a throple.

"But wait, there's more!"

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 29, 2026 06:42 PM (VyBeY)

139 I just brought it up to make people more aware.

Another point is that "originating" meaning there is 3000 year old reference to someone where "color" and "finger" are mentioned in the same document (which is the usual quality of their evidence) or even some very few people doing it at some isolated period is not the same.

At some point, someone said -- hey, this is a not crazy thing for all women of a certain class to do, so let's make it a regular practice. Then someone started selling the little bottles with a brush. I wonder when that was.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 06:42 PM (+UEwf)

140 138 134 Polycule - fancy name for a throple.

"But wait, there's more!"

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 29, 2026 06:42 PM (VyBeY)

Imagine a Venn Diagram...

Posted by: Kumala Whorris at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (l3cgK)

141 ->> Scott McLaughlin stalked, raped and stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death.

I am really gonna miss that guy. There just aren’t enough murdering cross-dressing psychopaths anymore, but then I’m nostalgic and a sucker for a guy with a five o’clock shadow wearing pigtails.

Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (3arSl)

142 I saw a woman at a KFC that had 4 inch nails. I thought that was disgusting. How does she manage the hygeine process that follows excremental activity?

Posted by: Minuteman at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (47/pr)

143 Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM

I had a woman who worked for me that had long painted fancy nails she could type faster and better than me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (I43vL)

144 Boy, did we dodge a bullet.
Posted by: The hiring manager at the balloon factory"

Wanna bet?

/judge hearing employment case...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (gIXd2)

145 Do WNBA players have long nails?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:44 PM (Cqx++)

146 143 Ever watch a woman with 2" fingernails type?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM

I had a woman who worked for me that had long painted fancy nails she could type faster and better than me.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (I43vL

One armed people type faster than me.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:45 PM (Gqar8)

147 How does she manage the hygeine process that follows excremental activity?"

Duh - The three seashells...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:45 PM (gIXd2)

148 More wine!!!
It’s all just so depressing and avoidable.
Old dog I am.

Posted by: Billythesquid at September 29, 2026 06:45 PM (x4l2h)

149 "But think of the bright side, if they succeed in making benefits too expensive for employers, maybe employers will decide to just add the benefit amount they're paying to people's paychecks and stop offering benefits.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:41 PM (vJrRc)"

Nah, don't forget WA is hellhole for state payroll taxes for various mandated programs and benefits. This move means almost nobody will hire these freaks if it means signing on for benefits for several others.

The dumb part here is that I don't have any issue with people shacking up together. But obviously commies aren't people, and they're just doing it to be edgy anyways

Posted by: heya at September 29, 2026 06:45 PM (Km6p/)

150 145 Do WNBA players have long nails?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:44 PM (Cqx++)

Imagine all the flattened balls and broken nails...and the injuries!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:45 PM (l3cgK)

151
Speaking of polycules, my treasured Great British Baking Show is jumping the shark. The madly popular Prue, who is well into her 80s and fun af with incredible chemistry with the co-host Paul Hollywood, stepped back from her judging to pursue other interests. She's been replaced by Nigella Lawson, whose name I recognize but about whom I know nothing except that she is turning it into the Nigella Lawson Show. NO chemistry, no charm, no personality, doesn't even chat with the bakers or the co-stars.

As for the contestants, for about 5 seasons the show has been recycling the same gang of box-checkers: the gay Indian dude, the gay Arab dude, the incredibly messy-looking Caribbean woman, the veiled Muslim girl, the neurodivergent white girl with a tweety voice...

This year, they have a drag queen who is living in a polycule. In the first show, he baked a cake representing himself: it had a little candy mirror, which you crack and then see behind it a little figure of himself as a dressed-up woman. Ms. Lawson called it "profound." "A lot of us feel we have a person beyond the surface," she intoned over the three-layered confection.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (mmrXZ)

152 One armed people type faster than me"

Michelle Fields whimpers

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (gIXd2)

153 If you vote for it, suck it up when it gets there

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (Ia/+0)

154 Where did.nail polish come.from? Are you listening to yourself?

I. Don't. Care. Martha

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (bX16E)

155 How does she manage the hygeine process that follows excremental activity?"

Duh - The three seashells...
Posted by: man

Don't shake hands with them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (NnhvP)

156

everybody wants prosthetic foreheads for their real foreheads
Posted by: they might be giants

So you're saying that five-heads could make a comeback? And people will fake each other out by wearing prosthetic foreheads to pretend to have a sexier five-head?

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (QVmho)

157 Gulf of America's water is so calm all the ships traveling from Venezuela to TX and LA will use so little fuel they will be able to make two trips on one tank.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:47 PM (wljQY)

158 155 How does she manage the hygeine process that follows excremental activity?"

Duh - The three seashells...
Posted by: man

Don't shake hands with them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 06:46 PM (NnhvP)

Maybe like the Scotsman in a kilt that sat on his bride's white dress...and left it less than white?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:48 PM (l3cgK)

159 If you vote for it, suck it up when it gets there"

Feelings, whoa whoa feeeelings

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:48 PM (gIXd2)

160 People are stupid, per the internet.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 06:35 PM (Gqar

People are stupid per experience.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)

161 Hey, wth—you probably need nail polish remover. Unless you let the grands use regular paint or something like that, remover should get it off. Any pharmacy should have it, in the cosmetics aisle.

Posted by: Suze at September 29, 2026 06:48 PM (o9Qjx)

162 The revolving door/no or low bail shit needs to stop

I have a big legal circus to deal with over some shitstain that should have been in jail the last decade plus, who was (and now mind bogglingly still is) out on bail, and last year a close family friend had a family member murdered by someone also out on bail.

Enough is enough.

Posted by: heya at September 29, 2026 06:49 PM (Km6p/)

163 Or if you have a bottle of acetone around.

I wonder if MEK would take it off? Bet it would.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

164 In hygienic environments keeping nails trimmed is a job requirement.

Under your nails is a lot of nasty stuff collecting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

165 No, they weren't allowed in as family because they weren't legally married...since, you know, polygamous and polyandrous marriages are illegal, for now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

Oh, I thought they were practicing sex at the clinic and wouldn't let somebody play. Are you sure that's not what it was?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:51 PM (wljQY)

166 I wonder if MEK would take it off?"

Martin Edward King?

/ that's a joke, son

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:51 PM (gIXd2)

167 "I had a woman who worked for me that had long painted fancy nails she could type faster and better than me.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 06:43 PM (I43vL)"

big difference between chicks that just have long nails, and ghettopattamus claws

Posted by: heya at September 29, 2026 06:52 PM (Km6p/)

168 164 In hygienic environments keeping nails trimmed is a job requirement.

Under your nails is a lot of nasty stuff collecting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

When I did at-home peritoneal dialysis, I had to keep my nails trimmed short, and during the handwashing phase, I had to wash under each nail and rinse from the tips down...
Did that pretty much every night for five years...only had peritonitis ONCE, at it wasn't because of my hookup hygiene...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:52 PM (l3cgK)

169 Pro Tip: it's legal to discriminate against people who smoke.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 06:52 PM (RIvkX)

170
Enough is enough.
Posted by: heya

================

Maddening. I'm so sorry for the friend.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 06:52 PM (mmrXZ)

171 it's legal to discriminate against people who smoke"

"Smoke" or "smoki'n"?

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:54 PM (gIXd2)

172 Can't imagine basketball girls or volleyball players can have long nails, at least for long.

Posted by: Hurts Like Heck To Bend Them Back at September 29, 2026 06:54 PM (Fn+3X)

173 >>>AI sez: "Painted nails originated in ancient China around 3000 BCE

Hahah, yeah right. China claims to have invented everything, it's a long running cultural gag.

Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 06:55 PM (SwyyQ)

174 and ghettopattamus claws"

Not as bad as dependapotamus...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:55 PM (gIXd2)

175 165 No, they weren't allowed in as family because they weren't legally married...since, you know, polygamous and polyandrous marriages are illegal, for now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
---

Oh, I thought they were practicing sex at the clinic and wouldn't let somebody play. Are you sure that's not what it was?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:51 PM (wljQY)

Couple is interviewing to join a church, and the pastor asks if they every did anything that would preclude them from joining.
"Well, once I saw my wife bent over the freezer, was overcome with desire, and took her right there."
Pastor says, "Well, you're a married couple, so I don't see the problem with that."
The Husband says, "Are you sure? They kicked us out of the grocery store."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:55 PM (l3cgK)

176 91 Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy"
=---

She couldn't just go to work and, you know, STFU?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:56 PM (wljQY)

177
they weren't allowed in as family because they weren't legally married...since, you know, polygamous and polyandrous marriages are illegal, for now.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

===================

This is going to become like the comfort animal thing. It started off that you could enter the bank with your seeing eye dog -- now you can board an airplane with your comfort ostrich.

Next, you'll be able to marry an entourage and get them all on your health plan or else.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 06:57 PM (mmrXZ)

178 Or if you have a bottle of acetone around.

I wonder if MEK would take it off? Bet it would.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

MEK is ungood. Acetone is cheap and works.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 06:57 PM (NnhvP)

179 177
they weren't allowed in as family because they weren't legally married...since, you know, polygamous and polyandrous marriages are illegal, for now.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

===================

This is going to become like the comfort animal thing. It started off that you could enter the bank with your seeing eye dog -- now you can board an airplane with your comfort ostrich.

Next, you'll be able to marry an entourage and get them all on your health plan or else.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 06:57 PM (mmrXZ)

Hugh Hefner had quite a few pets he took on plane flights. They were certainly his comfort pets...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:58 PM (l3cgK)

180 She couldn't just go to work and, you know, STFU?"

Probably vegan, so...

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:58 PM (gIXd2)

181 It’s trendy for many women to look as masculine as possible.

One at one location I work at - won’t mention what she does - does everything in her power to look like an 11 year old boy. It is gruesome to see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 06:59 PM (ITNzO)

182 3 I have short, clean, unpolished nails because I touch patients EVERY DAY and no one wants those nasty germ ridden claws touching them. Do
You know how much filth and grime live under this things?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:03 PM (W2Pud)

Have we met?

Posted by: Mouth at September 29, 2026 06:59 PM (ITNzO)

183 181 It’s trendy for many women to look as masculine as possible.

One at one location I work at - won’t mention what she does - does everything in her power to look like an 11 year old boy. It is gruesome to see.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 06:59 PM (ITNzO)

It certainly is, big boy.

Posted by: Tadj al-Saltaneh, Princess of Persia at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM (l3cgK)

184 But housing and employment discrimination against furries is still okay?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM (wVcYX)

185 Next, you'll be able to marry an entourage and get them all on your health plan or else.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

Wonder what the Mormons think about this crap?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM (wljQY)

186 They just want to be able to visit each other in the hospital.

Posted by: It's a classic! at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM (2Ez/1)

187 "It’s trendy for many women to look as masculine as possible."

That dyke behind the counter at the parts store is falling short.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (MWfyi)

188 But housing and employment discrimination against furries is still okay?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM

The question is moot. Furries get the bullet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (4NO2D)

189 184 But housing and employment discrimination against furries is still okay?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 07:00 PM (wVcYX)

Especially if inflation is involved...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (l3cgK)

190 Okay, what’s a polycule? Is this something I should know about?
Posted by: tubal
.......

I think it comes shortly after molycule.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (UjdFS)

191

In every one of those stories there is bizarre prog gay race communism.

Go figure.

I feel bad for that Dr, but Doctors need to live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh not dahn tahn. He thought he could live with the savage beasts.

Wilkinsburg is not a place for white people.

Moon Township, Peters Township and Upper St Clair are.

I have a brother whose family lived in downtown Chicago, his wife is from there, they made good money and it was the thing good liberals do.

Wasn't that long where she was calling it Chiraq and telling me someone dumped a baby and mother out of a moving car at their corner.

They moved to Winnetka.

The jungle is no place to raise a family.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (VuTBl)

192 190 Okay, what’s a polycule? Is this something I should know about?
Posted by: tubal
.......

I think it comes shortly after molycule.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (UjdFS)

Esther--just one
PolyEsther--many Esthers

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (l3cgK)

193 Man. You wear ONE pair of gargantuan fake boobs...

Posted by: Byron at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (2Ez/1)

194 I have grease and grime for fingers
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (jrgJz)

I just honed some engine cylinders, so now I have impalpably fine iron dust embedded in my fingers. I will live.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (C6xWR)

195 173 >>>AI sez: "Painted nails originated in ancient China around 3000 BCE

Hahah, yeah right. China claims to have invented everything, it's a long running cultural gag.
Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 06:55 PM (SwyyQ)

Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?

And let us stop this “BCE” bullshit. BC and AD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (ITNzO)

196
One at one location I work at - won’t mention what she does

What does she do?
What does she do?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 07:03 PM (Cqx++)

197 195 173 >>>AI sez: "Painted nails originated in ancient China around 3000 BCE

Hahah, yeah right. China claims to have invented everything, it's a long running cultural gag.
Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 06:55 PM (SwyyQ)

Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?

And let us stop this “BCE” bullshit. BC and AD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:02 PM (ITNzO)

Gunpowder?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:03 PM (l3cgK)

198 They just want to be able to visit each other in the hospital.
Posted by: It's a classic!
......

Sorry, visiting hours are over. Come back tomorrow.

Posted by: AIDS ward at September 29, 2026 07:03 PM (UjdFS)

199 I'm not ashamed to say that I had to look up the word "polycule."

The word makes no sense. "Poly" is a prefix meaning "multiple." "Cule" is a suffix meaning "small or diminutive".

So, essentially you have a word with absolutely no substance. I would have been better off remaining ignorant.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (dIske)

200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwRDom8n5Rc

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (jrgJz)

201 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?

IP theft?

Posted by: Halfhand at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (bWXIP)

202 Visiting Starbucks and looking at the employees is like visiting a freak show...
Good thing I don't drink coffee...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (l3cgK)

203 Falsies
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (l3cgK)

Hothouse titties: cultured, not grown.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (C6xWR)

204 I remember seeing that bitch Martha Raddatz in Iraq with VP Cheney in 2008. Was she reporting on his pinning on three Bronze Stars on three soldiers? Or on his surprise visit there?

Nah. She was reporting on members of the military who simply could not wait to vote for His Majesty The Shahinshah for President.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (ITNzO)

205
I feel bad for that Dr, but Doctors need to live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh not dahn tahn. He thought he could live with the savage beasts.

The jungle is no place to raise a family.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq

===============

That's the point. He was living in a safe suburb where people could leave their windows open on a warm summer night -- until their voting habits changed all that. (the second half of the sentence isn't included in the story, but it's part of the story.)

So forget about moving to a "safe" suburb, because that's where the citizens are working to make it unsafe as you speak.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:06 PM (mmrXZ)

206 Warning:

Clear Legos should be considered an IED.

I just stepped on one barefoot as it blended in with the rug in the family room. Pretty sure I will have a heel bruise, which I have never had before. ouch

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:06 PM (hzuYO)

207 The Chinese came up with How to kill a Hundred Million of your fellow citizens

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)

208 203 Falsies
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:16 PM (l3cgK)

Hothouse titties: cultured, not grown.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (C6xWR)

Are they massaged like Kobe beef?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:06 PM (l3cgK)

209 Especially if inflation is involved...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:01 PM (l3cgK)

Once seen, the image of inflated scrotum guy never leaves the dark recesses of the mind. Thanks, zombie!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 07:07 PM (wVcYX)

210 206 Warning:

Clear Legos should be considered an IED.

I just stepped on one barefoot as it blended in with the rug in the family room. Pretty sure I will have a heel bruise, which I have never had before. ouch

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:06 PM (hzuYO)

Assassins' tools.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:07 PM (l3cgK)

211 Seattle passed a measure on Tuesday to extend civil rights protections to non-monogamous people and multigenerational households, and recognize additional sexual orientations

Hmmm. "For the Children", to coin a phrase.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 07:07 PM (0cp4g)

212 211 Seattle passed a measure on Tuesday to extend civil rights protections to non-monogamous people and multigenerational households, and recognize additional sexual orientations

Hmmm. "For the Children", to coin a phrase.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 07:07 PM (0cp4g)

Yes, but the meaning is different between us and them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:08 PM (l3cgK)

213 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?
.......

Bat soup?

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

214 213 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?
.......

Bat soup?

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

COVID. The Spanish Flu.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (l3cgK)

215
Locals are saying a skull and fingers in the street....
-----------------------------

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧

@TRobinsonNewEra
·
5h
One dead and reports of body parts blown into the road following an explosion in Rotherham.

Locals report hearing explosions and gunfire?

Wtf is going on?

Posted by: beckster at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (kX27y)

216
Wonder what the Mormons think about this crap?

Posted by: Braenyard

===============

Heh, I think the ones who are still marrying tons of "wives" keep as far away from any government as possible.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (mmrXZ)

217 191 The jungle is no place to raise a family.

you know where else is no place to raise a family?

Posted by: mars at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (v3pYe)

218 Re. Seattle

Save Us Juan de Fuca

You are our ONLY hope!

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (vNne8)

219 /Looks at article about Woman being executed...

SEE!!!! Takes a MAN to do a Woman's job!!!

/runs out giggling...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (mP0Kj)

220 >>One dead and reports of body parts blown into the road following an explosion in Rotherham.

Oi...you can't park there, mate!

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (vNne8)

221 213 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?
.......

Bat soup?

pangolin pie

Posted by: anachronda at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (v3pYe)

222 NY Post story says people are eating less vegetables after the "explosive diarrhea" outbreak. Can't imagine why

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (jivel)

223 135 I’m guessing the push to recognize polyamorous relationships is about benefits, not being able to visit a loved one in the hospital
Posted by: Lizzy

But think of the bright side, if they succeed in making benefits too expensive for employers, maybe employers will decide to just add the benefit amount they're paying to people's paychecks and stop offering benefits.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 06:41 PM (vJrRc)

Why can’t we just buy medical insurance the same way we buy auto insurance?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (ITNzO)

224 Until they/them are voted off the island. Ask the indigenous.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (wxsGM)

225 221 213 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?
.......

Bat soup?

pangolin pie

Posted by: anachronda at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (v3pYe)

Krait Quiche

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (l3cgK)

226 And let us stop this “BCE” bullshit. BC and AD.

Before the Christian Era.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (0cp4g)

227 NOOD.

Posted by: The hiring manager at the balloon factory at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (xg/DD)

228 222 NY Post story says people are eating less vegetables after the "explosive diarrhea" outbreak. Can't imagine why

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 07:10 PM (jivel)

COOK...YER...VEGGIES...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 07:12 PM (l3cgK)

229 People who want to marry goats should demand this be added to the Seattle bill. Perhaps mention all animals as this is next. Then trees, reptiles, etc.

I read about a woman who married herself (somehow, I did not read the content). She demands a voice as well.

They did this for the blasted islamics, didn't they? As well as the weridos...but islam will benefit. Multiple wives collecting free stuff. Many families living under one roof and to heck with housing rules of the place formerly known as Seattle.

Glad the fruitcake above is very dead for what he did to that poor lady and baby.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:12 PM (hzuYO)

230 I should register the domain name: Polycule Divorce Court dot com.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 07:12 PM (UjdFS)

231 215
Locals are saying a skull and fingers in the street....
-----------------------------

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧

@TRobinsonNewEra
·
5h
One dead and reports of body parts blown into the road following an explosion in Rotherham.

Locals report hearing explosions and gunfire?

Wtf is going on?

We have no interest in knowing. If you know what is good for you, you will stop asking questions or asking us to look into it.

Posted by: UK Police at September 29, 2026 07:13 PM (ITNzO)

232 A lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom
They think, uh, "What can I say?
What can a person like myself say to a vegetable?"
But the answer is simple my friends
Just call and tell them how you feel
About muffins, pumpkins
Raspberry, calagonia, mahogony, elbows and
Green things in general
And soon and you'll report
Ooh, your new lil' green and yellow bodies
Living together
And no, maintaining a coolness together
Worshipping together in a church of your choice
Only in America

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at September 29, 2026 07:13 PM (MWfyi)

233 201 Can anyone name something g invented in China in the past millennium?

IP theft?
Posted by: Halfhand at September 29, 2026 07:05 PM (bWXIP)
___________________

That's one of the primary detriments to having an authoritarian, government run political system. Innovation and ingenuity becomes stagnant. The motivation of workers never drifts into creativity because it wouldn't be rewarded. The State would reap the rewards, not the innovator. It's one of the reasons they resort to corporate theft as primary process of advancement.

And, it's the primary reason while anchor babies in the US is a national security issue. They get their citizenship by birth, return to mainland china and are trained from a young age how to integrate into US corporate hierarchy....Upon coming of age, they return to the US, secure a job in the industry the Chinese govertment groomed them for, and act as an operative stealing on China's behalf.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (dIske)

234 Nood, y'all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (hzuYO)

235 She should have put him down like the dog.
Or should I not say that sort of thing?
Posted by: GWB at September 29, 2026 06:39 PM (kU0PQ)

Go ahead. We were all thinking it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (C6xWR)

236 226 And let us stop this “BCE” bullshit. BC and AD.

Before the Christian Era.
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 07:11 PM (0cp4g)

If only. I could say that to piss off the commies.

Even when teaching history I insisted on using BC and AD. To piss off the commies and politically correct crowd, BIRM.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:15 PM (ITNzO)

237

"He was living in a safe suburb"

I had an aunt that lived in a safe suburb in Pittsburgh out near Oakland, it soon wasnt.

Same thing happened to East Liberty.

Stupid libs.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at September 29, 2026 07:15 PM (VuTBl)

238 And, it's the primary reason while anchor babies in the US is a national security issue. They get their citizenship by birth, return to mainland china and are trained from a young age how to integrate into US corporate hierarchy....Upon coming of age, they return to the US, secure a job in the industry the Chinese govertment groomed them for, and act as an operative stealing on China's behalf.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (dIske)

You are full of shit. Those anchor babies are SWEETHEARTS. They will do no such thing.

Posted by: SCOTUS at September 29, 2026 07:17 PM (ITNzO)

239 The point of the bare nails story to make sure whites can do NOTHING without as it being declared white supremacy. Can’t be on time, do math, hike, read to your kids you guys - that makes you ultra-extreme-righting nazi raaacist!

So?

This isn't a matter of crying "Wolf" in a crowded theater, if merely breathing is racist, so what? What is the downside to being "racist" in today's society?

The great fear is to be a retard—one who takes the lunatic rantings of a Cluster B sociopath as something to be honored with any respect whatsoever.

My interpretation of hearing someone scream "racist" is that they want me to consider them outside of society, a leper, one that if getting any attention, is one of pity and disgust.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 07:17 PM (NzX/y)

240 145 Do WNBA players have long nails?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:44 PM

Do WNBA players have balls?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (OkYzo)

241 And, it's the primary reason while anchor babies in the US is a national security issue. They get their citizenship by birth, return to mainland china and are trained from a young age how to integrate into US corporate hierarchy....Upon coming of age, they return to the US, secure a job in the industry the Chinese govertment groomed them for, and act as an operative stealing on China's behalf.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 07:14 PM (dIske)

That’s a lot easier than what we did!

Posted by: Connecticut Academy at September 29, 2026 07:18 PM (ITNzO)

242 Speaking of the WNBA, there is some fake-ass looking WNBA player on Wheaties boxes as of late.

Has Wheaties, at any point this year, put out a box featuring the 2026 gold medal winning men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:20 PM (ITNzO)

243 I’m not racist. I fucking hate everyone equally.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 07:22 PM (ITNzO)

244 One dead and reports of body parts blown into the road following an explosion in Rotherham.

Locals report hearing explosions and gunfire?

Wtf is going on?
Posted by: beckster at September 29, 2026 07:09 PM (kX27y)

Achmed didn't read the instructions packed with his suicide bomb vest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 07:24 PM (C6xWR)

245 A number of our societal problems stem from the creation of the concept of a “protected class.” Any class. The concept should be ruled unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

Posted by: Advo at September 29, 2026 07:50 PM (jO4mz)

246 Jessa Davis helped spearhead the grassroots movement to enact a bill in Seattle after her partner experienced job discrimination in August 2024 due to her non-monogamy"

The bovine excrement stinks all the way to here...
Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 06:30 PM (WYc5K)

Or she was a nuisance trying to pick up women or men at work.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 08:57 PM (uhVAy)

247 I had always liked Kristi Noem as the DHS Chief. She spent effort publicizing DHS's focus on Homeland Security. That said, her admitting that she shot one of her dogs for not performing diluted my belief in her. Then her behavior in a theater audience with a gigolo (probably a Trojan horse by the left) left me doubting her fortitude to perform as the DHS head. Congratulations leftists. I would have liked her to be successful in the job, but thanks to the left, they exposed her inadequacies in professional behavior that saved the right a lot of misfortune.

Posted by: John at September 29, 2026 09:05 PM (9NUKl)

248 It’s a good thing Byron didn’t like to dress up as a dog

Posted by: And they call it puppy love at September 30, 2026 12:19 AM (hD90I)

249 247 I had always liked Kristi Noem as the DHS Chief. She spent effort publicizing DHS's focus on Homeland Security. That said, her admitting that she shot one of her dogs for not performing diluted my belief in her. Then her behavior in a theater audience with a gigolo (probably a Trojan horse by the left) left me doubting her fortitude to perform as the DHS head. Congratulations leftists. I would have liked her to be successful in the job, but thanks to the left, they exposed her inadequacies in professional behavior that saved the right a lot of misfortune.
Posted by: John at September 29, 2026 09:05 PM (9NUKl)

So in other words you are just disingenuous.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 30, 2026 03:47 AM (XUHiS)

The Venezuelan Shot by ICE Has Been Charged With Assaulting an Officer

The violent illegal alien attacked ICE agents as they were serving him a final deportation order.

The media are demonic liars, and keep repeating "he had a valid work permit" as if this is the same as permission to be in the country. It's not. I think this is screwed up, but because we're allowing illegals to come to the country and stay here for years while their fake asylum claims work through the system, we give out work permits in the meantime.

This is not the same as permission to stay. For proof of that, observe this case, where an ICE agent was delivering a final deportation order.

But the media keep repeating "work permit, work permit, work permit."

The complaint accuses Garces-Perez of sideswiping an officer with his driver's-side car mirror and later attempting to hit an officer with his car, according to the Associated Press.
He was pulled over after a judge issued a final removal order, according to US Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas.
Garces-Perez provided his driver's license but ignored agents' requests to get out of his car, the complaint alleges. He discussed with an agent in Spanish moving the car and parking it, according to court documents, which say the conversation wasn't aggressive.
About a minute later, Garces-Perez allegedly "abruptly" closed the window and drove off. One of the officers was struck in his torso with the driver's side-view mirror.
Garces-Perez, who was reportedly shot in the back, then released from a hospital hours later, was an asylum seeker with a valid work permit, according to immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.

Meanwhile, the media keeps appeasing the Black Lives Matter revolutionaries by suggesting that a black woman was lynched by whites.

They always report the race of the hanged woman -- but refuse to mention the three men charged with killing her are black, too.

That's because the "Pro-Blacks," as Black Conservative Perspective calls racist black agitators, are pushing the conspiracy theory that whites must have done it because "blacks don't hang other blacks."

I wonder why ABC mentions the race of the victim but not the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd suspect

Hint: https://t.co/qt1OPuLtVH pic.twitter.com/0ayEq8Jt3U
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 28, 2026

Using the truth to push a lie. Everything in that headline is factually accurate. The intent is to make the reader think this was racially motivated, not about drugs. Also note the omission that all three men charged are black. https://t.co/fHUD5ntQtt
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 28, 2026

They're ginning up violence.

Maybe someday someone might gin some right back.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

Comments

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1 What a shock!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 04:50 PM (N1DT3)

2 I was sure he was just minding his own business when ICE showed up and tried to whack him!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (N1DT3)

3 Well, it is MAGA country, after all.

Posted by: huerfano at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (2Xqig)

4 Guess I should nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (N1DT3)

5 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: grass monkey at September 29, 2026 04:52 PM (eP4XR)

6 top 10

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 29, 2026 04:53 PM (giy4v)

7 He should not be alive to be charged with anything. Once he tried to kill a cop that should have been it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:53 PM (I43vL)

8 If I had done the same as this Perez fellow, I too would have been shot? So would you have been.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:54 PM (Gqar8)

9
But what if the 3 black murderers "Identify" as white?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 29, 2026 04:55 PM (OkYzo)

10 "Using the truth to push a lie. Everything in that headline is factually accurate. The intent is to make the reader think this was racially motivated, not about drugs. Also note the omission that all three men charged are black."

This is how the press convinces itself that it is good. (Also all politicians)

"I never TECHNICALLY lied. It's your fault for being to stupid to understand what those words meant when I purposely mislead you!"

This is why the "Trump is a liar" never works. He's a promoter. He's a boast. He "lies" like a salesman. And while salesmen are hated, they aren't hated like lawyers. Because everyone understands the salesman is exaggerating his claims.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 04:56 PM (N1DT3)

11 New: Kristi Noem filed for divorce from crossdressing husband in April

-
Works for me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)

12 Black guy just shot and killed a white Kentucky state trooper and another black guy released on bail broke into a house and stabbed a white couple to death. These types of crimes are a weekly occurrence .

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)

13 >>>"blacks don't hang other blacks."

Shhhh. Be very very quiet......

Posted by: Africa at September 29, 2026 04:57 PM (+UEwf)

14 Notice also how the media/left shamelessly switch between "no judicial warrant!" when it's a violent criminal arrested and "valid work permit/etc!" when there's not just a warrant but a court order.

You should also add the disgusting lies Talarico has been spreading on this:
- shot in the back
- ICE denied medical treatment
- forced him to sleep on the floor of the detention facility
and more.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (3cUTc)

15 Adult on adult killin's a lot better than adults killin' kids.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (wljQY)

16 Speaking of murderous scumbags, I saw that Brian Kohberger (the guy that murdered 4 students at the University of Idaho) is attempted to overturn his original guilty plea (that got him four life sentences)...and get the Judge thrown off the case.

It won't be heard until the middle of next year. Survey says: no chance in hell...and if he succeeds, the death penalty comes back on the table...so I'm kind of torn on future results.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (dIske)

17 I voted for deportations. taxing of all NGOs, and unleashing Asian Grandparents on Trannies.

Esp. the later.

GrandPa: "Why you no Doctor?" Bam.
GrandMa 'Why you no CEO?" Bam.

*gurgling holes start*

GrandPa: "Why you no leave daughter alone?" Bam. Bam.
GrandMa: "Why you make grandson wear dress?" Bam. Bam.

*bleeds out*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (u82oZ)

18 Meanwhile, the media keeps appeasing the Black Lives Matter revolutionaries by suggesting that a black woman was lynched by whites.

They always report the race of the hanged woman -- but refuse to mention the three men charged with killing her are black, too.

-
I assume the KKK has adopted a minority outreach program.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (ndZc7)

19 So Lloyd here (if you shaved his head) is 5'7"? On tiptoes maybe. Bet he felt taller on that stepstool when tying that rope around that woman's neck.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (88C+u)

20 Someone want to trot out the stats on black-on-black crime? We should automatically know it by now.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Gqar8)

21 I'm so sick of race hustlers. Thanks Obama.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:59 PM (viF8m)

22 Stringing someone up seems insanely cruel.

Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 05:00 PM (Hucnr)

23 I don't disagree with the snark but Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were around long before Obama.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 05:01 PM (KC5Lt)

24 20 Someone want to trot out the stats on black-on-black crime? We should automatically know it by now.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Gqar

I can't think the black community is happy with this....It's their sons and daughters they are losing...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)

25 I'm so sick of race hustlers. Thanks Obama.
Posted by: JackStraw
==
Um, ah, um, ah Jack, um, ah, ah I think this calls for, um, ah, um, a beer summit.

Posted by: SCOAMF at September 29, 2026 05:01 PM (anL5R)

26 They're ginning up violence.
Maybe someday someone might gin some right back.

Doubtful, not even becoming celebrity adjacent (lone jury hero) will spur most regular law abiding people to leave the security of their home and frankly, why should it? Senior inlaws killing a threat to protect their grandchildren is rare, just ask Lindsay Clancy.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:01 PM (F3Dlr)

27 These types of crimes are a weekly occurrence .
Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)

Used to be daily but fake news downplayed it.
Trump says crime numbers are down overall:
tinyurl.com/29czseh7

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (88C+u)

28 Well I'll be danged....

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Q/FnY)

29 JackStraw

A study of the history of the Eastern Roman Empire suggests that after bad rulers, it takes 30 years of good rulers to recover to status quo.

Obama and Biden. [OPSEC].

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (u82oZ)

30 Black guy just shot and killed a white Kentucky state trooper

-
This has been a fairly big story but I was suspicious because they never show the suspect's picture.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (ndZc7)

31
Maybe someday someone might gin some right back.

Promises. Promises.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Cqx++)

32 24 20 Someone want to trot out the stats on black-on-black crime? We should automatically know it by now.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Gqar

I can't think the black community is happy with this....It's their sons and daughters they are losing...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+gK6I)

The crime stats for DCmand Memphis should be enough to tell a tale. Which - won’t be told.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:02 PM (Gqar8)

33 The fake lynching was a dispute over drugs that went bad. That ‘mom of four’ was surely salt of the earth, I tell ya.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 29, 2026 05:03 PM (v00bN)

34 >> Stringing someone up seems insanely cruel.

She was already dead.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 05:03 PM (viF8m)

35 I plan to be long gone in 30 years, Salty.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)

36 34 >> Stringing someone up seems insanely cruel.

She was already dead.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 05:03 PM (viF8m)

Yes they wanted to make it look like a lynching.. Which worked of course

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 05:04 PM (+gK6I)

37 Stringing someone up seems insanely cruel.

She was already dead.
==
Okay then, wildly unnecessary expenditure of effort.

Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at September 29, 2026 05:04 PM (anL5R)

38 Someone want to trot out the stats on black-on-black crime? We should automatically know it by now.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Gqar

Before I saw it I didn't realize it.

There is a photo collage of all the mass shooters (4 or more people shot) in the US over the past decade or so.

It looked like a Grambling yearbook.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 05:04 PM (KC5Lt)

39 Definition: A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a nonprofit entity that operates independently from government ...
--

That's an oxymoron isn't it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:04 PM (wljQY)

40 "blacks don't hang other blacks."
Shhhh. Be very very quiet......" Posted by: Africa

I prefer putting a tire around their neck and burning it.

Posted by: Winnie Mandela at September 29, 2026 05:05 PM (vbXSk)

41 You ain't black unless you defecate in your pants, Jack.

Posted by: Tell 'em Cornpop sent me at September 29, 2026 05:06 PM (jBygX)

42 Two of those guys who hung the body up look like death warmed over themselves.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 05:06 PM (jivel)

43 Well, society is stupid too so there's that. Not a tough hill to climb for ABC.

Posted by: Warren Peas at September 29, 2026 05:07 PM (hyQrc)

44 He was trying to turn his life around

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 05:07 PM (Ia/+0)

45 JackStraw

Move to the Villages to feel younger?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 05:07 PM (u82oZ)

46 "blacks don't hang other blacks."

Shhhh. Be very very quiet......
Posted by: Africa
--
One of the richest queens in Africa was an unrepentant and relentless slave trader.
Even continuing to illegally slave trade after England banned the export of slaves.

You'll never find that in any US high school history book.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 05:08 PM (3cUTc)

47 These kinds of racial hoaxes are always convenient in election years.

I suppose research shows the Dems that it gets out the vote with black women.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:08 PM (6ydKt)

48 JackStraw

Just Kidding. Even Insomniac at his horniest and lowest moral behavior drew the line at visiting the nearby Villages.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 05:08 PM (u82oZ)

49 If I had a pimp and 2 drug dealers....they would look like those 3 pipe hitting negroes.

Posted by: Barry Obama at September 29, 2026 05:09 PM (t+3cP)

50 You'll never find that in any US high school history book.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 05:08 PM (3cUTc)

Not much on Winnie Mandela and her tire necklaces, either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

51 I only wipe my ass with the NYT

Posted by: Homeless NY Liberal Bum at September 29, 2026 05:09 PM (hyQrc)

52 The media honed this get-out-the-vote effort under Obama. They twisted & hyped every story to make it seem like anti-black racism was rampant.

Posted by: Dave at September 29, 2026 05:10 PM (sbsMc)

53 Maybe someday someone might gin some right back.
=====

But I've got plans on Thursday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 05:10 PM (RIvkX)

54 I assume the KKK has adopted a minority outreach program.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM

The kkk is defunct ever since elon musk turned off the usaid money through dodge. splc has no more money to pay the 15 guys they were paying to keep them alive as a hate group.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 05:10 PM (I43vL)

55 The pictures of those three dudes killing the young mother is something else. Those guys look rough.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Oy/m2)

56 OT: I see Soviet Virginia added a 'Highway Use Fee' to my registration renewal, adding to the cost, by a lot. I heard about this. It wasn't there 2 years ago, but here it is now. Seems like a punishment for having fuel efficient cars. Thanks Soviet Virginia.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (sAmhv)

57 Lynchings of course are a proud time honored tradition of the Democrat party. Conveniently ignored by the Left and - Democrats.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Gqar8)

58 Christa Pike, tortured, slashed and fatally beat Colleen Slemmer, 19, in 1995.

Maybe someday someone might gin some right back.

30 years later.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (F3Dlr)

59 The crime statistics being intentionally falsified with applying the incorrect race is infuriating.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 05:12 PM (KC5Lt)

60 Local story.

At Least 16 Shot in Democrat-Run Chicago This Weekend

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

61 That's an oxymoron isn't it?
Posted by: Braenyard

Oh, you and your definitions~~!

Posted by: weft cut-NGO at September 29, 2026 05:14 PM (nEUC6)

62 60 Local story.

At Least 16 Shot in Democrat-Run Chicago This Weekend
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

Democrats. Imagine that.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:14 PM (Gqar8)

63 GrandPa: "Why you no Doctor?" Bam.
GrandMa 'Why you no CEO?" Bam.

*gurgling holes start*

GrandPa: "Why you no leave daughter alone?" Bam. Bam.
GrandMa: "Why you make grandson wear dress?" Bam. Bam.

*bleeds out*
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 04:58 PM (u82oZ)
=====

This checks out. Every old Chinese lady I know would take me down in 10 seconds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 05:14 PM (RIvkX)

64 57 Lynchings of course are a proud time honored tradition of the Democrat party. Conveniently ignored by the Left and - Democrats.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Gqar

Ignoring the horrible things the left previously did is about 90% of the left's philosophy as far as I can tell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

65
Sonofabitching NBC has the White Sox-Astros game on one of the subscription channels. Assholes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:15 PM (eRlcH)

66 That's because the "Pro-Blacks," as Black Conservative Perspective calls racist black agitators, are pushing the conspiracy theory that whites must have done it because "blacks don't hang other blacks."

Same level of retarded bullshit as "Leos don't kill their cubs" so a Gemini had to do it.

Posted by: Oh my stars and garters at September 29, 2026 05:16 PM (TbWk/)

67 64 57 Lynchings of course are a proud time honored tradition of the Democrat party. Conveniently ignored by the Left and - Democrats.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:11 PM (Gqar

Ignoring the horrible things the left previously did is about 90% of the left's philosophy as far as I can tell.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

Violence, as far as any credible recent history confirms, always comes from the port side of society. The problem for normies is that periodically a proportion of people embrace that blood lust.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:18 PM (Gqar8)

68 I've had several encounters with police over the years.

Because I didn't run, pull a gun, or try to run them over the worst result I had was a speeding ticket which was bullshit, but that kind of police bullshit the "end the police" types are ok with...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm)

69 And just like that, it’s hockey season.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 05:18 PM (u73oe)

70 13 >>>"blacks don't hang other blacks."

Shhhh. Be very very quiet......
Posted by: Africa at September 29, 2026 04:57 PM (+UEwf)

Shoot, stab, impale, sexually mutilate, rape, and burn gas-soaked tires around their necks, but hanging? That's a bridge too far!

Posted by: They loved peace before the white man came at September 29, 2026 05:19 PM (TbWk/)

71 Ignoring the horrible things the left previously did is about 90% of the left's philosophy
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I'd say the right is quite adapted at forgetting all the horrors too.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:20 PM (F3Dlr)

72 One of the richest queens in Africa was an unrepentant and relentless slave trader.
Even continuing to illegally slave trade after England banned the export of slaves.

Didnt netflix make a movie about her and just ignored the slavery part?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm)

73 Hopefully the embrace of Democrat Leftist ideology by Gen Z and Alpha is either overblown, or a feckless temporary anomaly.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:20 PM (Gqar8)

74 >>>"blacks don't hang other blacks."

Shhhh. Be very very quiet......
Posted by: Africa at September 29, 2026 04:57 PM (+UEwf)

Shoot, stab, impale, sexually mutilate, rape, and burn gas-soaked tires around their necks, but hanging? That's a bridge too far!

Posted by: They loved peace before the white man came at September 29, 2026 05:19 PM (TbWk/)

It must be some kind of culinary faux pas to hang your long pig before cooking.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:21 PM (dK+Kv)

75 69 And just like that, it’s hockey season.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Good Luck, all contenders!! My Penguins will not be among them. I expect mediocrity from the Pens, at best, and missed playoffs. (shrugs). They had their run.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 05:21 PM (sAmhv)

76 blacks don't hang other blacks."

Shhhh. Be very very quiet......
Posted by: Africa at September 29, 2026 04:57 PM (+UEwf)

Of course they don't...too much work involved.

Posted by: Zombie Don Rickles at September 29, 2026 05:21 PM (t+3cP)

77 @DeepLeaksHQ 4h
BREAKING: An ARREST WARRANT has been issued for James Comey — NOT just a court summons like last time

The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

Mike Flynn posted this.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 05:22 PM (vbXSk)

78 77 @DeepLeaksHQ 4h
BREAKING: An ARREST WARRANT has been issued for James Comey — NOT just a court summons like last time

The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

Mike Flynn posted this.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 05:22 PM (vbXSk)

Well, the cop care they haul him in with will smell pine woods fresh. There’s that.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:23 PM (Gqar8)

79 The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

For what?

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Oy/m2)

80 @DeepLeaksHQ 4h
BREAKING: An ARREST WARRANT has been issued for James Comey — NOT just a court summons like last time

The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

Mike Flynn posted this.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 05:22 PM (vbXSk)

lol

Suck it, traitor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)

81 OT- Firefighters who saved the life of a little girl in Florida continue to show up for her. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/4twa2kf2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (JrHfD)

82 For what?

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (Oy/m2)

Outstanding book fines.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)

83 The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

Mike Flynn posted this.

Posted by: illiniwek

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:26 PM (wljQY)

84 I see spirituality in children is being advocated.

Elderly Portland woman says we should send 12 year olds on "vision quests" to learn to do drugs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 05:26 PM (ndZc7)

85 68 I've had several encounters with police over the years.

Because I didn't run, pull a gun, or try to run them over the worst result I had was a speeding ticket which was bullshit, but that kind of police bullshit the "end the police" types are ok with...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:18 PM (sKqQm)

I got one speeding ticket that I legitimately had coming, one that was a bullshit speed trap set up where parents who had just dropped their kids at school were trying to get back out on a major road, an almost speeding ticket on until the female cop who was about to split her uniform from her obesity got a call to something else, and another time I got pulled over for something that was literally bullshit made up out of whole cloth in the dickhead cop's imagination. But at no point did I ever get pulled out of the car or get my windows broken or anything like that. And trust me, I'm no fan of law enforcement. There are WAY too many power-tripping violent assholes on the police force. But on a routine traffic stop there are ways you can improve your chances of not getting beaten.

Posted by: I view them as strange dogs or feral animals at September 29, 2026 05:27 PM (TbWk/)

86 81 OT- Firefighters who saved the life of a little girl in Florida continue to show up for her. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/4twa2kf2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:24 PM (JrHfD)

Good story Fen. Thanks.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

87 I asked AI to find stories of suspicious hangings from Africa. It found 4 in the last year.

Unless Whitey is going on undercover murder sprees in Africa the locals aren't noticing I suspect the culprits in each case were black...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

88 Seems black women have severe potty mouths.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:28 PM (UjdFS)

89
according to immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch

Raid that bitch's Immigracion Abogado law office. $10 says that she's got lists of stolen SSNs and fake IDs in her files and on her hard drive, waiting to be sold to illegal aliens.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 05:28 PM (y9nCu)

90 I saw the video, he wasn't trying to run no one over. Unless they get one of these hack Trump political judges I can't believe those charges will stick.

Some of the worst rulings lately have been in Texas. I'm somewhat confident if he can hold out it'll be throw out. I'm far less confident about his humane treatment in the meantime.

‘Stop using your face to hit my fist’ and other bangers can be yours for the low low price of being brown!

it was really catchall racism and sexism politicking that saturated their base, this is just the worst of it. Reagan and the reporters in the room used to casually drop the F slur in the early 80s, there are recordings of them casually joking about AIDS before it was a full-blown epidemic because they thought it was a “queer” disease; they thought the trash was taking itself out

it will be a monumental effort to pry these people from power

The Spokane 3 got charged for not falling down when ICE assaulted them. This is where we are.

It's the same BS- they murder someone and then claim the fleeing victim tried to hit officers with a vehicle. they got away with mercing two US citizens in broad daylight

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (LMfGu)

91 87 I asked AI to find stories of suspicious hangings from Africa. It found 4 in the last year.

Unless Whitey is going on undercover murder sprees in Africa the locals aren't noticing I suspect the culprits in each case were black...

Posted by: 18-1
--

There's a reason it didn't make the news.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (wljQY)

92 >>Shhhh. Be very very quiet......
Posted by: Africa

Saw an article yesterday that 30 black Christians in Mozambique were beheaded by a bunch of black muslims.

Race hustlers just say stuff. It's worked for them for a long time because nobody wanted to be called a racist.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (viF8m)

93 Seems black women have severe potty mouths.

Saw a video of a black woman saying that if anyone called her an angry black woman she was going to cuss them out and then slap them.

And...

I guess some people really have NO self-reflection.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (sKqQm)

94 Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (JrHfD)

95 BREAKING: An ARREST WARRANT has been issued for James Comey — NOT just a court summons like last time

The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"
.......

Check the beach.
Check the forest.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:30 PM (UjdFS)

96
The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY"

For what?
Posted by: dantesed

===============

I hope it's not over that stupid 8647 shell arrangement. (Although Trump would be impeached three times for it.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 05:30 PM (mmrXZ)

97 Then: If you push a cop on J6 they can shoot you or beat you to death with a truncheon

Now: If a cop stands in front of your car and you just happen to run them over that's on them for being in your way

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

98 The NY Post movie reviewer gives Tom Cruise's new movie Digger , zero stars. Says it's a mess that people will want to walk out of

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 05:31 PM (jivel)

99 I guess some people really have NO self-reflection.

Posted by: 18-1
---

Vampires.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:31 PM (wljQY)

100 Race hustlers ignore killings in Africa because no one in Africa gives a damn about being called a racist.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 05:32 PM (u73oe)

101 Race hustlers ignore killings in Africa because no one in Africa gives a damn about being called a racist.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 05:32 PM (u73oe)

And, at base, the Race hucksters don't give a damn about black people. It's just a grift.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:33 PM (dK+Kv)

102 Check behind the drapes.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:33 PM (UjdFS)

103
864....oh shit.

Posted by: James Comey at September 29, 2026 05:33 PM (OkYzo)

104 Sixty five year old action heroes don't cut it
unless they have a blade or a gun in their walking stick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:33 PM (wljQY)

105 86 Douchebags.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:34 PM (dK+Kv)

106
James Comey's daughter was prosecutor at the SDNY office. I'm sure she was leaking all sorts of stuff to daddy & vice versa.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 29, 2026 05:35 PM (OkYzo)

107 He's a really tall fellow. Hope they don't bump his head while putting him in the police car.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:35 PM (UjdFS)

108 The seating arrangement for today's
Presidential Luncheon. Very interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/4dpb7zja

Still no info on the 10PM meeting with crooked Amodei.

Also, no Sam Altman at the very big table.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:36 PM (wljQY)

109 4.3 temblor on the peninsula. I felt it here though.

Whoot!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 05:36 PM (W2Pud)

110 Seems black women have severe potty mouths.

lol, some of the ettes have such, especially after a few years. Fuck and cunt and cock and such are a regular screed especially when addressed to trolls.
ps... if this doesn't apply to you ignore.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:36 PM (F3Dlr)

111 Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 05:31 PM (jivel)

I'm looking forward to seeing "I play Rocky" about Slyvester Stallone advocating to play the role in the original idea of the movie he came up with. Reviewer in the "NY Post" gave that 3 and 1/2 stars.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:37 PM (JrHfD)

112 I feel very discombobulated this morning.

I hope special ops is not doing anything in the area.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 05:38 PM (+UEwf)

113 107 He's a really tall fellow. Hope they don't bump his head while putting him in the police car.

Posted by: wth
---

Fella with a good shoulder could put a dent in the roof.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:38 PM (wljQY)

114 Sixty five year old action heroes don't cut it
unless they have a blade or a gun in their walking stick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:33 PM (wljQY)
----
David Bradley in "The Strain" did have a pretty badass silver-plated sword cane.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 05:38 PM (js5jo)

115 Seems black women have severe potty mouths.
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:28 PM (UjdFS)

And seem to think that aggression, violence, creating disturbances, and temper tantrums that would put a two-year-old to shame are a birthright. At least in airports, convenience stores, and restaurants. Frequently wearing hair bonnets. This one black YouTuber I watch has developed the theory that bonnets are for black women what septum piercings are for white women.

These are of course the ghetto/ratchet subset, not all of them...

Posted by: Required NABWALT disclaimer at September 29, 2026 05:40 PM (TbWk/)

116 If I get a legitimate speeding ticket, I'll pay it...end of story. But, when I run into some of these creative police officers who fabricate the stop and embellish the reason, I'm their worst nightmare. Virtually every jurisdiction is marked (road signs, stripes, etc.) via the Manual of Traffic Control Devices and Street Signs. It is the DOT bible. I can tell you right now about 99% of the jurisdictions are not in compliance (sign height, sign location, road markings, speed limit reduction requirements etc.)...So on technicalities I can and have gotten out of those no problem. Usually, the officer gets a bit of stern talking to by the magistrate when I'm done.

That doesn't even take into accout the officers that don't show up with the maintenance logs on the radar devices...which is another obligation they have. I've even gotten out of tickets years ago on that VASCAR system (glorified stop watch) by asking for the officer's fitness results to document his reaction times on hitting Vehicle Average Speed Computer and Recorder (VASCAR).

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

117 George Macready in Gilda had a switch blade concealed in the tip of his cane.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:42 PM (wljQY)

118
Finally!

Babylon Bee Uses AI to recreate the lesbian bar mask foofaraw:

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/2104670080252760219

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 05:42 PM (YSUhf)

119 Was looking up Lee Van Cleef. He was mostly in his 40s to 50s in those Spaghetti Westerns

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

120 86 Douchebags.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:34 PM (dK+Kv)

99 Luftballons

Posted by: Nena at September 29, 2026 05:43 PM (TbWk/)

121 Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

He was in a lot of Westerns. TV and movies.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 05:45 PM (Oy/m2)

122 86 Douchebags.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:34 PM (dK+Kv)

99 Luftballons

Posted by: Nena at September 29, 2026 05:43 PM (TbWk/)

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 05:45 PM (dK+Kv)

123 this is the first part of that post about Comey

General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn 26m
The feds need to swoop in like they did when the went after @RogerJStoneJr and all the J6ers. Do not give Comey any breaks at all. "

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 05:46 PM (vbXSk)

124 Private equity firms are increasingly buying up hospitals with the goal of doubling their money in as little as seven years.

How's that going to affect healthcare?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:46 PM (wljQY)

125 General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn 26m
The feds need to swoop in like they did when the went after @RogerJStoneJr and all the J6ers. Do not give Comey any breaks at all. "

Posted by: illiniwek
---

Flynn should have posted the video.
They published plenty pics of Roger and his wife.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:48 PM (wljQY)

126 Black gang member (crips) shot and killed a KY State trooper yesterday. 3 hr manhunt ensued. Local. Not seeing a whole lot of love for this shitbag.

But there will be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 05:49 PM (RORbl)

127 117 George Macready in Gilda had a switch blade concealed in the tip of his cane.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:42 PM (wljQY)

I, uh, have no idea such things existed...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 29, 2026 05:49 PM (s1VwS)

128 124 Private equity firms are increasingly buying up hospitals with the goal of doubling their money in as little as seven years.

How's that going to affect healthcare?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:46 PM (wljQY)

Further enshittification. You think nurse to patient ratios are bad now? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Posted by: I support free enterprise but this ain't it at September 29, 2026 05:50 PM (TbWk/)

129 86 Douchebags.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

99 Luftballons

Posted by: Nena

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

99 bottles of beer on the wall

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 05:51 PM (UjdFS)

130 It'd be simpler to hollow one out and implant a skinny barrel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:51 PM (wljQY)

131 Flynn should have posted the video.
They published plenty pics of Roger and his wife.
Posted by: Braenyard

I don't think shaming people is effective anymore.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:51 PM (F3Dlr)

132 86 Douchebags.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

99 Luftballons

Posted by: Nena

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

99 bottles of beer on the wall

76 Trombones

Posted by: Prof. Harold Hill at September 29, 2026 05:52 PM (TbWk/)

133
The NY Post movie reviewer gives Tom Cruise's new movie Digger , zero stars. Says it's a mess that people will want to walk out of
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 05:31 PM (jivel)

Poor Ole Tom Cruise.

Every couple of decades he gets aa progtard bug up his ass and lets his freak flag fly for guaranteed box office disaster.

Last time it was "Lambs for Lions" can anti-war dud, then time passed and forgot
woke = broke

So, now he delivers, the Greentard fiasco "Digger".

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 05:55 PM (YSUhf)

134 I don't think shaming people is effective anymore.

Posted by: old chick
---

They should have done it for Trump's voters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 05:56 PM (wljQY)

135 2000 Light Years from Home

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 05:56 PM (jivel)

136 But there will be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

15 minutes at the most.

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 05:56 PM (F3Dlr)

137 A Thousand Miles From Nowhere

Posted by: Dwight Yoakam at September 29, 2026 05:58 PM (UjdFS)

138
I should really reread before I post.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 05:59 PM (YSUhf)

139
One of the richest queens in Africa was an unrepentant and relentless slave trader.
Even continuing to illegally slave trade after England banned the export of slaves.

Didnt netflix make a movie about her and just ignored the slavery part?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm)

I don't thing she was subject of the Netflix film, but Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar probably belongs in the same class as Pol Pot and Francisco Solano Lopez of Paraguay.

Plus, Harry Flashman tapped her ass in the book Flashman's Lady.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 06:00 PM (y9nCu)

140 I have never found Tom Cruise compelling or believable on screen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 06:00 PM (KGj36)

141 I'm just waiting for the day the anti-Americans in the press start getting treated like their spiritual leader, Julius Streicher.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 06:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

142

19th nervous breakdown

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 06:01 PM (Cqx++)

143 Walk into an emergency room, and there’s a 40 percent chance the doctor who stitches you up works for a staffing company owned by private investors, not the hospital.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:01 PM (wljQY)

144 I should really reread before I post.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 05:59 PM (YSUhf)

What heresy is this?

Posted by: AOSHQ Inquisition at September 29, 2026 06:01 PM (TbWk/)

145 Pennsylvania 6-5000.

Posted by: G. Miller at September 29, 2026 06:02 PM (2Ez/1)

146
Posted by: AOSHQ Inquisition at September 29, 2026 06:01 PM (TbWk/)

That was unexpected.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 06:03 PM (y9nCu)

147 One is the loneliest number. Eight days a week.

Posted by: Three Beetle Night at September 29, 2026 06:04 PM (2Ez/1)

148 I read Flashman's Lady, and Fraser's account has it more that the queen tapped HIS ass.

Posted by: snu snu at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (88C+u)

149 Ah the netflix movie was about Dahomey.

Which was mostly a slave trading empire.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 06:05 PM (sKqQm)

150
New Talarico may put him over the top!

https://x.com/SoveyX/status/2104729905431028104?s=20

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 06:07 PM (YSUhf)

151 The Seven Nation Army doing Mambo No. 5.

Posted by: Lou White Stripes Bega at September 29, 2026 06:07 PM (2Ez/1)

152 >>>>>>He's a really tall fellow. Hope they don't bump his head while putting him in the police car.

Posted by: wth
---

Fella with a good shoulder could put a dent in the roof.

Posted by: Braenyard
******
Send Marshal Raylan Givens.

Posted by: Cosda at September 29, 2026 06:08 PM (qQcHX)

153 Was it good for you?

Posted by: The Margins at September 29, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

154 I like some acion movies Tom has done, but can't say a fan directly

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 06:09 PM (Ia/+0)

155 Nood quickies

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (W2Pud)

156 naturalfake, you can strip out the https prefix and everything past the ?. You can also say "on X, [everything past .com]". or just tinyurl it.

Posted by: 88C+u has had to spit out the margins too at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (88C+u)

157 Amazon has announced plans to invest more than $100 million to open a manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (wljQY)

158 I like some acion movies Tom has done, but can't say a fan directly
Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 06:09 PM (Ia/+0)

Mission Impossible Fallout was quite good as we're the ones before and after I think. The last two were mega meh- even with Haylee atwell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

159 143 Walk into an emergency room, and there’s a 40 percent chance the doctor who stitches you up works for a staffing company owned by private investors, not the hospital.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 06:01 PM (wljQY)

Non-government-run hospitals have had exclusive contracts with emergency medicine groups for a long time so as to ensure ER coverage, maintain quality and standards, etc. Back in the stone ages these were local groups of specialists. Now it's gotten increasingly corporatized and private equitized. And until relatively recently hospitals generally didn't employ physicians, they were all independent practitioners who had membership on the medical staff and certain clinical privileges. Hospitals used to acquire then ditch physician practices on about a 10-15 year cycle because they just stopped working as hard. But this became more common over the last 20-ish years as it's become harder and harder for physicians to maintain their own practices - especially if they're internal medicine, GPs, family practice, etc. that don't get the big bucks from ancillary services.

Posted by: A clusterfuck 100 years in the making at September 29, 2026 06:14 PM (TbWk/)

160 Never at fault
Never de.escalte
Always entitled

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 06:31 PM (bX16E)

161 I have never found Tom Cruise compelling or believable on screen.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 06:00 PM

He was terrifying in Collateral.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 07:55 PM (4NO2D)

Lindsay Clancy's Scumbag Lawyer Kevin Reddington Contradicts His Earlier Defense, Now Insists That There's No Evidence Lindsay Clancy Murdered Her Children at All

He's in court to ask that the judge just declare Lindsay Clancy innocent.

During the trial, he accepted that Lindsay Clancy killed her children-- she admitted it three times, and there was overwhelming physical evidence besides -- but now, during this motion hearing, joins the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Cultists in wondering if someone else killed the kids.

He doesn't say it, but the Conspiracy Cultists claim that Patrick Clancy killed his children, then "hypnotized" Lindsay into believing she did it and confessing to it.

And this is where Kevin Reddington is now. Repeating the Cultist's conspiracies, ignoring his own client's admissions of guilt.

"Where's the evidence she did this?!" he now lie-asks.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that prosecutors simply haven't produced enough evidence to prove his client killed her children. Prosecutors quickly fired back, publicly dismissing Reddington's assertion as a "laughable theory".
Despite the exchanges inside the courtroom, major rulings remain on hold.
Judge William Sullivan indicated that no substantial decisions are expected until at least November 2, leaving several key motions unresolved for the coming weeks.
Planning for a potential retrial also appears to be stalled. Both the prosecution and Reddington acknowledged that they are not yet ready to engage in formal discussions regarding a new trial date.
Reddington noted that he is unavailable to take the case to trial again until next June, though Judge Sullivan made it clear he has no intention of needlessly kicking the case down the road.
Outside of the core trial logistics, new legal representations have emerged. The holdout juror from the previous proceedings has officially retained new local counsel, bringing attorney Heather O'Connor on board, she announced in a press conference after the hearing.

Good. Sue him. Get him disbarred.

Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is back in court with a new defense tactic straight from TikTok:

"Where's the evidence she did this?!?"

(She confessed multiple times) pic.twitter.com/WQYP9RqgPm
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 29, 2026

Derek Hunter
@derekahunter
Your entire defense strategy was she did it but wasn't responsible because she had the sads. So, are you admitting you lied to the court repeatedly or risked your client's freedom by employing a defense they did not support? You should be disbarred.

This scumbag isn't just demanding his murderess client be declared innocent -- he wants the holdout juror "investigated."

Defiant L's
@DefiantLs
Lindsey Clancy's defense attorney has filed motions asking the judge to dismiss the criminal case entirely, aquit Clancy and investigate the lone holdout juror, Michael Desronvil
He wants to review Michael's phone records and metadata from the jury deliberations and examine information from his jury questionnaire
Their argument is that he allegedly wasn't properly applying the legal standard of reasonable doubt
Desronvil's attorney is accusing Clancy's lawyer of unfairly targeting him after and plans to file a bar complaint against him

Lindsey Clancy�s defense attorney has filed motions asking the judge to dismiss the criminal case entirely, aquit Clancy and investigate the lone holdout juror, Michael Desronvil pic.twitter.com/Ezj92Oya5q

He wants to review Michael's phone records and metadata from the jury�
— Defiant L�s (@DefiantLs) September 28, 2026

Meanwhile, the doxxed juror is now speaking out.

His name is Michael Desronvil and he says the focus should be on the three murdered children, not himself, and not the batty leftwing Murderess Cultists who wanted Lindsay Clancy acquitted to "make history" and to guarantee a woman's right to kill her children when she feels like it.

EXCLUSIVE: The juror at the center of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial controversy is breaking his silence for the first time in video exclusively obtained by 'Hannity,' but says the attention should be on the three children whose deaths were at the heart of the case.

�I know the� pic.twitter.com/Agng8axStt
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 29, 2026

Reddington has been hit with a gag order over his deliberate doxxing of the holdout juror -- the DA says he used language calculated to allow his media henchmen/coconspirators to dox and menace the holdout juror.

The District Attorney�s office just filed a gag order against Lindsay Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington for using language that helped doxx the Lone Holdout Juror, Michael Desronvil.

Good. This clown should be disbarred. pic.twitter.com/g3fAnQhQA0
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) September 29, 2026

🚨 HOLY CRAP HE'S LOST IT. Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington just went berserk on the prosecution calling him out for ATTACKING lone holdout juror Michael Desronvil

REDDINGTON: "I am TIRED of hearing 'persecution,' 'attacking.' I am doing all these 'terrible� pic.twitter.com/55OEZXYNE6
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:45 PM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 03:45 PM (k2hhB)

2 And this is where Kevin Reddington is now. Repeating the Cultist's conspiracies, ignoring his own client's admissions of guilt.

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It'll be an interesting defense in the retrial, side-stepping the whole mentally incompetent thing and saying she didn't do it, of which there is apparently plenty of evidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (I7axw)

3 This is all sorts of fucked up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 03:47 PM (zZu0s)

4 WUT

Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 03:47 PM (SwyyQ)

5 Reddington has been hit with a gag order over his deliberate doxxing of the holdout juror -- the DA says he used language calculated to allow his media henchmen/coconspirators to dox and menace the holdout juror.

An exercise band order would be more appropriate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (4NO2D)

6 And the lone juror fucked it all up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (k2hhB)

7 This SOB needs prison.

Stat.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (wtvvX)

8 Fuck disbarrment, that filthy POS needs to be on a gallows with his evil cvnt client.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (+fdRY)

9 6 And the lone juror fucked it all up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (k2hhB)

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He just couldn't get past the fact that Lindsay Clancy brutally murdered her three children.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (I7axw)

10 The retrial where he goes full TikTok will be hilarious. Astrologers on the witness stand, the whole 9 yards.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

11 I blame the three bull dykes.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)

12 Why shouldn’t he do this if he already had eleven jurors to believe it?

All he has to do is get 12 more just like them.

It’s scummy and evil but this is the plate they served him.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (6ydKt)

13 "This Kevin Reddington guy, he be nuts!

-- Mike Nifong

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

14 Disbar this motherfucker and sue him into bankruptcy already.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (ECToT)

15
What's worse than a lawyer?

Two lawyers.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (ZxPkt)

16 10 The retrial where he goes full TikTok will be hilarious. Astrologers on the witness stand, the whole 9 yards.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

"The defense calls Candace Owens to the stand...."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (wtvvX)

17 15
What's worse than a lawyer?

Two lawyers.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (ZxPkt)

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Elric's dating profile?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (I7axw)

18 Geez, dude, have some dignity and legal ethics.

Posted by: Michael Avenetti at September 29, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

19 16 10 The retrial where he goes full TikTok will be hilarious. Astrologers on the witness stand, the whole 9 yards.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

"The defense calls Candace Owens to the stand...."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (wtvvX)

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"I am going to make the retrial a complete circus. Just give up and give us a dismissal instead."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:51 PM (I7axw)

20 Maybe we don't have to hang ALL the lawyers, but the 99% of lawyers are giving that last 1% a bad name.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 03:51 PM (N1DT3)

21 Can't wait for the Clancy conspiracy theorists to come out in support of a rogue juror demanding innocence for Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen.

--
sarc implied, as always

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 29, 2026 03:52 PM (qAuhB)

22 >>> 20 Maybe we don't have to hang ALL the lawyers, but the 99% of lawyers are giving that last 1% a bad name.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 03:51 PM (N1DT3)

1) Moron Lawyers Only MoMee
2) Get the rest of 'em
3) Profit!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:52 PM (+fdRY)

23 Fuck disbarrment, that filthy POS needs to be on a gallows with his evil cvnt client.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:48 PM (+fdRY)

Agreed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:53 PM (peOdB)

24 "The defense calls Candace Owens to the stand...."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (wtvvX)

"Mossad killed those kids."
-- Candy Oweens

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 03:53 PM (77rzZ)

25 Maybe we don't have to hang ALL the lawyers, but the 99% of lawyers are giving that last 1% a bad name.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Ham and eggers.

Posted by: Hannity at September 29, 2026 03:53 PM (UjdFS)

26 Some NGO dollars must have been promised to his family.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (eag3e)

27 I blame the three bull dykes.
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)
_____

That seems clearly an coordinated op. I'm 90% convinced the whole trial was a sham that the prosecutor never wanted to win. She threw the case, starting with picking the worst jury imaginable for the prosecution.

The case languished for three years before it limped into the trial. I suspect the prosecutors' office would have rather just dropped the prosecution entirely if they thought he could get away with it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

28 Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)

Are you talking about the women on Clancy's jury. Did they disclose their sexual orientation?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 03:55 PM (JrHfD)

29 26 Some NGO dollars must have been promised to his family.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (eag3e)

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He's a scummy defense attorney who suddenly has a national profile.

He's getting hundreds of millions in free national advertisements through the news coverage that features him for his firm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:55 PM (I7axw)

30 willowed:

the seating arrangement for today's
Presidential Luncheon. Very interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/4dpb7zja

Still no info on the 10PM meeting with crooked Amodei.

https://www.businessinsider.com /trump-seating -chart -white-house- meeting- ai-executives- lunch-2026 -9?op=1

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I wonder if they'll all go along with calling it Super Intelligence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
===

Don’t know but the seating arrangement is a tell. Someone spent time and consideration on who went where. Potus on one side splits down the middle of Johnson and Vpotus on the other.
And that’s just the beginning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:55 PM (wljQY)

31 During the trial, he accepted that Lindsay Clancy killed her children-- she admitted it three times, and there was overwhelming physical evidence besides -- but now, during this motion hearing, joins the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Cultists in wondering if someone else killed the kids.

He doesn't say it, but the Conspiracy Cultists claim that Patrick Clancy killed his children, then "hypnotized" Lindsay into believing she did it and confessing to it.

And this is where Kevin Reddington is now. Repeating the Cultist's conspiracies, ignoring his own client's admissions of guilt.

When you look in the dictionary under sleazy lawyer, there's his picture. Front & center.

What a f'd up day. Jeez.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 03:55 PM (VUYAh)

32 >>> 27 I blame the three bull dykes.
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:49 PM (UjdFS)
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That seems clearly an coordinated op. I'm 90% convinced the whole trial was a sham that the prosecutor never wanted to win. She threw the case, starting with picking the worst jury imaginable for the prosecution.

The case languished for three years before it limped into the trial. I suspect the prosecutors' office would have rather just dropped the prosecution entirely if they thought he could get away with it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

I would laugh if someone in the Bad Orange Man's DoJ charged her with a feral-level civil rights violation.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:56 PM (+fdRY)

33 What do you call a lawyer at the bottom of the pool?

A good start.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (Oy/m2)

34 Are you talking about the women on Clancy's jury. Did they disclose their sexual orientation?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
........

I think one of them might have been Gary Busey.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

35 What's the old saying, it's 99% of lawyers that give the other 1% a bad name?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (0sNs1)

36 Some NGO dollars must have been promised to his family.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (eag3e)

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He's a scummy defense attorney who suddenly has a national profile.

He's getting hundreds of millions in free national advertisements through the news coverage that features him for his firm.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:55 PM (I7axw)
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He got a clearly guilty woman off. There will be floods of guilty clients lined up to hire him. He's gonna make bank on this. And write a book. Hell, there will almost certainly be a movie about this one day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

37 Our judicial system is a farce permitting this clown show to continue. Permitting remedial lawyers and intellectually deficient judges. There should be better oversight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (wljQY)

38 I don't blame him, he will likely get her off because these retards will vote not guilty and if you don't they will ruin you.

These same people kept voting for a known Killer Ted Kennedy, so nothing will surprise me.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (7db69)

39 Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

I may have seen a picture of one of them briefly but I wasn't following their comments online.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (JrHfD)

40 36 He got a clearly guilty woman off. There will be floods of guilty clients lined up to hire him. He's gonna make bank on this. And write a book. Hell, there will almost certainly be a movie about this one day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

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Not everything bad in the world is a conspiracy of the Powers That Be pulling strings.

A lot can be explained by assholes just doing asshole things on their own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (I7axw)

41 Where are the Asian Grandparents when you need them?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (KGj36)

42
Who is paying the evil lawyer?

That could be a tell.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (/QHx4)

43 What's the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?

The dead snake has skid marks from the driver's attempt to brake.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

44 AI re-enactment of the Last Ditch bar drama:

https://instapundit.com/826061/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 29, 2026 03:59 PM (xg/DD)

45
Reminds me of the attorney defending a client over a borrowed pot that broke. The client never borrowed the pot. Also that the pot was returned in good condition. Also that the pot was already broken when he borrowed it. And so on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 03:59 PM (eRlcH)

46 Never attribute to incompetency what can be adequately explained by malice.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:59 PM (4NO2D)

47 Does the judge realize that by allowing the defenses antics he’s putting the 6th amendment in jeopardy? Does he care? Are all judges retarded?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (u73oe)

48 What's worse than a lawyer?

Two lawyers.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (ZxPkt)

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Elric's dating profile?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (I7axw)
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The Blade, he is liked by the young ladies. Much liked. Maybe not as much as The Paolo, but close.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

49 11 I blame the three bull dykes.

Posted by: wth
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Thought there were only two prosecutors?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (wljQY)

50 Breaking news: More than two decades after beginning their working relationship, Blake Lively has reportedly parted ways with her publicist Leslie Sloane.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (0sNs1)

51 I have to hand this to her shitweasel lawyer.... he's doing a good job keeping her out of prison and/or the electric chair (if such a thing exists in commie land.)

How much of all that is a function of the location, the population and the general mental state of said population is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (RORbl)

52 What do you call a lawyer with no arms and no legs?

I don't know but he won't shut up.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)

53
What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?

One of them is a scum-sucking bottom-dweller.

The other one's a fish.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 04:01 PM (y9nCu)

54 You're trapped in a 12 foot hole with a man eating tiger, a mass murderer, and a lawyer. You have a gun and three bullets. What do you do?

Shoot the lawyer three times.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 04:02 PM (Oy/m2)

55
I pretty this asshole's next defense gambit will be that-

The three children committed suicide and framed their mother.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 04:02 PM (YSUhf)

56 >>> 47 Does the judge realize that by allowing the defenses antics he’s putting the 6th amendment in jeopardy? Does he care? Are all judges retarded?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (u73oe)

1) Yes
2) It's not a bug...
3) Only 99.999% of them

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 04:02 PM (+fdRY)

57 He's the Tim Walz of the courtroom.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 29, 2026 04:03 PM (TezPK)

58 Her defense lawyer is 75. He's obviously trying to shore up extra money whenever it is he finally retires.

I understand people working past normal retirement age . We had a wonderful organist who continued to her 90's and she wasn't paid, but she loved to do it and it gave her so much pleasure, and kept her mind active . This fellow obviously wants to be in a limelight and appears to be a narcissist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:03 PM (JrHfD)

59 Hell, there will almost certainly be a movie about this one day.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM

Indeed. But don't expect me to direct it, Mr. TheJamesMadison.

Posted by: Ridley Scott at September 29, 2026 04:03 PM (0sNs1)

60 What did the police evidence say?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)

61 =======

Not everything bad in the world is a conspiracy of the Powers That Be pulling strings.

A lot can be explained by assholes just doing asshole things on their own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:58 PM (I7axw)
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If the conspiracy did not exist these dolts would not have attained such the power and authority.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:04 PM (wljQY)

62 Surprise, surprise, surprise

@NextUpHalperin
Breaking: judge orders New York to halt pied-à-terre tax over botched rollout

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 04:04 PM (nEUC6)

63 >>> 59 Hell, there will almost certainly be a movie about this one day.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:57 PM

Indeed. But don't expect me to direct it, Mr. TheJamesMadison.
Posted by: Ridley Scott at September 29, 2026 04:03 PM (0sNs1)

I expect you to *die*, Mister Scott.

Posted by: Goldfinger at September 29, 2026 04:04 PM (+fdRY)

64 Should help the case against the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 04:05 PM (KB48j)

65 Meanwhile, Caleb Flynn, the American Idol guy accused of murdering his wife, was just found guilty on all charges after 2 hours of deliberations.

Apparently you are able to murder your children just not their mother.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:05 PM (viF8m)

66 I don't know but he won't shut up.
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 04:01 PM

1. That's sexist.

2. Why do you say that like it's a bad thing?

Posted by: Atheist Vegan Crossfitters at September 29, 2026 04:05 PM (0sNs1)

67 Why did the lawyer cross the road?

He saw an old client walking towards him.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS)

68 this guy is nutballs

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 04:06 PM (j+aD2)

69 Shoot the lawyer three times.

Posted by: dantesed
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Where are Chinese Boomers when you need them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:06 PM (wljQY)

70 The undermine of the court and justice system is deliberate. It’s straight out of the playbook.

Remember that when you see outrageous, and purposefully devious cases such as this.

Stack it side by side with the various unlawful rulings by judges and district attorneys.

Her defense attorney has represented that Clancy’s defense is being fully paid for by her parents, along with over $17,000 of taxpayer money. Do you really believe that?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 29, 2026 04:06 PM (DGgho)

71 Maybe it was the Boogyman who did it and tossed her out the window after sending her husband to the store.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

72
Does the judge realize that by allowing the defenses antics he’s putting the 6th amendment in jeopardy? Does he care? Are all judges retarded?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (u73oe)

What do you call a lawyer with a 65 IQ?

Your Honor.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (y9nCu)

73 Meanwhile, Caleb Flynn, the American Idol guy accused of murdering his wife, was just found guilty on all charges after 2 hours of deliberations.

Apparently you are able to murder your children just not their mother.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:05 PM (viF8m)
_________

They would have convicted Chris Benoit of murder in about 45 minutes, had he lived to stand trial

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

74 This whole thing is a coordinate op between the judge, defense and prosecutor, nothing else makes any kind of sense. The only wrench in the works was the lone hold out black juror. And I got $50 that they all thought because he was black and had a criminal record he would vote to acquit her to get back at the man.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (I43vL)

75 "Judge? Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying
son of a bitch Johnson..."

Posted by: drocity at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (DjFWJ)

76 Raymond Remington more law abiding than Kevin Redington.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2026 04:08 PM (mP0Kj)

77 How much of all that is a function of the location, the population and the general mental state of said population is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Be not forgetting the dyke prosecutors that picked the jury.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:08 PM (wljQY)

78 >> Breaking: judge orders New York to halt pied-à-terre tax over botched rollout

It will be back after the election. Along with Hochul’s burka.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 29, 2026 04:08 PM (DGgho)

79 68 this guy is nutballs
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 04:06 PM (j+aD2)
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They're all nutballs. Prosecution, judge, most of the jury, defendant, and certainly Reddington. Nuts. This circus makes the "judicial process" a mockery of justice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 04:08 PM (mPnrf)

80 Bob Dole approves of The Blade's use of the Third Person when referrring to The Blade.

Posted by: Bob Dole at September 29, 2026 04:08 PM (xg/DD)

81 This abysmal defense attorney is just as lunatic as his client! I'm not even believing his behavior. This is off the charts and he needs to be disbarred for what he's done to that lone juror. Un-flipping-believable!

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 29, 2026 04:09 PM (qBdHI)

82 74 This whole thing is a coordinate op between the judge, defense and prosecutor, nothing else makes any kind of sense. The only wrench in the works was the lone hold out black juror. And I got $50 that they all thought because he was black and had a criminal record he would vote to acquit her to get back at the man.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (I43vL)

=========

DEI assistant DA being rankly incompetent also makes sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 04:09 PM (I7axw)

83 He thinks he is in the Soviet Union and a prosecutor

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)

84 One of the attorneys I worked for as a corporate paralegal used to tell a funny story about a client. She straight-up told the judge, "Your honor, my client is an idiot." It worked. Either the judge found him not guilty, or mitigated his sentence. (It's been a long time, so I don't remember the setup, just the punchline.)

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

85 Scumbag Lawyer is redundant.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:11 PM (KC5Lt)

86 See, kids, the idea is to be rich enough to hire an attorney, an accountant, and a financial advisor. The accountant watches the advisor, the atty watches the advisor, and the advisor watches the atty. Like an ouroboros of advice.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (nEUC6)

87 What do you call a lawyer with a 65 IQ?
Your Honor.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

No, not "Your Honor", "Judge".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Fv808)

88 The fix was in. Or so they thought.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (oHCVF)

89 The Judge had to be in on it as well

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

90 Somehow Kevin Bacon needs to show in the news today.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (KGj36)

91 Bob Dole approves of The Blade's use of the Third Person when referrring to The Blade.
Posted by: Bob Dole

Jimmy really likes Elaine.

Posted by: Jimmy at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS)

92 And I got $50 that they all thought because he was black and had a criminal record he would vote to acquit her to get back at the man.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:07 PM (I43vL)

They missed the part that he was a Republican /politically conservative.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (KC5Lt)

93 Scumbag Lawyer is redundant.
Posted by: polynikes

Just a reminder that we have a few JD's on this site. They are excepted from your statement.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

94 Shiner, Texas father* > Chinese grandparents > Rooftop Koreans >>>> Plymouth Mass Court system

*I cannot recall the man's name but he found a guy trying to abuse his five year old daughter and he beat the scum to a pulp. Grand jury said "thank you sir, you may go home"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (nB2bU)

95 See, kids, the idea is to be rich enough to hire an attorney, an accountant, and a financial advisor. The accountant watches the advisor, the atty watches the advisor, and the advisor watches the atty. Like an ouroboros of advice.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM

Scheming Eunuchs

https://x.com/dyingscribe/status/2102816846407766263
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (4NO2D)

96 I pretty this asshole's next defense gambit will be that-

The three children committed suicide and framed their mother.

Posted by: naturalfake

One whackadoodle tried to claim Lindsay was innocent and Patrick trained the kids to attack Lindsay so she killed them in self defense.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (VUYAh)

97 Yet another SC win.

>>@DHSGenCounsel
·
43m
>>In our second Supreme Court victory in less than a week, DHS’s third country removal policy is back in effect. A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike. It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home. https://DHS.GOV/CBPHOME

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)

98 Somehow Kevin Bacon needs to show in the news today.
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I heard someone do the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" thingy linking him to...Nikki Sixx.

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

99 It’s all about the clicks
Bout the clicks
Bout the clicks

No one is mourning those poor kids whe were murdered by their mother.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 04:14 PM (W2Pud)

100 *I cannot recall the man's name but he found a guy trying to abuse his five year old daughter and he beat the scum to a pulp. Grand jury said "thank you sir, you may go home"
Posted by: Huck Follywood

As it should be.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 04:15 PM (oHCVF)

101 This fellow obviously wants to be in a limelight and appears to be a narcissist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Trial attorneys are a special type of cat. And the most successful criminal defense attorneys can very easily fall into actions compatible with the bad company that they keep.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

102 Scheming Eunuchs

https://x.com/dyingscribe/status/2102816846407766263
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM

"If the company nurse comes by, tell her I said 'Never mind.'"
-- Dilbert's PHB

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

103 There was an empty residential unit tax here in S.F. last year and it got struck down by the state trial court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal recently. S.F. doesn't actually have a lot of success in extreme rent control measures these days. Cool thing about the appellate opinion is that it cited a lot of cases I worked on years ago.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 04:15 PM (Fv808)

104 Our judicial system is a farce permitting this clown show to continue. Permitting remedial lawyers and intellectually deficient judges. There should be better oversight.
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But we're still out here protecting democracy and the rule of law!
/s/ federal judges just making shit up "because Trump."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (3cUTc)

105 97 Yet another SC win.

>>@DHSGenCounsel
·
43m
>>In our second Supreme Court victory in less than a week, DHS’s third country removal policy is back in effect. A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike. It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home. https://DHS.GOV/CBPHOME

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:14 PM (viF8m)

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False.

Only Alito and Thomas vote for us. So, this did not happen because a majority for policies we support are impossible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (I7axw)

106
They died of natural causes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (eRlcH)

107 I heard someone do the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" thingy linking him to...Nikki Sixx.
Posted by: Crusader

The have the same coke dealer?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (oHCVF)

108 "Scumbag Lawyer" is repetitiously redundant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (ndZc7)

109 >>In our second Supreme Court victory in less than a week, DHS’s third country removal policy is back in effect. A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike. It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home. https://DHS.GOV/CBPHOME
Posted by: JackStraw
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They need to start with the judges on the First Circuit and those district court judges under them. Rotten district now that is being overturned early and often for misruling from the bench. The other rotten circuit and district is DC. Both would be improved by subtraction of the current judges in them.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)

110 Raymond Remington more law abiding than Kevin Redington.
Posted by: Romeo13

LOL, Raymond Reddington

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 04:17 PM (Fv808)

111 This is completely off topic made me laugh . Someone at the "NY Post" wrote in to talk about the Book of Genesis written for Talarico's church. It's not real, but it's funny:

If Progressives wrote the Bible:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Then He was criticized for using the word ‘created’ without consulting the earth.
So God formed a committee.
The committee spent 40 years debating whether ‘Let there be light’ was culturally appropriate, whether darkness had been marginalized, and whether calling Adam ‘man’ was exclusionary.
Eventually they reached consensus:
‘Let there be light, pending further review.’
And on the eighth day, God created a diversity consultant.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:17 PM (JrHfD)

112 I heard someone do the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" thingy linking him to...Nikki Sixx.
Posted by: Crusader

Sixx degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 04:18 PM (Fv808)

113 Maybe we don't have to hang ALL the lawyers, but the 99% of lawyers are giving that last 1% a bad name.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I told y'all.....

Posted by: Shakespeare at September 29, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

114 One whackadoodle tried to claim Lindsay was innocent and Patrick trained the kids to attack Lindsay so she killed them in self defense.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:13 PM (VUYAh)

Ill admit my experience is lacking, but you'd think an 8 month old would lack the upper body strength to be a real threat.

8 months old. Strangled by his mother. You stupid fucking evil bitches.*

*and phone, I MEAN bitches- not witches.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 04:18 PM (zZu0s)

115

She confessed but Dershowitz says eye witness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 04:19 PM (Cqx++)

116 I heard someone do the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" thingy linking him to...Nikki Sixx.

A distant cousin.

Posted by: Gary Seven at September 29, 2026 04:19 PM (4NO2D)

117
The defense Attorney almost took his shoe off and started banging it on the table as he shouted.

Back in the USSR

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 29, 2026 04:19 PM (OkYzo)

118 heard someone do the "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" thingy linking him to...Nikki Sixx.
Posted by: Crusader

I'm even connected to Kevin Bacon less than six degrees. Pretty much just need to be connected to one actor. . I'm sure Nikki Sixx was because of former wife Donna D'Errico.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (KC5Lt)

119 See, kids, the idea is to be rich enough to hire an attorney, an accountant, and a financial advisor. The accountant watches the advisor, the atty watches the advisor, and the advisor watches the atty. Like an ouroboros of advice.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 04:12 PM
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And, before you know it, your savings have magickly turned into someone else's fees and you go back to work!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (svKyi)

120 Seems Law Schools have all gone teaching Marxism, laws don't count, feelings do

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

121 I don't think that "innocent by reason my attorney's insanity" is a valid defense.

Posted by: SciVo at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (ke3zm)

122 118 I'm even connected to Kevin Bacon less than six degrees. Pretty much just need to be connected to one actor. . I'm sure Nikki Sixx was because of former wife Donna D'Errico.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (KC5Lt)

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I shake the hand of my priest, he shakes the hand of my bishop, he shakes the hand of a cardinal, he shakes the hand of a pope, who shakes the hand of another cardinal, who shakes the hand of Kevin Bacon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 04:20 PM (I7axw)

123 I told y'all.....
Posted by: Shakespeare

IRRC, It was Dick the Butcher who was not one of the nice guys in the play.

As Brave AI summarizes,
"Dick the Butcher is a villainous henchman in William Shakespeare's history play Henry VI, Part 2 (written c. 1591), serving as the second-in-command to the rebel leader Jack Cade. He is characterized as a large, physically powerful, and murderous thug who joins the rebellion for the joy of anarchy and violence. "

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:21 PM (E4rtv)

124 I used to be five degrees from the Queen of England.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 04:21 PM (4NO2D)

125 Wow I'm dense today. Just got the Nikki Sixx snark.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:21 PM (KC5Lt)

126 It'll be an interesting defense in the retrial, side-stepping the whole mentally incompetent thing and saying she didn't do it, of which there is apparently plenty of evidence.
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She didn't do it? If she didn't feel guilt, why'd did she slash her wrists and jump out a window. If she thought she didn't do it, or didn't actually do it, why do that?

if she was heep mo tized why didn't the heep mo tizer fix it so she would admit she did it and wait for the police to come...

This is a sad clown show of a lawyer. Clarence Darrow was accused of fixing a jury. His Private investigator was caught handing a bag of cash to a juror. Two hung juries later he surrendered his calif law license.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at September 29, 2026 04:22 PM (anL5R)

127 off beagle torturing sock

Posted by: yuck at September 29, 2026 04:22 PM (anL5R)

128 >>I'm even connected to Kevin Bacon less than six degrees. Pretty much just need to be connected to one actor. . I'm sure Nikki Sixx was because of former wife Donna D'Errico.

When I was a kid my parents took us to visit some friends of theirs at their lake house in the Adirondacks. There was a clubhouse at the end of the lake for kids to hang and play games. Kevin Bacon was one of those kids.

1 degree.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (viF8m)

129 I'm even connected to Kevin Bacon less than six degrees. Pretty much just need to be connected to one actor. . I'm sure Nikki Sixx was because of former wife Donna D'Errico.
Posted by: polynikes

One of my nephews is an actor, and pretty well-known, I think. (I will not state his name for opsec reasons.) I think I'm only 1-2 degrees away from a lot of celebrities.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

130 120 Seems Law Schools have all gone teaching Marxism, laws don't count, feelings do
Posted by: Skip
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This asshole defense lawyer at seventy five attended when law school was relatively sane. He has no excuse other than being a malignant cancer on the profession. And his wife as a Realtor probably just violated the ethics requirement to be one as well.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (E4rtv)

131 He got a clearly guilty woman off.

I see phrasing has left the building.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

132 131 He got a clearly guilty woman off.

I see phrasing has left the building.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 04:24 PM (I7axw)

133 Okay, serious hat time.
I'm proposing that the attorneys for a client might end up identifying too much with the client.
I'm not blaming Reddington for presenting his client's case as best he could. It's a dirty job. Someone gotta do it. The "insanity" defense is a good one, although Clancy got herself into this state of insanity in part by taking a cocktail of drugs from several doctors. Whatever. As noted, Reddington could take all that into consideration.
It is over the course of the case, that Reddington slipped into evil. I don't recall anyone here much complaining about Reddington (or even knowing his name) until he started fucking with the jury's deliberations.

How do we stop defense attorneys from, basically, falling in love with their clients? Seems like there is some conflict of interest here.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 04:24 PM (88C+u)

134 One of the attorneys I worked for as a corporate paralegal used to tell a funny story about a client. She straight-up told the judge, "Your honor, my client is an idiot." It worked. Either the judge found him not guilty, or mitigated his sentence. (It's been a long time, so I don't remember the setup, just the punchline.)
Posted by: Bulg

Was she representing herself?

Posted by: zombie Abe Lincoln at September 29, 2026 04:24 PM (VHUov)

135 1 degree.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (viF8m)

Unbeatable if time the tie breaker. You even beat his wife.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:24 PM (KC5Lt)

136 I shake the hand of my priest, he shakes the hand of my bishop, he shakes the hand of a cardinal, he shakes the hand of a pope, who shakes the hand of another cardinal, who shakes the hand of Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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For anyone dealing with Hollyweird, it is not the hand that they shake.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv)

137 I met Colonel Sanders twice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 04:25 PM (KGj36)

138 Crista Pike, the vicious young woman who tortured another young woman 30 years ago is set to be executed tomorrow in TN. She had this to say about Lindsay Clancy. I can feel the sisterhood...

Pike also claimed Monday she feels a “kinship” with Lindsay Clancy — whose triple murder case ended in a hung jury, the Times of London reported.

“We are both females who got into trouble because of uniquely female issues,” she told the outlet.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 29, 2026 04:25 PM (qBdHI)

139 Wow, he doesn't take defeat well...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:26 PM (+gK6I)

140 I met Colonel Sanders twice.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I briefly crossed paths with John Madden.

And I met Jerry Falwell.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

141 I don't understand his strategy at this point, unless he is just out of his mind. In any event, he desperately needs to be smacked down with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Road Warrior at September 29, 2026 04:27 PM (wHUXH)

142 I'm curious why the prosecution would be stalling on setting a new trial. I don't see the logic.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:28 PM (dIske)

143 Evil is written all over his face. Similar to Clancy's.

Did he keep scratching something with his right hand? Maybe he has crabs. I know I get crabby looking at him.

He may sprout horns any day now.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 29, 2026 04:28 PM (hzuYO)

144 Trial attorneys are a special type of cat. And the most successful criminal defense attorneys can very easily fall into actions compatible with the bad company that they keep.
Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:15 PM

They're usually very likable, this cat not so much. I'm biased though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 04:29 PM (W4Zv0)

145 The old rule applies to this defense attorney: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

Posted by: AlecK at September 29, 2026 04:29 PM (cMlC1)

146 It is over the course of the case, that Reddington slipped into evil. I don't recall anyone here much complaining about Reddington (or even knowing his name) until he started fucking with the jury's deliberations.

How do we stop defense attorneys from, basically, falling in love with their clients? Seems like there is some conflict of interest here.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Eh, at seventy five, I think it more likely this guy thought she would be his ticket to celebrityhood and fame. Trial lawyers in general are pretty cynical about people and that increases the length of time they practice. Some criminal defense lawyers may go for years without representing a client that was actually innocent.

Some do stellar work for awhile and get burned out and segue out of the field, some become judges of one sort or another, others become plea bargainer types where they use their contacts with the DA office to get the least sentence possible. The remainder of long time criminal defense lawyers are like riverboat gamblers.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:29 PM (E4rtv)

147 "He's in court to ask that the judge just declare Lindsay Clancy innocent."
- - - - - - - - - -
Ah yes, the Dominion-Judge-Nichols Maneuver. Just ask the judge via a letter to declare innocence or guilt directly.

(Reference: https://instapundit.com/826067/ )

Posted by: Another Anon at September 29, 2026 04:30 PM (4h45B)

148 142 I'm curious why the prosecution would be stalling on setting a new trial. I don't see the logic.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:28 PM (dIske)

Maybe they're trying to get the hysteria to die down and move onto the next big one...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:30 PM (+gK6I)

149 told the judge, "Your honor, my client is an idiot." It worked. Either the judge found him not guilty, or mitigated his sentence. (It's been a long time, so I don't remember the setup, just the punchline.)
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

That was a Bloom County bit.
Oliver Wendell Jones, whiz kid son of a black conservative (when those existed), was a hacker. But not as good a hacker as he thought he was, because he was always getting caught. Jones framed... Steve Dallas. Alcoholic lawyer ex-frat-boy.
So Dallas goes to jail and then before a judge, and the judge says "I have come to the conclusion you lack the brains to successfully pick your nose, much less hack a computer. Case dismissed [gavel]".
Dallas then threw a tantrum and blurted WELL MAYBE I DID DO IT!

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 04:30 PM (88C+u)

150 Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Peterbilt Motors manufacturing facility in Denton on Thursday to promote his administration’s economic and manufacturing policies

The Trump Admin says Paccar, Peterbilt’s parent company, has expanded U.S. production and added over 1,000 jobs at the Denton facility.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:30 PM (VUYAh)

151 "Mossad killed those kids."
-- Candy Oweens
Posted by: Bulg

The anti-Semites always obsess about Mossad, but don't even seem to know that Shin Bet and Aman exist. Aman (military intelligence) in particular is way cooler and has tons more sneaky gadgets and double-reverse psyop tricks than fuddy-duddy ol' Mossad.

If anybody killed those kids, it was Aman.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 04:31 PM (Av6i5)

152
The Trump Admin says Paccar, Peterbilt’s parent company, has expanded U.S. production and added over 1,000 jobs at the Denton facility.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:30 PM (VUYAh)

Who cares ? Gas prices !!!

Posted by: Irrationsl public at September 29, 2026 04:31 PM (+gK6I)

153 Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation’

… Not convicted for the crimes Jack says he made. Nice.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (aOPL9)

154 131 He got a clearly guilty woman off.

I see phrasing has left the building.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 04:23 PM (2ocoG)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 04:24 PM (I7axw)

I can see why.

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (lCppi)

155 They're usually very likable, this cat not so much. I'm biased though.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Sociopaths can present both sides--with a jury they are kind, funny, etc. and apparently this old snake charmer was a hit with most of the jury. Then they become full psychopath outside the courtroom going far beyond zealous defense into criminal and disreputable behavior.

His prior bar complaints to this case speak of him mishandling client funds ( a huge no no that gets a LOT of lawyers disbarred, and some other client based offenses).

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (E4rtv)

156 Massachusetts seems to have lost it's collective mind. The trial of the lady who allegedly killed her cop boyfriend. Turtleboy. The Clancy trial. Insane lesbians. The mayor of Boston simping for illegals. The governor cheering abortion until birth. I live about 50 miles from the Mass border , but I think I'll avoid it for awhile

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (jivel)

157 141 I don't understand his strategy at this point, unless he is just out of his mind. In any event, he desperately needs to be smacked down with extreme prejudice.
Posted by: Road Warrior at September 29, 2026 04:27 PM (wHUXH)

It actually makes some sense in a twisted way, after he's seen the Clancy cultist hordes. In the retrial, would you want to say "guilty" or even be selected in the first place? He could be betting that the mass jury tampering that's happened even before any retrial will have the desired effect.

Also, he probably is out of his mind.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (9ZFZd)

158 I shared space with Garrison Keillor at an airport. That guy creeped me out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 04:32 PM (KGj36)

159 153 Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation

Hey Jack... Look in the mirror

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:33 PM (+gK6I)

160 My late brother was an attorney. He had some great stories, most of which I have forgotten. I only remember that they were well-told. Dude was a great raconteur. Probably also why he was a good trial attorney.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

161 Is it self-worth that some derive from a brush with a celebrity's arm in an elevator?

Posted by: old chick at September 29, 2026 04:33 PM (F3Dlr)

162 I play golf with a buddy whose son is married to the daughter of Super Dave Osborne. Their son is in college majoring in entertainment science and in one class had to pick a celebrity to write about. He picked comedy actor Andy Samberg of Brooklyn 99 . The assignment then turned out they had to do a six degrees with the person they selected. He went home and told his mother he probably will fail because he didn't know how he'd get to six degrees. Mother looked at him and according to the father said ' are you stupid or something? I'm Andy's attorney'

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (KC5Lt)

163 My Bacon Number is 4, which isn't at all impressive.

But the path runs through Lynda Carter, which is maybe worth a couple Moron points.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (VHUov)

164 This guy's a shitbag and in violation of multiple rules of professional conduct for attorneys (yes they do exist) like candor before the tribunal. His state bar association should open up an investigation, seriously.

Posted by: This guy's a fucking disgrace! at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (TbWk/)

165 148 142 I'm curious why the prosecution would be stalling on setting a new trial. I don't see the logic.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:28 PM (dIske)

Maybe they're trying to get the hysteria to die down and move onto the next big one...
Posted by: It's me donna
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I think you have it Donna. DAs are elected and the current shitshow of a trial is probably going to hurt his future election possibilities. The Clancy fans are enraged and those that hate child killers are also enraged about the DA and their poor performance in the courtroom. Add both together and that equals a new DA or at least a primary challenge.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)

166 Who is paying off the lawyer? My only explanation for his actions.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar8)

167 Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation

Mother fucker is tripling down on his lies and sedition.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:35 PM (KC5Lt)

168 But the path runs through Lynda Carter, which is maybe worth a couple Moron points.
Posted by: mikeski

This is for Don Black: Lynda Carter was way overrated. Stupid face.
I hate stupid face.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

169 Well

When I was a Beaver gymnast we had a warm up routine to “Footloose” and copied some of Kevin Bacon’s dance moves.

That’s all I got.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 04:36 PM (W2Pud)

170 163 My Bacon Number is 4, which isn't at all impressive.

But the path runs through Lynda Carter, which is maybe worth a couple Moron points.
Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM

Mine is two and I'm not saying who it is.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 04:36 PM (W4Zv0)

171 Imagine what it takes to murder your three children, one at a time, as you methodically carry each one into the basement while they are crying and begging for you to stop. Not only that, but in between strangling them so cruelly and heinously, you stop to take a phone call, then continue strangling them so brutally, as the coroner reported, their eyes bulged out of their sockets.

This was pure evil. There is nothing that excuses murder- except like minded evil people who have also lost their humanity and love for God.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 04:36 PM (6VEkT)

172 160 My late brother was an attorney. He had some great stories, most of which I have forgotten. I only remember that they were well-told. Dude was a great raconteur. Probably also why he was a good trial attorney.
Posted by: Bulg

Criminal defense attorneys have one advantage that divorce or probate lawyers don't. Criminal defense lawyers often have their clients locked up and they cannot pester them as much.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

173 When I was a Beaver gymnast

I'm not goin' anywhere near that.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

174 166 Who is paying off the lawyer? My only explanation for his actions.
Posted by: tubal

Which side?

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

175 Massachusetts seems to have lost it's collective mind. The trial of the lady who allegedly killed her cop boyfriend. Turtleboy. The Clancy trial. Insane lesbians. The mayor of Boston simping for illegals. The governor cheering abortion until birth. I live about 50 miles from the Mass border , but I think I'll avoid it for awhile
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Massachusetts has lost their minds.

Catholic Parents Wouldn't Call Their Daughter a Boy, So Now Massachusetts Has Kidnapped Her for Hormone Therapy

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko would not tell their daughter she was a boy.
Massachusetts took her anyway.
The Roman Catholic couple said that staff at Algonquin Regional High School in Southborough began socially transitioning Sophie without telling them, Fox News Radio’s Lighthouse Faith reported.

In December 2024, when she was 15, the Department of Children and Families removed her from the house. The stated reason was that her parents would not recognize her as male.
Physical abuse claims against Joseph were later called unfounded. That did not return the girl.

https://tinyurl.com/yt3n4c5p

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (VUYAh)

176
Their son is in college majoring in entertainment science

__________

*blinks stupidly*

Entertainment science?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 04:38 PM (eRlcH)

177 >> Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement:

We should totally put Democrats in charge again because the price of gas is temporarily too high. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 04:38 PM (6VEkT)

178 His state bar association should open up an investigation, seriously.
Posted by: This guy's a fucking disgrace!

He already has pending complaints not related to the Clancy trial but other misconduct.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:38 PM (E4rtv)

179 166 Who is paying off the lawyer? My only explanation for his actions.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar

Her parents are getting all the money from the GiveSendGo or whatever it is that she's getting for her "care". Maybe they are.

I can't imagine he's working pro bono or public defender.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (6ydKt)

180 Breaking: judge orders New York to halt pied-à-terre tax over botched rollout
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Also orders the return of whatever tax money has already been collected?

No? okay...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (vJrRc)

181 167 Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation

Mother fucker is tripling down on his lies and sedition.
Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:35 PM (KC5Lt)
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The networks needed a soundbite for the evening news. He gave it to them. Don't bother with the facts.

Posted by: WisRich at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (G0vdT)

182 Criminal defense lawyers often have their clients locked up and they cannot pester them as much.
Posted by: whig

Who does the pestering, the lawyer or the client?

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

183 This was pure evil. There is nothing that excuses murder- except like minded evil people who have also lost their humanity and love for God.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 04:36
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Amen.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (Hbeqj)

184
https://tinyurl.com/yt3n4c5p
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (VUYAh)

I find these stories terribly demoralizing.

I especially tried to avoid the Clancy trial and the crazy shitlibs on TikTok kind of forced me to pay attention. I didn't want to know what she did to her kids.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 04:39 PM (W4Zv0)

185 When I was a Beaver gymnast

Go on ...

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (4NO2D)

186 173 When I was a Beaver gymnast

I'm not goin' anywhere near that.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

_____________________________

*mumble* *mumble* dismount *mumble* *mumble* *mumble*

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (dIske)

187 174 166 Who is paying off the lawyer? My only explanation for his actions.
Posted by: tubal

Which side?
Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

Ah. Perceptive.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Gqar8)

188 Might have been Bigfoot what done it. Pretty "'Squatchy" up there in Massachusetts.

Posted by: Bobo and Ranae at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Fn+3X)

189 BTW WTI has now dropped to $88 and change. The commodity traders can’t keep it inflated anymore. Saudi’s just reopened their pipeline and more oil is going through the strait every day.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (6VEkT)

190 Posted by: This guy's a fucking disgrace! at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (TbWk/)

Well, Ace was a lawyer, and my mom was a lawyer, and I suspect you were a lawyer too... a lot of people on political sites have some connection with the law, if nothing else because we try to elect legislators who don't suck.
So I'm not going to say all lawyers are scum. Even if (or especially if) they have to represent scumbagettes. Someone gotta do it.
Which is why I want to kick scumbag lawyers off of that business. Makes my mom look bad

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (88C+u)

191 Who is paying off the lawyer? My only explanation for his actions.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar

I'm sure he's getting his fees paid for but don't think he's being "paid off" necessarily. Rather, I think he's getting off on his 15 minutes of fame and is going to milk it for as long as he can.

Posted by: Notoriety can do strange things at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (TbWk/)

192 I'm 2 away from Kevin Bacon via Aidan Quinn.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (KC5Lt)

193 161 Is it self-worth that some derive from a brush with a celebrity's arm in an elevator?
Posted by: old chick
======
Same reason the Brits have the royal family and lords. We have Celebutards as the democratic version of the Royal Family.

The level of dysfunction appears similar.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (E4rtv)

194
Also orders the return of whatever tax money has already been collected?

_______

Please apply for a refund at the City Tax Office. Open from 1:00-2:00 on alternate Thurdsays. Bring four notarized copies of your application.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 04:41 PM (eRlcH)

195 I prefer Seven Degrees to Kevin Bacon.
It's like six, but one more.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 04:41 PM (6ydKt)

196 *I cannot recall the man's name but he found a guy trying to abuse his five year old daughter and he beat the scum to a pulp. Grand jury said "thank you sir, you may go home"

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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He beat him to death. 👍

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:41 PM (wljQY)

197 So, Lindsay Clancy obtained a top notch defense lawyer experienced in exactly the kind of case she - is. The state countered with a mashup of the Stooges.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Gqar8)

198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)

199 Entertainment science?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 04:38 PM (eRlcH)

It's UCLA. Maybe I got it wrong though. Its core is the entertainment industry.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (KC5Lt)

200 So, Lindsay Clancy obtained a top notch defense lawyer experienced in exactly the kind of case she - is. The state countered with a mashup of the Stooges.
Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Gqar

This too is the story of the OJ Simpson trial.

Posted by: Plus the assclown judge at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

201 philadelphia is about to die lol

DAMN

Phils just lost

Eagles were embarrassed

they're closing our Dino museum

SUCKS

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (j+aD2)

202 There was a Beaver College in se Pa, came from Beaver County originally

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (Ia/+0)

203 198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....
Posted by: It's me donna
====
But we were hoping that Scotus would rule we could send all Democrats to third party countries. With no return. Starting with the First Circuit judges.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (E4rtv)

204 181 167 Jack Smith Eviscerates Trump in Opening Statement: ‘President Trump Engaged in Serious Crimes Against Our Nation

Did he say what those crimes were ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (+gK6I)

205 198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)
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Does that affect "Maryland man"?

Posted by: WisRich at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (G0vdT)

206
198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)

That's good news.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (Oy/m2)

207 I met Colonel Sanders twice.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I briefly crossed paths with John Madden.

And I met Jerry Falwell.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:27 PM

I played wargames with jeffrey dahmer. We were in the same war games club at the university of wisconsin. And no we never did any pot lucks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (I43vL)

208 202 There was a Beaver College in se Pa, came from Beaver County originally

is that Alvernia now? or Albright?

I can't keep them straight

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (j+aD2)

209 His pay is the publicity he's receiving.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (KC5Lt)

210
Does that affect "Maryland man"?
Posted by: WisRich at September 29, 2026 04:44 PM (G0vdT)

Here's hoping

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (+gK6I)

211 Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 04:37 PM (VUYAh)

That is an absolute disgrace that the school socially transitioned her and and girl was removed because they would not recognize her supposed new gender.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM (JrHfD)

212 Phils just lost
===
payroll 300mil

*heh*

Posted by: so not a 300 mil payroll at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM (anL5R)

213 Might have been Bigfoot what done it. Pretty "'Squatchy" up there in Massachusetts.
Posted by: Bobo and Ranae at September 29, 2026 04:40 PM (Fn+3X)

That Ranae is one handsome woman.

Posted by: Marianne Edgar Budde at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM (t+3cP)

214 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (I43vL)

Was he any good?

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM (KC5Lt)

215 198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)
__________________________

This is why I can't work for ICE. I'd be pranking the detainees non-stop.....stopping by the cells and piling up severe winter gear outside their door. Telling them I'd be back later with the bear spray.

Going to the next holding cell and asking if anyone has ever lived in close proximity to crocs.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM (dIske)

216 209 His pay is the publicity he's receiving.
Posted by: polynikes
========
With crowdfunding, there is no telling who without donor lists, of who is paying the guy.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:47 PM (E4rtv)

217 >>>Lindsay Clancy's Scumbag Lawyer Kevin Reddington

He makes attorneys look bad. And that is quite the feat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)

218 215 198 Well SCOTUS ruled we can send illegals to third party countries so there is that ....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:43 PM (+gK6I)

Upon reading it it is temporary till the Court hears the case in December...6-3... with the usual subjects voting nay

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 04:48 PM (+gK6I)

219 This is why I can't work for ICE. I'd be pranking the detainees non-stop.....stopping by the cells and piling up severe winter gear outside their door. Telling them I'd be back later with the bear spray.

Going to the next holding cell and asking if anyone has ever lived in close proximity to crocs.
Posted by: Orson
======
Why prank them. We should make a deal with Putin or Zelinsky to send them to the Russian Front. They can use a guy like Maryland Man.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:48 PM (E4rtv)

220 208 202 There was a Beaver College in se Pa, came from Beaver County originally

is that Alvernia now? or Albright?

I can't keep them straight
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (j+aD2)
_____________________

You were on the right track. It's now called Arcadia.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 04:49 PM (dIske)

221 If they let him get away with it Reddington basically destroyed the jury system.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:49 PM (KC5Lt)

222 I played wargames with jeffrey dahmer. We were in the same war games club at the university of wisconsin. And no we never did any pot lucks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

A guy I knew from Jr. High and HS, and whom I had been in plays with, brutally murdered a girl (whom I also knew and had been in plays with0). He went to prison for a long time.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

223 with the usual subjects voting nay
Posted by: It's me donna
=======
That is because those three are horses' asses. Neigh is what they say.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:49 PM (E4rtv)

224 Yeah. Braves win!

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (Oy/m2)

225 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (I43vL)

Was he any good?

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM

I don't remember, he was just one of the guys who showed up to play games, mostly avalon hill games IIRC.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (I43vL)

226 221 If they let him get away with it Reddington basically destroyed the jury system.
Posted by: polynikes
=======
Eh, it will survive in some form but the increasing tribal nature like Team Woman, Team Black, Team Muzloid, will inevitably lead to its downfall as Lee Kuan Yew noted.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (E4rtv)

227 Nood

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (N1DT3)

228 New: Kristi Noem filed for divorce from crossdressing husband in April

-
Works for me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (ndZc7)

229 Their son is in college majoring in entertainment science
__________
*blinks stupidly*
Entertainment science?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's how you make a degree legit.

"I'm majoring in Entertainment." So your saying you've got an OnlyFans?

"I'm majoring in Entertainment Studies." So you spend all your time watching other peoples' OnlyFans?

"I'm majoring in Entertainment Science." Wow, that sounds like a real field of study!

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 04:52 PM (VHUov)

230 Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that prosecutors simply haven't produced enough evidence to prove his client killed her children. Prosecutors quickly fired back, publicly dismissing Reddington's assertion as a "laughable theory".

Hold up, she admitted she did it and her attorney confirmed that she did it but claimed she was crazy and that the triple murders shouldn't count because of "hormones" or something.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:52 PM (I43vL)

231
I don't remember, he was just one of the guys who showed up to play games, mostly avalon hill games IIRC.
===
He kept wanting to play as the Japanese in New Guinea and Chichijima....

Posted by: History at September 29, 2026 04:54 PM (anL5R)

232 Know who was not at President Trump's luncheon?

Sam Altman wasn't there at all.

Dario Amodei was sitting on the President's side of the table
to his right, third to last.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 04:56 PM (wljQY)

233 Told'ja Reddington has bigger problems trying to get the psychopath RN to walk free, thanks to MA law.

Wonder if Lindsay just learned her ex is going to be a daddy again & got to appear in 60 Minutes? And that he could clean up through independent lawsuits and the children's Estates? He's erred, too.

No peace.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 05:25 PM (NFX2v)

234 201 philadelphia is about to die lol

DAMN

Phils just lost

Eagles were embarrassed

they're closing our Dino museum

SUCKS
Posted by: Black Orchid

And let's flag flying communists to march through the streets.

You get the government you deserve. It's almost to the point the entire region deserves it, not just those social justice scum bags.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 29, 2026 05:29 PM (NFX2v)

235 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:45 PM (I43vL)

Was he any good?

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM

I don't remember, he was just one of the guys who showed up to play games, mostly avalon hill games IIRC.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 04:51 PM (I43vL)

He kept eating the chits representing soldiers and armies.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)

236 That is an absolute disgrace that the school socially transitioned her and and girl was removed because they would not recognize her supposed new gender.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:46 PM

I hate to say it but, there is little wrong with this country that a few thousand murders couldn't fix. Our forefathers would have been stacking bodies a long time ago.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 06:21 PM (4NO2D)

NYT Tech Editor Gunned Down by In-Laws -- Because His Trans Lifestyle Wound Up Influencing His Son to Wear His Sister's Dresses

Modern problems.

Accused killer grandma attacked trans NYT exec when his son started wearing sister's dresses: explosive court docs

A grandmother who allegedly gunned down her transgender New York Times executive son-in-law accused him of inspiring her grandson to wear his sister's dresses, court documents show.
Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.
Chen visited McKinsey and his wife, Candice Jang, to watch their children in 2023, a restraining order filed by McKinsey against Jang said.
Chen noticed McKinsey's son Wyatt had begun asking to wear his sister Alexis' dresses, a "phase" he was going through, McKinsey said, according to the records.
She then began allegedly berating him for the behavior, calling the young child a "disgusting queer" and a "pervert." Chen also allegedly hit McKinsey's young son in the back of the head when he asked.
When McKinsey begged her to stop, Chen turned her ire to the New York Times employee, who was transgender and transitioned from female to male in 2010, according to the documents.
She then called McKinsey the same names, the restraining order alleged.

The "trans" NYT "game journalist" reportedly physically abused his wife and child. And he says she told him to kill himself.

McKinsey also accused his wife of abuse in their relationship, including an episode where she pushed him to try to commit suicide, the documents say.
McKinsey claimed Jang told him he should kill himself because "no one would want to be with someone as f--ked up and transgender like me."
Jang first filed a restraining order against McKinsey last year, alleging he "threatened to kill me and my parents."
Alameda County prosecutors also charged him with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse after an incident where he allegedly hit their six-year-old son in the face with an open hand.
Jang also told investigators about a 2018 domestic violence incident, where McKinsey bruised her left arm, the charging documents say.

Who knows. Who knows.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:43 PM

Comments

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1 wege5heu5je 5

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (ccf/V)

3
>>the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience

=================

The what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

4 i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (CWTWj)

5 wege5heu5je 5
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

HEY now.....The Fauci thread was LAST thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (ccf/V)

6 This headline is so jam-packed with peak 2026.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (6ydKt)

7 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (s1VwS)

8 And what a shame

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 29, 2026 02:45 PM (s1VwS)

9 "My daddy, he disowned me 'cause I wear my sisters clothes"

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)

10 A good start . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 02:45 PM (3eLdR)

11 Zhang and Chen are heroes.

I love them.

Posted by: Thank you both! at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (PMpfL)

12
wege5heu5je 5
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

________

That's it. It's Midway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (eRlcH)

13
Honestly, I have to re-read this. This is like a Dr. Seuss story.

"Who was the she
and the she was the he
until no one knew who was the who..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (mmrXZ)

14 But this is normal and it should be celebrated, you guys.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

15 It's a Tranny Genocide™!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (l3cgK)

16 So the wife was a lesbian?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (4NO2D)

17
One less pervert. More please.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (/QHx4)

18 Okay... I thought the "husband" was a woman transitioning... So 2 lesbians ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (+gK6I)

19 SPONGE!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (s1VwS)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

20 I am so confused. The based in-laws are the good guys, but I don't understand anything else.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (2ap+5)

21 Chen noticed McKinsey's son Wyatt had begun asking to wear his sister Alexis' dresses, a "phase" he was going through, McKinsey said, according to the records.

It's not learned (or indoctrinated) behavior. It's 100% genetic, and the young child was just feeling safe enough to explore its feelings!!!

Posted by: Gaystapo, Social Media and Teachers at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (LMfGu)

22 So the wife was a lesbian?
Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (4NO2D)

It seems, not anymore. Are you still a lesbian when your significant other assumes a new gender?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (ccf/V)

23 Best I can imagine is that the dude was a she playing a dude when she married the Chinese chick. And chaos ensued.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (nEUC6)

24 > They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

That's ... wow.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (mkw2N)

25 Sounds like an all-around functional family./sarc

Pity Jerry Springer isn't still on the air, people like this could get it out of their systems without resorting to murder.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (vJrRc)

26 So actually there was no 'he' in the group except the grand parents and the male kid.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (NnhvP)

27 It seems, not anymore. Are you still a lesbian when your significant other assumes a new gender?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM

I think so.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (4NO2D)

28 This is "erasing trannies".

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

29 Why is it we never hear about a transgender conversion that works out and that person goes on to lead a wonderful life? If they were out there the liberal media would be all over those kinds of stories but we never see any.

I suspect happy transgender people do not exist.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (I43vL)

30 It's not learned (or indoctrinated) behavior. It's 100% genetic, and the young child was just feeling safe enough to explore its feelings!!!
Posted by: Gaystapo, Social Media and Teachers at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (LMfGu)

I've known people that actually think like this.

"No. They raised their son as a boy....he just desired to play with Barbie dolls and wear dresses. I swear."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (ccf/V)

31 They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

What a strange mental image...
"Okay, now it's your turn!"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (l3cgK)

32 My FiL just got back from America N. Says that the America's Hat-ians are so ate up by TDS that they cannot think straight, and the pols appeal to the people by out TDSing each other.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (3eLdR)

33 Gentlemen: you know you've married the right girl when you take turns shooting a tranny.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (2ocoG)

34 28 This is "erasing trannies".
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

Seems the she/he erased him/her self by "transitioning " ? I'm confused

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (+gK6I)

35 Jeez, this story is like a clown car of insanity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

36 I'm, obviously, a reprobate. I think this whole story hilarious. Especially, this part:

(((They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.)))

I wonder if they were shouting. "Why you no lawyer? Why you no doctor?"

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (dIske)

37 The chick did an amazing job faking a dude. That beard is better than mine.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (4NO2D)

38 Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

That last sentence. lol
I don't know why it reads funny, but it does.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (jBygX)

39 33 Gentlemen: you know you've married the right girl when you take turns shooting a tranny.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (2ocoG)

Love wins

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (s1VwS)

40 The CBS News article didn't mention any of this!!

Posted by: Max Power at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (Hucnr)

41 Jeez, this story is like a clown car of insanity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

And no flying cars in 2026. What a rip!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (nEUC6)

42 Shame he is dead yet not Grandmom should have went this far.
But as Leftists go I might not covict her in a jury

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

43 “My granny killed my daddy 'cause I wear my sisters clothes”.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (Fi81e)

44 The what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

He’s the head guy for making sure old lefties don’t get confused playing Wordle.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (6ydKt)

45 > the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience

That's a real position at a software game development company. At a newspaper, that's live action roleplaying. You're not an engineer. You write opinions about video games.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (mkw2N)

46 killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen

Ethnic Chinese generally don't want to see their grandchildren turned tranny...means no continuation of the family line. Doing it to a boy is so much worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (l3cgK)

47 damn.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (l3cgK)

48 I suspect happy transgender people do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (I43vL)

Instead we have the sad sack Elliot/Ellen Page insisting he's the perfect kind of man and how happy he is through the tears...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

49 Old lady only killed one tranny? Well, it's a start, I guess.

And why does a "newspaper" have a "head of engineering for games player experience" anyway.

And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (peOdB)

50 I suspect happy transgender people do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Maybe the late Jan Morris.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

51 I wonder if they were shouting. "Why you no lawyer? Why you no doctor?"
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (dIske)

Why you no have penis?

Posted by: Zheng & Chen at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (PMpfL)

52 Love wins

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (s1VwS)

Hate has no home here. It's been replaced by murderous rage.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (3eLdR)

53 "Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws."

I have no idea what really happened here, but I very strongly suspect the world is a bit better off without his creep.

He was a trans pervert,

probably grooming his own son,

and was employed by the NY Slime as "head of engineering for games player experience" which is as nonsensical and made-up a job as "Assistant Automated Mototical Sprocket Catcher."

Yea: I feel a little more goodness in the world now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (iFTx/)

54 >>>The "trans" NYT "game journalist" reportedly physically abused his wife and child. And he says she told him to kill himself.

It is a F to M tranny. So, she says that [the other] she told her to kill herself.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (8mulE)

55 I guess both his names are now dead names...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (l3cgK)

56 That's a real position at a software game development company. At a newspaper, that's live action roleplaying. You're not an engineer. You write opinions about video games.

NYT actually does sell games: Wordle, digital versions of their crosswords, etc.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

57 Shooting a feral dog is necessary. Especially since the dog worked for the NY Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (KGj36)

58 the trans men with male pattern baldness are truly committed to the role. I wonder if they look at their receding hairlines, pump their little fists and yell "hell yeah!"

Posted by: Oglebay at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (2ap+5)

59
Someone wants to be trans etc. I don't like that perverted shit.

You mess with children you should be shot.

Is there innocence left in the world?

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (/QHx4)

60 And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Had to have been from someone's previous marriage to a man. Or maybe they were adopted.

It's too bad we don't have reporters anymore, some one might have been able to explain and report on the circumstances without confusing things.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (vJrRc)

61 “My granny killed my daddy 'cause I wear my sisters clothes”.
Posted by: Axeman

"My sister has a mustache,
My brother wears a dress,
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!"

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

62 And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My guess from last night was that the actual girl had a kid out of wedlock, the parents pressured her to get married, tranny enters the equation, and they think "Ok, good enough." Boom, problems.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 02:53 PM (nEUC6)

63 61 “My granny killed my daddy 'cause I wear my sisters clothes”.
Posted by: Axeman

"My sister has a mustache,
My brother wears a dress,
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!"

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

"Mommy and Daddy kept fighting over clothes to wear"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:53 PM (l3cgK)

64 Alternate Headline: THE ARISTOCRATS!

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:53 PM (4NO2D)

65 I hope this shit doesn't mess up my Wordle streak!

Posted by: Ronzoni at September 29, 2026 02:53 PM (Glk2Q)

66 Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.
---
Oh, diverse in-laws from another culture.

That's got to change things up a bit since it's racist to demand that other people adapt to Western standards.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

67 I read this last night.

What I understood is that the girl who got killed (or "guy") was a girl because one of their arguments she accused the "wife" of punching her in the chest after her mastectomy. So that bearded lump was a woman once.

So apparently this was a lesbian couple and the guy transed but was abusive. Not sure about how abusive she was though as only evidence was police complaints during divorce and custody fights, and only damage were minor bruising from grabbing arm or something.

Sounds like the poor old couple had a very disappointing life in America.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (+UEwf)

68 So, she says that [the other] she told her to kill herself.
Posted by: No Name Today

This is one of those situations when you do not use pronouns when explaining to a third party because if you do it only confuses ... everything.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (vJrRc)

69 Yikes....Clancy case is in the news again. I've never heard of this happening before, but apparently Reddington (defense attorney) floated the idea in court that the prosecution doesn't have the ability to prove that Clancy actually performed the murders. This is despite Reddington stating on record that his client absolutely did commit the murders during the previous mistrial.

He's flipping his defense to try and intimidate the prosecution NOT to seek another trial. While simultaneously playing to the lunatics on the internet accusing the husband. This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (dIske)

70 And why does a "newspaper" have a "head of engineering for games player experience" anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (peOdB)

'Gentlepersons: why aren't we profitable?! We are literally THE name in news!'
-NYT CFO

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

71 So many trannies. Did Fauci spray something into the air?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (ebJJx)

72 Why don't you bigoted fucks want more trans warriors in the military?!?!?!
- the left

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (30995)

73 60 And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Had to have been from someone's previous marriage to a man. Or maybe they were adopted.

It's too bad we don't have reporters anymore, some one might have been able to explain and report on the circumstances without confusing things.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (vJrRc)

Newspapers are great at confusing things...
"Hurricane hits cemetery; hundreds dead."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (l3cgK)

74 'Well my mommy had twin babies
On one sweet summer day
She beat one in the head
And I'm the one that got away'

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 02:55 PM (vNne8)

75 31 They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

What a strange mental image...
"Okay, now it's your turn!"
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:48 PM (l3cgK)

It was probably more "my pistol's out - your turn"...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 02:55 PM (tOcjL)

76 Instead we have the sad sack Elliot/Ellen Page insisting he's the perfect kind of man and how happy he is through the tears...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (zZu0s)

Elliot eats carburetors and Kleenex for breakfast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 02:55 PM (6ydKt)

77 "head of engineering for games player experience"... lol

Posted by: front toward enemy at September 29, 2026 02:55 PM (TIizU)

78 Wonder if she used a 1911 or one of the 9mm things?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:55 PM (Ia/+0)

79 First there was Rooftop Koreans. Now we have vengeful anti-trannie Chinese grandparents. Could use a few more of both

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (bE5fk)

80 So apparently this was a lesbian couple and the guy transed but was abusive. Not sure about how abusive she was though as only evidence was police complaints during divorce and custody fights, and only damage were minor bruising from grabbing arm or something.

Sounds like the poor old couple had a very disappointing life in America.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (+UEwf)

I hear that spousal abuse is higher with lesbian couples that straight ones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (l3cgK)

81 THIRD BASE!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (4NO2D)

82 Typical New York Times employee.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (aD4fx)

83 46 killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen

Ethnic Chinese generally don't want to see their grandchildren turned tranny...means no continuation of the family line. Doing it to a boy is so much worse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 02:50 PM (l3cgK)

True - boys matter WAY more to ethnic Chinese than girls...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (tOcjL)

84 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (mmrXZ)

Morticia, it got willowed, but if you have a Caliber Collision near you, go to them to fix up your Outback. They do outstanding work.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

85 He's flipping his defense to try and intimidate the prosecution NOT to seek another trial. While simultaneously playing to the lunatics on the internet accusing the husband. This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.
Posted by: Orson

The lone juror really fucked up their plans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (9tX4s)

86 I mean, it was one thing for them to accept their daughter was lezbo.......then she marries a woman......THEN the woman transitions to a "man."

There's only so much a parent can take.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (ccf/V)

87 Well if the guh was pushing kids to be Trannies he had to be a Cultural Marxist

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)

88 Enya and the whole Brennan musical family hail from Dublin. They would never do something like this.

Posted by: Confuzzled at September 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Fn+3X)

89
Wait, what?

>> the New York Times employee, who was transgender and transitioned from female to male in 2010

...and they have a 6-year-old kid.

Did this young mother, Candice Jong, marry the female-to-male (FTM) McKinsey?? That doesn't make sense because:

McKinsey claimed Jang told him he should kill himself because "no one would want to be with someone as f--ked up and transgender like me."

This looks like the f--ked-up-ness goes wayyyyy back.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:58 PM (mmrXZ)

90 "Come to America. When your slut daughter goes lesbo and marries a bearded woman, you can buy a gun and shoot "his" ass."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:58 PM (+UEwf)

91 > What a strange mental image...
"Okay, now it's your turn!"

Probably more like, "Give me the damn gun, I want to shoot her too!"

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 02:58 PM (mkw2N)

92 This is more bizarre than any telenovela or reality show. Yet it is the reality we now live in.

Posted by: Ripley at September 29, 2026 02:58 PM (GUOwU)

93 "Health" care isn't what it used to be.

*shrugs*

Take care of yourselves because the industry we trusted to do it, doesn't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (RORbl)

94 I mean, it was one thing for them to accept their daughter was lezbo.......then she marries a woman......THEN the woman transitions to a "man."

There's only so much a parent can take.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (ccf/V)
---
Snowballing stupidity.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)

95 Sigh. Revealing he was transgender just makes me think this article has ulterior motives to fuel culture war issues

The GOP are going to make big deal of this and anything they can use to distract from the economy, gas prices and war.

Look on Facebook people are all over it saying the grandparents are hero’s and to free them. I am not talking about a few outliers. There is a high percentage of people applauding this persons death.

With the exception (generally) of Reddit, the discussions on the internet are very sick. It’s strange that here, people address things much more sanely and normally, even though it is anonymous.

Sadly they just accomplished their mission. These sickos sacrificed themselves so their daughter could keep the kids.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (LMfGu)

96
Morticia, it got willowed, but if you have a Caliber Collision near you, go to them to fix up your Outback. They do outstanding work.
Posted by: Bulg

==============

THANKS!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (mmrXZ)

97 And why does a "newspaper" have a "head of engineering for games player experience" anyway.

And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 02:51 PM (peOdB)

NY Times has several different games on their app.
Crossword, Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, etc.

Simple word games that make their subscribers feel smart.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (6ydKt)

98 69 Yikes....Clancy case is in the news again. I've never heard of this happening before, but apparently Reddington (defense attorney) floated the idea in court that the prosecution doesn't have the ability to prove that Clancy actually performed the murders. This is despite Reddington stating on record that his client absolutely did commit the murders during the previous mistrial.

He's flipping his defense to try and intimidate the prosecution NOT to seek another trial. While simultaneously playing to the lunatics on the internet accusing the husband. This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (dIske)

Lawyers argue everything to judges, no matter how dumb...see many pretrial hearings...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

99 Crimes committed by the elderly are entertaining. The major punishment is, in most states, a life sentence for the nasty stuff. And then Gramps or Memaw spend their days in the geriatric unit of the pen, playing pinochle and going down memory lane.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (gm9Sb)

100 And how did Jang and McKinsey acquire two children, given that there no sperm cells in the equation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Had to have been from someone's previous marriage to a man. Or maybe they were adopted.

It's too bad we don't have reporters anymore, some one might have been able to explain and report on the circumstances without confusing things.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (vJrRc)

I'm guessing adopted, because agencies and their government sponsors roll out the carpet for gay couples. Straights, not so much...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (08OqX)

101 "My sister has a mustache,
My brother wears a dress,
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!"

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:52 PM (77rzZ)
-

Gee, Officer Krupke
We're down on our knees
'Cause no one wants a fella with a social disease

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 03:00 PM (ebJJx)

102 And why does a "newspaper" have a "head of engineering for games player experience" anyway.

Those crosswords have become a THING, man.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:00 PM (ccf/V)

103 "No, you shoot so many times already."

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 03:00 PM (jBygX)

104 Lesbian-Tranny-Granny violence, two Morons destroying their Subarus in one 24 hour period! Exactly what is going on?

Posted by: The Huge Manatee!!!! at September 29, 2026 03:00 PM (Fn+3X)

105 Sigh. Revealing he was transgender just makes me think this article has ulterior motives to fuel culture war issues

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (LMfGu)
---
LOL. They want the transgender erased from the story.

Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

106 Look on Facebook people are all over it saying the grandparents are hero’s and to free them. I am not talking about a few outliers. There is a high percentage of people applauding this persons death.

Now do Luigi Mangione and Lindsay Clancy...

and your grammar is atrocious...you want the plural, not the possessive of hero...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (l3cgK)

107 Lesbian-Tranny-Granny violence, two Morons destroying their Subarus in one 24 hour period! Exactly what is going on?
Posted by: The Huge Manatee!!!! at September 29, 2026 03:00 PM (Fn+3X)

MASS HYSTERIA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (ccf/V)

108 This creep is apparently female to male, but ...

... did you see pics of the thing? It's hairy as fuck. I've never seen a F2M get that hairy. Usually the male hormones grow some scraggly nasty peach fuzz and a few pubic-looking hairs.

But this thing has a full thick beard, hairy chest, and looks for all the world like a weak beta man.

I think this story might be updated to correct the F2M transition.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

109 You been shooting four hour. You go home now!

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

110
I am confused about the trans shit. She was a lesbian who decided to trans to a man. No dick. Did it have a dick addition?
The add-a-dick would not work??? WTF

I am old and don't understand wtf is going on anymore.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (/QHx4)

111 Asian sounding woman and a trans man with three kids? There's a turkey baster joke in here somewhere.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (QVS9R)

112 Ahhh, fuck it. One less homo to deal with … how many left to go?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (ayRl+)

113 I am pretty sure california requires an all asian jury, judge, prosecutor and public defender for these china men charged with self defense.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (PMpfL)

114 ****Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. ...took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.****
---

Fucking Boomers...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (wljQY)

115 Look on Facebook people are all over it saying the grandparents are hero’s and to free them. I am not talking about a few outliers. There is a high percentage of people applauding this persons death

I know, right?
- Lindsay Clancy fans

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (30995)

116 With the exception (generally) of Reddit, the discussions on the internet are very sick. It’s strange that here, people address things much more sanely and normally, even though it is anonymous.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (LMfGu)

Obviously very new to Reddit, the internet, and life in general.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (6ydKt)

117 Honestly, I have to re-read this. This is like a Dr. Seuss story.

"Who was the she
and the she was the he
until no one knew who was the who..."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (mmrXZ)
---
Yeah, it took me a couple of tries to figure out exactly who was doing what to whom.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (FZ29D)

118
Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

I agree; this gal/guy/wtf-ever was sick in the head, lopped off breasts, admitted to having psych issues and didn't kill anyone.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (l3cgK)

119
NYT actually does sell games: Wordle, digital versions of their crosswords, etc.
Posted by: Ian S.

===============

Okay, that explains the job title, thanks. The one thing that makes sense in the story.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (mmrXZ)

120 I am a bit curious about what guns they used.

What would an 80yo Chinese couple buy? I am thinking a revolver, probably 38. Maybe a 22.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 03:02 PM (+UEwf)

121 He's flipping his defense to try and intimidate the prosecution NOT to seek another trial. While simultaneously playing to the lunatics on the internet accusing the husband. This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.
Posted by: Orson

The lone juror really fucked up their plans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM

This entire mess of a trial seems to be more and more of a coordinated op between the prosecutor and defense team as more time goes by.

They thought that a black juror with a prior criminal record would stick it to the man and get on board with a not guilty verdict and then he fvcked up their entire plan.

I suspect she would have done a year or two in a state hospital and then been "cured" and set free.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 03:03 PM (I43vL)

122 MASS HYSTERIA!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Oh you got trouble, my friends. Right here in River City!

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

123 heh...check out the mug shots...Chili Chen has the whole "Albert Einstein chic" look going on.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2cbkkv

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:03 PM (dIske)

124 In the words of a great American, this is some fucked-up shit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 29, 2026 03:03 PM (amcLV)

125 105 Sigh. Revealing he was transgender just makes me think this article has ulterior motives to fuel culture war issues

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (LMfGu)
---
LOL. They want the transgender erased from the story.

Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

True, although as the victim story comes out, he/she does seem more and more complicit to the ultimate outcome. Abuse was happening, and no one usually bats an eye when a known DV accuser or pedophile (like was that the next step here?) goes out in similar ways.

They wish things could have been different, and they pray for the victim and the perp...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (tOcjL)

126 Well if the guh was pushing kids to be Trannies he had to be a Cultural Marxist
Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)

No shit. NYT employee, goes with the territory. Good riddance. The kids should be adopted out to a good Mormon family in rural Utah.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (peOdB)

127 110
I am confused about the trans shit. She was a lesbian who decided to trans to a man. No dick. Did it have a dick addition?
The add-a-dick would not work??? WTF

I am old and don't understand wtf is going on anymore.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (/QHx4)

It is a little exhausting trying to keep up, especially when accounts indulge their pronoun preferences.

Just tell us what kind of weirdo you are already.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (jBygX)

128 heh...check out the mug shots...Chili Chen has the whole "Albert Einstein chic" look going on.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2cbkkv
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:03 PM

Truly, that is a woman with zero fucks to give.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (4NO2D)

129 accuser=abuser (dang typo)

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (tOcjL)

130 But this thing has a full thick beard, hairy chest, and looks for all the world like a weak beta man.

I think this story might be updated to correct the F2M transition.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

Question marks formed over my head as well...... I think it was the male pattern baldness that threw me for the biggest loop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (ccf/V)

131
... did you see pics of the thing? It's hairy as fuck. I've never seen a F2M get that hairy. Usually the male hormones grow some scraggly nasty peach fuzz and a few pubic-looking hairs.

But this thing has a full thick beard, hairy chest, and looks for all the world like a weak beta man.

I think this story might be updated to correct the F2M transition.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

================

Some of them manage it amazingly well! For some, the beard doesn't come in and they're envious of the ones who do. I went down this rabbit hole when I was boycotting the news during the first 2 years of Biden. I was following an honest-to-God Berkeley lesbian who got redpilled by the whole thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:04 PM (mmrXZ)

132 So many of life's little problems could be solved if all concerned parties were given 45s, rounded up into a circle and had a big ole Tarantino-esque shootout until the victors emerged.

BONUS! Would make great Tik- Tok videos!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 03:05 PM (YSUhf)

133 @ 99 Crimes committed by the elderly are entertaining. The major punishment is, in most states, a life sentence for the nasty stuff. And then Gramps or Memaw spend their days in the geriatric unit of the pen, playing pinochle and going down memory lane. Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2026 02:59 PM (gm9Sb)
______________________________

That's a bit diff'rent from going down ON memory lane, eh … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 29, 2026 03:05 PM (ayRl+)

134
Starlings and Grackles kick Crow ass.

Posted by: Auspex at September 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Y8DZL)

135 This is less comprehensible than trying to explain trigonometry with whatever characters you get in a bowl of alphabet soup.

Posted by: Clay at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (dDrkF)

136 Taking turns shooting at freako. "You dance now sweetie, you dance. Bang. Hit in leg. Now your turn." "Dance dance dance little butterfly. Bang. Oopsie,now in liver. Now your turn".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (gm9Sb)

137 108 This creep is apparently female to male, but ...

... did you see pics of the thing? It's hairy as fuck. I've never seen a F2M get that hairy. Usually the male hormones grow some scraggly nasty peach fuzz and a few pubic-looking hairs.

But this thing has a full thick beard, hairy chest, and looks for all the world like a weak beta man.

I think this story might be updated to correct the F2M transition.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)
- - - - - - - - -
Astroturf (TM)

It's not just for football anymore! Ask your sex-change specialist or pediatrician for more details. Not void where prohibited.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (4h45B)

138 “ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (hLZfT)

139 They keep mentioning each other’s kids in other articles. “She hit my kids.”, “He hit her kids”, etc.

It’s confusing but maybe they both got inseminated and had their own kids at some point before the one girl became a guy?

It’s all so confoozling.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (6ydKt)

140 I was not expecting this in my fortune cookie.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (4NO2D)

141 NYT Tech Editor Gunned Down by In-Laws -- Because His Trans Lifestyle Wound Up Influencing His Son to Wear His Sister's Dresses

===========

Pretty sure those words have never been assembled in that order before.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (u73oe)

142 I've never seen a F2M get that hairy. Usually the male hormones grow some scraggly nasty peach fuzz and a few pubic-looking hairs.

Most of them are how you describe, but I've seen one or two that have Sean Connery levels of hair.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (2ocoG)

143
Dressing in womens clothing is not a big deal.

Posted by: Hasan Piker at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (OkYzo)

144 “ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (hLZfT)

When I cure the sick, I won't take your deductible.

Posted by: James Talarico at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (ccf/V)

145
I think this whole story hilarious. Especially, this part:

(((They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.)))

I wonder if they were shouting. "Why you no lawyer? Why you no doctor?"
Posted by: Orson

===================

LOLOL, I couldn't help laughing at the image of a 77-year-old Chinese couple "taking turns" on a guy in a parking lot. I literally think the writer intended this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (mmrXZ)

146 134
Starlings and Grackles kick Crow ass.

Posted by: Auspex at September 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Y8DZL)

I've seen crows harassing eagles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

147 I suspect she would have done a year or two in a state hospital and then been "cured" and set free.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (9tX4s)

148 ... did you see pics of the thing? It's hairy as fuck.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

-----------
I don't watch porn, but I understand "fuck" is a lot less hairy nowadays. For both women and men.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (+UEwf)

149 Plenty of mental illness meatballs in this story.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (WIUCR)

150
AOP,

Lol. I have stories and I won't relate them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (/QHx4)

151 Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

Moar dead trannies needed, not fewer. Thy are batshit insane, and evil, every one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (peOdB)

152
Pretty sure those words have never been assembled in that order before.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 03:06 PM (u73oe)

Welcome to a liberal world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:08 PM (ccf/V)

153
Enya and the whole Brennan musical family hail from Dublin. They would never do something like this.
Posted by: Confuzzled

===============

Dublin, California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:08 PM (mmrXZ)

154 "people are all over it saying the grandparents are hero’s and to free them. I am not talking about a few outliers. There is a high percentage of people applauding this persons death."

From the party of Lindsay Clancy, Luigi Mangione, Thomas Crooks, Ryan Routh and Tyler Robinson.

Posted by: 13times at September 29, 2026 03:08 PM (fnZRl)

155 Bettrr dead than Red

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (Ia/+0)

156
I've seen crows harassing eagles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

I see mockingbirds harassing hawks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (ccf/V)

157 So which one was the Nazi in this story?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (4NO2D)

158 *Sees last thread.*

Dear Lord

Fauci being consumed by millions of hungry sand fleas is too good for that evil pestilence.

Unit 731 part II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (2GVsD)

159 151 Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

Moar dead trannies needed, not fewer. Thy are batshit insane, and evil, every one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (peOdB)

No, conversion should always be an option = some can be saved...and some have been. If you think you can't reconvert the person, you are giving in to despair.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (tOcjL)

160 We need some common sense grandparent reform

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (uhVAy)

161 LOLOL, I couldn't help laughing at the image of a 77-year-old Chinese couple "taking turns" on a guy in a parking lot. I literally think the writer intended this.

Same. I was legit laughing my ass off when I read that.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (2ocoG)

162 Jury trial. Pay per view.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (WIUCR)

163 @ 67 I read this last night. What I understood is that the girl who got killed (or "guy") was a girl because one of their arguments she accused the "wife" of punching her in the chest after her mastectomy. So that bearded lump was a woman once. So apparently this was a lesbian couple and the guy transed but was abusive. Not sure about how abusive she was though as only evidence was police complaints during divorce and custody fights, and only damage were minor bruising from grabbing arm or something. Sounds like the poor old couple had a very disappointing life in America. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (+UEwf)
____________________________________________

Sounds like a very very sad 'WGAF?' tale of Sorrow & Saddity. Again … WGAF?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 29, 2026 03:10 PM (ayRl+)

164 If you think you can't reconvert the person, you are giving in to despair.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM

It could just be indifference.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:10 PM (4NO2D)

165 So, if this was 2 biological females, where did they get the child? Previous relationship? Adoption? Turkey baster?

Posted by: PabloD at September 29, 2026 03:10 PM (gwaQt)

166 Some bird are just asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:12 PM (ccf/V)

167 There has to be surveillance video.

They did it in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon at the Dublin Sports Grounds.

There might even be a few camera angles in the parking lot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

168 I've seen crows harassing eagles...
Posted by: jim

yes, because the crows eat eggs when the mother eagle leaves the nest. I ain't crowning crows but Mother Nature is a bitch.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (nEUC6)

169 37 The chick did an amazing job faking a dude. That beard is better than mine.

Posted by: toby928(c)
----

Isn't it amazing these literary genius journalists can so screw up a statement that no one here can sort out the sex of the participants in the story?
Could the writers be confused?
Could the writers be making up shit?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (wljQY)

170 I missed the student loan thread. For those that are saying "Not my problem, let them go broke" look up PSLF groups.

People have been forgiven $500K+ for staying in school (while taking out more loans) while working for 10 years.

You already are paying these loans. And it isn't just for military or for people agreeing to work on an Indian Reservation.

https://pslfcoalition.org/

https://studentaid.gov/pslf/employer-search

Posted by: Ann at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (SHHm+)

171 IIRC the children were adopted.

Yeah progressive family courts and all that. Jang and Deadname deader being 'perfect' parents.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (2GVsD)

172 “ Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who does not know God.”

Job 18:21

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (hLZfT)

173 > Some bird are just asshoe.

WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?!?

Posted by: Canadian Goose at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (mkw2N)

174 I read this last night and still don't know who was what. Dude has a full beard. But he was a she and then he? Eh, whatever. Good shooting. What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Turambar's phone at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (Q0yOR)

175 The grandparents took turns John Wicking the persyn.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:14 PM (2GVsD)

176
Okay, I've wiped the tears of laughter, but lemme just say this: some siblings try on each other's clothes. It's harmless. I'll never forget the time my niece (then 3) decided she wanted the same haircut as her brother (then 6). She found scissors in the bathroom drawer. Guess what happened...

HOWEVER, something tells me in this family it wasn't all that spontaneous.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:14 PM (mmrXZ)

177 I need a score card.

No doubt everyone gets a F but at least I'll know the players.

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2026 03:14 PM (lCppi)

178 ---
Yeah, it took me a couple of tries to figure out exactly who was doing what to whom.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Apparently the grandparents did.
Boom, boom, boom, boom
hey, hey, hey, hey
Shoot him again, baby.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:15 PM (wljQY)

179 McKinsey was a she, then a he, and now is dead.
Jang was no change.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:16 PM (2GVsD)

180 This on the same day that Ellen Page appears topless and titless on the cover of New York Magazine. And so close to Pride Month

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 03:16 PM (jivel)

181 156
I've seen crows harassing eagles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

I see mockingbirds harassing hawks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:09 PM (ccf/V)
- - - - - - - - - -
I see a skeleton choking on a crust of bread.

Posted by: Another Anon at September 29, 2026 03:17 PM (4h45B)

182 Enya and the whole Brennan musical family hail from Dublin. They would never do something like this.
Posted by: Confuzzled

===============

Dublin, California.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:08 PM (mmrXZ)

Not Dublin NY near Rochester?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 03:17 PM (uhVAy)

183 I've fire and I've seen rain.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:17 PM (4NO2D)

184 My comment from last night:

Ok, here's the best I can imagine with the 'tech tranny assassination' story. Total guess at this point.

Tranny woman starts the chem trans, dresses as a man, meets a Chinese gal with a kid, they marry because the parents think she's a dude and is embarrassed by her daughter's lack of a husband. The daughter keeps it a secret until they start full-blown fisticuffs and the tranny goes for the full-montessa. Parent find out, lose their shit, and go Old Country on her ass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 03:18 PM (nEUC6)

185 I can see this happening if you drive two very traditional people from a very traditional culture nuts all the time for decades watching their lesbian daughter and her successful girlfriend decide to try every letter in the LGBTQ alphabet out with their grandchildren around.

It eventually got to the straw that broke the camel’s back and then they’re taking turns ventilating the problem in a parking lot.

The TV series might be very watchable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

186 Are we Dublin down?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:18 PM (2GVsD)

187 Who fathered the children?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (W2Pud)

188 I've fire and I've seen rain.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Yes, Mr. Ed Sheeran, you've made a mess of things.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (nEUC6)

189 I wonder if they started locking up trannies in the nuthouse cuz they're insane, just how many trannies there would actually turn out to be.

In a nation of almost 400M people even if there are say one-half percent that's still a fuck ton of people but I bet it's not even close to that.

This would seem to be an easily solved issue with committing them and giving them treatment.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (YSUhf)

190 159 151 Actually, I don't think traditionals should make any hay with this as the tranny is the victim.
Posted by: Axeman
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Fuck that. The children are the victims.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (wljQY)

191 I've fire and I've seen rain.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Do you have a pony named Wildfire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (2GVsD)

192 WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?!?
Posted by: Canadian Goose

I shit bigger than you.

Posted by: Mr Emu at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (9tX4s)

193 175 The grandparents took turns John Wicking the persyn.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:14 PM (2GVsD)

The persyn should have left the grandparents' dog alone.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

194 186 Are we Dublin down?

Posted by: Anna Puma
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On the pavement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (wljQY)

195 Did the deceased's co-workers know she was trans?

Posted by: mr tmz at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (rJ48h)

196 ---

Fuck that. The children are the victims.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (wljQY)

AS they always are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (ccf/V)

197 I wonder if they started locking up trannies in the nuthouse cuz they're insane, just how many trannies there would actually turn out to be.

In a nation of almost 400M people even if there are say one-half percent that's still a fuck ton of people but I bet it's not even close to that.

This would seem to be an easily solved issue with committing them and giving them treatment.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (YSUhf)

My guess is more than half of all trannies are performative M->F ones built like linebackers taking feminist jobs and acting as enforcers in protest mobs. They probably have no surgery or even drugs because that would cut into the desire to head bash the enemy.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)

198 Was the trans NYT editor a DEI hire?
Did the family shoot him because he was trans, or because they hate the NYT?
Is it illegal to shoot a relative in Ireland?

So many unanswered silly questions.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (vbXSk)

199 “ I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
but he soon passed away and was no more;
though I looked for him, he could not be found.”

Psalm 37:35-36

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (hLZfT)

200 Dinks takin' care a' bidness

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (ZxPkt)

201 Did the deceased's co-workers know she was trans?
Posted by: mr tmz

In SF everyone is trans.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (nEUC6)

202 It eventually got to the straw that broke the camel’s back and then they’re taking turns ventilating the problem in a parking lot.

The TV series might be very watchable.

A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (2ocoG)

203
On the pavement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:20 PM (wljQY)

Close enough...........

https://youtu.be/mTzpQBZ8oAU

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (ccf/V)

204 A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (2ocoG)

MxC II: Tranny Boogaloo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:22 PM (ccf/V)

205
The grandparents were suffering from post-pardom depression.

Posted by: The Clacy Defense at September 29, 2026 03:22 PM (OkYzo)

206 Wonder if the grandparents are Chinese nationals and can get deported and go home laughing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 03:22 PM (uhVAy)

207 Zhang, "He's still moving. Shoot again."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:23 PM (2GVsD)

208 It's a Tranny Genocide™!
/sarc
Posted by: jim

It was gyno-cide first. Self-inflicted.

Posted by: Grazed Anatomy at September 29, 2026 03:23 PM (TezPK)

209 I've seen crows harassing eagles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:07 PM (l3cgK)

____________________

I volunteer at a local wild life refuge that counts migrating birds right around this time every year. And, the coolest thing I've seen is how hawks and eagles deal with crows who harrass them.

They will purposely fiy straight up to their maximum altitude...crows have to pull off about half way up because they can't handle the conditions. Over and over again you'd see hawks and eagles getting annoyed, the whoosh...up they go and the crows peel off. Very cool to witness in real time.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:23 PM (dIske)

210 Are we Dublin down?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:18 PM (2GVsD)

Very fine song by the late Guy Clark, Dublin Blues:

https://youtu.be/7SXlSjco8J4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:23 PM (peOdB)

211
With #5 you get eggroll.
With #6 you get shot.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 29, 2026 03:24 PM (OkYzo)

212
These sickos sacrificed themselves so their daughter could keep the kids.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

================

Oh great, there was also a custody battle? Couldn't get more tangled. Oh wait! Who was the sperm donor? Maybe he'll enter the picture next. And maybe he will now be a she.

"Transitioned Sperm Donor Seeks Her Maternal Rights After Transitioned Lesbian 'Husband' Dies At Hands Of In-Laws Whose Lesbian Daughter Punched 'Husband' After His Mastectomy..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:24 PM (mmrXZ)

213 You go now! You been trans fo howah!!!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 03:24 PM (u73oe)

214 Dear Penthouse Forums...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:24 PM (2GVsD)

215 They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

That's ... wow.
Posted by: bonhomme

Fag-tag team.

Posted by: Grazed Anatomy at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (TezPK)

216 A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (2ocoG)

I’m telling you this could be one of the best dark comedy series in at least twenty years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (6ydKt)

217
I wonder if the grandparents were driven to erase this pervert because he caused them to lose face. Or the entire warped situation did, and shooting her/him/it was a way of pulling the plug on it, or something.

Has this killing been incorporated into the tranny victimization narrative yet?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (VWtfl)

218 198 Was the trans NYT editor a DEI hire?
Did the family shoot him because he was trans, or because they hate the NYT?
Is it illegal to shoot a relative in Ireland?

So many unanswered silly questions.

Posted by: illiniwek a
----

This happened in Ireland? There are more important questions.
Was it Northern Ireland or Ireland proper?
Were the Protestant or Catholic?
These are the important things in Ireland.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (wljQY)

219 You already are paying these loans. And it isn't just for military or for people agreeing to work on an Indian Reservation.

https://pslfcoalition.org/

https://studentaid.gov/pslf/employer-search
Posted by: Ann

Public service loan forgiveness has always been part of the student loan laws, at least for fed-issued loans.

And Congress, every couple of years, changes the eligibility criteria so that people's previously-eligible public service doesn't count. Because Congress is asshoe.

The important thing is that the people who have gotten the remainders of their balances forgiven made at least 120 (aka 10 years) of full payments. Which would have been enough to pay off their balances, if they hadn't made them over the course of 20 or 30 years.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (vJrRc)

220 Got to concede that her transition looks real except likely the franks and beans.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (KC5Lt)

221 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,
but he soon passed away and was no more;
though I looked for him, he could not be found.”

Psalm 37:35-36
Posted by: Marcus T
___

Amen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (X7pZH)

222 Just takin' out the trash.

Posted by: The In-Laws at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (UjdFS)

223 Was the trans NYT editor a DEI hire?
Did the family shoot him because he was trans, or because they hate the NYT?
Is it illegal to shoot a relative in Ireland?

So many unanswered silly questions.

Posted by: illiniwek a
----

This happened in Ireland? There are more important questions.
Was it Northern Ireland or Ireland proper?
Were the Protestant or Catholic?
These are the important things in Ireland.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (wljQY)
_________

Dublin, California

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

224
Have has the world reached the limit of sexual sickness?

I cannot the next level of perverted sickness.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (/QHx4)

225 Has this killing been incorporated into the tranny victimization narrative yet?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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That would be racist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (wljQY)

226 Chen, jang, ping, pang, pong....I can't frigging figure out who the fuck is who in the story.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (vzuC7)

227 男同性恋者

Posted by: That Guy at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (hLZfT)

228 Dance, you no good varmint!!

https://tinyurl.com/3cxtkyx6

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (hmYU4)

229 The way things are trending I half expect her defence to be late late abortion.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (2Xrky)

230 But...but...but...other cultures accept trans people with open arms. It's only Western Culture, corrupted by Christianity that doesn't get all excited when their kids change gender. Isn't that right? It is what I have been told.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (0MjtC)

231 No worries, no Yang-Poon involved.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:27 PM (2GVsD)

232 I SHOOT YOU MANY TIME! YOU DIE NOW!

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:28 PM (ZxPkt)

233
This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (dIske)

So, all of them...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 03:28 PM (y9nCu)

234
Dublin, California

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

So, Avocado Famine?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 03:28 PM (ccf/V)

235 How long has this "trannie" thing been with us? Back around 1970 there were few gays, at least that were "loud and proud" gays. Probably fewer than 1% overall. Then I guess it became more popular, or the Commie PsyOp of destroying our cultural began to take deeper root.

I don't recall even hearing about trannies, just "cross dressers", which afaik is different than men claiming to actually be women. But now (or recently) just "dead naming" a trannie, or using its wrong pronouns, is a firing offense in many cases.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (vbXSk)

236 Zhang and Chen finally drew a line for their daughter and the monster crossed it.

They done FAFO'd.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (2GVsD)

237 In SF everyone is trans.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
......

Folsom Street Parade magic eight ball says: YES

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

238 OT, but oil is trading now below $90 and oil exports through Hormuz are back to normal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (bVoR9)

239
Is it illegal to shoot a relative in Ireland?

Posted by: illiniwek

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This is Dublin, California. Alameda County to be exact, which recalled a DEI District Attorney AND an Oakland mayor, which gives you an idea of how bad they were.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (mmrXZ)

240 So, all of them...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 03:28 PM (y9nCu)

_______________________

Early ones were great. Michael Moriarity was solid, but he didn't subscribe to the "Woke" turn the show took, and they fired him for complaining.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)

241 237 In SF everyone is trans.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
......

Folsom Street Parade magic eight ball says: YES

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)

Folsom Street Fair is NOT on my bucket list...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (l3cgK)

242 Mr Wu wants to know if the tranny was from San Francisco.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (u73oe)

243 I don't recall even hearing about trannies, just "cross dressers", which afaik is different than men claiming to actually be women. But now (or recently) just "dead naming" a trannie, or using its wrong pronouns, is a firing offense in many cases.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (vbXSk)

Renee Richards in the 70s was a dude who converted to a woman and played professional tennis.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (uhVAy)

244 What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (2GVsD)

245 233
This is turning into a really poorly written episode of Law & Order.
Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (dIske)

So, all of them...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 03:28 PM (y9nCu)

And a lot of thrm.
Nit counting all the spin-offs I think Law & Order ran for something like twenty years.

I stopped watching it in 1997 or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)

246 > How long has this "trannie" thing been with us? Back around 1970 there were few gays, at least that were "loud and proud" gays.
----

Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly. It was a simpler time. With better game shows.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (ZxPkt)

247 235 I don't recall even hearing about trannies, just "cross dressers", which afaik is different than men claiming to actually be women. But now (or recently) just "dead naming" a trannie, or using its wrong pronouns, is a firing offense in many cases.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (vbXSk)

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There's a pre-op tranny in John Waters' Pink Flamingos. The dude did go through the surgery shortly afterwards.

Weimar was doing transgender surgeries in the 1920s.

The popular push started about 2015.

Dolley and I are going through old Survivor seasons, and one episode's tribal council ends up being a long struggle session because one contestant "outs" the tranny on the island which...I don't think trannies can be all that secret about it to their families.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:31 PM (I7axw)

248 "Dublin, California" Posted by: Elric The Blade

I thought of checking, but it was just a silly question anyway. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:31 PM (vbXSk)

249 Christine Jorgensen, might want to look that name up.

"GI Returns as Blonde Bombshell"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:31 PM (2GVsD)

250 I stopped watching it in 1997 or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)

So did E. Jean Carroll

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

251 In the '70s down on the club strip there was always one, 'Queens Club' where tourists would go for amusement.

One time Dolly said, I was dressed like a drag queen for Christmas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:32 PM (wljQY)

252 238 OT, but oil is trading now below $90 and oil exports through Hormuz are back to normal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (bVoR9)

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The funny thing is that including workarounds, it's been back to normal for months. We're just at the point where the workarounds aren't necessary and any effort by Iran to influence things is so laughable that no one except the country's propagandists, which includes every American leftist, believes their lies about closing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:32 PM (I7axw)

253 OT, but oil is trading now below $90 and oil exports through Hormuz are back to normal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (bVoR9)

Gas price at my little town is down about ten cents per liter as of yesterday, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:32 PM (peOdB)

254 A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.
Posted by: Ian S.

Angelina and Brad are available!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 03:33 PM (w9Wax)

255 This situation is so screwed up I can't figure out what's going on. McKinsey is a female who claims to be male. So how the hell did two females end up with two children? Were they adopted?

There is too much shit left out of this story. Don't journalists know how to do stories any more?

Posted by: Ralph at September 29, 2026 03:33 PM (8WZD4)

256 I don't recall even hearing about trannies, just "cross dressers", which afaik is different than men claiming to actually be women. But now (or recently) just "dead naming" a trannie, or using its wrong pronouns, is a firing offense in many cases.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 03:29 PM (vbXSk)

========

There's a pre-op tranny in John Waters' Pink Flamingos. The dude did go through the surgery shortly afterwards.

Weimar was doing transgender surgeries in the 1920s.

The popular push started about 2015.

Dolley and I are going through old Survivor seasons, and one episode's tribal council ends up being a long struggle session because one contestant "outs" the tranny on the island which...I don't think trannies can be all that secret about it to their families.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:31 PM (I7axw)
________

Eunuchs have been a thing for, oh, only about 4,000 years ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

257 So when do we get machete version of this story? I can’t wait.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2026 03:34 PM (KGj36)

258 > What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?

He tried to give me monkey pox so I popped his sack.

Posted by: Canadian Goose at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (mkw2N)

259 256 Eunuchs have been a thing for, oh, only about 4,000 years ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

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Eunuchs, as far as I know, never thought they were women.

They just ruled China.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (I7axw)

260 “We tol’ you! We tol’ you this happen,”

“You no listen, you selfish pervert.”

BAM!

“Here Shouyong, your turn, shoot pervert.”

BAM!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (6ydKt)

261 @icons_women
·
5h
Breaking: Federal judge rules the NCAA can force men onto women’s teams and into women’s locker rooms—not beholden to Title IX.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (ZxPkt)

262 261 @icons_women
·
5h
Breaking: Federal judge rules the NCAA can force men onto women’s teams and into women’s locker rooms—not beholden to Title IX.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (ZxPkt)

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Sounds to me like the NCAA is not actually tied to colleges, since it is not tied to laws governing colleges, and it should now be illegal for colleges to fund the NCAA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (I7axw)

263 @ 187 Who fathered the children? Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 03:19 PM (W2Pud)
____________________________________

It was … Mr. Turkey Baster!

Posted by: Dr_No at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (ayRl+)

264 > OT, but oil is trading now below $90 and oil exports through Hormuz are back to normal.

I live in hope of paying less than $6 per gallon someday.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (mkw2N)

265
Also, "McKinsey" appears to be half Asian. There's probably another set of Asian relatives who are prenty pissed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (mmrXZ)

266 17
One less pervert. More please.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 02:46 PM (/QHx4)
========
You want more perverts or less, make up you mind.

>>>>>>>>>> SCRAMS >>>>>>>>>

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (JNTt1)

267 In SF everyone is trans.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 03:21 PM (nEUC6)
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and Fabulous!
/flourishes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (RIvkX)

268 264 > OT, but oil is trading now below $90 and oil exports through Hormuz are back to normal.

I live in hope of paying less than $6 per gallon someday.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 03:36 PM (mkw2N)

======

Ukraine attacking Russian diesel refineries, California closing refineries, and peak refining season not ending because of the long summer are to blame for all that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:37 PM (I7axw)

269
Breaking: Federal judge rules the NCAA can force men onto women’s teams and into women’s locker rooms—not beholden to Title IX.

Posted by: Don Black

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We need to get some Asian grandparents on this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:37 PM (mmrXZ)

270
Gender politics: too complicated for the stupid, too stupid for the intelligent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 03:37 PM (eRlcH)

271
Old and busted: Rooftop Koreans
New hotness: Asian grandparents

(not that Rooftop Koreans are old and busted, just having fun)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (mmrXZ)

272 You need more shooters to get away with this plan.

Posted by: connected and litigious at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (cS1cw)

273 A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.
Posted by: Ian S.
---
By day they clean your clothes...by night they clean up your neighborhood...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (FZ29D)

274 What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?
Posted by: Anna Puma
......

NORAD has detected another unidentified weather balloon floating towards the miidwest.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (UjdFS)

275 Eunuchs have been a thing for, oh, only about 4,000 years ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

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Eunuchs, as far as I know, never thought they were women.

They just ruled China.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (I7axw)

____________

"Nuh-uh, they didn't!"

-- Puyi

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

276 By day they clean your clothes...by night they clean up your neighborhood...

Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (2GVsD)

277
Wait, they shot everyone at McKinsey? About time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (eRlcH)

278 > You need more shooters to get away with this plan.

More than two? How many are we talkin' here?

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (mkw2N)

279 > the newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience

--

Makes sure the new Wordle loads every day.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (qAuhB)

280 275 "Nuh-uh, they didn't!"

-- Puyi

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

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Oppressing one's own people in Manchukwo at the behest of the Japanese is one type of ruling, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (I7axw)

281 Eunuchs, as far as I know, never thought they were women.

They just ruled China.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:35 PM (I7axw)
_________________________

Someone had to sing the high notes. Women were banned from choirs. Pope Sixtus V extended that to Opera and performance. So, once again, we can blame the Catholic Church for today's trannies...

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (dIske)

282 Hmm NYT Tranny Pedo. OOOO We have a BINGO!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (bX16E)

283
Eunuchs have been a thing for, oh, only about 4,000 years ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

===============

Yeah, generally not by choice though.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (mmrXZ)

284 282 Hmm NYT Tranny Pedo. OOOO We have a BINGO!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (bX16E)

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Ya just say "bingo".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:40 PM (I7axw)

285 > You need more shooters to get away with this plan.

More than two? How many are we talkin' here?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM

Picture the slap scene in Airplane.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (4NO2D)

286 275 "Nuh-uh, they didn't!"

-- Puyi

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

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Oppressing one's own people in Manchukwo at the behest of the Japanese is one type of ruling, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (I7axw)
______

I was referring to the episode where Puyi's eunuchs fucked him over and stole his shit, and then covered it up by burning down his warehouses

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

287 Jonathan McKinsey will always be a biological woman, even in death.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (NpAcC)

288 286 I was referring to the episode where Puyi's eunuchs fucked him over and stole his shit, and then covered it up by burning down his warehouses

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

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Wasn't he just like 5 at the time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (I7axw)

289 What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?

He died several years back. I think Ace posted the obit, it was a sad day on the HQ.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (2ocoG)

290 I live in hope of paying less than $6 per gallon someday.

Posted by: bonhomme
......

Paid $7 per gal today here in CA

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM (UjdFS)

291 It's nice to see an older couple still sharing their hobbies.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM (wtvvX)

292 Scheming Eunuchs

https://x.com/dyingscribe/status/2102816846407766263

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

293
Jonathan McKinsey will always be a biological woman, even in death.
Posted by: redridinghood

===============

Especially in death. There are no pronouns or deadnames or monthly hormone supplements in death -- just chromosomes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:43 PM (mmrXZ)

294 More importantly, the seating arrangement for today's
Presidential Luncheon. Very interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/4dpb7zja

Still no info on the 10PM meeting with crooked Amodei.

https://www.businessinsider.com /trump-seating -chart -white-house- meeting- ai-executives- lunch-2026 -9?op=1

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 03:43 PM (wljQY)

295 What happens when he deflates his scrotum, besides a severe case of old man balls?

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:43 PM (UjdFS)

296 289 What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?

He died several years back. I think Ace posted the obit, it was a sad day on the HQ.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 03:41 PM (2ocoG)
______________________

Did he use a wheelbarrow?

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 03:43 PM (dIske)

297 Well , Jonathan is certainly smiling in all those pictures, but the entire thing is a very strange story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 03:44 PM (JrHfD)

298 head of engineering for games player experience

Okay, UX [user experience] specialists are important for software companies. That's a real thing, making sure the user interface is usable. Doubly so for games because they have to be fun too.
But the New York Times? Really? That's like hiring a taste tester for the paint store.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 03:44 PM (88C+u)

299 Needs more lead.

Posted by: ttaste tester for the paint store at September 29, 2026 03:45 PM (4NO2D)

300 244 What happened to Inflatable Scrotum Guy at Folsom Street?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 03:30 PM (2GVsD)

I heard he he ran off with Detachable Penis Guy...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:45 PM (wtvvX)

301 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (k2hhB)

302 Paid $7 per gal today here in CA
Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM (UjdFS)

Article today suggests Trump is considering a temporary diesel export ban to adjust some prices downward.

This would help here at home but raise prices around the world considerably. Europe might see prices double.

The attacks on Russia’s refineries are hurting more than Putin.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (6ydKt)

303
https://www.businessinsider.com /trump-seating -chart -white-house- meeting- ai-executives- lunch-2026 -9?op=1
Posted by: Braenyard

===============

I wonder if they'll all go along with calling it Super Intelligence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (mmrXZ)

304 >>> 298 head of engineering for games player experience
==
Okay, UX [user experience] specialists are important for software companies. That's a real thing, making sure the user interface is usable. Doubly so for games because they have to be fun too.
But the New York Times? Really? That's like hiring a taste tester for the paint store.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 03:44 PM (88C+u)

>>> 299 Needs more lead.
Posted by: ttaste tester for the paint store at September 29, 2026 03:45 PM (4NO2D)

Why I Love the Horde, Reason # 80 bazillion...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (+fdRY)

305 Eunuchs have been a thing for, oh, only about 4,000 years ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

===============

Yeah, generally not by choice though.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 03:39 PM (mmrXZ)
______

That's the popular conception, but the reality is that many poor and destitute boys voluntarily became eunuchs as a path to potential affluence and political power.

The elder eunuchs would mentor boys (as kinda like sons) who hadn't undergone the procedure. Many of the boys would later voluntarily do it.

It's very hard for anyone of modern times to imagine doing that voluntarily. But for dirt-poor peasants with no life ahead of them, or for very ambitious mids, becoming a eunuch was a path to affluence and influence.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

306 Um..... Chinese grandma kills Tranny SnL for trying to make grandson weird.? And, a NYT employee?

I think Jim Morrison said it best - "People are strange"...

Posted by: Pinochet Door Gunner at September 29, 2026 03:47 PM (zL/eJ)

307 It's nice to see an older couple still sharing their hobbies.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 29, 2026 03:42 PM (wtvvX)

Clearly they didn't miss Range Day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 03:47 PM (peOdB)

308 Let's strangle their kids now. It'd be a mercy killing

Posted by: Duxbury Duchess of Death at September 29, 2026 03:50 PM (bX16E)

309 Thank God for the comments because I had no Idea WTF was going on, was he a she or he a she, was the Mother a he she.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 03:53 PM (7db69)

310
A TV series about elderly Chinese that shoot trannies? That would be must-see TV.
Posted by: Ian S.
---
By day they clean your clothes...by night they clean up your neighborhood...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 03:38 PM (FZ29D)

"My husband, some hot-shot. Here's his Ancient Chinese Secret, Calgon!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 03:53 PM (y9nCu)

311 NOOD

Lindsey Clancy

... her lawyer, akshually

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 29, 2026 03:54 PM (+fdRY)

312 110
I am confused about the trans shit. She was a lesbian who decided to trans to a man. No dick. Did it have a dick addition?
The add-a-dick would not work??? WTF

I am old and don't understand wtf is going on anymore.

Maybe she had an addadicktomy, as Rush Limbaugh used to say.

Posted by: Ralph at September 29, 2026 04:00 PM (8WZD4)

313 Dude, how and why the fuck does the NY Times have a "head of engineering for games player experience"

Are you shitting me ?

Posted by: deadrody at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (vgB0v)

314 hih. this is shaping up to be a feel-good story...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 29, 2026 04:34 PM (AFJ6Y)

315 Oil drops to 88 per barrel
The obsession with trannies continues

Posted by: Paul at September 29, 2026 05:41 PM (/JEfq)

316 About 1% of Americans over the age of 23vifentify as trans
In Israel about 2%

Posted by: Paul at September 29, 2026 05:51 PM (/JEfq)

317 i found a dead tranny in the shower once. no really, I did. I rented some auto shop space from a guy and the previous renter had left several junk engines and transmissions laying about...including 3 good mercedes engines worth 20 grand each

I cashed in all 3 for 30k and lived happily ever after

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 06:03 PM (jrgJz)

318 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: Bathroom Monkey at September 29, 2026 07:23 PM (4NO2D)

319 OK, I'll bite: WTF is a "newspaper's head of engineering for games player experience?"

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at September 29, 2026 07:47 PM (i0jxB)

Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola.
His Primary Fear? Not an Ebola Outbreak. Just That the Public Would Find Out About His Faucistein Experimentations.

Deb Heine at American Greatness:

Newly Released Fauci Files Reveal Dangerous NIAID-Funded Aerosolized Ebola Research

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released documents from Dr. Fauci's diary and emails Monday detailing his dangerous NIAID-funded research during the Obama Administration, including a 2015 experiment that exposed vaccinated monkeys to aerosolized Ebola.
The risky research was conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick under a NIAID task order. The NIAID study compared four vaccines in groups of four monkeys exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The exposure was engineered to drive the virus deep into the lungs in a way natural infection would not, the records show.
The vaccinated primates reportedly developed necrosis, inflammation, and fibrin in the lungs, while the unvaccinated controls did not, indicating that the vaccine itself was making the disease worse. The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.

Fauci was mostly concerned with keeping the experiment secret so that the public wouldn't know about his failures:

"What idiots those guys at USAMRIID are," Fauci wrote on March 7, 2016. The work "should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place," he added. Two days later, however, then-NIAID director wrote that the experiments were "important for bio defense."
Fauci was outraged that the failed vaccine research was shared with U.S. embassy officials in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
"This should have been a classified experiment," he wrote in his diary. "The foolish DOD people send the data to the FDA and then circulated as FYI to various embassies including those in West Africa where we are about to engage on a much larger DSD vaccine trial for Ebola."
According to Fauci, the embassy officials "went bonkers" because it looked like the U.S. wanted to vaccinate people with a dangerous vaccine.
He also said such experiments should have been classified because they "could indicate a vulnerability."
...
Following this disclosure, NIAID officials discussed "damage control" in an email chain. "We may need to a bit of damage control here," NIAID's biodefense director wrote.
The problem for Fauci wasn't the dangerous experiments, but the possibility the public could find out about the dangerous experiments. So he took immediate steps to have the research classified.
"The DoD folks said that they wanted to publish the data. I said that I thought that it should be classified and the NSC people blew them out of the water and said that they agreed with me," he said.

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1 foist again?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (CWTWj)

2 this is god's way of telling me that i don't have enough to do

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 01:26 PM (CWTWj)

3 Hang this MFer. I have an unused piano if you want to go to go old school.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (wgnaQ)

4 Fauci was a busy little bee, wasn't he.

Posted by: Case at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (9+0gc)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (ccf/V)

6 Why is he still breathing air?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (ccf/V)

7 The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.

There is a clue in that statement somewhere.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (Oy/m2)

8 Get the shot!

Posted by: Joe D. Mensha at September 29, 2026 01:29 PM (TezPK)

9 Entire bloodlines..

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 01:29 PM (Sco7b)

10 Since when is gaining function- i.e., lethality- a bad thing?

Posted by: Doktor Fauci at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (bOBuL)

11 This one goes out to Anthony Fauci.........

https://youtu.be/Ol87N0nxfVs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (ccf/V)

12 i never got the clot shot because i undoubtedly was exposed to the virus many times and never really got sick. ok, once in fall '22 but it was like a bronchial virus i had years earlier

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (CWTWj)

13 Take the shot!

Posted by: Scottie Pippin at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (TezPK)

14 Why were they experimenting on monkeys under Obama? Wait, don't answer that.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (3R4hO)

15 Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola

Doesn't sound like weapons testing at all!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (l3cgK)

16 I saw Ebola Monkeys open for Tiffany at Tweenfest '98.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (Av6i5)

17 I'll take two shots!

Posted by: Kamala at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (TezPK)

18 The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.
There is a clue in that statement somewhere.
Posted by: dantesed

None of them died from covid. Success!

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (m4bfL)

19 >>>The problem for Fauci wasn't the dangerous experiments, but the possibility the public could find out about the dangerous experiments. So he took immediate steps to have the research classified.

Some people undertake repugnant acts without realizing how monstrous they are. Not Fauci. He knew he was a monster and wanted to conceal it.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (8mulE)

20 17 I'll take two shots!

Posted by: Kamala at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (TezPK)

You've taken a hell of a lot more that that in your mouth...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (l3cgK)

21 Remember, we must aerosolize ebola to figure out a way to stop supervillains who might aerosolize ebola!

It's science, and don't you argue with us -- or you get the spritz.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (Av6i5)

22 The ONLY reason to do this is to KILL HUMANS. Period.

This mutherf*cker needs to be hung by his nutsack until DEAD.

And ALL his research burned by nuke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (ccf/V)

23 For a guy who wasn't part of the military, Fauci sure did a lot of work with the military.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m)

24 I used to bemoan the fact that the government's Covid response had been so poor, because the next pandemic might be something much deadlier, e.g, Ebola, and people would no longer trust the government to be doing the right thing.

I NEVER, in my wildest imagination, thought they' be doing something THIS stupid. I guess I need to recalibrate.

USAMRIID was closed for a time about 2019, for reasons that were never disclosed. I wonder if this was the reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (Riz8t)

25
Outbreak
Because of
African
Monkey
Aerosol

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (3R4hO)

26 The evil little gnome should be hung publicly.

He'll instead remain worshipped by the NPCs.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (N1DT3)

27 the concerns that Covid vaccine is oncogenic is clearly overblown, and the recent study showing that the lipid nanoparticles can promote metastases of cancers is probably just a preliminary finding that needs further research.
It does seem to be a decent abortifacient if administered during the first trimester.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (rbvCR)

28 The Faustian Deal has been upgraded to the Faucian Deal.

Fauci didn't just sell his soul, he sold the souls of all those he's killed in his quest for power.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (gLYp7)

29 I'll never understand why Trump kept him on until the very end of his term.

I get that we didn't know everything then, but super obvious to me anyway Fauci was evil.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (dVLbm)

30 so the Ebola Vax worked as well as the COVID Vax?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (l3cgK)

31 Soon, we'll see Fauci walking around with a spray-bottle hooked to his belt, as protection from his haters and stalkers. Oh, and the bottle has "Ebola" scrawled on it with a Sharpie.

"I'm packing, motherfuckers -- back off!"

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Av6i5)

32 Just for reference, Dr Mengele was sentenced to death in absentia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2026 01:35 PM (Y5diU)

33 He knew he was a monster and wanted to conceal it.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (8mulE)

No he was proud of what a monster he is. He just didn't want anyone knowing what he did.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:35 PM (3R4hO)

34 In the case of covid vaccines, they are now recommended only for the frail or sick.

...to finish them off, is all that I can think of.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 01:36 PM (m4bfL)

35 Demons walk among us.

Posted by: Bosk at September 29, 2026 01:36 PM (VMFAF)

36 rat faced homunculus Anthony Fauci

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (4NO2D)

37 'Heidi Overton, nominee for FDA commissioner, pointedly affirmed at her confirmation hearing last week that the agency has deemed "all" approved vaccines on the market "safe and effective," giving the CDC cover for its off-label push.

Neither the CDC nor Department of Health and Human Services answered Just the News queries to explain the recommendations in light of the FDA's targeted approvals.'

Why in hell would Trump nominate such a deranged lunatic to run FDA? Who the hell is feeding him these names? The bitch ought to be in prison, not groveling to be the head of FDA!

Posted by: Brewingfrog at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (gDrjQ)

38 I read Deb Heine's full article and still have no idea what the purpose of any of this "research" was.

Why were they injecting monkeys with unnaturally high and concentrated doses of ebola?

I assume the purpose is the same as 99% of these kinds of "experiments": payoffs and money laundering to friendly political and government players. Fund some bullshit research and every one of your buddies down the line takes a nice fat cut.

From what I can surmise, Fauci's plan was to try to develop an ebola vaccine?

This was in 2015 when -- IIRC -- there were a number of ebola scares and doomsaying.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

39 I look at this from the perspective that the dumb ones are going to follow this directive. People like me are going to sit back and watch (very much like I did with COVID).

It is a curiosity. Most prescribed medications, IMO, are a curiosity. I've not had the occasion or the need to take anything stronger that Extra Strenth Tylenol in over 50 years.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (dIske)

40 Nooded, ya no-nooding bastiges!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

41 Remember when this very smart military blog noted a seeming abundance of ebola, and discussed concerns?

And now the conspiracy types seem prescient.

Again.

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 01:39 PM (8yyxb)

42 I'm beginning to think that this Fauci fellow might be a diabolical little sucker of cock.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at September 29, 2026 01:39 PM (k1E2D)

43 40 Nooded, ya no-nooding bastiges!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

Eh, I was away and just refreshed the mainpage..

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:39 PM (l3cgK)

44 'Staggering surrender': CDC pushes COVID vaccines for healthy people 'off-label,' infuriating MAHA
-
Why wouldn't the CDC just continue with its evil schemes.

No one involved with the covid scam has been punished in any meaningful way, so no deterrence has been established.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 29, 2026 01:39 PM (vSvIl)

45 Re. off-Label Covid Vacc:

When do you want to induce a stroke to patients?

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vNne8)

46 Soon, the left will be saying that people who don't inject themselves with ebola are trying to kill grandma.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 01:40 PM (eag3e)

47 >> I read Deb Heine's full article and still have no idea what the purpose of any of this "research" was.

As I've been saying for years, post 9/11 and the anthrax attacks Dick Cheney reorganized the government's bio weapons and bio defense organizations and put both under the control of one person, Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 01:40 PM (viF8m)

48 I guess, if a hemophiliac is bleeding out...???

Maybe give them the clot shot?

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vNne8)

49 Fauci's evilness progression is apparent. He followed the standard sociopath progression: from torturing and murdering animals to ultimately torturing and murdering humans.

He was tormenting and murdering moneys, dogs, and homosexuals (at a time when homos were considered pests at best) long before he graduated to this true Mengele masterpiece of human death and misery known as covid.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

50 OT: Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul

https://tinyurl.com/429xzjjp

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

51 Why hasn't this nefarious gnome-like fuckstain been trebucheted into a volcano by now?

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (oqH4h)

52 48 I guess, if a hemophiliac is bleeding out...???

Maybe give them the clot shot?

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:40 PM (vNne

Makes the wrong clots in the wrong places...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

53 51 Why hasn't this nefarious gnome-like fuckstain been trebucheted into a volcano by now?

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (oqH4h)

Biden's autopen pardon?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (l3cgK)

54 I'm beginning to think this Dr Fauci isn't a nice guy. Just a hunch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM (WyJlA)

55 off label for WHAT??!

don't you need a use case?!!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (j+aD2)

56 Gain of Function research should be a crime against humanity. And punished accordingly.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (5UQUM)

57 OT: Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul

https://tinyurl.com/429xzjjp
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:41 PM

George C. Marshall nods.

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (4NO2D)

58 >>I've been saying for years, post 9/11 and the anthrax attacks Dick Cheney reorganized the government's bio weapons and bio defense organizations and put both under the control of one person, Anthony Fauci.

Say what you want about Dick Cheney...

at least he trusted The Science.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (vNne8)

59 From what I can surmise, Fauci's plan was to try to develop an ebola vaccine?

This was in 2015 when -- IIRC -- there were a number of ebola scares and doomsaying.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

To study a disease, first you have to be able to infect a living model and monkeys are often used. If the disease is made more virulent, then it is easier to infect the animals, and easier to study, This is a very old technique, the Rockefeller institute pioneered this in their work with Polio before WWI in New York City. Unfortunately they did not find a vaccine to Polio, which is a shame since while they were doing this, the largest outbreak of Polio to that date broke out in New York City.

Coincidentally.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

60 From the Epoch Times: "I believe all of this is important for bio defense, but has little to do with naturally emerging Ebola outbreaks,” Fauci said. “Nonetheless, the idea that the vaccine can do harm is now causing people a great deal of concern.”

THAT was Fauci's real concern.

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (bufu1)

61 58 >>I've been saying for years, post 9/11 and the anthrax attacks Dick Cheney reorganized the government's bio weapons and bio defense organizations and put both under the control of one person, Anthony Fauci.

Say what you want about Dick Cheney...

at least he trusted The Science.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (vNne

And he shot a lawyer!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (l3cgK)

62 'Staggering surrender': CDC pushes COVID vaccines for healthy people 'off-label,'

What are your shipping rates?

Posted by: Canada's Kill Rooms at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (m4bfL)

63 Let's not forget what he did to the beagles.
Fauci is a monster.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 01:43 PM (NpAcC)

64 Say what you want about Dick Cheney...

at least he trusted The Science.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM

and shooting lawyers in the face, but mostly ...

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:43 PM (4NO2D)

65 After Fauci "testified" on the Hill, that picture of him and his wife in their car with his wife flipping off the photographer says it all. They made millions and don't care. They are set for life as well as their children and have zero f's to give about anyone else. They will kill human beings and animals alike and it is all the same to them.

Posted by: Cheri at September 29, 2026 01:43 PM (oiNtH)

66 58
Say what you want about Dick Cheney...

at least he trusted The Science.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (vNne

========

And his daughter is gay.

Which not even this lady can brag about:

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/
2104951001669423610

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:44 PM (I7axw)

67 Re. off-Label Covid Vacc:

When do you want to induce a stroke to patients?
==
Preferably when they are on good health insurance.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at September 29, 2026 01:44 PM (anL5R)

68 >>>I read Deb Heine's full article and still have no idea what the purpose of any of this "research" was.
>>>Why were they injecting monkeys with unnaturally high and concentrated doses of ebola?

They're doing bio-weapon research. But we are prohibited from doing so, both by treaty and US law. So, they dress it up as medical research to treat these enhanced diseases "just in case".

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 01:44 PM (8mulE)

69 Covid vaccine is oncogenic is clearly overblown"

Not really.

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 01:44 PM (8yyxb)

70 We could always stay aerosolized Ebola in Dr Fauci 's face. You know, for the Science ™

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 01:45 PM (WyJlA)

71 The dude is just Josef Mengele with better PR. He's evil, and beloved. Its so baffling to me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:45 PM (nIKjK)

72 Infecting African Monkeys is Raciss. Why not good, old domestic US Monkeys?

Posted by: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp at September 29, 2026 01:45 PM (Fn+3X)

73 71 The dude is just Josef Mengele with better PR. He's evil, and beloved. Its so baffling to me
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:45 PM (nIKjK)
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Because he's evil for YOUR own good, H8R.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 01:46 PM (oqH4h)

74 We still love the great Dr Fauci and anyone who doesn’t hates science.
- AWFLs all over America

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 29, 2026 01:46 PM (GV1vq)

75 Minkey bite you.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 01:46 PM (LHPAg)

76 If there is one thing that atheists, theists, and agnostics can all agree upon it is this...

Fauci is going to burn in hell.

Posted by: Thatch at September 29, 2026 01:46 PM (S6YCM)

77 From what I can surmise, Fauci's plan was to try to develop an ebola vaccine?

This was in 2015 when -- IIRC -- there were a number of ebola scares and doomsaying.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

To study a disease, first you have to be able to infect a living model and monkeys are often used. If the disease is made more virulent, then it is easier to infect the animals, and easier to study, This is a very old technique, the Rockefeller institute pioneered this in their work with Polio before WWI in New York City.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)
_______

Yes, I understand the technique. My question was about the purpose of the research.

Why were they using this technique? What were they trying to research or study? The article doesn't make clear, and the quotes from Fauci's notes don't say either.

Note also that the research mentions "vaccinated" monkeys being deliberately infected with ebola. Vaccinated against what?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

78 mRNA should be BANNED for everything it WASN'T originally designed for. PERIOD.

I will NEVER let that shit in my body.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (ccf/V)

79 He's evil, and beloved. Its so baffling to me
-
People are evil by nature and know their own. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (vSvIl)

80 and beloved. Its so baffling to me"

Want some Fauci votives?

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (8yyxb)

81 Congo Ebola outbreak tops 8,000 cases as health worker shortages worsen
(NBC News)

https://tinyurl.com/mbpuxp4n

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (X7pZH)

82 The new The Angel of Death...........

Commie Doctor Josef Mengele Fauci should be injected with his own experiments.

This thing is disgusting and should be sent to prison in an African Shithole Country where he belongs...

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (jGtoG)

83 Isn't off-label use usually not covered?

That makes a big difference.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (+UEwf)

84 Covid vaccine is oncogenic is clearly overblown

Oh, sure, we're not as flashy, but we get the job done!

Posted by: Myocarditis at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (tkK47)

85 He's evil, and beloved. Its so baffling to me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:45 PM (nIKjK) .

The Left loved beloving their evil. See the Tsarnaev's, Fidel, Che, Mao, their various assassinating retards, Lindsay.......

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (3R4hO)

86 >>After Fauci "testified" on the Hill, that picture of him and his wife in their car with his wife flipping off the photographer says it all. They made millions and don't care. They are set for life as well as their children and have zero f's to give about anyone else. They will kill human beings and animals alike and it is all the same to them.

The bigger story to me is that many people in the government knew what Fauci was doing and they not only covered for him they helped him.

Fauci is the public focal point but he's not the only one.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (viF8m)

87 How is it possible for further revelations about Fauci's experiments to keep getting worse?! He's got Mengele beat by a mile at this point.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 29, 2026 01:48 PM (lFFaq)

88 Yeah Fauci is the face of a whole bloc of evil in government doing horrific things experimentally and being protected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:48 PM (nIKjK)

89 You always want to hide the shit that you're doing for good and proper reasons, right?

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:48 PM (3R4hO)

90 Fuck the monkeys.

How else do you test these vaccines? At first blush it looks like Fauci might not be wrong on this one. Not interested enough to read the article though so maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (+UEwf)

91 Does your minkey bite?

Fauci: No.

OUCHHHHHHHHHH! HE BITE ME!!!

Fauci: That's not my minkey.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (anL5R)

92
i never got the clot shot because i undoubtedly was exposed to the virus many times and never really got sick. ok, once in fall '22 but it was like a bronchial virus i had years earlier
Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (CWTWj)

Over the last 6 years, I caught the China Lung Rot at least twice, and probably 4 times. Never got the shot, and I'm no anti-vaxxer like that McCarthy slag, who pre-China Virus was screaming about how every vaccine caused autism (forgot about that, didn't ya?), and wasn't because of her drug/alcohol consumption during pregnancy. I simply didn't trust a new shot that was rushed into production with virtually no testing or studies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (y9nCu)

93 Fauci was no lone wolf.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (3R4hO)

94 But using HCQ off label is a punishable offense.

Posted by: InZona at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (y/yj5)

95 Covid vaccine is oncogenic is clearly overblown

Well... I know that I got cancer and I only read about the vaccine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (ExV1e)

96
Fauci: Not my monkeys, not my circus.

Actually those ARE your monkeys.

Fauci: .......

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (3R4hO)

97 I wonder how this was related to the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Africa.

It was one of the few things I actually gave President Obama credit for - a dangerous disease that was taken seriously early on and tamped down. It helped, somewhat, that it tended to kill its host quickly, which limited the spread.

But a year later, they were already doing crazy, dangerous experimentation with it. At least, when they were somewhat caught doing it.

How long beforehand did they have the disease in the lab?

And which actually came first? The outbreak in Africa? Or the lab experimentation?

Posted by: Another Anon at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (4h45B)

98 How is it possible for further revelations about Fauci's experiments to keep getting worse?! He's got Mengele beat by a mile at this point.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 29, 2026 01:48 PM (lFFaq)

His actions for AIDS has not really been talked in the news yet. His people were using foster children as test subjects for the treatments.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

99 >>but he's not the only one.

That's almost a direct John Lenon quote.

Watch yourself, hippie.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (vNne8)

100 95 Covid vaccine is oncogenic is clearly overblown

Well... I know that I got cancer and I only read about the vaccine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (ExV1e)

=======

Coincidence?

There are no coincidences!

Wake up, sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (I7axw)

101 Jack Smith is another weird totalitarian nebbish. Catherine Herridge says she has documents showing Smith secretly subpoenaed nearly 5,000 small dollar donor records from the Trump campaign for investigation. These weren't big donors, they were average people who sent even $1 checks to the campaign who were investigated by this pestilence.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (LY8iJ)

102 lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 01:50 PM (X7pZH)

103 In another universe, James Bond would have been dispatched to stop this guy.

Posted by: Shenanigans at September 29, 2026 01:51 PM (qmxL/)

104 How is it possible for further revelations about Fauci's experiments to keep getting worse?! He's got Mengele beat by a mile at this point.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 29, 2026 01:48 PM (lFFaq)

Fauci's a pussy. I used 'humans'. -- Josef Mengele

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:51 PM (ExV1e)

105 Drop Fauci out of the Ebola Gay

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 01:51 PM (Cqx++)

106 Fuck the monkeys.

How else do you test these vaccines? At first blush it looks like Fauci might not be wrong on this one.
-
Unless the point of the experiments was to beat the vaccines.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 29, 2026 01:51 PM (vSvIl)

107 ‘Jane was the Goodest all.’
- A Monkey

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (LHPAg)

108 Jack Smith is another weird totalitarian nebbish. Catherine Herridge says she has documents showing Smith secretly subpoenaed nearly 5,000 small dollar donor records from the Trump campaign for investigation. These weren't big donors, they were average people who sent even $1 checks to the campaign who were investigated by this pestilence.

And his interest in the ActBlue scam responsible for literally BILLIONS in fraudulent campaign contributions?

Zero.Point.Zero.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

109 I live in a blue area so sometimes people talk about getting hte clot shot. Now some are certainly lying but I do see people getting it when I drop by CVS

What the hell is wrong with these people?

We've gone from "you can't get COVID if you get the shot" to "uh sure it will uh minimize your symptoms or something"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm)

110 Never got the shot, and I'm no anti-vaxxer like that McCarthy slag, who pre-China Virus was screaming about how every vaccine caused autism (forgot about that, didn't ya?), and wasn't because of her drug/alcohol consumption during pregnancy. I simply didn't trust a new shot that was rushed into production with virtually no testing or studies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 01:49 PM (y9nCu)

Seeing the way that they rushed the vax out there and lied about everything and tried to make everyone take it, made me anti-vax. I don't trust any of them at all. Unless I see a clear, immediate need for a shot, it's no thanks.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (8mulE)

111 Yes, I understand the technique. My question was about the purpose of the research.

Why were they using this technique? What were they trying to research or study? The article doesn't make clear, and the quotes from Fauci's notes don't say either.

Note also that the research mentions "vaccinated" monkeys being deliberately infected with ebola. Vaccinated against what?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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Ebola vaccines. Four different ones.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (oqH4h)

112 Last Train to Darksville

Posted by: "Eff the Monkeys," Fauci Said at September 29, 2026 01:52 PM (Ovx+P)

113 After Fauci "testified" on the Hill, that picture of him and his wife in their car with his wife flipping off the photographer says it all. They made millions and don't care. They are set for life as well as their children and have zero f's to give about anyone else. They will kill human beings and animals alike and it is all the same to them.

The bigger story to me is that many people in the government knew what Fauci was doing and they not only covered for him they helped him.

Fauci is the public focal point but he's not the only one.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (viF8m)
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He controlled probably billions in grant and other money, and could make or break careers. He was very well protected. If the big fish goes down, he usually takes all the remoras with him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

114 Holy shit.......

Rumor has it, our house just sold........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (ccf/V)

115 In another universe, James Bond would have been dispatched to stop this guy.

TBF, Fauci is evil incarnate, but he doesn't have a volcano lair.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

116 What's happened with the contempt referral for improperly pleading the 5th?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (JzUSu)

117 Reading the above comments after I made mine --

I think we have to research these diseases like ebola simply because we know bad people are researching them to use as weapons. And we need to develop vaccines if they are potential weapons. We also need to test the vaccines.

So yeah, some monkeys are gonna die. Maybe they should be such little assholes all the time.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (+UEwf)

118 62 'Staggering surrender': CDC pushes COVID vaccines for healthy people 'off-label,'

What are your shipping rates?

Posted by: Canada's Kill Rooms at September 29, 2026 01:42 PM (m4bfL)

Yeah.

I stay off these threads.

I was taking care of Mom 24-7. She had heart issues. We were never giving her the shot. And I spent years worrying about her and if she'd get care. I did my best. And Mom lived a long happy life after all that crap.

Kipling's poem means more and more to me.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Sco7b)

119 Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola.

Why would you do this? Ebola is a real, serious disease. IIRC it kills most people that get it. It is millions of times more fatal then COVID.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

120 >> I understand the technique.

...the finish?

A Counter-Clockwise Swirl.

Posted by: Jerry at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (vNne8)

121 115 In another universe, James Bond would have been dispatched to stop this guy.

TBF, Fauci is evil incarnate, but he doesn't have a volcano lair.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

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That we know of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (I7axw)

122 Meanwhile, MAHA is exploding over the CDC's recommendation to use covid vaccines "off-label."

Now do Ivermectin........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)

123 TBF, Fauci is evil incarnate, but he doesn't have a volcano lair.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

That you know of......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)

124 >>Rumor has it, our house just sold........

Nice.

Assuming, of course. that you were aware it was on the market.

Posted by: Jerry at September 29, 2026 01:54 PM (vNne8)

125 121 115 In another universe, James Bond would have been dispatched to stop this guy.

TBF, Fauci is evil incarnate, but he doesn't have a volcano lair.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

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That we know of.

Fair. That is kind of the point of volcano lairs.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:54 PM (Riz8t)

126 I think we have to research these diseases like ebola simply because we know bad people are researching them to use as weapons.

See here is one for the "international community". We should have an agreement collectively to kill anyone that does GoF on any existing virus.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

127 123 TBF, Fauci is evil incarnate, but he doesn't have a volcano lair.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (Riz8t)

That you know of......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)

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In all fairness...Sponge is always first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (I7axw)

128 After six years of being NOVID, I got it last week. I took my mask off at an event by my students, and one of them got me sick. I understand why so many people don't take precautions seriously. It was so mild, maybe 48 hours of symptoms, but they don't understand all the potential, permanent damage occurring inside.

My dad has caught Covid 4-5 times and he still won't wear a mask because he always thinks everything is related to allergies. I ask him, "Are you sure about that?" Because he's caught Covid so many times, I can never be sure with him now.

I can't go unmasked around him (even outdoors) for this reason.

this is why the pandemic played out how it did, particularly after wild type and delta had passed and the population was vaccinated. Outcomes are so variable and the long term impacts are not clearly linked in people's minds.

I saw my dad recently, and was shocked he a) didn't know that you shouldn't test soon after eating and b) seemed confused why I would go to a movie in a mask but not eat in a restaurant. I feel I failed in educating him.

This is why universal masking in public spaces never should have gone away.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (LMfGu)

129 seinfeldsockOFF

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (vNne8)

130 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (2Ez/1)

131
Why would you do this? Ebola is a real, serious disease. IIRC it kills most people that get it. It is millions of times more fatal then COVID.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

I believe Ebola wasn't a human thing until they MADE it jump from animal to human......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (ccf/V)

132 ***Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola.
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Such a nice guy. Why is he alive?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (wljQY)

133 So yeah, some monkeys are gonna die. Maybe they should be such little assholes all the time.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (+UEwf)

Eventually there will be a mine-shaft gap

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

134
In all fairness...Sponge is always first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (I7axw)

Your brain is younger and much more nimble. However, I appreciate the stepping aside.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (ccf/V)

135 128 this is why the pandemic played out how it did, particularly after wild type and delta had passed and the population was vaccinated. Outcomes are so variable and the long term impacts are not clearly linked in people's minds.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (LMfGu)

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All of the American conservative population died in 2021, it was a winter of death.

The only reason Republicans have won elections since is election cheating on the part of Trump. Unfortunately, Biden was too restrained by tradition and good nature to really fight the obvious cheat, so now we're in a tyrannical oligarchy brought to us by dead voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (I7axw)

136 You mean like his HIV AIDS failures?

Posted by: Jaimo at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (2noDb)

137 Fauci's a pimp. He never could've outfought Mengele.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (3R4hO)

138 How did Congolese get to be the monicker for people from the Congo? It's not Chinlese, or Vietnamlese? Who decides these things?

Posted by: Native New Yorkerlese at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (Fn+3X)

139 In THEORY what they are doing in these labs -- the claim they make -- is that they are testing diseases on animals to see how they work and so they can work on cures. That's the claim.

All I can see them doing is figuring out ways to make them worse and more controllable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:57 PM (nIKjK)

140 I believe Ebola wasn't a human thing until they MADE it jump from animal to human......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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And Lyme disease wasn't at all.

Why aren't these people in jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:57 PM (wljQY)

141 There are many, many parallels here with the development of the Covid virus. These are outlined in the book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 ". It's from 2022, but even then, they were putting the blame on China's obsessive secrecy and on Fauci and the guy he funded who worked with Wuhan Inst. of Virology (I forget his name).

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:57 PM (Riz8t)

142 >>Fuck the monkeys.

A horrible progression: first, you shock the monkey (https://tinyurl.com/yckx83ec);

then you spank the monkey;

then you fuck the monkey.

If you punish the monkey, you must let the organ-grinder go!

(https://tinyurl.com/y3whp46r)

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:57 PM (NcvvS)

143 There is no vaccine for Ebola and the experiment is not scientifically justified.

We should have a good idea what would happen if you drive a deadly virus deeper into the lungs.

You don't need imperiscism and observation of every f**** thing.

These people will do anything for grant money.

Here is what people have to understand about "vaccines," vaccines are not super-soldier serums, the can only "trick" the immune system to do what the immune system is capable of doing.

Human and Primate immune systems cannot develop immunity naturally to Ebola and if it cannot acquire immunity naturally it cannot be tricked into doing that which it cannot do naturally.

These experiments are scientifically unjustified and these people need to be shoved feet first into wood chippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (XV/Pl)

144 I'm willing to bet they've never stopped testing aerosolized bioweapons. I bet it's still happening and we're paying for it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (W4Zv0)

145 A Faucian bargain.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (Fi81e)

146
I want to bear his child!!

Posted by: AWFL Cat Lady at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (eRlcH)

147 All I can see them doing is figuring out ways to make them worse and more controllable.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:57 PM (nIKjK)

Ding ding ding. And they're all Malthusians.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (ExV1e)

148 >>(I forget his name).

Peter Dascek (sp?)

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (vNne8)

149 In THEORY what they are doing in these labs -- the claim they make -- is that they are testing diseases on animals to see how they work and so they can work on cures. That's the claim.

All I can see them doing is figuring out ways to make them worse and more controllable.

*cough*

Posted by: Furin cleavage site at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (Riz8t)

150 wonder where this disappeared to: off topic (1): reuters:

At one point, apparent confusion over a reference to Smith attending a basketball game in February 2024 prompted Eric Schmitt, a Republican senator from Missouri, to accuse the former special counsel of perjury.

Based on text messages Schmitt said his office had viewed, he accused Smith of attending an Atlanta Hawks basketball game, suggesting that would have placed him in the city where local prosecutor Fani Willis was also trying to prosecute Trump.

Smith denied attending the Hawks game, saying he instead recalled going to a women's college basketball game between the Iowa "Hawkeyes" and the University of Maryland. The teams played in Maryland on February 3, 2024.

Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a Democrat, called on Schmitt to apologize for accusing Smith of perjury and implying wrongdoing "based on confusion about the name of a team."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (CWTWj)

151 Fauci's a pimp. He never could've outfought Mengele.
Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (3R4hO)

Zyklon-B is for pussies.

Posted by: Tony 'Gain of Function' Fauci at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (ccf/V)

152 139 In THEORY what they are doing in these labs -- the claim they make -- is that they are testing diseases on animals to see how they work and so they can work on cures. That's the claim.
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People who buy that are the same people who think we should destroy the Party in order to make it better or destroy the country to make it better. Same logic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (wljQY)

153 All of the American conservative population died in 2021, it was a winter of death.

Saw a lefty arguing that COVID was killing right leaning voters in mass based on state level data.

Someone else checked the data and it was black people in those red states because they also tend to be significantly more overweight.

Suddenly the discussion went from "COVID is gonna kill all the Republicans" to "COVID is gonna kill all the black people because of raycissms". It always amazes me how quickly online lefties can pivot like this

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

154 The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.

That's a better survival rate than Ebola has, so... progress?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (vJrRc)

155 142 >>Fuck the monkeys.

A horrible progression: first, you shock the monkey (https://tinyurl.com/yckx83ec);

then you spank the monkey;

then you fuck the monkey.

If you punish the monkey, you must let the organ-grinder go!

(https://tinyurl.com/y3whp46r)
Posted by: Nazdar

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Monkeys are pure id.

They run a racket at tourist sites where they steal you phone or glasses and then you have to bribe them to get the back. They are almost as bad as people.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (+UEwf)

156
Look, there's too many of you. We need some culling to get us to sustainable numbers.

Posted by: Tony F. at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (eRlcH)

157 Get a video of Fauci experimenting on dogs or apes or whatever released to the public and you'll get enough young women calling for his execution to actually arrest the asshole

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (sKqQm)

158 So the WCHA (West Coast Health Alliance) is bucking the FDA and is still promoting the vaccine to everyone including pregnant women. Bill 144 referenced below allows shots w/out prescription and also forces insurers to pay for them......FAQ below:
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Can I get the COVID-19 vaccine this fall?

Yes. In the State of California, anyone age six months or older is able to receive the annual seasonal COVID-19 vaccination. For the vast majority of patients, it will be fully covered by health insurance. They are available at many pharmacies and Public Health Clinics. You may be asked to attest to having a qualifying medical condition or consent to receiving the vaccine “off-label”.

Can I receive an off-label vaccine?

Healthcare providers commonly prescribe medications and vaccines off-label. It is a legal and standard part of medical practice. Under Assembly Bill 144, pharmacists in California are now able to administer COVID-19 vaccines to patients ages 3+ without a prescription.

Posted by: beckster at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (kX27y)

159 You mean like his HIV AIDS failures?

Posted by: Jaimo at September 29, 2026 01:56 PM (2noDb)

Back when he was experimenting on foster kids?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (ccf/V)

160 144 I'm willing to bet they've never stopped testing aerosolized bioweapons. I bet it's still happening and we're paying for it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (W4Zv0)

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Aerosolized toxins from the blue flowers found on the path up to Ra's Al Ghul's mountain fortress, input into the water supply of the major American metropolis Gotham City and then forced into the air by a microwave emitter stolen from the defunct weapons research division of a major corporation just about to go private from the public ownership of the Wayne family?

Who could stop such a thing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (I7axw)

161 I for sure thought we were getting a post on Candace Owens, next.

It's right in Ace's wheelhouse.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (vNne8)

162 Speaking of public heath . . .

Canadian authorities will give prison inmates paper straws to promote "safe snorting"

https://tinyurl.com/2fbttf7u

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:01 PM (ndZc7)

163 Peter Dascek (sp?)
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (vNne

Daszak

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:01 PM (rbvCR)

164 153 Suddenly the discussion went from "COVID is gonna kill all the Republicans" to "COVID is gonna kill all the black people because of raycissms". It always amazes me how quickly online lefties can pivot like this

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

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It's because they don't wear their masks right.

Always letting their noses pop up over the top.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:01 PM (I7axw)

165
Canadian authorities will give prison inmates paper straws to promote "safe snorting"

https://tinyurl.com/2fbttf7u
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:01 PM (ndZc7)

Tell me you're not screening for drugs entering the prisons without telling me you're not screening for drugs entering the prisons.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (ccf/V)

166 re me at 150: twitchy: sen schmitt:

SCHMITT: "Did you go to an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks on February 3rd, 2024?"

SMITH: "What city would that be in?"

SCHMITT: "Atlanta"

SMITH: "No." But this was all just preamble for what Senator Schmitt was about to reveal.

SCHMITT: "What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior-Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?"

Senators then held up the text message receipts.

Smith looked absolutely stunned.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (CWTWj)

167 Why would you do this? Ebola is a real, serious disease. IIRC it kills most people that get it. It is millions of times more fatal then COVID.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

I believe Ebola wasn't a human thing until they MADE it jump from animal to human......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 01:55 PM (ccf/V)
________

Tough to tell. The virus is often prevalent in animals killed for bushmeat in places like the Congo. The virus could make the jump to humans that way. I suspect ebola was killing people in Africa long before the first reported cases reached the news.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

168 Hunter Biden's investment company, Rosemont Seneca, invested $500,000 in a company that did virus tracking. The company is Metabiota. Unexpectedly, the US federal government also gave Metabiota 10s of millions in contracts.

Metabiota had government contracts to do virus tracking in a bunch of places including Wuhan, China and Ukraine. Putin was very vocal prior to the war that Biden's son was working on bio weapons in Ukraine. We were also helping fund a bio lab in Kazakhstan and running a color revolution there. Until Putin sent in troops and ended it.

The Bidens are nothing more than an organized crime family that used the federal government to enrich themselves while selling out this country and leaving death and destruction in their wake.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (viF8m)

169
You mean like his HIV AIDS failures?

__________

Flies cause disease. Keep yours zipped.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (eRlcH)

170 ========

Aerosolized toxins from the blue flowers found on the path up to Ra's Al Ghul's mountain fortress, input into the water supply of the major American metropolis Gotham City and then forced into the air by a microwave emitter stolen from the defunct weapons research division of a major corporation just about to go public from the private ownership of the Wayne family?

Who could stop such a thing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Have they stopped seeding clouds for rain?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (wljQY)

171 Peter Dascek (sp?)
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (vNne

Daszak

That's the one. EcoHealth Alliance (how ironic)

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

172 >>Peter Dascek (sp?)

Peter Daszak.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

173 Interesting. So Fauci had fresh experimental data shortly before the Wuhan flu that a vaccine could make a respiratory virus worse. Interesting.

Posted by: JSchuler at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (l6eKM)

174 Bible Study Corner.

Kansas pastor running for Senate told congregation to "repent" for eating beef because of climate change

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (ndZc7)

175 I for sure thought we were getting a post on Candace Owens, next.

It's right in Ace's wheelhouse.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM

Her being a lesbian? I think that was covered yesterday.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

176 Tough to tell. The virus is often prevalent in animals killed for bushmeat in places like the Congo. The virus could make the jump to humans that way. I suspect ebola was killing people in Africa long before the first reported cases reached the news.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

That's possible, sure, but it didn't JUMP like it is now unless you ate the tainted meat or drank the blood of someone infected.

Now this shit spreads like a f*cking grassfire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (ccf/V)

177 You're not the boss of me!

Posted by: ace's wheelhouse at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (2Ez/1)

178 >>Her being a lesbian? I think that was covered yesterday.

Well, then I missed the fun.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (vNne8)

179 A CDC study found COVID-vaccinated children suffered a 257% HIGHER RISK of symptomatic COVID infection...
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But it was a dry COVID.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (Fi81e)

180 https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421557

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (4NO2D)

181 178 >>Her being a lesbian? I think that was covered yesterday.

Well, then I missed the fun.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (vNne

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"And you always will, dirty Zionist."
-Candace, slapping a girl's butt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM (I7axw)

182 Fauci was a busy little bee, wasn't he.
Posted by: Case
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Don't overlook Mrs. Fauci:

Head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Research Focus: Ethical issues in healthcare, particularly in the development and testing of preventive vaccines.

The latter is so ironic as to seem a fiction.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

183 Peter Dascek (sp?)

Peter Daszak.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

THOSE guys are FAGS!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM (ccf/V)

184
Oh great. Bob Costas is doing the Phils-Braves game. Mute.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM (eRlcH)

185 No matter RFKjr's attempts to clean house, CDC and FDA seems to regard themselves as superior knowers of what policy *should* be.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)

186 Tell me you're not screening for drugs entering the prisons without telling me you're not screening for drugs entering the prisons.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (ccf/V)

Drugs in prison:

A) tend to keep the prisoners occupied
B) are a tidy profit center for the guards and those they pay kickbacks and rake-offs to
C) are a handy excuse for the entire prison staff when one of the staff is popped for drug offences, or drug-fueled domestic abuse

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (rbvCR)

187 Aerosolized toxins from the blue flowers found on the path up to Ra's Al Ghul's mountain fortress, input into the water supply of the major American metropolis Gotham City and then forced into the air by a microwave emitter stolen from the defunct weapons research division of a major corporation just about to go private from the public ownership of the Wayne family?

Who could stop such a thing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:00 PM (I7axw)
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I'll bet Fauci was behind that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (FZ29D)

188 Oh great. Bob Costas is doing the Phils-Braves game. Mute.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM

Ole Spunkeye.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (4NO2D)

189 Kansas pastor running for Senate told congregation to "repent" for eating beef because of climate change
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (ndZc7)

How about no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (9tX4s)

190 Ebola is a real, serious disease.

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So is Obola.

John K. Amanchukwu Sr.
@REVWUTRUTH
BARACK OBAMA: “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and so divided and so bitter!”

Really???

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It's a head scratcher all right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)

191 Remember

"Bioethicist" = Wannabe Mass Murderer

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (3R4hO)

192 185 No matter RFKjr's attempts to clean house, CDC and FDA seems to regard themselves as superior knowers of what policy *should* be.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)

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When we get the next Democrat president and the administration starts trying to write massive regulations again, only then will the left realize what they lost when SCOTUS overturned Chevron with Loper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (I7axw)

193 >>(I forget his name).

Peter Dascek (sp?)
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2026 01:58 PM (vNne

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Dalek.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (Fi81e)

194 Oh great. Bob Costas is doing the Phils-Braves game. Mute.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM

I can't STAND that seamy dougheyed poofter......F*ck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (ccf/V)

195 BARACK OBAMA: “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and so divided and so bitter!”

LOL. The Left love doing this. They are laughing at us with that one.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (3R4hO)

196 Dalek.
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (Fi81e)

EXTERMINATE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:07 PM (ccf/V)

197
A bioethicist is a learned person with a high-minded reason why you should die.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (eRlcH)

198 168 Hunter Biden's investment company, Rosemont Seneca, invested $500,000 in a company that did virus tracking. The company is Metabiota. Unexpectedly, the US federal government also gave Metabiota 10s of millions in contracts.

Metabiota had government contracts to do virus tracking in a bunch of places including Wuhan, China and Ukraine. Putin was very vocal prior to the war that Biden's son was working on bio weapons in Ukraine.
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Putin has no reason to be pissed at America
Putin has every reason to trust us.

Why hasn't Trump discontinued all physical and monetary assistance to Ukraine?
Do that and the war stops.
Is the black hand heavier than we know?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (wljQY)

199 Mengele killed his thousands and Fauci his millions!

Posted by: More Efficient Than the Krauts Is Impressive at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (Fn+3X)

200 @REVWUTRUTH
BARACK OBAMA: “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and so divided and so bitter!”

"Hey John. Elections have consequences. Get over it!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (ccf/V)

201 I think there is a lot of hysteria about all these diseases that people are now claiming were made in a lab.

One problem -- we really did not have the technology to do shit like gene insertion or what they did with Covid until very recently.

So ebola, lyme, and all the other diseases that we have solid evidence that they existed at least back to the 50s, well, no lab made them.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+UEwf)

202 "Hey John. Elections have consequences. Get over it!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (ccf/V)

The line was "I won."

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (3R4hO)

203
*tinkle of splintering glass*

Oops!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (eRlcH)

204 So ebola, lyme, and all the other diseases that we have solid evidence that they existed at least back to the 50s, well, no lab made them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+UEwf)

Sure, they existed. They've been heavily modified since then......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)

205 Fauci 's evil manifested during AIDS. He experimented of black twins who both had the disease. He also only focused on treatment using AZT which had toxic side effects. It was until Larry Kramer of ACT-UP protesters like crazy that other treatments were allowed. Kramer turned Fauci into his poodle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (WyJlA)

206
The line was "I won."
Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (3R4hO)

Artistic license......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:09 PM (ccf/V)

207 "Hey John. Elections have consequences. Get over it!"

Don't call his bluff

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 02:10 PM (nIKjK)

208 Tough to tell. The virus is often prevalent in animals killed for bushmeat in places like the Congo. The virus could make the jump to humans that way. I suspect ebola was killing people in Africa long before the first reported cases reached the news.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

That's possible, sure, but it didn't JUMP like it is now unless you ate the tainted meat or drank the blood of someone infected.

Now this shit spreads like a f*cking grassfire.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:04 PM (ccf/V)
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True, it spreads rapidly in unimaginable shitholes like the rural Congo where people are literally living like they did thousands of years ago. Sweating, bleeding, shitting, pissing, and probably vomiting over each other.

Luckily, in civilized societies ebola is much harder to spread because we don't live in each other's shit and piss. The virus isn't airborne (unless you make it airborne like Fauci did in this "experiment").

I did research into all this before I went on an african safari.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

209 I think there is a lot of hysteria about all these diseases that people are now claiming were made in a lab.

One problem -- we really did not have the technology to do shit like gene insertion or what they did with Covid until very recently.

So ebola, lyme, and all the other diseases that we have solid evidence that they existed at least back to the 50s, well, no lab made them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+UEwf)

You don't need to use gene insertion to make a disease worse. You can wait for normal mutations to produce a more infectious version then preserve and amplify it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 02:10 PM (uhVAy)

210
Luckily, in civilized societies ebola is much harder to spread because we don't live in each other's shit and piss.

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Ahem

Posted by: San Francisco at September 29, 2026 02:10 PM (eRlcH)

211 SCOTUS overturned Chevron with Loper.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Don't badmouth me, or I will sicc Piper on you.

Posted by: Don Loper Originals at September 29, 2026 02:11 PM (Fn+3X)

212 So ebola, lyme, and all the other diseases that we have solid evidence that they existed at least back to the 50s, well, no lab made them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+UEwf)

Magdeburg hemorrhagic fever only goes back to the 60's

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

213 No matter RFKjr's attempts to clean house, CDC and FDA seems to regard themselves as superior knowers of what policy *should* be.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (aJQbY)
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They impeached a President for going against the State Department status quo and their expertise.

Civil service might have been a good idea before the government was flooded with ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

214
So, sweating sickness makes a comeback?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:12 PM (eRlcH)

215 So ebola, lyme, and all the other diseases that we have solid evidence that they existed at least back to the 50s, well, no lab made them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+UEwf)

Gene insertion and CRSPR just make it faster, prior to that the technique was serial passage, which was being done by the Rockefeller Institute in NYC prior to WWI while studying Polio. It might have worked, I think most of the records were destroyed.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:12 PM (rbvCR)

216 It's right in Ace's wheelhouse.
Posted by: garrett

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Is this a pool?

Put me down for the latest gang rape story.

The one where the girl agreed to a threesome with a revolving cast, but not a foursome. And two of the guys were passed out puking before they got the threesome started and she was sad because she really liked them.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:12 PM (+UEwf)

217
Oh, thank God. Costas was just doing the pregame.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:13 PM (eRlcH)

218 Put the mad scientist in a room and use all of his experiments on him.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 29, 2026 02:13 PM (Q/FnY)

219
Don't overlook Mrs. Fauci:

Head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

Research Focus: Ethical issues in healthcare, particularly in the development and testing of preventive vaccines.

The latter is so ironic as to seem a fiction.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

I may be wrong but I think Fauci's daughter worked for Twitter censoring people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 02:13 PM (W4Zv0)

220 I did research into all this before I went on an african safari.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Are you Bwana Dik?

Posted by: Frank Zappa, 1971 at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (Fn+3X)

221 We've had the ability to genetically engineer viruses for roughly 50 years, So early to mid-seventies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (XV/Pl)

222 It's right in Ace's wheelhouse.
Posted by: garrett

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Is this a pool?

Put me down for the latest gang rape story.

The one where the girl agreed to a threesome with a revolving cast, but not a foursome. And two of the guys were passed out puking before they got the threesome started and she was sad because she really liked them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:12 PM (+UEwf)
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Cornell? It's a money grab, plain and simple.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

223 213 They impeached a President for going against the State Department status quo and their expertise.

Civil service might have been a good idea before the government was flooded with ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

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It was a bad idea from the start.

Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur belong to be near the bottom of all presidential rankings for the EOs the former made to end the spoils system and the law the latter signed to make it permanent.

There is no such thing as a non-partisan civil service at scale. It limits the people's investment in the actual running of the government, shielding the bureaucracy from the will of the body politic through elections, and it created a giant incentive structure to keep government growing forever.

It was a bad idea from the start.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (I7axw)

224 Having Fauci the head of any medical organization is a Faucian bargain.

Posted by: Guy Who Sits Next to Jerry Nadler at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (Fi81e)

225 Oh great. Bob Costas is doing the Phils-Braves game. Mute.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:05 PM

Ole Spunkeye.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 02:06 PM (4NO2D)
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Actually Costas is an excellent baseball announcer. One of the best TV guys on that sport. I'd watch him anytime calling a baseball game.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (7/DDO)

226 I may be wrong but I think Fauci's daughter worked for Twitter censoring people.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 02:13 PM (W4Zv0)

Seems there's a bloodline that needs some eradicating.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:15 PM (ccf/V)

227 The Pendleton Civil Service Act established a Mandarin Class in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:15 PM (I7axw)

228 Gene insertion and CRSPR just make it faster, prior to that the technique was serial passage, which was being done by the Rockefeller Institute in NYC prior to WWI while studying Polio. It might have worked, I think most of the records were destroyed.
Posted by: Kindltot

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can't do trans species insertion without gene insertion.
Can't really even do serial passage without trans species hosts. They put human receptors into the hosts using CRISPR in the first place.

So sure, you could find a disease that affects mice (or fruit flys or whatever) and do serial passage. Kinda slow. Faster with fruit fly, but not many things infect humans and fruit fly.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:15 PM (+UEwf)

229 French maid.

https://tinyurl.com/46vtk7nu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)

230
Actually Costas is an excellent baseball announcer. One of the best TV guys on that sport. I'd watch him anytime calling a baseball game.
Posted by: Black JEM at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (7/DDO)

He's a tiny man, like so tiny in person it's shocking.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (W4Zv0)

231 ==
Actually Costas is an excellent baseball announcer. One of the best TV guys on that sport. I'd watch him anytime calling a baseball game.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (7/DDO)

There's several guys I would listen to LONG before I got to that shitsack.

Hell. Joe Buck is up on the list before Costas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ccf/V)

232 Messenger RNA vaccines don’t work because they prime the immune system to respond to the one strain of the virus the vaccine was developed for while suppressing the immune response to novel challenges. That’s why your body loses the ability to suppress cancer: it’s a novel challenge. I dislike calling the mRNA shots a “vaccine” as they are not in any sense a classical vaccine. In any case, although it’s a little early in the season, I wish Fauci and his wife a Merry Romanian Christmas.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Jc4hv)

233 It was a bad idea from the start.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:14 PM (I7axw)
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I'm hoping you can see how that's captured in both statements.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Fi81e)

234 Put the mad scientist in a room and use all of his experiments on him.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 29, 2026 02:13 PM (Q/FnY)

We have some ideas.

Posted by: Vermeer R and D at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (9tX4s)

235 You don't need to use gene insertion to make a disease worse. You can wait for normal mutations to produce a more infectious version then preserve and amplify it.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2026 02:10 PM (uhVAy)

Indeed. Retroviruses are pretty much optimized to gain and use mutations to their advantage. Downside is that this yields a lot of dead-ends, but once those advantageous mutations are acquired...

Posted by: Thrawn at September 29, 2026 02:17 PM (oPFtC)

236 They impeached a President for going against the State Department status quo and their expertise.

Civil service might have been a good idea before the government was flooded with ideologues.
Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:11 PM (Fi81e)

The people trying to blackpill everyone because Trump doesn't want to get slowed down by another impeachment bother me.
I also think that the people pissed at Kennedy only see the loon the MFM have been portraying him as, and not the lifelong politician from a multi-generation political family which played terminally dangerous political games

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:17 PM (rbvCR)

237 French maid.

https://tinyurl.com/46vtk7nu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)
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THIS will be -- or should be -- ace's next post. Could be AI? Sure. But too good to check!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

238 can't do trans species insertion without gene insertion.

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Somebody needs to talk to Gene.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)

239 French maid.

https://tinyurl.com/46vtk7nu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)

Yeah, I've got a better idea........

https://shorturl.fm/VCB0y

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (ccf/V)

240 (LawDork) Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. “The Trump administration wants to erase transgender people from the law — with an explicit aim of ending the provision of gender-affirming medical care for trans people of all ages — and Solicitor General John Sauer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to usher in that world on Monday morning.”

This is evil. The "science" the administration is using is totally flawed. this is what them trying to take over peer review is all about. If they get to decide what is and isn't science, we won't have any allies left

But I have been educated on reddit.com that it's absurd to suggest there is an effort to erase transgender people

Kind of like how covid didn't exist lol. If you don't like something, just stick your head in the sand and play silly-buggers.

The doj requests that the court deny lifesaving medical care to prisoners. Disbarr them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (LMfGu)

241 237 French maid.

https://tinyurl.com/46vtk7nu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)
____________

THIS will be -- or should be -- ace's next post. Could be AI? Sure. But too good to check!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

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Dear lord he's so gay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (I7axw)

242 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Posted by: Groucho at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (Fn+3X)

243 Negative efficacy with the shots and yet they are still promoting them?!? Eff these people in the heart with a steak knife.
/That Tree of Liberty is looking really weak. . . .

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 29, 2026 02:19 PM (JNTt1)

244 You don't need to use gene insertion to make a disease worse. You can wait for normal mutations to produce a more infectious version then preserve and amplify it.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Yes!!
This was actually done quite a lot. with anthrax for example. That was the main purpose of all those cold-war bio labs taking and collecting samples.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:19 PM (+UEwf)

245 240 The doj requests that the court deny lifesaving medical care to prisoners. Disbarr them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (LMfGu)

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"Pay to cut off my dick or I die."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:19 PM (I7axw)

246
Dear lord he's so gay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (I7axw)

"You f*ck one goat......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:19 PM (ccf/V)

247 Aerosol Ebola experiments? Oh,.how can we.stay.mad.at you, you little scamp!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 02:19 PM (bX16E)

248 Oh, come on!
This analytical dive into Fauci's past behavior is just providing psychological context to his continual malfeasance.
You cannot prosecute him on past behavior because of his Biden (machine) signed pardon.
The only way to prosecute Fauci for past misconduct is to first legally discredit the Biden autopen pardon signature by proving that Biden has no clue (which he did not) about what his staff was using the autopen to sign for his name.

Posted by: John at September 29, 2026 02:20 PM (9NUKl)

249 French maid.

https://tinyurl.com/46vtk7nu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)
____________

THIS will be -- or should be -- ace's next post. Could be AI? Sure. But too good to check!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Dear lord he's so gay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (I7axw)
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100% ... even if this is AI. There are older clips of Piker when he was first starting out as a wannabe social media star. Gayer than a dozen guys cleveland steamering each other.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

250 can't do trans species insertion without gene insertion.
Can't really even do serial passage without trans species hosts. They put human receptors into the hosts using CRISPR in the first place.

So sure, you could find a disease that affects mice (or fruit flys or whatever) and do serial passage. Kinda slow. Faster with fruit fly, but not many things infect humans and fruit fly.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:15 PM (+UEwf)

That is not true, can't do cross species transmission without the receptor sites. The various flu types move back and forth from aves to pigs to humans easily, it is mostly how they infect that is the hard part. Avian flu receptors in humans are deep in the lungs, so they don't often get transferred.
The Polio serial passage was done human to monkey, via injections to the spinal fluid, not via any receptor, and that is done often.
The trick is to pass it through a number of times to try to winnow out the contagious strain, to force an evolution as it were

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

251 Masking has now become a solidarity signal for lesbians.

I just can’t even with these idiots.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

252 The doj requests that the court deny lifesaving medical care to prisoners. Disbarr them.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 02:18 PM (LMfGu)

Lifesaving care would be to stop all such "treatments" at once and hope that too much damage hasn't been done...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:22 PM (+gK6I)

253 Hasan Piker was playing kitty maid. Adorable.

https://tinyurl.com/m69e2bc2

Posted by: beckster at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (kX27y)

254 WNBA Playoffs started two days ago and you people are talking baseball and hockey?

Posted by: Flying Green Dildo at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Fn+3X)

255 Masking has now become a solidarity signal for lesbians.

I just can’t even with these idiots.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

But, they've invented the tongue flap so they can eat without worry of getting sick!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (ccf/V)

256 (LawDork) Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. “The Trump administration wants to erase transgender people from the law — with an explicit aim of ending the provision of gender-affirming medical care for trans people of all ages — and Solicitor General John Sauer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to usher in that world on Monday morning.”
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Somebody has become fluent in newspeak.

Erase...by not providing something special.

So, are people "erasing" women by not giving them special spaces as a provision?

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Fi81e)

257 Hasan Piker Who ? Never heard of him

Posted by: Dems running for midterms at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (+gK6I)

258 That is not true, can't do cross species transmission without the receptor sites. The various flu types move back and forth from aves to pigs to humans easily, it is mostly how they infect that is the hard part. Avian flu receptors in humans are deep in the lungs, so they don't often get transferred.
The Polio serial passage was done human to monkey, via injections to the spinal fluid, not via any receptor, and that is done often.
The trick is to pass it through a number of times to try to winnow out the contagious strain, to force an evolution as it were
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

Influenza virus is more tricky than normal due to independent assortment, where if two flu strains infect the same cell, you can end up with weird hybrids.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (oPFtC)

259 Masking has now become a solidarity signal for lesbians.

I just can’t even with these idiots.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)
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Quite a few in Europe still masking, even though covid wasn't as much a political divide as in USA. Asians have been masking at disproportionate rates for decades.

I think it's a bit of "if it works even a little," but that discounts the risks of breathing through a wet, snotty mask for hours at a time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

260 WNBA Playoffs started two days ago and you people are talking baseball and hockey?
Posted by: Flying Green Dildo at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Fn+3X)

Indiana lost game one badly.

Caitlyn Clark is overrated.....interest level zero.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)

261 The trick is to pass it through a number of times to try to winnow out the contagious strain, to force an evolution as it were
Posted by: Kindltot

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My point was that it is much harder without engineered hosts. It is very slow and expensive if you have to use monkeys or pigs.

Flu is a special case though because it infect so many species. We don't need labs to do that -- China had hundreds of cities that do massive serial trans species experiments every season. They are quite good at it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (+UEwf)

262 There are studies dropping now detailing Pfizer and Moderna plasmid sequences found in tumors. This is a 110%, no excuses, no weaseling out of blame, proof showing that the jab payload gets permanently integrated sometimes. The coding they used differs from the virus sequences so they can't blame this on the virus.

And thats just scratching the surface - the BILLIONS of fragments of junk RNA, DNA, RNA/DNA hybrids, and synthetic nucleotises not even found in nature (that's right, they have introduced letters other than c-a-t-g-u INTO THE WILD) are all carcinogenic and the very inventors of the assays to test for their presence are accusing Pfizer of deliberately designing QC procedures that retain them and then hide their presence.

And then you have the carcinogenic SV40 genes in the payload, and the use of COTS gene therapy lipids (used for promoting integration) that neither Moderna nor Pfizer have offered any excuses for.

Rope. Hang them all. I have been shouting this for years; even most of those people paying attention are years behind on the news here regarding these crimes.

Posted by: heya at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (Km6p/)

263 Harder does not mean impossible, just slower. That is what serial passage is for, to make it happen.
It is the same evolutionary process, just forced.

Look, if it were impossible TB would have never jumped from cattle to humans, and Plague would still be a thing only for hamsters on the Eurasian grasslands.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

264
I agree with Spencer's take on the kitty maid:

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
4h
Hamas Piker doing...God knows what. All I know is this would get him thrown off a high-rise in whatever country he's always cheerleading while he craps all over America.

Why are none of these people normal? The entire socialist tent is a circus.

Posted by: beckster at September 29, 2026 02:26 PM (kX27y)

265 I just can’t even with these idiots.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

But, they've invented the tongue flap so they can eat without worry of getting sick!
Posted by: Sponge
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You're close:

https://tinyurl.com/5cveey32

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 02:26 PM (JzUSu)

266
But, they've invented the tongue flap so they can eat without worry of getting sick!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (ccf/V)

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I didn't think they did that. Like, in lesbian marriages, both partners always have headaches.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 02:27 PM (eRlcH)

267 WNBA Playoffs started two days ago and you people are talking baseball and hockey?
Posted by: Flying Green Dildo at September 29, 2026 02:23 PM (Fn+3X)

Indiana lost game one badly.

Caitlyn Clark is overrated.....interest level zero.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (ccf/V)
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Hence why the league spends 95% of its time ranting and raving and creating controversy and dysfunction and screaming "look at me!"

Because the game itself is boring as watching paint dry on a homosexual's ass.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

268 There is a segment of the uber wealthy (coff, coff, Bill Gates) who think that 90% of the human population needs to die in order to save the Earth. Gates and Fauci are/were tight and are probably on the same page. Gates is on record advocating the above.
Don't ever forget the mission of the evil one: steal, kill, destroy.
Its followers are becoming much easier to identify.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 29, 2026 02:27 PM (JNTt1)

269 Because the game itself is boring as watching paint dry on a homosexual's ass.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

That's not paint...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 29, 2026 02:28 PM (LMfGu)

270 re 266: you can get a mask that lets you insert and drink through a straw

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:28 PM (CWTWj)

271 So you're saying it's highly likely that there is a mask dispenser at the Portland Subaru dealer.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:29 PM (Fi81e)

272 re 266: you can get a mask that lets you insert and drink through a straw

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:28 PM (CWTWj)

That's the one they'll SHOW you......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:29 PM (ccf/V)

273 you can get a mask that lets you insert and drink through a straw
Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:28 PM (CWTWj)
_________

"Is the hole big enough to suck a dick?"

-- James Talacreepo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

274 I was concerned about voting, depending on when the closing date would be.

We're actually good to early vote from the current address, then change our residential address after.

#Winning.

F*ck you, Talarico.......We will vote you down......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

275 Influenza virus is more tricky than normal due to independent assortment, where if two flu strains infect the same cell, you can end up with weird hybrids.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 29, 2026 02:24 PM (oPFtC)

After I found out about the serial passage polio experiments by the Rockefeller Institute in NYC in the 1910's and the oddly virulent Polio outbreak in NYC at the same time, I started wondering if the outbreak of Spanish Flu at Fort Riley might have been some sort of serial passage experimentation at the Army medical corps there.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

276 See 265 for straw mask, with Taylor Lorenz commenting.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 02:32 PM (JzUSu)

277 268 There is a segment of the uber wealthy (coff, coff, Bill Gates) who think that 90% of the human population needs to die in order to save the Earth. Gates and Fauci are/were tight and are probably on the same page. Gates is on record advocating the above.
Don't ever forget the mission of the evil one: steal, kill, destroy.
Its followers are becoming much easier to identify.
Posted by: Bonecrusher

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I am forever amazed at the cognitive dissonance of the ruling class. We need fewer people, except in the West which needs as many people as we can cram into our migrant centers and small towns.
We need to eliminate 80% of the population -- let's start with the productive ones in the West.
We need to cure diseases like hunger and malaria and aids. Then cull the survivors.

They are not only evil, and nuts, but they are so fucking stupid.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:32 PM (+UEwf)

278 271 So you're saying it's highly likely that there is a mask dispenser at the Portland Subaru dealer.
Posted by: Axeman

Drunk drivers have an ignition interlock device to blow into to start their car. Subarus come with a similar device to verify you mask in your car prior to starting it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 29, 2026 02:33 PM (LMfGu)

279
Drunk drivers have an ignition interlock device to blow into to start their car. Subarus come with a similar device to verify you mask in your car prior to starting it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 29, 2026 02:33 PM (LMfGu)

Breath must smell of musky vagina......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:33 PM (ccf/V)

280 278 271 So you're saying it's highly likely that there is a mask dispenser at the Portland Subaru dealer.
Posted by: Axeman

My So, Grandson and Daughter all have Subarus and so far none of them are gay

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)

281
Fauci must have great security, which I am sure we pay for. I'm surprised some family member of a person killed by the killershot has not taken him out.

Posted by: four seasons at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (/QHx4)

282 My So, Grandson and Daughter all have Subarus and so far none of them are gay
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)

Son

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)

283 You heard it here first, so when it becomes commonplace and effective in the future...remember THIS moron:

Eventually, the medical community is going to discard the mentality of "that's the way we've always done it" and "so-and-so showed this and it is unimpeachable." They are going to take a totally different approach to Cancer, viruses, bacteria. It is going to do away with the barbaric and indiscriminate approach to medicine (drugs, shots, chemo, radiation)....and be replaced with focused resonant tone calibrated to erradicate precisely.

In short, the post disease era will arrive eventually using SOUND.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (dIske)

284
My So, Grandson and Daughter all have Subarus and so far none of them are gay
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)

It's the simplest form of defense from the homo mafia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (ccf/V)

285 So I did some things. I am a retired civil servant.

Nothing will happen to me.

Posted by: Dr. Tony, Your Daddy at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (PMpfL)

286 if the outbreak of Spanish Flu at Fort Riley might have been some sort of serial passage experimentation at the Army medical corps there.
Posted by: Kindltot

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I don't want to start a fight, and i have been pretty contrarian on this thread already, but I think the "Spanish flu came from Fort Riley" is pure CCP propaganda. There is strong evidence it hit China the year before, and the outbreaks in the West were only obvious because of circumstances.

That was mostly accepted until covid when the revisionism got started.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (+UEwf)

287 282 My So, Grandson and Daughter all have Subarus and so far none of them are gay
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)

Son
Posted by: It's me donna

You mean soon.

Posted by: Gaystapo, Social Media and Teachers at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (LMfGu)

288 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Fauci is a evil bastard, can't wait for him to go to Hell

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:38 PM (Ia/+0)

289 So you're saying it's highly likely that there is a mask dispenser at the Portland Subaru dealer.
Posted by: Axeman

My So, Grandson and Daughter all have Subarus and so far none of them are gay
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 02:35 PM (+gK6I)
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I'm still very fond of the black Subaru Legacy I used to have. It was a slick car with a cable-driven transmission. So I take some of the brunt of the Subaru jokes, as well.

I don't own a messenger bag or a vespa, but I do own two pairs of crocs. And the jokes have never bothered me.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:40 PM (Fi81e)

290 Speaking of Subarus, I put the first damage on my new Forrester today.

Was trying to pull into a parking spot in the parking garage of my dentist's office today, and scraped the driver's side on a pillar.

The thing is huge. I'm still getting used to how freaking huge it is. I was trying to avoid another parked car pulling in, and got the pillar instead.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

291 Talking about snow a few hours ago with a co-worker, he said they have a Subaru and its fantastic in snow. I said wasn't sure how this Mazda would be even it awd

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

292 Trying to look for an upside here...

At least it wasnt puppies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)

293 Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 02:42 PM (3eLdR)

294
Speaking of Subarus, I put the first damage on my new Forrester today.

Was trying to pull into a parking spot in the parking garage of my dentist's office today, and scraped the driver's side on a pillar.

The thing is huge. I'm still getting used to how freaking huge it is. I was trying to avoid another parked car pulling in, and got the pillar instead.
Posted by: Bulg

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DAMMIT, I damaged by Outback the same way yesterday! Damned PILLAR. I'm going to see about the body work. I want it done. I'm mad.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

295 Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 02:42 PM (3eLdR)

It really can't be said enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (ccf/V)

296 Talking about snow a few hours ago with a co-worker, he said they have a Subaru and its fantastic in snow. I said wasn't sure how this Mazda would be even it awd

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)
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The Subaru is one of the best cars in snow.

Posted by: Axeman at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

297 292 Trying to look for an upside here...

At least it wasnt puppies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 29, 2026 02:41 PM (zZu0s)
________________________

Yeah, monkeys stole my iced coffee last time I was in Costa Rica. I'm not shedding any tears.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (dIske)

298 noo thread: NYT Tech Editor Gunned Down by In-Laws

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 02:43 PM (CWTWj)

299 DAMMIT, I damaged by Outback the same way yesterday! Damned PILLAR. I'm going to see about the body work. I want it done. I'm mad.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

If you've got a Caliber Collision near you, go to them. They do excellent work.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

300 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (ccf/V)

301 I don't want to start a fight, and i have been pretty contrarian on this thread already, but I think the "Spanish flu came from Fort Riley" is pure CCP propaganda. There is strong evidence it hit China the year before, and the outbreaks in the West were only obvious because of circumstances.

That was mostly accepted until covid when the revisionism got started.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:36 PM (+UEwf)

Yeah, but you also believe it is impossible for viruses to jump between species, so I will wait for other proof as well before changing my mind.

I do need to add that the Germans were supposedly working on bioweapons during WWI, and the Brits were terrified of the idea. It would have been natural for the US to try to leverage on its experiences to try to either counter or match that, the way we were churning out chemical weapons.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

302 I was a driving a Forester on I-287 in NJ this weekend and was getting bullied by other drivers! Never happens when driving another car.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 29, 2026 02:45 PM (0bjKf)

303 Hey, I read Japan kills 20,000 monkeys a year. They are a real pest here. I imagine all countries with monkeys do the same.

So a few more for "science" is not a big deal. Honestly. Sure, maybe they suffer but we have to weigh that against the human benefit. Sorry to be so blunt.

Gosh, I really sound like an ass in these grey boxes, don't i?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:47 PM (+UEwf)

304 Yeah, but you also believe it is impossible for viruses to jump between species,

Posted by: Kindltot
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I NEVER said that. I said it was difficult to do serial passage when the easy species (mice,...) don't get the disease you want to make more virulent.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 02:49 PM (+UEwf)

305 >>>I also think that the people pissed at Kennedy only see the loon the MFM have been portraying him as, and not the lifelong politician from a multi-generation political family which played terminally dangerous political games

Posted by: Kindltot
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Funny you should mentions that. I came across an interesting '23 article by Bob Tyrrell.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyb2h9m

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 02:54 PM (wljQY)

306 "Spanish flu came from Fort Riley"

The author walked back the assertion the flu originated in Kansas and was reasonably convinced it all started in China.

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

Posted by: 13times at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (fnZRl)

307 I wish I knew what to do about this. In a way, I think Fauci isn't as bad as the 2/3 of the country that just looks away from this stuff, or falls for the modified limited hangout.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 29, 2026 03:13 PM (gHSfI)

308 Posted by: 13times at September 29, 2026 02:56 PM (fnZRl)

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Thanks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 03:14 PM (+UEwf)

309 Did Fauci write 28 Days Later as a fantasy he was trying to create?
What a Mengele.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 29, 2026 03:17 PM (qvwZI)

310 I'm not going to put into writing what I would do to Fauci if given the opportunity.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 29, 2026 07:04 PM (OGFx7)

In 2027, Trump's Department of Education Will Begin Limiting Government Loans for "Students" In No-Hope Majors

I voted for this.

Sounds good, but it's a very limited first step.

The new rule will mostly go after for-profit private "schools" teaching skills like cosmetology. Supposedly non-profit colleges and universities, where the bulk of educational fraud occurs, will mostly be untouched.

But one can hope.

If your degree doesn't pay enough, you can't borrow. Federal loans cut for low-wage programs

College students pursuing majors, advanced degrees or certifications in fields that consistently earn low incomes will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for their schooling under new Trump administration rules.
Many of the degree programs that educate social workers, artists, teacher aides and especially certification programs for barbers and nail technicians are likely to fail a new federal litmus test: Will they make more money upon graduation than if they never enrolled in the first place?

I can't believe this is even controversial.

The new federal rule, finalized this month by the Education Department, comes amid a national crisis in student loan defaults -- and is part of a larger effort to ensure a college degree or professional certification serves as an avenue for economic advancement rather than a debt trap.
It has also provoked debate over whether the mission of higher education -- and help paying for it -- should be tied to a paycheck after graduation.
But unlike other aspects of the administration's education actions, the new policy has relatively broad support, with some student advocates saying it should be tougher.
The Education Department hasn't yet calculated the final data against which institutions will be judged, leaving uncertainty on exactly what programs will face consequences.
The vast majority of bachelor's and advanced degree programs at public and nonprofit colleges and universities are expected to be safe, with about 3% expected to fail, according to the department's estimates.

Those are rookie numbers. We need to get that up to 50%.

But maybe this is the "foot in the door" to achieve a more sane policy.

However, about 33% of programs at for-profit schools are expected to fail.
Overall, 4.2% of students who receive federal loans or grants are enrolled in programs expected to fail the new benchmark, according to the Education Department. An estimated 5.2% of programs overall may fail, but not all students take out federal loans.
"For the first time in a very long time ... institutions and college leaders are going to be held accountable," said Michael Itzkowitz, president of the education research organization HEA Group. "They are going to start looking and paying more attention to economic outcomes than they ever have before."

We need to greatly expand the rule to cover the Fake Majors at "real" colleges.

These students will never be able to pay their loans back, because the "fields" they're "studying" have no economic use and therefore they will get a degree to become a low-paid barista. Then the taxpayer will have to absorb the loss of the never-repaid loan.

They write it off, Jerry. They just write it off.

Another benefit is that many of these "majors" are actually just training to become bitter revolutionaries. Many "subjects" taught in college now are just Marxist agitation towards chaos and tumult. Far from being a benefit to society, these fields train "students" to undermine and attack society.

And these Fake Majors contribute to the growing problem of what is called "the overproduction of elites," though I reject the word "elites" here. Scholars have noted that societies become unstable and violent when universities produce too many "elites" -- I would call them "aspirants to the elite," because they're failed would-be elites, not actual elites. People get degrees with the belief that they're tickets to an upper-class lifestyle and find out that they're not qualified for any job with an upper-class salary, or even a middle-class salary. They become savagely bitter and attack society itself, animated not only by the ideological tenets of Marxism but overpowering rage at a system that has "failed" them.

Maybe it was designed to do just this. The system is rigged to produce millions of useless-but-entitled, bitter, angry Democrat Socialists.

Medical schools strictly limit how many students are allowed into an actually necessary field which really is a ticket to the upper levels of the upper class. Medical schools make sure there is no overproduction of doctors. (Though many believe that they have become an unreasonably restrictive cartel, under-producing doctors to make sure that every doctor, no matter how unskilled, becomes wealthy.)

If medical schools do this, why don't colleges also limit how many students enroll in African America Experiences In Media? Why do they not try to limit how many very-important Feminist Critiques of Macho Culture in Gay Communities "scholars" are produced?

Since they won't limit the number of "elites" going into these fields, the government will just have to limit how much public money is loaned out to students in these no-hope, Barista Prep fields.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:23 PM

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1 foist

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 12:23 PM (CWTWj)

2 It's a start.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 29, 2026 12:23 PM (QFchU)

3 someone else noodled though

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (CWTWj)

4 Just get the govt OUT of the student loan biz altogether. Easy peasy. One less thing govt can fuck up.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

5 what if - now hear me out - what if getting a credential were actually difficult, requiring work, intellect, and planning?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:25 PM (j+aD2)

6 I always wondered how gender studies majors were supposed to pay their loans. I didn't think they could make enough at Starbucks.

Posted by: huerfano at September 29, 2026 12:25 PM (2Xqig)

7 However, about 33% of programs at for-profit schools are expected to fail.

If 1/3 of your curriculum is predicated on students not being able to get decent jobs after giving you hundreds of thousands of dollars, you're not running a school. You're running a predatory lending establishment backed by the 'full faith and credit' of the Government and should get crushed out of the market.

Buh-bye!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:25 PM (gLYp7)

8 I am told, on X, that the correct solution is to just pay people with those degrees more, or to just make going to college cheaper.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

9 The sad part is: this should not even be necessary if the kids were brought up to think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (Y/06r)

10 It’d be better to get the fed gov out of student loans altogether.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (u73oe)

11 I can't believe this is even controversial.

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Normal thing exists.

Left freaks out.

Normal thing is now controversial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (I7axw)

12 HA-ha!

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (Av6i5)

13 i'd bet there would have been plenty of jobs for the gender studies crowd if hillary had won

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (CWTWj)

14

I can still get loans for crack, right?

Posted by: Hunter Bidet at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (JzT2t)

15 "They write it off, Jerry. They just write it off."

LOL.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

16 I can't believe this is even controversial.

I can. Liberals are idiots.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:28 PM (0Htd1)

17 Just get the govt OUT of the student loan biz altogether. Easy peasy. One less thing govt can fuck up.
Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

The problem with this idea is that it would require rational action by Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:28 PM (ExV1e)

18 Scholars have noted that societies become unstable and violent when universities produce too many "elites" -- I would call them "aspirants to the elite," because they're failed would-be elites, not actual elites.

They're not going into these fields with the expectation that someone other than government, an NGO, or a university will pay them, they're going into them for the cachet of an advanced degree. They go in to them because despite the fact that they don't really know what else to do, they're convinced they're uniquely suited to running the lives of the rest of us.

You're welcome to go that route, but don't ask me to pay for it.

I got a stipend in grad school, because my skills were saleable and they wanted people to still sign up for lots more schooling. Nobody needs a grad student in the fields being chopped. If they did, those grad students wouldn't need loans.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

19 For those of you in Rio Linda - this means...

Bang for your buck.
Return on investment.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?

What other easy to understand ones did I miss??

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (ZV+zn)

20 The whole system is stupid. There are tons of cheap community colleges, public schools and branch campuses that can educate all the lower wage degrees. But those schools are not cool, so somehow, the taxpayers should be on the hook for 400k to produce a kindergarten teacher.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (wrEn7)

21 Overall, 4.2% of students who receive federal loans or grants are enrolled in programs expected to fail the new benchmark, according to the Education Department. An estimated 5.2% of programs overall may fail, but not all students take out federal loans.

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I'm looking forward to the lamentations of the sophomores who had their first two years paid for suddenly faced with having to pay much higher rates in private loans to continue gender studies education, dropping out, or changing majors to something more useful.

Should provide some fun crying in cars TikToks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (I7axw)

22 Good Noon, ace!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (wVcYX)

23 Decades overdue.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (BAWkL)

24 This bothers me at one level, because colleges and universities are not glorified trade schools. They are not an expensive way to get a job. They are supposed to teach people to be better citizens and better leaders for the future. If all you use a college for is to get a job you're an idiot who wasted sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars

At the same time, I do like to see these institutions pressured to end these asinine degrees and end the mill that pushes people into utter crap education.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (nIKjK)

25 But if I don't use my Eskimo Lesbian indigenous knowledge to weave underwater baskets for orphans in Palestine, then who will?

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (Av6i5)

26 Wait a minute… I can’t get a government loan to pursue me degree in underwater transvestite hierarchies of oppression?? That is discrimination; I feel very unsafe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (Dkvax)

27 I was waiting for the page to load saying out loud "Please be good news. Please be good news."

ace delivered.
Thank you.

Next up should be all of the certification bodies. You shouldn't need a license to braid hair.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (Sco7b)

28 Normal thing exists.

Left freaks out.

Normal thing is now controversial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (I7axw)

Only because they're willing to kill people for disagreeing.

Otherwise no company, business, school, or other establishment would give one wet shit what the crazy lefties say on the BlueSky.

But they have to care because any one of these decisions to cow or not cow to a demand could literally be life or death. And there's no telling which is which because the left isn't consistent on any position. Ever. It's pure will to power all the time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:30 PM (gLYp7)

29 26 Wait a minute… I can’t get a government loan to pursue me degree in underwater transvestite hierarchies of oppression?? That is discrimination; I feel very unsafe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (Dkvax)

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Should probably renounce your citizenship and flee for your life!

$450, and you don't have to deal with Americans ever again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:30 PM (I7axw)

30 I can't believe this is even controversial.

As defined by leftists, "controversial" means "anything 90% of America is in favor of but I oppose."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:30 PM (/C5Rl)

31 If 1/3 of your curriculum is predicated on students not being able to get decent jobs after giving you hundreds of thousands of dollars, you're not running a school. You're running a predatory lending establishment backed by the 'full faith and credit' of the Government and should get crushed out of the market.

The same people crying about the prospect of no longer funding these predatory lending establishments with tax dollars are the same ones who think paycheck stores and pawn shops in poor neighborhoods should be banned.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

32 The reaction of the left on social media is kind of funny about this. WE NEED ART! our SOCIETY IS DOOMED IF YOU END FUNDING ART DEGREES!

Yeah, because nobody can be an artist without a degree LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (nIKjK)

33 I'm of two minds about this. Yes, the college loan program is a filthy racket and scam and should be nuked from space. It's basically a massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to colleges. It should be burned and salted.

But ... every one of these idiots signing up for $100k in student loans for some useless, wipe-your-ass-with-it degree knows what they are doing, or should know. Why should I care that these idiots are sabotaging their own future? Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Plus: I've no doubt that the vast majority of these idiots are leftwing creeps and commie fucknuggets. Why should I care that my political enemies are destroying themselves? If anything, I should want more of these idiots to fail.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

34 This bothers me at one level, because colleges and universities are not glorified trade schools. They are not an expensive way to get a job.

They are now. You're welcome. -- SCOTUS

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (ExV1e)

35 Fries in the Bag 101

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (2GVsD)

36 At the very least, I really think the BBB should have just eliminated any kind of government graduate school loans, period.

Remember, all of this federalized under Obama, why not just pull all of it?

Every election cycle Dems will promise student loan forgiveness and that promise has a big audience.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (dVLbm)

37 'Another benefit is that many of these "majors" are actually just training to become bitter revolutionaries. Many "subjects" taught in college now are just Marxist agitation towards chaos and tumult. Far from being a benefit to society, these fields train "students" to undermine and attack society.'

But look how organized our communities are!

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (r7+Q7)

38 Medical schools strictly limit how many students are allowed into an actually necessary field which really is a ticket to the upper levels of the upper class. Medical schools make sure there is no overproduction of doctors.

Over the weekend there was a story that a hospital system in Rochester NY hired 86 new doctors and nurses, 80 of whom were H1B Indians and Pakis.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (2ocoG)

39 Cosmotology is actually a useful profession. (Almost) everyone needs to get their haircut. Maybe I am missing something.

Posted by: Martin Tell at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (sFNX2)

40 From downstairs;
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You cannot argue that driving is a human right, but you can argue that we have the basic human rights to liberty and property and from that the government cannot ban or unnecessarily restrict driving.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Of course.
But states seem to have been taking the position that illegals can not be denied the right to drive because it is necessary to participate in the economy, and that ties to basic human rights.
If it is justification for illegals then same for citizens. I am not looking under penumbras here, but I think we have treated driving as something the gov. can have full control of. That can be pushed back on - we have a lot of amendments that can apply here - assembly, search, religion, speech,... they all need people to participate in the economy and that should preclude unreasonable restrictions or searches while doing so.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (+UEwf)

41 Are you saying that a degree in social studies won't pay rent for a $1600/month apartment?!?!

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (Oy/m2)

42 There doesn't seem to be anything more useless that a "studies" degree. We all know what the actual intent is, and that's to cultivate victimization within that graduate and propel them to become political activists, or embed like a blood-sucking tick into state or fed gov't positions to perpetuate the entire stinking edifice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (qBdHI)

43 This is made necessary due to USAID being shut down. In the good old days, a meaningless major had a decent shot at getting a mid six figure job at an NGO.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (yixf8)

44 The same people crying about the prospect of no longer funding these predatory lending establishments with tax dollars are the same ones who think paycheck stores and pawn shops in poor neighborhoods should be banned.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

Weird, isn't it? When private citizens are taking advantage of people? well, we just can't abide that.

When the State is taking advantage of people, though? Know your place, peasant!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (gLYp7)

45 Make the universities offer and underwrite their own loans. If they have confidence that their pedagogy will graduate a productive, well-paid citizen, then it should be a sure-fire investment for them.

OTOH, if they get a lot of defaulters, it tells them that their selection process sucks, and/or that their curriculum/instruction sucks.

It puts them on the hook to achieve good results. Feedback mechanism.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

46 But ... every one of these idiots signing up for $100k in student loans for some useless, wipe-your-ass-with-it degree knows what they are doing, or should know. Why should I care that these idiots are sabotaging their own future? Not my circus, not my monkeys.

It's our circus in that a lot of them are the Antifa rent-a-mobs that show up where you are and burn things.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

47 The FedGov shouldn't be in the business of funding student loans.

Terrible idea and stupid policy that created one of the most ludicrous market distortions in history.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (oqH4h)

48 For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not tired of all the winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (2Ez/1)

49 I am confused why a nursing degree would be part of the cuts, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (nIKjK)

50 This bothers me at one level, because colleges and universities are not glorified trade schools. They are not an expensive way to get a job. They are supposed to teach people to be better citizens and better leaders for the future. If all you use a college for is to get a job you're an idiot who wasted sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars

At the same time, I do like to see these institutions pressured to end these asinine degrees and end the mill that pushes people into utter crap education.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (nIKjK)
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I have some sympathy for your position - but you must be qualified to be there to do that, and way too many aren't.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (7/DDO)

51 (Almost) everyone needs to get their haircut. Maybe I am missing something.
Posted by: Martin Tell

*sobs*

Posted by: Al O'Pecia at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (w9Wax)

52 Since World War II we have gone from giving Veterans a deal to get educated, when a college education was still pretty rare, to Uncle Sam acting like Oprah, "everyone gets a degree!"

Turn the spigot off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2GVsD)

53 Why should I care that my political enemies are destroying themselves? If anything, I should want more of these idiots to fail.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

Because - eventually - you WILL spend your money to bail them all out!
- The entirety of the left, perpetually one election away from paying off all their bad choices with your fucking money.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (gLYp7)

54 Why should I care that these idiots are sabotaging their own future?

Because politicians use the never ending bitching about it for push for more socialism which affects YOUR future.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (ExV1e)

55 The majors that actually make me the angriest are the ones involving the phrase "Public Policy" -- which basically meam you are studying to become a eep State bureaucrat who determines how society goes, contravening the voters' wishes. Essentially, you are a "Vanguard of the Proletariat" in training. You don't actuall get any expertise in any subject, you just learn how to boss people around without them realizing it.

Delete delete delete.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (Av6i5)

56 8 I am told, on X, that the correct solution is to just pay people with those degrees more, or to just make going to college cheaper.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Professors aren't going to like those pay cuts in order to make college cheaper.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (0Htd1)

57 But ... every one of these idiots signing up for $100k in student loans for some useless, wipe-your-ass-with-it degree knows what they are doing, or should know. Why should I care that these idiots are sabotaging their own future? Not my circus, not my monkeys.

I agree that if they want to do something as manifestly stupid as go into deep debt to fund a useless degree, that's up to them and whatever idiot decides to lend them the money, as long as that money wasn't taken from me as tax dollars. It's the same as letting people build a house on a sand bar; knock yourself out, but don't expect me to reimburse you when the house falls into the ocean.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

58 56 8 I am told, on X, that the correct solution is to just pay people with those degrees more, or to just make going to college cheaper.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Professors aren't going to like those pay cuts in order to make college cheaper.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (0Htd1)

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"Professors?"
-2:1 admin to professor ratio on most university campuses

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (I7axw)

59 Oh, and next confiscate any defaults from all available endowments. Then garnish all grants involving the institution by 50% until the debt is paid. Also, send Moose and Rocco to help the University President find xer wallet.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 29, 2026 12:36 PM (r7+Q7)

60 >>Medical schools strictly limit how many students are allowed into an actually necessary field which really is a ticket to the upper levels of the upper class.

An MD is no longer a ticket to the upper class. The Obamacare regulations destroyed sole- and small-group medical practices. Most MDs are now employees, and now that women are becoming an increased majority of practicing doctors, they are comfortable with a 9-5 schedule.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 12:36 PM (NcvvS)

61 Afternoon ace.
Barky and the Dems took over student loans in 09, basically nationalizing the process. That gave the Dem run bureaucrats an opportunity to put their hands in the till. More loans for idiot majors, more opportunities for graft. Return to the banks and get government out of it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 12:36 PM (WyJlA)

62 49 I am confused why a nursing degree would be part of the cuts, though

it probably depends. there are a lot of different types of nursing degrees. likely 1 out of 100 might be on the "chopping block" and it's something goofy.

the way the media is presenting this is completely inaccurate btw

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (j+aD2)

63 The screaming on X about this is absolutely epic.

It's amazing how some people can instantly pivot from "crushing student loan debt oppresses women and people of color" to "How DARE you not make loans to women and people of color for worthless degrees".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (aD4fx)

64 I am confused why a nursing degree would be part of the cuts, though
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (nIKjK)

The cuts are per school and degree plan. Assuming that nursing is being cut anywhere, it's being cut from a really expensive and, presumably, shitty school.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)

65 32 The reaction of the left on social media is kind of funny about this. WE NEED ART! our SOCIETY IS DOOMED IF YOU END FUNDING ART DEGREES!

Yeah, because nobody can be an artist without a degree LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (nIKjK)

The artists might be forced to do art that people actually like- which is what they are afraid of.

This came up as a topic months ago on the art thread. Patronage is one thing, but once government funds any art you desire to make, it turns to crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (Y/06r)

66 Barky and the Dems took over student loans in 09, basically nationalizing the process. That gave the Dem run bureaucrats an opportunity to put their hands in the till. More loans for idiot majors, more opportunities for graft. Return to the banks and get government out of it

exactly

AND the frosting on the fraud cake was, they could promise the kids "loan forgiveness" in return for votes! so suddenly a demo that doesn't vote much is VERY motivated to vote for Dems.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (j+aD2)

67 But ... every one of these idiots signing up for $100k in student loans for some useless, wipe-your-ass-with-it degree knows what they are doing, or should know. Why should I care that these idiots are sabotaging their own future? Not my circus, not my monkeys.

It's our circus in that a lot of them are the Antifa rent-a-mobs that show up where you are and burn things.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)
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They will do that regardless. There were massive riots in this country going back 100s of years. Civil war era riots. Labor riots. Political riots.

In particular, the 1960s and 70s riots were all filthy commies and antifa types, and that was well before the student loan scam.

There will always be an underclass of layabout agitators and perverted creeps willing to take their self-hate out on the rest of the world. I don't think student loan debt has anything to do with it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

68 This bothers me at one level, because colleges and universities are not glorified trade schools. They are not an expensive way to get a job. They are supposed to teach people to be better citizens and better leaders for the future.

Says who? For most people at a university, that's precisely why they're there.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

69 60 An MD is no longer a ticket to the upper class. The Obamacare regulations destroyed sole- and small-group medical practices. Most MDs are now employees, and now that women are becoming an increased majority of practicing doctors, they are comfortable with a 9-5 schedule.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 12:36 PM (NcvvS)

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Nearly 40% of female physicians scale back or leave clinical practice within six years of residency (including 22.6% working part-time), compared to just 3.6% for men.

https://www.aamc.org/news/
why-women-leave-medicine

Med schools relying on women has been a giant negative for the medical profession as a going concern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (I7axw)

70 Was mushbrain Biden’s student loan forgiveness ever stopped? He let a lot of people off the hook

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (Dkvax)

71 the way the media is presenting this is completely inaccurate btw
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (j+aD2)

NO! I shan't believe it. I shannot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (Y/06r)

72 This came up as a topic months ago on the art thread. Patronage is one thing, but once government funds any art you desire to make, it turns to crap.

arts funding is only for attractive people (usually males) that give amazing blow jobs.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (j+aD2)

73 Maybe, just for fun, undo Obama's nationalization of student loans. Let the market decide.

Radical, I know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (AuLQB)

74 When I attended college in the late 70's, it cost me about $500 per semester for tuition and books (not housing, etc). I can't believe how expensive it has become. The increase? It's mostly just unaccountable administration.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (l26NL)

75 62 49 I am confused why a nursing degree would be part of the cuts, though

it probably depends. there are a lot of different types of nursing degrees. likely 1 out of 100 might be on the "chopping block" and it's something goofy.

the way the media is presenting this is completely inaccurate btw

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:37 PM (j+aD2)

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I suspect it's specific programs at specific schools where the students have a history of not making money afterwards. Issues with the individual schools, essentially.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:39 PM (I7axw)

76 Just yesterday on a Judge Judy rerun, there was a 35 year old man, father of 4 children, who was supporting himself by "taking classes". Judge Judy went off on him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:39 PM (0Htd1)

77 As for medical schools - the issue is training slots, there just aren't that many more available. The H1B example is bringing in inferior medical professionals because there aren't anymore.

Most med students, for the time and expense and the school loans cost, are not going into primary care either. They want a specialty profession that will allow them to pay back their loans and get a payback for the time in training. Remember, there is 4 years of medical school and then 4 years at least in residency. Residency jobs are almost all in expensive COLA areas paying a starting wage that is less than that of a good engineering school graduate. If you go for a fellowship on top of that it is another 2 to 3 years of lower wages. You can be almost 35 before you see serious paychecks.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 29, 2026 12:39 PM (7/DDO)

78 Also, I don't want to alarm you or destroy your worldviews but also consider fraud.

There's probably a good amount of people getting money, don't go to class but have living expenses paid for awhile they never intend to pay back.

Free shit is free shit...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 12:39 PM (Sco7b)

79 70 Was mushbrain Biden’s student loan forgiveness ever stopped? He let a lot of people off the hook

in certain fields if you work a year or so it still gets forgiven.

this will now end.

which is A GOOD THING

and dumb colleges will close. also good.

at this point I want 70 percent to close

fuck em

(yes Im still pissed that Drexel is selling off the Academy of Natural Sciences)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:39 PM (j+aD2)

80 This came up as a topic months ago on the art thread. Patronage is one thing, but once government funds any art you desire to make, it turns to crap.

Look at government sponsored art from the US, Germany, or the USSR in the 1930s. Is any of it truly appealing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:40 PM (2GVsD)

81 I know someone who got a "studies" degree. It was Biblical Studies from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. But because of endowments, Moody doesn't charge tuition, so there are never any loans involved.
The person I'm referring to became a youth pastor.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:40 PM (2Ez/1)

82 Barky and the Dems took over student loans in 09, basically nationalizing the process. That gave the Dem run bureaucrats an opportunity to put their hands in the till. More loans for idiot majors, more opportunities for graft. Return to the banks and get government out of it

exactly

AND the frosting on the fraud cake was, they could promise the kids "loan forgiveness" in return for votes! so suddenly a demo that doesn't vote much is VERY motivated to vote for Dems.

I remember when he did it. I turned to my wife and said "this is all just the creation of another Democrat-voting special interest group". It's tough being right all the time.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

83 I have some sympathy for your position - but you must be qualified to be there to do that, and way too many aren't.

Yeah college was never meant and never should be for everyone. The push for the past 50 years especially by boomers that YOU MUST GO TO COLLEGE OR FAIL AT LIFE was so bad and so wrong. Most people should not go to college. Most people don't need it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (nIKjK)

84 My dermatologist is a young woman, pregnant, and moving to three days a week work schedule in her last trimester. "Probably" coming back to work after her baby arrives she says, but it doesn't sound like even she believes herself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (AuLQB)

85 There's probably a good amount of people getting money, don't go to class but have living expenses paid for awhile they never intend to pay back.

you got it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (j+aD2)

86 We need these loans! I couldn't get into art school and looked what happened to me.

Posted by: A. Hitler at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (WQH6c)

87 A lot of people get degrees because the Griggs decision made it the minimum standard for getting a salaried job. But that doesn't mean I should subsidize them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (yixf8)

88 But brother, what do you mean Goat Cosmetology is not a real career?!!

Posted by: Mohammed Muhamed Mohamed at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (7Q0e+)

89 I never graduated after being in college for 7 years and things turned out okay.

Posted by: Senator Blutarski at September 29, 2026 12:42 PM (wVcYX)

90 I also wonder about teachers

literally all the girls my daughter's age (which is young 20s) have already retired to be moms!

I think that happens A LOT. some go back after the kids are older? maybe?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:42 PM (j+aD2)

91 Since World War II we have gone from giving Veterans a deal to get educated, when a college education was still pretty rare, to Uncle Sam acting like Oprah, "everyone gets a degree!"

Turn the spigot off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:34 PM (2GVsD)
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This^^^

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (X7pZH)

92 we need more male teachers, but unfortunately there's huge pressure against guys taking the job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (nIKjK)

93 @32. -Christopher

WE NEED ART!

That's what they say. But what we really need is

TO BE LEFT THE FUCK ALONE!

Posted by: Case at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (9+0gc)

94 Med schools relying on women has been a giant negative for the medical profession as a going concern.

My daughter is a high-powered lawyer, and faces the same dilemma, because she's ready to start a family. I think it's a good thing for companies to be more flexible, but more importantly, we as a society simply have to make it easier for women to work realistic hours. If we don't, the birthrate will continue to crash, especially among those who are the ones we most want to reproduce. Like it or not, there are some things more important that squeezing the last few hours out of your employees.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

95 Professors aren't going to like those pay cuts in order to make college cheaper.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (0Htd1)

I asked someone who was advocating for free college for everyone who they were planning on enslaving to make that happen and they said I was stupid. So I said, "So you want to seize the money that I worked for to provide a benefit to you," and they said I was stupid again.

Apparently, the definition of stupid has changed recently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (ExV1e)

96 94 My daughter is a high-powered lawyer, and faces the same dilemma, because she's ready to start a family. I think it's a good thing for companies to be more flexible, but more importantly, we as a society simply have to make it easier for women to work realistic hours. If we don't, the birthrate will continue to crash, especially among those who are the ones we most want to reproduce. Like it or not, there are some things more important that squeezing the last few hours out of your employees.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

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Maybe it should be more culturally accepted for women to marry in their late teens/early 20s and have babies instead of spending years and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing something that they'll just abandon after 5-10 years in the job force.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (I7axw)

97 This is bad. Will Perfessor Squirrel have to retire to the Peanut Patch?

Posted by: *Peanuts Are Legumes, Not Nuts* at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (Fn+3X)

98 The whole system is stupid. There are tons of cheap community colleges, public schools and branch campuses that can educate all the lower wage degrees....
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee
I knew a family where dad was a medical doctor. The kids did their first 2 college years at the community college, because it just makes sense.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (0Htd1)

99 The flip side of this is that basic, entry level office jobs should not have requirements to have a degree. I haven't done anything in my "career" that should have required a degree, yet all of my positions have required it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2026 12:46 PM (zYpTz)

100 I always wondered how gender studies majors were supposed to pay their loans. I didn't think they could make enough at Starbucks.
Posted by: huerfano

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By any chance, do you remember the lovely Edith Macias who stole a guy's Maga hat at UC Riverside because it was upsetting her? "We're gonna get rid of all y'all!" she yelled at him. Minor sidenote, her mother was an illegal alien.

It was during Trump's first term and sure enough.She was one of those "studies" majors. Latin-American studies, women's studies, Latin-American women studies.I can't remember but what difference does it make?

She later wound up failing to get into some subsidized art program at the university of arizona because her shitty agendized artwork wasn't selling. She and her lesbian partner had put up a gofundme so they could pay rent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 12:46 PM (mmrXZ)

101 > Most people should not go to college. Most people don't need it.

I know it's popular to say most people should get a trade, but have you guys talked with older tradesmen? Many of them will tell you NOT to go into their trade. Often they'll tell you their body is destroyed and the prospects are grim.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 12:46 PM (mkw2N)

102 Am I crazy for agreeing with Trump's new policy on student loans? If your major likely leads you into a debt that you cannot repay then you should not qualify for federal student loans for that major.

Yes you’re crazy for agreeing with it. It’s bad policy that makes no sense. Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future. I hope people that complained about Biden are happy with Trump fucking up the whole student loans system

Liberal arts degrees make well-rounded citizens which is the backbone of a functioning democracy. A policy like this is just another attempt to turn America into Communist China. The correct policy would be for the state to invest in all education to prevent student-loan debt. Go a step further and also invest in trade schools to be free also and to even give free work trucks to tradesmen and free farm equipment to farmers. These are things government should be focused on instead of mass surveillance and war.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (t19vo)

103 Maybe it should be more culturally accepted for women to marry in their late teens/early 20s and have babies instead of spending years and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing something that they'll just abandon after 5-10 years in the job force.

Right. Any woman, no matter how smart or talented, should just get pregnant in her teens, and stay in the kitchen.

And who said anything about "abandoning" their career? There is a difference between working a predictable 40 or 50 hour week, and doing the insane hours required of young doctors and lawyers.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

104 I agree that if they want to do something as manifestly stupid as go into deep debt to fund a useless degree, that's up to them and whatever idiot decides to lend them the money, as long as that money wasn't taken from me as tax dollars. It's the same as letting people build a house on a sand bar; knock yourself out, but don't expect me to reimburse you when the house falls into the ocean.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

I have some sympathies for 18 year olds who've spent their entire life being told to "follow their passion" and then get advised by professional advisors to go to college and, yes, dipshittery is a wonderful career choice, and etc. who then follow the advice that the adults around them keep giving.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (ExV1e)

105 Since the way to become a millionaire in these majors is to start with two million dollars...you don't need a loan!

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (XJjDY)

106 102 Yes you’re crazy for agreeing with it. It’s bad policy that makes no sense. Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future. I hope people that complained about Biden are happy with Trump fucking up the whole student loans system

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (t19vo)

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Translation:

"Predict the future, but refuse to use the past as a guide."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (I7axw)

107 I also wonder about teachers

literally all the girls my daughter's age (which is young 20s) have already retired to be moms!

I think that happens A LOT. some go back after the kids are older? maybe?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 12:42 PM (j+aD2)
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Gen Alpha (2013-2025) making teachers quit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaDlJgsq5Q

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (X7pZH)

108 From downstairs;
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You cannot argue that driving is a human right, but you can argue that we have the basic human rights to liberty and property and from that the government cannot ban or unnecessarily restrict driving.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Of course.
But states seem to have been taking the position that illegals can not be denied the right to drive because it is necessary to participate in the economy, and that ties to basic human rights.
If it is justification for illegals then same for citizens. I am not looking under penumbras here, but I think we have treated driving as something the gov. can have full control of. That can be pushed back on - we have a lot of amendments that can apply here - assembly, search, religion, speech,... they all need people to participate in the economy and that should preclude unreasonable restrictions or searches while doing so.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (+UEwf)

I'm not driving, I'm traveling.

*moments later*
I do not consent!

Posted by: Sovereign Citizen at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (wVcYX)

109 literally all the girls my daughter's age (which is young 20s) have already retired to be moms!

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And what we're left with are the childless rainbow crowd types who are hardcore leftists teaching kids.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (qBdHI)

110 Was mushbrain Biden’s student loan forgiveness ever stopped? He let a lot of people off the hook
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:38 PM (Dkvax)
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The courts stopped it. So most of the "loan forgiveness" never happened. It was not the mass loan forgiveness that most people seem to think it was.

The vast majority of idiots who can't pay back their student loans are still on the hook, and a default hits their credit report. They are fucked and I like it.

It may well be that they never pay this money back, and the taxpayers are on the hook for it eventually. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 100s of trillions that taxpayers are already on the hook for.

So, as I said above, I'm of two minds about this. One of those minds thinks it's worth it to help my political enemies destroy themselves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

111 Rush Limbaugh came from a family of wealthy lawyers.
After one semester he failed out of Southeast Missouri State.

He died penniless.

Posted by: Oh, wait... at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (2Ez/1)

112 >>Med schools relying on women has been a giant negative for the medical profession as a going concern.

Yep, and there are 2 female MDs in my family. One has a good work ethic and the other has run into some (legitimate, IMO) health problems. The latter is still working but cannot work the way her country-GP grandfather did.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (NcvvS)

113 103
Right. Any woman, no matter how smart or talented, should just get pregnant in her teens, and stay in the kitchen.

And who said anything about "abandoning" their career? There is a difference between working a predictable 40 or 50 hour week, and doing the insane hours required of young doctors and lawyers.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

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That's a lot of words you put in my mouth.

You responded to the stats that 40% of all female doctors abandoned or greatly reduced their work within 6 years. Would they have been happier...getting married before med school?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (I7axw)

114 Yes you’re crazy for agreeing with it. It’s bad policy that makes no sense. Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future

But that's exactly what Trump is doing?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:48 PM (2ocoG)

115 Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future.

That's exactly what this does. Think about it.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (XJjDY)

116 We're sorry, your Art Thread does not meet the minimum requirements.

Posted by: Department of Education at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (w9Wax)

117 I mean, we do need art, but ... not the kind of vomit we so often get today in the name of art.

There is a new movie out called Forgotten Island from Dreamworks Studio, which typically puts out solid stuff. Apparently its a really good story that is smart and well done. But the art style for the animation is absolutely hideous and offensively ugly and damaging to the eyes and sanity.

Its not doing well because the trailer looked like the usual The Message slop and was ugly. This is not the kind of art we want or need.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (nIKjK)

118 115 Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future.

That's exactly what this does. Think about it.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (XJjDY)

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The government is going to need Gender Studies majors to figure out utopia, comrade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (I7axw)

119 Yes you’re crazy for agreeing with it. It’s bad policy that makes no sense. Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future. I hope people that complained about Biden are happy with Trump fucking up the whole student loans system

Probably has a garage full of never opened boxes of 30th Anniversary Pokemon cards and four maxed out credit cards.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:49 PM (2GVsD)

120 She later wound up failing to get into some subsidized art program at the university of arizona because her shitty agendized artwork wasn't selling. She and her lesbian partner had put up a gofundme so they could pay rent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 12:46 PM (mmrXZ

Hmmm.
I have room.
Do they like cold weather?

I should probably search for photos first.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (Sco7b)

121 The push for the past 50 years especially by boomers that YOU MUST GO TO COLLEGE OR FAIL AT LIFE was so bad and so wrong. Most people should not go to college. Most people don't need it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (nIKjK

You said that better than I did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (zYpTz)

122 Yes you’re crazy for agreeing with it. It’s bad policy that makes no sense. Instead of discouraging people from pursuing higher education, they should be incentivizing fields that are in high demand in the future. I hope people that complained about Biden are happy with Trump fucking up the whole student loans system

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (t19vo)

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Translation:

"Predict the future, but refuse to use the past as a guide."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (I7axw)
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If only we could determine which "fields ... are in high demand in the future" and this idea would be genius!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

123 I have some sympathies for 18 year olds who've spent their entire life being told to "follow their passion" and then get advised by professional advisors to go to college and, yes, dipshittery is a wonderful career choice, and etc. who then follow the advice that the adults around them keep giving.

I agree, and the biggest "professional advisor" who does that is the government, willing to subsidize you for a decade in a field that will never pay, when you have no real idea how negative the impact of that debt will be to you later in life. Start there. Get government out of the student loan business.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

124 Probbly asked already but wasn't it Obama who 'federalized' these loans, putting the taxpayer ultimately on the hook?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (5UQUM)

125 122 If only we could determine which "fields ... are in high demand in the future" and this idea would be genius!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

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Crystals, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (I7axw)

126 your Art Thread does not meet the minimum requirements.

Posted by: Department of Education

It was the naked man on an ottoman, wasn't it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (nIKjK)

127 I think women wait way too late to start families, but then again no one tells them how hard it is to have healthy kids when you are in your late thirties. It's a conspiracy of silence, and many young women I know (I have two daughters) are not just sad at widespread (age-related) reproductive problems, but also mad.

If our girls had started having a family in their early twenties instead of their thirties, all of this would have been much easier physically.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (JYE7p)

128 That's a lot of words you put in my mouth.

Physician heal thyself.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

129 If Liberals weren't wetting their beak in the field of academia, college tuition would be considered like the biggest scam of all time by the media with a constant stream of horror stories.

You look at other investments and schemes, but nothing has hurt people more than massive tuition costs for college.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (dVLbm)

130 124 Probbly asked already but wasn't it Obama who 'federalized' these loans, putting the taxpayer ultimately on the hook?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 12:50 PM (5UQUM)

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It's easy to say Obama because he signed the law, but it was the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that actually did it.

It'll take another act of Congress to undo it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (I7axw)

131 You said that better than I did.

I was thinking the exact opposite and wishing I hadn't posted because it was just a repeat of what you said, but poorer LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (nIKjK)

132 You could always start a lesbian bar.

Posted by: In Massachusetts at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (2Ez/1)

133 The push for the past 50 years especially by boomers that YOU MUST GO TO COLLEGE OR FAIL AT LIFE was so bad and so wrong. Most people should not go to college. Most people don't need it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:41 PM (nIKjK
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It's not just boomers.

And the younger folks are really big on credentialism, it seems to me.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (X7pZH)

134 My nephew worked very hard to get into an electrician apprentice program. After two months, the electrician told him there wasn't enough work to sustain him and he'd call if he got more work.

This isn't in some tiny little backwater town either. It's St George, Utah. There should be plenty of work. The guy is a legit master electrician, so I have no idea how he doesn't have enough work to go around.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (mkw2N)

135 If only we could determine which "fields ... are in high demand in the future" and this idea would be genius!

Well, we can start with the fields that already don't have any demand.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

136 The bright neon color palette for Forgotten Island is truly eye searing which means no Humans generated it, it was all AI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (2GVsD)

137 My wife was a Registered Dietitian with a Masters in Nutrition. She didn't work for ten years when the children were little, then only went back part-time for the rest of her career. I was proud I could support the family in the squalor to which we had become accustomed.

Posted by: Poor Boy From A Poor Family at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (Fn+3X)

138 Med schools relying on women has been a giant negative for the medical profession as a going concern.

I'm on my third ophthalmologist.

The first two were women who stopped practicing in their 30s.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (aD4fx)

139 So apparently D candidates across the country are running a _____ (state) is NOT for sale, campaign.

What does it mean? They're the ones selling every state and the country out!

But I saw Sayed saying it (Michigan is NOT for sale!) and I just saw it in another state. They are so weird. It literally means nothing. But obviously they think it will work. It sounds strong anyway.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (3R4hO)

140 >>>Another benefit is that many of these "majors" are actually just training to become bitter revolutionaries. Many "subjects" taught in college now are just Marxist agitation towards chaos and tumult. Far from being a benefit to society, these fields train "students" to undermine and attack society.

I would argue that this has been true for 40 years.
Speaking as a former liberal arts major.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)

141 128 That's a lot of words you put in my mouth.

Physician heal thyself.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

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I never asserted you said anything. I said that maybe women should consider getting married and having kids instead of spending time in college.

I never said they should be forced and be barefoot in the kitchen. You asserted that I meant that. I use words like an adult. I say what I mean.

But, even staunch conservatives are aghast at the idea of women choosing to be homemakers instead of spending years trying to be something else, I guess. They should be actively discouraged from that choice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (I7axw)

142 I knew a family where dad was a medical doctor. The kids did their first 2 college years at the community college, because it just makes sense.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (0Htd1)

That's what I had my daughter do. Got all her core requirements done at a CC, then transferred to a prestigous university and got her diploma. The diploma says nothing about the CC. Saved quite a bit of money.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (5UQUM)

143 My nephew worked very hard to get into an electrician apprentice program. After two months, the electrician told him there wasn't enough work to sustain him and he'd call if he got more work.

That strongly sounds like "doing the minimum required to be eligible to bring in H1Bs".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (2ocoG)

144 TJM

Crystal pyramid power

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (2GVsD)

145 I think it's a good thing for companies to be more flexible, but more importantly, we as a society simply have to make it easier for women to work realistic hours.

What if we made it easier for women to stay at home?

What if women had to make the same trade-offs men have to make?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (ExV1e)

146 138 Med schools relying on women has been a giant negative for the medical profession as a going concern.

I'm on my third ophthalmologist.

The first two were women who stopped practicing in their 30s.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (aD4fx)

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But going back to them in their 20s and telling them that they actually won't use their degrees for long and could probably save a lot of time and trouble by just marrying then and having babies is anti-woman, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (I7axw)

147 (Getting to the thread late. Apologies if this has already been addressed.)

24 This bothers me at one level, because colleges and universities are not glorified trade schools. They are not an expensive way to get a job.

College because a job qualification because the previous way of qualifying -- objective testing -- was ruled racist.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (yhD/F)

148 What does it mean? They're the ones selling every state and the country out!

But I saw Sayed saying it (Michigan is NOT for sale!) and I just saw it in another state. They are so weird. It literally means nothing. But obviously they think it will work. It sounds strong anyway.
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I really think data centers has everyone up in arms even though its probably the best commercial installation a place could hope for.

Id rather have a data center than say a Starbucks or Walmart.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (dVLbm)

149 And the younger folks are really big on credentialism, it seems to me.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (X7pZH)

Every HR department in anything more professional than retail wants you to have a degree for a even a low level job. It has to change, or this problem doesn't get solved.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (zYpTz)

150
But I saw Sayed saying it (Michigan is NOT for sale!) and I just saw it in another state. They are so weird. It literally means nothing. But obviously they think it will work. It sounds strong anyway.
Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 12:53 PM (3R4hO)

How much for the women?

Posted by: Jake Blues at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (rbvCR)

151 My wife was a Registered Dietitian with a Masters in Nutrition. She didn't work for ten years when the children were little, then only went back part-time for the rest of her career. I was proud I could support the family in the squalor to which we had become accustomed.

Mine had a PhD in chemistry. She went from full time to part time for about 15 years while our kids were younger, and then went back to work full time after they didn't need her at home. The government for once did something intelligent in allowing her that option, since they got a cheap, but superlative employee, who was far more productive per hour than the people who were full time. Naturally, they've since forbidden that option.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

152 Like it or not, there are some things more important that squeezing the last few hours out of your employees.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

Preposterous!

Posted by: Denny Crane! at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (wVcYX)

153 I think women wait way too late to start families, but then again no one tells them how hard it is to have healthy kids when you are in your late thirties.

Its not so much that as that you do not have the energy, focus, or health at 30 to do what you did at 20. At 20 you can go 6 days with 3 hours of sleep total. At 20 you can be up constantly caring for a little person that desperately needs your aid. Not so much at 30 or 40. That's how God designed the system. Marry and have kids young, build your life with your kids.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (nIKjK)

154 Crystals, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And horoscopes!!!

Posted by: Lindsay Clancy Jurors at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (t19vo)

155 I knew a family where dad was a medical doctor. The kids did their first 2 college years at the community college, because it just makes sense.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2026 12:44 PM (0Htd1)

My oldest started in community college and decided that college was not for them. Yay.

My youngest did all four years in an out-of-state four year college that I paid for because the fight with the wife, who wanted youngest child to "have the college experience", wasn't worth it. Youngest is now an employed baby engineer but, damn, it was expensive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

156 Wired has a hit piece up on Kurt Schlichter, of all people. They call him a "Pentagon influencer" and they are trying to cancel him.

https://tinyurl.com/ya4c2xyb

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:56 PM (nShWT)

157 My degree did nothing but open certain doors. Nobody considering me for a job even cared what the degree was in, just that I had one. All the skills I had were self taught.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 12:56 PM (5UQUM)

158 80 This came up as a topic months ago on the art thread. Patronage is one thing, but once government funds any art you desire to make, it turns to crap.

Look at government sponsored art from the US, Germany, or the USSR in the 1930s. Is any of it truly appealing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:40 PM (2GVsD)

Counter argument: The Aeneid by Virgil- which is almost propaganda for Augustus in whole cloth. But it's not bad- if farcically fake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Y/06r)

159 Remember that Jason Arday got a degree in sociology studies or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Oy/m2)

160 158 Counter argument: The Aeneid by Virgil- which is almost propaganda for Augustus in whole cloth. But it's not bad- if farcically fake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Y/06r)

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Unlike the Iliad which is just straight history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (I7axw)

161 But going back to them in their 20s and telling them that they actually won't use their degrees for long and could probably save a lot of time and trouble by just marrying then and having babies is anti-woman, it seems.

In the 1940s, Harvard Medical School explicitly discriminated against women, because their alumni records showed that almost all their male graduates practiced medicine until retirement, while a substantial fraction of their female graduates stopped practicing medicine at some point.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (aD4fx)

162 But going back to them in their 20s and telling them that they actually won't use their degrees for long and could probably save a lot of time and trouble by just marrying then and having babies is anti-woman, it seems.

There's a certain subset of men who believe that if they tell any woman anything she doesn't already believe they'll never have sex again. They should be more like The Paolo.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

163 Wired has about as much influence as Vice does, which is still more than CNN.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2GVsD)

164 And the younger folks are really big on credentialism, it seems to me.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:52 PM (X7pZH)

Everyone under 35 or so seems so fucking smug these days.

The worst thing we ever did was this "self esteem" push in the 90s and 2000s.

Humility was more important than self-esteem or self-flagellation and it was clearly abandoned, to society's ultimate detriment.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (3R4hO)

165 But the allure of the gleaming cubicle farm!
Stare at a computer screen all day!
Give your best years, talents and energy to a thankless, soulless corporation instead of your husband and kids!
It'll be great!

Posted by: The HR Department at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (2Ez/1)

166 Very few women (and men for that manner) really get the satisfaction out of a career versus a family.

I just look at so many of the women that think they are "girl boss" type executives and it's a joke.

I think AI will wipe out a lot of these types of "girl jobs" in the very near future where it's a lot of emails and meetings about nothing.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (dVLbm)

167 165 But the allure of the gleaming cubicle farm!
Stare at a computer screen all day!
Give your best years, talents and energy to a thankless, soulless corporation instead of your husband and kids!
It'll be great!

Posted by: The HR Department at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (2Ez/1)

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"Men are just having affairs and drinking all day."
-the 50s, I guess

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (I7axw)

168 This was first implemented beginning July 1 2014 by the Obama regency.

The policy is officially called the Gainful Employment rule (or Gainful Employment regulations). It is often abbreviated as the GE rule.

Posted by: Miklos is up early today at September 29, 2026 12:58 PM (4RYRd)

169 Mine had a PhD in chemistry. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

Who paid for the PhD? Who paid down the loan while she was not working?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (rbvCR)

170 What if we made it easier for women to stay at home?

If, like me, you see the fertility rate as the biggest crisis facing us, you'd say we SHOULD make it easier for women to stay home. That's the whole point of my argument for making it easier for younger women (or men) to work part time.

What if women had to make the same trade-offs men have to make?

If you really believe that women don't have to make trade-offs, I don't know what to tell you, other than pointing out the one I've already mentioned.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

171 > That strongly sounds like "doing the minimum required to be eligible to bring in H1Bs".

No. H1B visas require a position to demand at least a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a specialized field. Electrician jobs are vocational, so an electrician can't hire foreign workers through a H1B program.

Maybe he could do an EB3 visa, but that requires a permanent job offer and cert through the Dept of Labor.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (mkw2N)

172 The Aeneid had a propaganda purpose - why Rome does not like the Greek states.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (2GVsD)

173 Wired has a hit piece up on Kurt Schlichter, of all people. They call him a "Pentagon influencer" and they are trying to cancel him.

The left's current preferred method of taking out Trump is "military coup", so attacks on the Pentagon and anyone that approves of Pete Hegseth's job must be destroyed.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (2ocoG)

174 There are some indirect benefits to this. I used to have to compete with my friends and peers to secure employment over the summer at some of the choice "fun" jobs in order to stuff money away for college. Now, teenagers don't work (or plan ahead) as much. Those positions custom built for young, inexperienced kids have been gobbled up by illegals. I'm talking about waiting tables, assisting tradesmen, working counters etc. That doesn't even include the hard manual labor slots (that I personally believe every teenager should experience before making long lasting vocational choices). Even if the lesson is "I don't want to do this shit for the rest of my life"...you've learned something.

Student loans aren't, IMO, to give opportunities to the individual. They should be to benefit the community and the economy as a whole. Instead the focus is on assisting the individual (who just happens to be too unmotivated to create their own opportunities).

No more degrees in Lesbian Cookie Making. There is little benefit going forward to anyone.

Posted by: Orson at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (dIske)

175 Its not so much that as that you do not have the energy, focus, or health at 30 to do what you did at 20. At 20 you can go 6 days with 3 hours of sleep total. At 20 you can be up constantly caring for a little person that desperately needs your aid. Not so much at 30 or 40. That's how God designed the system. Marry and have kids young, build your life with your kids.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (nIKjK)
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Had mine at 20 and 23.

God's ways are best.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (X7pZH)

176 But going back to them in their 20s and telling them that they actually won't use their degrees for long and could probably save a lot of time and trouble by just marrying then and having babies is anti-woman, it seems.

There's a certain subset of men who believe that if they tell any woman anything she doesn't already believe they'll never have sex again.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)
__________

"We have a solution for that, ya know?"

-- The Oldest Profession

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

177 172 The Aeneid had a propaganda purpose - why Rome does not like the Greek states.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (2GVsD)

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*aghast for a moment before going back to write the Henriad*
-William Shakespeare

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:00 PM (I7axw)

178 My oldest started in community college and decided that college was not for them. Yay.

This is the way: give it a shot, its not quite college but its a transition step that lets you get a ton of the core requirements out of the way for 1/100th the cost. And you can find out if its for you or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:00 PM (nIKjK)

179 So apparently D candidates across the country are running a _____ (state) is NOT for sale, campaign.

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The same message is showing up in the UK and Canada. But there is no coordination.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2026 01:00 PM (yixf8)

180 Ultimately the problem is credentialism. "You must be certified/licensed/have Z-level degree/etc, no matter how much experience and know-how you have". That's a problem caused by: states insisting on credentials/licensing (so they can scoop fees, probably), Griggs vs Duke Power (flipped the recruitment mindset to 'experience *might* be acceptable in lieu of degree... but might not' instead of the fairly-reasonable 'degree *might substitute for lack of experience'), and businesses that don't want to 'waste' time/money training new hires. And probably some things that I forgot.

Until that's fixed, at every level it's possible to do so, colleges and universities aren't for 'becoming a better citizen and leader', although that's still their marketing pitch.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (aJQbY)

181 Unlike the Iliad which is just straight history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (I7axw)
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I hated memorizing all those dates...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (FZ29D)

182 Remember that Jason Arday got a degree in sociology studies or something like that.

He had a degree in the studious study of the study of sociological studies. Or something like that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (5UQUM)

183 There's a certain subset of men who believe that if they tell any woman anything she doesn't already believe they'll never have sex again. They should be more like The Paolo.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

Well, not partnered sex at any rate. These men are not wrong.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (wVcYX)

184 Wired has a hit piece up on Kurt Schlichter, of all people. They call him a "Pentagon influencer" and they are trying to cancel him.
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I sometimes watch Matt Walsh on YouTube, and I guess some trans freak hacked his phone and Wired was asking for his private emails to review.

Theyve demonetized Walsh on YouTube, its costing him over a million a year.

Google/Youtube is saying its over Dylan Mulvaney

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (dVLbm)

185 Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:54 PM (dVLbm)

I swear they're not ever mentioning those. They said something about ICE and I think banking regulations. Honestly they just focus grouped the phrase (or AI did) and they are rolling with it.

It's a good way to do a national campaign but pretend it's local.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (3R4hO)

186 181 Unlike the Iliad which is just straight history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (I7axw)
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I hated memorizing all those dates...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (FZ29D)

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Who can expect to remember a week's worth of dates?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (I7axw)

187 Mine had a PhD in chemistry. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

Who paid for the PhD? Who paid down the loan while she was not working?

She had no loans, because she was a chemistry student, and they usually get stipends because their skills are in demand.

She was never not working, but she went part-time. Our bottom line was reduced accordingly.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

188 Get government out of the student loan business.

I agree but that requires Congress and my Magic 8 Ball suggests that I should not depend on Congress doing anything which would benefit the country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

189
How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

190 My granddaughter has her heart set on becoming a psychologist. She wants to go all the way to through the PhD program. I fear this may be one of the no hope majors. Unless, of course, she changes her mind(which I hope she does).

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (lJ0H4)

191 188 Get government out of the student loan business.

I agree but that requires Congress and my Magic 8 Ball suggests that I should not depend on Congress doing anything which would benefit the country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

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OBBB did a lot to benefit the country.

Johnson has passed a host of laws to codified Trump EOs.

Problem is the Senate, and we're getting rid of five of the worst GOP senators next year.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (I7axw)

192
Student loans aren't, IMO, to give opportunities to the individual. They should be to benefit the community and the economy as a whole.

This is an excellent point.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

193 189
How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

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Same can be said for taking six figure loans to study something they may or may not pursue for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (I7axw)

194 "Men are just having affairs and drinking all day."
-the 50s, I guess
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, just me in my 50s

Posted by: Miklos is up earlier today at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (4RYRd)

195 Wired has about as much influence as Vice does, which is still more than CNN.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2GVsD)
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Still a fun read. They are aghast that Kurt said many things, particularly that Pinochet was "too soft". I love it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (nShWT)

196 The flip side of this is that basic, entry level office jobs should not have requirements to have a degree. I haven't done anything in my "career" that should have required a degree, yet all of my positions have required it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Because Griggs v Duke Power says that's the only way a company can legally screen applicants for things like "IQ over 70" or "can do 4th grade math."

They can't give you their own test. They can't give you a published IQ test. They can ask if you have a HS diploma or a GED, but neither of those means anything anymore.

And we're already to the point where a 4-year sheepskin doesn't mean anything unless its in a STEM field, so I don't know where companies go next. Require a Masters degree to be a grocery clerk?

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (VHUov)

197 194 "Men are just having affairs and drinking all day."
-the 50s, I guess
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, just me in my 50s

Posted by: Miklos is up earlier today at September 29, 2026 01:03 PM (4RYRd)

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Not all of us can be Bob Fosse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:04 PM (I7axw)

198 The guy is a legit master electrician, so I have no idea how he doesn't have enough work to go around.

Illegals. And a slowed economy. Both are improving but not everywhere all at once.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

199 Medical schools strictly limit how many students are allowed into an actually necessary field which really is a ticket to the upper levels of the upper class. Medical schools make sure there is no overproduction of doctors. (Though many believe that they have become an unreasonably restrictive cartel, under-producing doctors to make sure that every doctor, no matter how unskilled, becomes wealthy.)
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I'm not sure medical schools limit enrollment for altruistic reasons. I think enrollment is limited because there are only so many people who want to and can endure medical school.

You can open up 500 more medical schools, and I don't think enrollment would be much higher.

Similar to law school, although medical school is much harder.

The biggest problem facing the medical industry isn't too many graduates of American med schools. It's too many foreigners crowding into the space. Go to almost any hospital in the country, and you'll wonder whether you're still in America.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

200 My granddaughter has her heart set on becoming a psychologist. She wants to go all the way to through the PhD program. I fear this may be one of the no hope majors. Unless, of course, she changes her mind(which I hope she does).

TBH, I'm not sure what to tell young people to pursue now. I am, however, quite sure of what to tell them NOT to pursue.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:04 PM (Riz8t)

201 I know a lot of younger women that get dangerously upset when you so much as breathe wrong about the climate, or masks or killing babies or many other things. It's not good. They're all leftards.

They don't listen at all. They just think they think and you don't and that you are the "enemy" if you have one speck of anterior pigment on your iris out of place. You are either Borg or not.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (3R4hO)

202 Most people (including Men) would quit their jobs instantly if they won the lottery. I would say this is like 90% plus of people.

Why women think having a 9-5 for some souless corporation is so "great" is beyond me.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (dVLbm)

203 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

I was. then again, I had landed in college then my dad left my mom suddenly with a young blonde so I was completely at sea. it shifts your perspective (towards finding a very good man at Penn instead of screwing around).

it IS important. I also think it's hard to have a bunch of guys and then try to attach/pair later. I think we (women) are like glue. after a few separations, we don't stick as well.

better by FAR to pair up early. THAT is what is hurting fertility and family formation.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

204 Jason Arday?

Caroline Calloway, posh American wastrel. She changed her last name to Calloway at age 17 because it would sound better on book covers.

She applied to Cambridge three times, each time further doctoring her scholastic records. On the third try she got admitted.

Then she landed a $320,000 book deal with a $100k advance. She never delivered even though she had a friend ghost write it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (2GVsD)

205 Who can expect to remember a week's worth of dates?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

My OnlyFans do that for me

Posted by: Bonnie Blue at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (4RYRd)

206 Also, there's a ton of stuff you can learn from home.

If you want to study history. Easy. Online. Have AI develop curiculum.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (Sco7b)

207 Wonderful plan, honey! They're building a new Philosophy factory on the other side of town!

Posted by: Just the punchline at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (2Ez/1)

208 "College experience" A wildly expensive bacchanal with profligate sex, drunken debauchery, even more drunken Spring breaks, etc. Wonderful experience, especially for girls.

Posted by: Visit The Girls Gone Wild RV!! You'll Be Famous!! at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (Fn+3X)

209 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)
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Good point. I got lucky my wife said, "sure, why not?" instead of just laughing hysterically.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (nShWT)

210 Look at government sponsored art from the US, Germany, or the USSR in the 1930s. Is any of it truly appealing?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I dig the art deco style of the federal courthouses built by the WPA. Plus, they have palatial bathrooms.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (JzUSu)

211 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

Heck no! But the kids turned out okay despite that.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (wVcYX)

212 my Magic 8 Ball suggests that I should not depend on Congress doing anything which would benefit the country.

Or at all, really

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (nIKjK)

213 Making loans is the business of banks, pawn shops, and loan sharks; not the US govt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (wljQY)

214 Jason Arday?

Caroline Calloway, posh American wastrel. She changed her last name to Calloway at age 17 because it would sound better on book covers.

She applied to Cambridge three times, each time further doctoring her scholastic records. On the third try she got admitted.

Then she landed a $320,000 book deal with a $100k advance. She never delivered even though she had a friend ghost write it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 01:05 PM (2GVsD)
_________

Odds are good she sucked a few dicks too ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

215 They can't give you their own test. They can't give you a published IQ test. They can ask if you have a HS diploma or a GED, but neither of those means anything anymore.
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Only the military can.

And the ASVAB isn't exactly a MENSA-level exam.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 01:07 PM (X7pZH)

216 I'd heard that they were going to limit the amount offered to students every year as well.

But I don't know where I heard that or if it's true.

That said, reducing the available loan money year by year will force colleges to reduce their prices or lose students without causing a catastrophic crash.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:07 PM (vJrRc)

217 39 Cosmotology is actually a useful profession. (Almost) everyone needs to get their haircut. Maybe I am missing something.
Posted by: Martin Tell at September 29, 2026 12:32 PM (sFNX2

And based on pay, my haircutter's skills are about three times as valuable as my math teaching skills.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 29, 2026 01:07 PM (OlzlW)

218 216 I'd heard that they were going to limit the amount offered to students every year as well.

But I don't know where I heard that or if it's true.

That said, reducing the available loan money year by year will force colleges to reduce their prices or lose students without causing a catastrophic crash.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:07 PM (vJrRc)

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Federal loan limits were codified into statute by the OBBB.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:07 PM (I7axw)

219 35
Fries in the Bag 101
Posted by: Anna Puma
.......

Extra Sauce - Advanced Studies

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)

220 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

I picked good at 23 but it wasn't wisdom, it was dumb luck or divine providence.

But I was smart enough to follow my nose. A complete imbecile otherwise which shouldn't surprise anyone.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (3R4hO)

221 Not all of us can be Bob Fosse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Thavage, girl.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (nEUC6)

222 Medical schools make sure there is no overproduction of doctors. (Though many believe that they have become an unreasonably restrictive cartel, under-producing doctors to make sure that every doctor, no matter how unskilled, becomes wealthy.)

And then hospitals hire foreign H1-Bs because the US has a shortage.

Overproduction of doctors would be better.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (vJrRc)

223 You can open up 500 more medical schools, and I don't think enrollment would be much higher.

Lots of whites and Asians are rejected from medical schools, with superior credentials to many minorities who are accepted to medical schools.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (aD4fx)

224 I picked good at 23 but it wasn't wisdom, it was dumb luck or divine providence.
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Divine providence with me.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (X7pZH)

225 The student loan industry is a handout to universities.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:09 PM (3R4hO)

226 221 Not all of us can be Bob Fosse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Thavage, girl.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (nEUC6)

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Dude got all the trim, was hailed as a genius, smoked like a chimney, drank like a sailor, and projected to the world that he was a giant fuck up who kept getting to do his own thing in his preferred field.

Ain't no insult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:09 PM (I7axw)

227 She had no loans, because she was a chemistry student, and they usually get stipends because their skills are in demand.

She was never not working, but she went part-time. Our bottom line was reduced accordingly.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8

So someone else paid her tuition and upkeep for 8 or 10 years. I can see how that would be a success.
How do you apply this to an MBA, or a degree in forestry?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

228 Divine providence with me.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (X7pZH)

And him.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:09 PM (3R4hO)

229 218 216 I'd heard that they were going to limit the amount offered to students every year as well.

But I don't know where I heard that or if it's true.

That said, reducing the available loan money year by year will force colleges to reduce their prices or lose students without causing a catastrophic crash.

Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Graduate programs mostly. Especially those that are not financially sustainable by graduates. That is why social work is screaming about them. The MSW in social work has been the de facto credential to get into the system.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)

230 "College experience" A wildly expensive bacchanal with profligate sex, drunken debauchery, even more drunken Spring breaks, etc. Wonderful experience, especially for girls.
Posted by: Visit The Girls Gone Wild RV!! You'll Be Famous!! at September 29, 2026 01:06 PM (Fn+3X)

As the late poet Jimmy Buffett wrote:

They send you off to college
To gain a little knowledge
But all you want to do is
Learn how to score!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (wVcYX)

231 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

I sure as hell wasn't, but fortunately for me, I have a repellant personality and all the women I lusted after told me to pound sand.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

232 Man. Jason Arday.
I need to go check online to see how his resurrection is going.

It was under 'Special Skills' on his resume.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

233 Lots of whites and Asians are rejected from medical schools, with superior credentials to many minorities who are accepted to medical schools.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2026 01:08 PM (aD4fx)

"white kid from a country-club family doesn't get into medical school" is the term I heard once.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

234 Remember that Jason Arday got a degree in sociology studies or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Oy/m2)

I believe that he's been declared the Father of Sociology Studies and Shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (ExV1e)

235 Someone point to me where I can find a pool of fraudulent tax-payer moneys. Getting tired of going to work every day.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (eag3e)

236
I just look at so many of the women that think they are "girl boss" type executives and it's a joke.

I think AI will wipe out a lot of these types of "girl jobs" in the very near future where it's a lot of emails and meetings about nothing.
Posted by: Leupold

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I'm aware that some of these jobs existed thanks to an old Twitter post in which some young woman was flouting her free food , free relaxation time on a rooftop , and minimal work at none other than twitter. This was a time when jack dorsey apparently was flush with twitter money and he spent it very unwisely.

Other than that , i've never seen these girl jobs or girl bosses. I've worked for female managers , but they were managers who happened to be female. I think the vast majority of this girl boss image is an internet or hollywood creation that bears little resemblance to reality.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (mmrXZ)

237 Such things as barbering, nail techs, and cosmetology would be better taught through an apprenticeship system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (peOdB)

238 I dig the art deco style of the federal courthouses built by the WPA. Plus, they have palatial bathrooms.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Floor-mounted urinals are to die for!

Posted by: I.P. Freely at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (Fn+3X)

239 229 218 216 I'd heard that they were going to limit the amount offered to students every year as well.

But I don't know where I heard that or if it's true.

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I think it's something like $200k-$250k.

its a start but still too high.

I read where one college university in CA instantly lowered their tuition as soon as it was passed to get under that limit for 4 years.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (dVLbm)

240 So someone else paid her tuition and upkeep for 8 or 10 years. I can see how that would be a success.

I figured you'd say something asinine like that. She was paid like any other employee who had saleable skills. I'm sorry you didn't measure up.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

241 235 Someone point to me where I can find a pool of fraudulent tax-payer moneys. Getting tired of going to work every day.
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM

Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: The Quality Learing Center at September 29, 2026 01:12 PM (2Ez/1)

242 Neither of my boys has a college degree (yet). Both are making more $$ than I do and have serious upward mobility.

And they are happy in their work.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 01:12 PM (W2Pud)

243 My FIL went to Princeton and he sent me an article once, written by a women alum and published in whatever they call their alumni magazine. In it, she delivered the message to Princeton female students that they should all delay starting their careers, get married asap, have families, and then look for work when the kids started full time school. She argued her approach would be physically easier, because they are still young and fit, cut way down on child-care expenses, and ultimately might help their careers (not hinder), because employers would know they weren't going to stop working to raise kids just when they become valuable employees.

Princeton exploded in controversy. She was vilified. Of course, she was right but that didn't matter.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:12 PM (5KN7H)

244 Oh boy! This is gonna be greeat!

Posted by: Zombie Flounder at September 29, 2026 01:13 PM (bX16E)

245 237 Such things as barbering, nail techs, and cosmetology would be better taught through an apprenticeship system.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

As would Panhard repair and restoration.

Posted by: Mr. Badwrench at September 29, 2026 01:13 PM (Fn+3X)

246 no one will ever read what i write

and hobo ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Sid at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (rHWcc)

247 Such things as barbering, nail techs, and cosmetology would be better taught through an apprenticeship system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (peOdB)

Same with Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician. It's an exploding field.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (5UQUM)

248 As would Panhard repair and restoration.

What's a Panhard? (I feel like I'm in the Henweigh joke)

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (Riz8t)

249 . . . but fortunately for me, I have a repellant personality and all the women I lusted after told me to pound sand.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

You too?!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (wVcYX)

250 Posted by: Sid at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (rHWcc)

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How will they get Trump to sign a law undoing it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (I7axw)

251 I figured you'd say something asinine like that. She was paid like any other employee who had saleable skills. I'm sorry you didn't measure up.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

You are being fun today, aren't you.

And what point are you making today, is it a valid point about how the world is good as it is, can be made good if only, or that you are more right than anyone else?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:15 PM (rbvCR)

252 They can't give you their own test. They can't give you a published IQ test. They can ask if you have a HS diploma or a GED, but neither of those means anything anymore.

And we're already to the point where a 4-year sheepskin doesn't mean anything unless its in a STEM field, so I don't know where companies go next. Require a Masters degree to be a grocery clerk?
Posted by: mikeski

Actually they can give those tests but it can get expensive defending their utility in court from discrimination lawsuits. Get rid of disparate impact which Griggs created and voila, the employment tests for specific jobs will suddenly exist again.

Military got exemptions from it which is why they have the ASVAB which is pretty useful to predict success in specialties.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

253 Remember that Jason Arday got a degree in sociology studies or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (Oy/m2)

I believe that he's been declared the Father of Sociology Studies and Shit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
__________

He didn't hold a degree in sociology, even though that's what he was supposedly teaching. His degrees were in Education Studies (whatever that is) and Physical Education.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 01:15 PM (JzUSu)

254 Ask your cosmetologist if Panhard is right for you.

Posted by: Big Hairspray at September 29, 2026 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)

255 If you really believe that women don't have to make trade-offs, I don't know what to tell you, other than pointing out the one I've already mentioned.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

Why should everyone else subsidize women to pursue a degree that they'll only use part time? Why should we keep men out of degree programs to provide seats for women who won't use the degree? Why should men be either deprived of a job so that a woman can be hired part time, or expected to pick up the slack of women being hired part time, so that she can have a job part time?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

256 Same with Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician. It's an exploding field.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:14 PM (5UQUM)

EOD is not OJT suitable.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:16 PM (rbvCR)

257 Military got exemptions from it which is why they have the ASVAB which is pretty useful to predict success in specialties.

Raising the question of why it's a good idea for the military but nobody else?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

258 Pet peeve!

People saying that polling is "data".

No, polling is statistics. There's supposed to be data underneath the statistics, but polling firms don't release the data. They release the statistics from the data.

Treating polling like "data", like it's objective, is silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:16 PM (I7axw)

259 The whole system is stupid. There are tons of cheap community colleges, public schools and branch campuses that can educate all the lower wage degrees. But those schools are not cool, so somehow, the taxpayers should be on the hook for 400k to produce a kindergarten teacher.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (wrEn7)

The idea that a college degree should lead to a "wage", an hourly-paid job, is wrong from the get-go. You get a degree to earn a job with a salary, or to became a consultant, paid on contract. There nothing wrong with a good hourly-paid job, and one should not need a "degree" to get one. Certificate from a vocational school, plus apprenticeship is the way to go.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:16 PM (peOdB)

260 I dig the art deco style of the federal courthouses built by the WPA. Plus, they have palatial bathrooms.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Floor-mounted urinals are to die for!
Posted by: I.P. Freely at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (Fn+3X)

Y'ever wonder why the tips of your shoelaces are wet?

Posted by: Capo Paulie Walnuts, while the glorified crew is eating lunch at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

261 231 How wise was everyone here in their late teens and early 20s? Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

I sure as hell wasn't, but fortunately for me, I have a repellant personality and all the women I lusted after told me to pound sand.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)
Mammy Eromero sent me to a junior college (a prep school for Bob Jones U), wanted me to be a preacher. Passed Bible Studies etc, but failed English. Kicked out, dodged the draft, and enlisted in the spring,

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (LHPAg)

262 >>>Why women think having a 9-5 for some souless corporation is so "great" is beyond me.

Posted by: Leupold
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In the beginning it was sold by the govt (deepstate) as a necessity because of the bad economy. To help incentives to build Day Care were built into the tax code.
At the same time a wrath of books on the glass ceiling and women's lib were published. Gloria Steinam was a CIA operative. It would not be a surprise if Betty Freidan was also on the take.

It was a total op to destabilize the family and it worked.
It's still working.

Add up all the money the average wife's income then subtract all the costs of maintaining that job. A high percentage would do as well or better if the wife stayed home and managed the house and kids.
Society would be better off too.
But that didn't fit the plan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (wljQY)

263 260 Y'ever wonder why the tips of your shoelaces are wet?

Posted by: Capo Paulie Walnuts, while the glorified crew is eating lunch at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

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"We have a name!"
-Aglet representative

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (I7axw)

264 Polling is clickbait.

Posted by: And we all know it at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (2Ez/1)

265 Dude got all the trim, was hailed as a genius, smoked like a chimney, drank like a sailor, and projected to the world that he was a giant fuck up who kept getting to do his own thing in his preferred field.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

precisely

Young men need role models

Posted by: Miklos and the story of how he met his third wife at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (4RYRd)

266 And who said anything about "abandoning" their career? There is a difference between working a predictable 40 or 50 hour week, and doing the insane hours required of young doctors and lawyers.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

Most high powered female lawyers head to DOJ when they want to start a family - awful salary, but you get the hours you want. Men do this, too, when they want to see their families.

Life is all about trading hours, stress, and salary...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (tOcjL)

267 247 Such things as barbering, nail techs, and cosmetology would be better taught through an apprenticeship system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yep. The master gets cheap labor for a time and the apprentice learns the job. No need for an intermediate institution aimed at separating dollars from students directly.

Really, the same goes for law as well as some other professional degree fields.

The proliferation of shitty graduate degrees is because of Griggs and the societal rejection of the old tried and true methods of developing professionals on the cheap.

Associate Justice Robert Jackson comes to mind as one of the great Scotus judges and he never went to law school, he apprenticed which was allowed at the turn of the 20th century.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (E4rtv)

268 The only way I would defend Disparate Impact is in getting dates with beautiful women. It's not my fault that I don't look like Mel Gibson.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (5UQUM)

269 "We have a name!"
-Aglet representative
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (I7axw)

I thought the FWP thread was going to be about aiglets. I was disappointed.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (rbvCR)

270 It was a total op to destabilize the family and it worked.
It's still working.
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And not just that but it helped "organize" the workforce so every company could become its best HR hellhole where no one can speak or think without Karen's permission.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:19 PM (3R4hO)

271 Such things as barbering, nail techs, and cosmetology would be better taught through an apprenticeship system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:11 PM (peOdB)
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The grift is getting the government to pay for the tuition while the "students" chill out front for 10 weeks.

Then they enroll at the place down the street and do another 10 weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 01:19 PM (RIvkX)

272 Underlying every poll is a couple of assumptions about turnout, by party, by demographic, and by region. It's amazing the pollsters are even paid attention, since the statistical analysis is built entirely on those WAG's.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:19 PM (5KN7H)

273 Add up all the money the average wife's income then subtract all the costs of maintaining that job. A high percentage would do as well or better if the wife stayed home and managed the house and kids.
Society would be better off too.
But that didn't fit the plan.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:17 PM (wljQY)

True...unless the husband leaves her...then she's absolutely screwed...

This has been a problem the last 30-40 years. It's why there was originally such strong alimony in the days of 1 parent working culture...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:19 PM (tOcjL)

274 Ask your cosmetologist if Panhard is right for you.
Posted by: Big Hairspray at September 29, 2026 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)

I'm a Dapper Dan man, myself. I don't want no Fop.

Posted by: Ulysses Everett McGill at September 29, 2026 01:20 PM (wVcYX)

275 The Devil in People's Court

https://youtu.be/sz-Yw0c7cF0

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:20 PM (4NO2D)

276 272 Underlying every poll is a couple of assumptions about turnout, by party, by demographic, and by region. It's amazing the pollsters are even paid attention, since the statistical analysis is built entirely on those WAG's.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:19 PM (5KN7H)

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"20% of voters in 2026 won't have voted in 2024. They'll be new voters."
-a shocking amount of polling this year

Historical average says 2% will be non-voters from 2024, essentially the few 18-20 year olds who decide to vote and a handful of others.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (I7axw)

277 Why should everyone else subsidize women to pursue a degree that they'll only use part time?

Again, who subsidized her? She was paid for hours worked, like any employee.

Why should we keep men out of degree programs to provide seats for women who won't use the degree?

Who said anything about keeping men out of degree programs. She was where she was because she was better than they were.

Why should men be either deprived of a job so that a woman can be hired part time, or expected to pick up the slack of women being hired part time, so that she can have a job part time?

You keep using words like "deprived". She wasn't hired with the expectation of being part-time, but when the situation arose, they thought enough of her to adapt. That's generally the mark of a smart outfit. Nobody "picked up" her hours.

Finally, as I've already said, if you think the fertility crisis really is existential, and I do, then it makes sense to make accommodations, or you'll end up like Korea or China.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

278
Mammy Eromero sent me to a junior college (a prep school for Bob Jones U), wanted me to be a preacher. Passed Bible Studies etc, but failed English. Kicked out, dodged the draft, and enlisted in the spring,
Posted by: Eromero

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Set all that failing and pivoting in childbearing and early motherhood , and you'll see why it might not be such a good idea to start in your late teens or early 20s.

By the way, I'm not arguing with you, E , i'm using your experience as an example

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)

279 264 Polling is clickbait.
Posted by: And we all know it

Worse, I think some future investigations will show polling firms or individuals working for them intentionally manipulating results in order to make bank on prediction betting markets. I also would hold it likely that Democrats and ngos, etc. are also involved in payola scheme for the polltakers nowadays--gimme this freebie result this election and I will hire your firm for private candidate polling later sort of thing.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

280 Wait, what's a Henweigh?

Posted by: Like a Steinway? at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (Fn+3X)

281 >>What's a Panhard? (I feel like I'm in the Henweigh joke)

This is a running ONT joke between Miklos & AOP. Also, Style Guide sez it's 'The Wretched Panhard'.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (NcvvS)

282 279 Worse, I think some future investigations will show polling firms or individuals working for them intentionally manipulating results in order to make bank on prediction betting markets. I also would hold it likely that Democrats and ngos, etc. are also involved in payola scheme for the polltakers nowadays--gimme this freebie result this election and I will hire your firm for private candidate polling later sort of thing.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

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Baris admitted this in a stream about the polling miss of the Massie primary.

He "accidentally" put in a bet for Massie to lose despite his polling showing that Massie was going to win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (I7axw)

283 As I gently weep, remembering the touch of AOP's socket wrench.....

Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (4RYRd)

284 Many state universities will not.accept.community. college credits

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (bX16E)

285 My granddaughter has her heart set on becoming a psychologist. She wants to go all the way to through the PhD program. I fear this may be one of the no hope majors. Unless, of course, she changes her mind(which I hope she does).
Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (lJ0H4)

My youngest wanted to be an architect. I asked them to determine how much it would cost to get the required degree. Then I asked them how much they could reasonably expect to make... not how much it was theoretically possible to make if they hit the lottery, how much was reasonable.

They did that research, thought about things for a bit, and now they're a civil engineer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

286 It's too many foreigners crowding into the space. Go to almost any hospital in the country, and you'll wonder whether you're still in America.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I brought that subject up this past weekend, I read an article about a Rochester, NY hospital that had an incoming class of 58 new internal med residents. Of the 58 only 2 were American, 2 of 58.

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:23 PM (lJ0H4)

287 There's a certain subset of men who believe that if they tell any woman anything she doesn't already believe they'll never have sex again.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

What, I wonder, could have led a certain subset of men to reach that conclusion?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 01:23 PM (gLYp7)

288 Polling is cover for fraud among many other things.

And what do you think it is when legislation supposedly has "polling" and 'popular support" behind it?

How does anyone know? And considering you can't talk to anyone about politics anymore (FNAB), how would anyone surmise anything contrary to the "numbers"?

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 01:23 PM (3R4hO)

289 Many state universities will not.accept.community. college credits
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM

From the same state? I mean, they have the same accreditation board.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:23 PM (4NO2D)

290 Most high powered female lawyers head to DOJ when they want to start a family - awful salary, but you get the hours you want. Men do this, too, when they want to see their families.

Life is all about trading hours, stress, and salary...

You are correct, ma'am! It's all about trade-offs, and anyone that tells you they have a one-size-fits-all solution, or who tells you you can have it all, is selling something.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

291 no one will ever read what i write

and sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at September 29, 2026 01:24 PM (vyRce)

292 No fertility crisis here. My Compost Heap is 8'X20'.

Posted by: Fragile Eggshell Mind at September 29, 2026 01:24 PM (Fn+3X)

293 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:24 PM (4NO2D)

294 Was everyone here wise enough to pick the right spouse? That's important to raising kids properly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (mmrXZ)

If I married the woman I was dating at 25, my life would have been destroyed.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (gLYp7)

295 My youngest wanted to be an architect. I asked them to determine how much it would cost to get the required degree. Then I asked them how much they could reasonably expect to make... not how much it was theoretically possible to make if they hit the lottery, how much was reasonable.

They did that research, thought about things for a bit, and now they're a civil engineer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

This is what my 3rd hopes to be doing...and he can replicate any building by sight...but architecture is declining and civil engineering is not, so he's likely going to a school that doesn't even have an architecture degree (although he has taken CC Architecture courses already as a dual enrollee)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (tOcjL)

296 Most high powered female lawyers head to DOJ when they want to start a family - awful salary, but you get the hours you want. Men do this, too, when they want to see their families.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (tOcjL)
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Maybe in northern Virginia, but no where else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (wgnaQ)

297 My youngest wanted to be an architect. I asked them to determine how much it would cost to get the required degree. Then I asked them how much they could reasonably expect to make... not how much it was theoretically possible to make if they hit the lottery, how much was reasonable.

They did that research, thought about things for a bit, and now they're a civil engineer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yeah, my niece majored in psychology and realized that was a dead end so went law school instead. Now she's a successful attorney.

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (lJ0H4)

298 Again, who subsidized her? She was paid for hours worked, like any employee.

It seems that she got a full ride to produce like a man would in her position, but she ducked out instead to have kids.
Do you think that is fair to whoever paid her free ride, or do you think that it was something she deserved as a woman?

I mean, if we are going to be talking in absolutes.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

299 My granddaughter has her heart set on becoming a psychologist. She wants to go all the way to through the PhD program. I fear this may be one of the no hope majors. Unless, of course, she changes her mind(which I hope she does).
Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:02 PM (lJ0H4)
_______

My sister did that and got her PhD. It's a long and expensive road with no guarantees at the end.

My sis ended up working at CUNY in her field and making a very nice income. But the income isn't what you'd think given how much time and money she put into getting the degree.

She is married and has 4 kids, though. So the job was a good trade-off between hours and income.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

300 I chose a good spouse but to be honest, I don't believe in 'soul mates'. I could have been happily married to a lot of women I dated.

Some guys are just born to be happily married.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D)

301 Most high powered female lawyers head to DOJ when they want to start a family - awful salary, but you get the hours you want. Men do this, too, when they want to see their families.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (tOcjL)
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Maybe in northern Virginia, but no where else.

Then maybe the somewhere else should consider doing it. A company lives or dies by the quality of its employees. Why you wouldn't want to accommodate high performers for a time is beyond me.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

302 >>Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM (4RYRd)

Just 2 comments later :-)

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (NcvvS)

303 296 Most high powered female lawyers head to DOJ when they want to start a family - awful salary, but you get the hours you want. Men do this, too, when they want to see their families.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:18 PM (tOcjL)
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Maybe in northern Virginia, but no where else.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 01:25 PM (wgnaQ)

There are AUSA (aka DOJ) offices all over the US, not just NoVA and DC...they pay better than similar county and state positions, but still terribly. But tend to give the 40 hour/week predictable schedule...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (tOcjL)

304 Add up all the money the average wife's income then subtract all the costs of maintaining that job. A high percentage would do as well or better if the wife stayed home and managed the house and kids.
Society would be better off too.
But that didn't fit the plan.
==
So how do we tax your stay at home wife?

Posted by: IRS - you are tax cattle nothing else means anything at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (anL5R)

305 CUNY

Hmmm, I wonder what the appropriate abbreviation for City University of New Trier would be?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (5UQUM)

306 I wanted to be an architect, marine biologist, latex salesman, sports executive, failed at all four. Only success was on the Board of The Human Fund.

Posted by: Please Donate Generously at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (Fn+3X)

307 Set all that failing and pivoting in childbearing and early motherhood , and you'll see why it might not be such a good idea to start in your late teens or early 20s.

By the way, I'm not arguing with you, E , i'm using your experience as an example
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 29, 2026 01:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Agree 100%! HS grad goes in the service, finishes as an adult, goes to school on GI Bill.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (LHPAg)

308 New one:

Fauci Infected African Monkeys with Aerosolized Ebola.
His Primary Fear? Not an Ebola Outbreak. Just That the Public Would Find Out About His Faucistein Experimentations.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)

309 literally all the girls my daughter's age (which is young 20s) have already retired to be moms!

I think that happens A LOT. some go back after the kids are older? maybe?
Posted by: Black Orchid

That's how it used to be. Women would pick up teaching jobs one their kids were in school.

... of course before that, before industrialized schooling, girls who had just finished schooling would teach younger children.

and before that families brought in tutors, or, I suppose, sent their kids to the convent if they decided they needed schooling.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:29 PM (vJrRc)

310 So how do we tax your stay at home wife?
Posted by: IRS - you are tax cattle nothing else means anything at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM (anL5R)

You laugh, but this was a valid question at the IRS for a while.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (rbvCR)

311 My youngest wanted to be an architect. I asked them to determine ...Then I asked them how much they could reasonably expect to make... not how much it was theoretically possible to make if they hit the lottery, how much was reasonable.

They did that research, thought about things for a bit, and now they're a civil engineer.

And the Multiple Personality Disorder was FREE

Posted by: a Plurality of Miklosii at September 29, 2026 01:30 PM (4RYRd)

312 So how do we tax your stay at home wife?
Posted by: IRS - you are tax cattle nothing else means anything at September 29, 2026 01:28 PM

Employment Equivalence Units?

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (4NO2D)

313 I want to be an Electical Engineer!

Posted by: Lionel Jefferson, Trolling Archie Bunker at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (Fn+3X)

314 Apropos of nothing I've decided that I am an Emotional Support Human for my dog.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (5UQUM)

315 College as a SOE is bad news. Anything as a SOE spells disaster though.

Posted by: The Sheep of Piddington at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (czfTj)

316 289 Many state universities will not.accept.community. college credits
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 29, 2026 01:22 PM

From the same state? I mean, they have the same accreditation board.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Private schools are notorious for not doing so. State Universities, it depends on whether the community college has ties and whether the courses that the community college offers fit into existing 4 year degree plans. My particular state requires all state institutions to accept two year degrees from community colleges as fulfilling the general education curriculum. But not advanced junior or senior level classes. Pretty much the same with AP/IB, etc.

Posted by: whig at September 29, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)

317
One of the big problems with govt-funded/approved student loans is that a sizeable part of the student body uses loan money as subsidies for Party Time.

Plus, when they get their BA degree and can't find work, they continue the vicious cycle with post-grad borrowing for multiple Masters or Doctorate degrees, and they live on the loans and the pittance they get for being a TA, while spending most of their time smoking weed and pontificating at the local coffee shop on the evils of capitalism.

On the other hand, there's a lot of coeds who have found the magic income factory known as OnlyFans.... Which was lucrative for awhile, but it's declining as a means of "earning" income as it becomes dominated with mid-30s and later wimmens who have figured out how to properly set up lights in their bedroom to create decently composed spank photos.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (y9nCu)

318 Looking at the recent graduates from the local branch of UNC, I find that a remarkable percentage of the female majors are Psychology.

Field of Study Number of Completers Men Women
Psychology 88 20 68

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

319 no one will ever read what i write

and sid's ass is the best tasting ass

Posted by: Paul at September 29, 2026 01:32 PM (K1Ed3)

320 Many state universities will not.accept.community. college credits
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Worse, they'll accept them, but only as "elective" credits and nothing that contributes to the completion of the degree

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 29, 2026 01:33 PM (vJrRc)

321 Boy928 was one English credit short of his BS in Chemistry but had already moved on from wanting to work in that field. I had to beg him to take it at a local community college so that he would finish his degree and get the graduation walk for his grandparents to see.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (4NO2D)

322 On the other hand, there's a lot of coeds who have found the magic income factory known as OnlyFans.... Which was lucrative for awhile, but it's declining as a means of "earning" income as it becomes dominated with mid-30s and later wimmens who have figured out how to properly set up lights in their bedroom to create decently composed spank photos.
==
Oh wait, we think this is marvelous and look forward to your tax returns....

Posted by: IRS - you are tax cattle nothing else means anything at September 29, 2026 01:34 PM (anL5R)

323 Field of Study Number of Completers Men Women
Psychology 88 20 68
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW I WON'T TELL YOU

Posted by: a perfect 68/68 at September 29, 2026 01:36 PM (4RYRd)

324 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (NcvvS)

325 Mood. More Fauci

Posted by: Tuna at September 29, 2026 01:37 PM (lJ0H4)

326 True...unless the husband leaves her...then she's absolutely screwed...

This has been a problem the last 30-40 years. It's why there was originally such strong alimony in the days of 1 parent working culture...

Posted by: Nova Local
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Good reason to pick your spouse wisely and to honor the contract.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:47 PM (wljQY)

327 Maybe in northern Virginia, but no where else.
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Then maybe the somewhere else should consider doing it. A company lives or dies by the quality of its employees. Why you wouldn't want to accommodate high performers for a time is beyond me.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t)
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New to me is this suggestion private business should emulate government work hours.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 02:03 PM (LY8iJ)

328 I kind of disagree with this government regulation. What it implicitly means is that our government is injecting itself into economic outcome regulation. If an individual gets a student loan in a non-productive, personal economic growth field and cannot make a living, to bad for them. Pay the piper!
That said. Our government should not be in the business of providing student loans in the first place. It just creates the ability for graft. But those individuals who have the debt, pay up! Let's just watch the post high school education system implode back to providing useful education to those who seek it.

Posted by: John at September 29, 2026 02:40 PM (9NUKl)

329 "The new federal rule, finalized this month by the Education Department"

Why do we still have a Dept of Education? I thought Trump put that person in to irradicate it, not be Biden-Lite.

The problem is only the right wants to kill it. The right needs to flip the tables. Make the department so adverse to Democrat interests that the DEMS push to kill the department.

Posted by: Rdubs at September 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Y48l+)

330

How did the two kids mother get pregnant if her husband had no dick?

Posted by: Ped Xing at September 29, 2026 03:25 PM (JzT2t)

331 One note: The taxpayer does NOT absorb the cost of the defaulted loan since federal education loans cannot be discharged, under any circumstances -- they MUST be eventually be paid off.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Pooklord at September 29, 2026 05:09 PM (9MAOs)

332 One of my kids graduated 10 years ago with no student loans. But they were an anomaly. Her husband just paid off his loans from 11 years ago. All of their friends had student loans and have yet to even start paying them off. They’re holding out for a Dem President who might forgive their loans. That’s so wrong and insane. Of course all the friends studied ridiculous majors that only prepared them to work for nothing at NGO. My kid and SII studied degrees that led to good jobs and are doing fine financially. But they are a rarity.

Posted by: Annie Rose at September 29, 2026 07:03 PM (K89Ka)

The Morning Rant: CAFE Is Neutered, But Not Dead Yet!

The pathetic and impossible manipulations of the automobile market perpetrated by a series of ignorant administrations came to a head with the drooling imbecile figurehead named Joe Biden. Mandating an impossible 50 miles/gallon for 2031 was wishcasting on a grand scale. It is impossible to achieve without destroying the market for large automobiles and shifting America to tiny econo-boxes with ridiculous technology designed without attention to what consumers actually want.

But...that's what they want! The idea of sacrificing another American industry on the altar of ClimateChange^TM was (and is) the Democrat Party's wet dream! Imagine all of the people who would sign up for government assistance! All the new programs to retrain workers for the new green economy!

Thankfully, the current administration realized that CAFE was just another tool to destroy our economy, and gutted the future standard.

Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump's New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards

President Trump’s decision to rescind the Biden administration’s deadly, costly, EV diktat is long-overdue. Government shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what types of cars and trucks people drive, nor be telling automakers, in the face of consumer demand as indicated through sales, that fuel economy is what they should care about the most. A fetishistic fear of climate change should not dictate American transportation policies. Thank you, President Trump, for putting average American drivers first.

-- H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. The Heartland Institute

Just not enough! They have allowed an increase from the current 30 miles/gallon to 35 miles/gallon by 2031. Instead of allowing consumer demand to drive technological improvement, the government did what all governments everywhere throughout history have done...tell us what to do. So the car companies will build shitty little cars that get good mileage so their average fuel economy will satisfy the government edict. That's not how markets work!

Anyone who has ever driven a modern car understands how ridiculous some of the solutions have been. That maddening auto-shut-off that kills the engine at seemingly random times when the car is stopped? Does anybody like that? Does anyone believe that adding thousands of additional starting cycles to a starter and engine is a good idea? Or the disappearance of spare tires because their weight cuts into fuel economy? What about the millions of people who get stranded and have to spend time and money for a tow to a tire shop instead of spending 15 minutes to change the tire themselves?

All of these "innovations" have opportunity costs that are borne by the consumer, but are not calculated into the decision. The auto companies are fixated on meeting CAFE, not improving the total cost of owning and operating an automobile. And that is government's fault!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 11:01 AM (1o8D5)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 11:02 AM (NcvvS)

3 Jack Smith perjuring himself.

I cannot say it enough... he's a terrible human being.

Posted by: Ann at September 29, 2026 11:02 AM (SHHm+)

4 Ok, when do we get small pick-ups again?

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 11:04 AM (XJjDY)

5 Remember the left's goal is not to move everyone into an ICE car

1) The plebes get public transit

2) The connected get an ICE and an EV

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:05 AM (sKqQm)

6 4. 4 Ok, when do we get small pick-ups again?
Posted by: t-bird

Yes, when?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

7 I drive a ram 2500 that gets about 8 mpg, a 1968 Charger thats worth about 6 mpg

what more do they want?

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 29, 2026 11:06 AM (jrgJz)

8 Mandating an impossible 50 miles/gallon for 2031

Bring back the Yugo!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:06 AM (l3cgK)

9 not like the globalist fuckers that run the auto companies will avail themselves of the new rules anyway

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 29, 2026 11:07 AM (hk4/3)

10 one rotten cup of CAFE...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:08 AM (l3cgK)

11 In HS I got to borrow Dad's Delta 88

900 feet per gallon

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

12 Without Congress acting it can all be undone by the next Commie Shit Midas.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 29, 2026 11:09 AM (PqrIl)

13 11 In HS I got to borrow Dad's Delta 88

900 feet per gallon

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

That's worse than an M-1 Abrams...it gets around 3000ft/gal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:09 AM (l3cgK)

14 It's more than just climate change fetishism driving the left's hatred for automobiles, although that's a part of it. The left always hated automobiles.

Why?

Because automobiles are freedom made metal. If you have a car, you are free to go where you want, when you want, with who you want, and on your own. You can do whatever you want. Hell, you can have sex in the back seat.

You aren't at the mercy of government-run mass or public transportation. No 15-minute cities for you.

You. Are. Free.

The left hates the filthy proles being free, so they hate and want to destroy the automobile. CC is just the latest excuse to try to get rid of or at least neuter this freedom.

First it was safety scares led by the odious cocksucker Ralph Nader. Then it was gas availability. Then it was smog and acid rain. Then it was safety again. Now it's climate change. The names my change, but the scam stays the same.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

15 Found out that all you have to do is disconnect the second little battery and that kills the on off Start stop whatever in Hell it's called, now I don't have to press that stupid button to turn it off

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (ubCxQ)

16 I drove my Grandfather's 1972 Chevy Impala, the one with re-enforced bumpers...it got single digits MPG on the highway and city...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (l3cgK)

17 F-950 Earthfucker

Posted by: 'British' Bobby at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)

18 My 2000 Camry has a full sized spare.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Cqx++)

19 LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!!

Posted by: F-950 Earthfucker at September 29, 2026 11:12 AM (gLYp7)

20 *parks F950 Earthfucker*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:13 AM (BAWkL)

21 Oh Dear, saw the headline, thought Ace's cute animal AI thread was cancelled.

Posted by: Whew!!!! at September 29, 2026 11:13 AM (Fn+3X)

22 The left: Public transit is safe, clean, efficient, and will take you anywhere you are allowed to go.

Also the left: Ok, 1 out of 4 is still a passing grade

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:14 AM (sKqQm)

23 I want a full-size spare with a bitchin' Cragar wheel!

Posted by: Child of the 60s at September 29, 2026 11:14 AM (Fn+3X)

24 >>Remember the left's goal is not to move everyone into an ICE car

1) The plebes get public transit

2) The connected get an ICE and an EV

This.
Step 1: Everyone in EVs
Step 2: Oh no! Electrical grid can't handle it! Who could have known???
Step 3: No more cars for YOU!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 11:14 AM (rOKnE)

25 There is a Chinese company, BYD, that builds EVs. They combined 6 components into 1. They build the batteries into the frame. The result is a car that costs 20% less to build, but cannot be maintained.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 29, 2026 11:15 AM (36x1j)

26 "F950 Earthfucker? Meh."

-- Landmaster

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

27 >>I want a full-size spare with a bitchin' Cragar wheel!

. . . or a bitchin' Camarro!

Posted by: The Dead Milkmen at September 29, 2026 11:15 AM (rOKnE)

28 16 I drove my Grandfather's 1972 Chevy Impala, the one with re-enforced bumpers...it got single digits MPG on the highway and city...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (l3cgK)

The girl who lives in the apartment below me is obviously well off (or her family is.) New Mercedes SUV, etc. Well, her parents pull up one day in this 60'sish station wagon. Aftermarket stuff (because I figure no stock exhaust sounded like that.) Wrap around windshield. I was letting the dog out and I stopped and just stared. It was beautiful.

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:15 AM (Y/06r)

29 The Evil Oil Companies suppressed the 100 MPG carburetor and killed the inventor. Dropped his body off that causeway going to the Keys.

Posted by: Ripped From The Headlines at September 29, 2026 11:17 AM (Fn+3X)

30 Ultimately, as long as California exists and their CARB standard, nothing done by EO is going to amount to a hill of beans absent Congressional action to eliminate CAFE and limit CARB via pre-emption.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 11:17 AM (XV/Pl)

31 4 Ok, when do we get small pick-ups again?
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 11:04 AM (XJjDY)

That's what the slate is supposed to be, isn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:17 AM (Y/06r)

32 Pull my finger.

Posted by: The Invisible Hand at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (4NO2D)

33
We've been vaguely thinking of getting a new car over the next 6-12 month period. Maybe sooner, maybe later.

Anyway, the lovely and technologically-curious Mrs naturalfake asked me, "Have you thought about electric?"

And, I honestly answered, "No." but said I'd check them out.

I test drove a Tesla Y L and have to say it was pretty amazing. You can set a destination and it will drive you there all by itself. You could probably be sleeping in the back seat, if it let you. I sent it over various roads and it worked perfectly. It's very much a sterile techno-box inside, but it did everything it's supposed to do in my 30 min frolic.

Then I test drove a Rivian R1S. Not as technologically proficient, you can let it run once you're on the street or highway, and it does that well, but you need to guide it to your destination.
Inside, it's pretty luxurious in an outdoorsy way.

Both are really nice though pretty dang pricey for what they are. Around town they're probably pretty great and short trips but once you get on the road, say between DFW and Santa Fe or Denver or Tucson, you are really at the mercy of the chargers available and not all of them are well...good quality.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (YSUhf)

34 >>I drove my Grandfather's 1972 Chevy Impala, the one with re-enforced bumpers...it got single digits MPG on the highway and city...

Ah, that invincible feeling you got when driving a big-azz American-made sedan. It would float down the road. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (rOKnE)

35 That's worse than an M-1 Abrams...it gets around 3000ft/gal...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:09 AM (l3cgK)
___

That's about right.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (X7pZH)

36 A(nother) big flaw of dems is they have no understanding of how anything works or is made, they also have no understanding of why their utopian ideas are dumb and won't work.

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (lCppi)

37 My uncle drove around in a 1970 Coupe Deville. Glorious land yacht with a 6 body trunk.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:19 AM (BAWkL)

38 Found out that all you have to do is disconnect the second little battery and that kills the on off Start stop whatever in Hell it's called, now I don't have to press that stupid button to turn it off
-----

The creation of that abomination was stupid-on-stilts. To put one's engine through a seemingly endless series of starts and stops just so a vehicle could claim...what...ONE more mile-to-the-gallon?

In a better world, investors and regulators would be asking some pointed questions to the geniuses that come up with such nonsense.

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 11:19 AM (TN0g+)

39 In a better world, investors and regulators would be asking some pointed questions to the geniuses that come up with such nonsense.
___

Asking questions with a blowtorch applied to the soles of feet.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

40 That maddening auto-shut-off that kills the engine at seemingly random times when the car is stopped? Does anybody like that? Does anyone believe that adding thousands of additional starting cycles to a starter and engine is a good idea?

I like it. Predictable and controllable once your used to it. Restarts every time quicker than my right foot gets from the brake to the gas. Bigger better battery and starter. It knows which cylinder is next and with direct injection fuels and fires it. It's part of hybridization now.

The bit that bugs me is the stops in parking space and then re-starts when I put the transmission into Park?

Gotta use Manual in parking lot.

Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2026 11:21 AM (FhXTo)

41 Confession: I still want to put my hand into my pocket for the key even though I have had a keyless entry car for 7 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:22 AM (Y/06r)

42 A(nother) big flaw of dems is they have no understanding of how anything works or is made, they also have no understanding of why their utopian ideas are dumb and won't work.

Sort of.

Lefty elites want more privation. How do you know you are an elite if the plebes have access to the same goods and services you do?

The FSA is more in the space you note. They don't really care how goods and services get to them...they just want more. If that ends up killing the golden goose and causes problems even for them more in the future, that's tomorrow's problem.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:22 AM (sKqQm)

43 F-950 Earthfucker

Posted by: 'British' Bobby at September 29, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)

LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!!

Posted by: F-950 Earthfucker at September 29, 2026 11:12 AM (gLYp7)

*parks F950 Earthfucker*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:13 AM (BAWkL)

Lol. I love this place.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 11:22 AM (gLYp7)

44 >>My uncle drove around in a 1970 Coupe Deville. Glorious land yacht with a 6 body trunk.

Aw man, reminds me of a spring break spent at my aunt's in Florida, where her friend's kid and I would cruise around in her dad's well-preserved convertible that looked like that Coupe Deville. It was so fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 11:22 AM (rOKnE)

45 As I've been saying; the mandates to EV's results in a less mobile society.

Because a mobile society is difficult to subjugate.

That... was The Plan™ all along.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 11:22 AM (RORbl)

46 If you add all the gadgets and gizmos from JC Whitney, you can top 60 MPG easy.

Posted by: Born Yesterday at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (Fn+3X)

47 I could buy into the stop-start if the oil pump was electric and kept 40lbs of pressure up all the time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (4NO2D)

48 I want a Christine Chrysler.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (g8Ew8)

49 I actually think it as a ford falcon station wagon. NOT a wrap around windshield that I can find- just a really thin A pillar. White.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)

50 People are stupid and selfish and need a guiding hand to survive. From CAFE standards to warnings their cigarette packs to social security to medicare, people would starve to death without the nice folks in washington dc looking out for their welfare.

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at September 29, 2026 11:25 AM (t+3cP)

51 This is something else I have been thinking about since I looked at the new Miata's: Are you telling me that with current tech, we could not have a wrap around windshield that was safe in a roll over? Come on.

I do not think you realize how much driver visibility we have sacrificed until you get in an old car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:25 AM (Y/06r)

52
Cars
Away
Fuck
Everyone

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 11:25 AM (ElJ7l)

53 46 If you add all the gadgets and gizmos from JC Whitney, you can top 60 MPG easy.

Posted by: Born Yesterday at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (Fn+3X)

The Isuzu could go 120 MPH* and get 100 MPG* doing it!

*going downhill in neutral during a hurricane

Posted by: Joe Isuzi at September 29, 2026 11:27 AM (l3cgK)

54 I read that Cali and the Pacific Northwest will not let you register new RV's Class A, B and C trailers are ok because of the environment so you have some RV builders in OR that make RVs thinking of moving

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 11:27 AM (ubCxQ)

55 48 I want a Christine Chrysler.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:23 AM (g8Ew

1958 Plymouth Fury

https://tinyurl.com/2w8736r3

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:27 AM (Y/06r)

56 Where's my Hilux?

Posted by: Guys everywhere at September 29, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

57 I...can't...spelll...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:27 AM (l3cgK)

58 The "dead" EV mandate and ridiculous cafe standards will be back with the next democrat president along with open borders.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 11:28 AM (I43vL)

59 I saw that there was a new(er) ransom note found for the news-reader's mom?

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 11:28 AM (TN0g+)

60 Can you imagine having a dual headlight setup with modern LEDs behind the glass? Blind every oncoming driver and light everything up like daytime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:28 AM (Y/06r)

61 2001 Yukon XL, with a 30 gallon gas tank. 13-18mpg. Moved me halfway cross country and still is great for road trips. I will drive it as long as it runs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 29, 2026 11:29 AM (bkuEU)

62 The "dead" EV mandate and ridiculous cafe standards will be back with the next democrat president along with open borders.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 29, 2026 11:28 AM (I43vL)

Those might be back with the next Republican president.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 11:30 AM (ElJ7l)

63 I just want a car with a simpler interface. My bride is looking for a car right now and all the ones she is seeing are impossibly complex. Right now she owns an eight year old Audi in which we can operate maybe half of the bells and whistles. Her next car I doubt we learn even a third of the stuff.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 11:30 AM (WYfFt)

64 Can you imagine having a dual headlight setup with modern LEDs behind the glass? Blind every oncoming driver and light everything up like daytime.

I'm amazed at the people that drive around my neighborhood with these blinding LEDs.

Great, you can see the road like its high noon. I can't. That's safe right?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

65 Allowing the CAFE mpg increase at all is a huge error for the Trump administration. Huge disappointment.

This is a hobby horse issue of mine being into cars.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (eIzlH)

66 Without Congress acting
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale

My dude, give us some warning before you say things like that. I almost gave myself a hernia laughing.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (VHUov)

67 F-950 Earthfucker

This will never not be funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (/C5Rl)

68 You wanna talk about earthfuckers, this thing literally fucks the earth:

https://tinyurl.com/3c2ck9zp

The Bagger 293. Giant coal excavator. Largest mobile land vehicle ever built. 750 feet long. 150 feet wide. 325 feet tall. Weighs 31 million lbs.

Speed? About 2/10th of a mile per hour.

Cost? $100 million in 1995 dollars.

Power? Over 16 megawatts, enough to power almost 15,000 homes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

69
>>My uncle drove around in a 1970 Coupe Deville. Glorious land yacht with a 6 body trunk.

Good for sneaking people into a drive-in theater.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (Cqx++)

70 And having the cars smaller discourages the plebes who don't use public transportation from having more than one or two kids. Save on evil carbon fuels and cut population growth. Win-win.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 29, 2026 11:32 AM (q3u5l)

71 Get in line.

https://reotrucks.com/

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

72
Yeah, I do wish that they'd get rid of CAFE standards for the simple reason that-

what business of the gov't is it how many miles I get out of a gallon of gas in my own paid for car?

If I want to drive a 1 mile to the gallon 20 cylinder car, why is it their business?

Truly, it's not like gas is a rare commodity.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:33 AM (YSUhf)

73 My uncle drove around in a 1970 Coupe Deville. Glorious land yacht with a 6 body trunk.

Turn into the wind and prepare to receive aircraft.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 11:33 AM (4NO2D)

74 I saw that there was a new(er) ransom note found for the news-reader's mom?
Posted by: Crusader

Just in time for midterms. Pretty convenient.

The whole thing makes no sense and smells of an op.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:33 AM (BAWkL)

75 Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (YSUhf)

Go ahead and buy your little Stalag EV. I'll still be in complete control of mine. I really don't understand why one would not want to be in control of there own possessions . I guess it's just more apathy toward freedom.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

76 The "dead" EV mandate and ridiculous cafe standards will be back with the next democrat president along with open borders.
----

The RINO squishes in Congress have ensured that.

Besides, we can't survive another democrat president. Were there a "next", it would make the Biden presidency seem like it was puppies and kittens compared to the maliciousness that would be unveiled the next time around.

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 11:34 AM (TN0g+)

77 Talk about land yachts - my parents had a 1971 Chrysler Town and Country station wagon. Seated 9, rear-facing/fold-down back seat. 440 four-barrel, 335 hp. That thing hauled ass.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 11:35 AM (w9Wax)

78 Can you imagine having a dual headlight setup with modern LEDs behind the glass? Blind every oncoming driver and light everything up like daytime.

I'm amazed at the people that drive around my neighborhood with these blinding LEDs.

Great, you can see the road like its high noon. I can't. That's safe right?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

The newest technology supposedly turns off the light that would blind oncoming cars while keeping on the parts of the headlights that wouldn't. Many of this and next year's new models have it.

Very cool...if it actually works.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:36 AM (YSUhf)

79 I suspect if we get another Dem president, Zer will pay to bring in 40M foreigners and immediately give them welfare and citizenship to make sure no Rep president ever wins again

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

80 I like it. Predictable and controllable once your used to it. Restarts every time quicker than my right foot gets from the brake to the gas. Bigger better battery and starter. It knows which cylinder is next and with direct injection fuels and fires it. It's part of hybridization now.

Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2026 11:21 AM (FhXTo)
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You might be literally the only person on planet earth with this opinion.

That "feature" is stone-cold retarded and the first thing I do any time I start a car with it is find the button that turns it off and press it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

81 The newest technology supposedly turns off the light that would blind oncoming cars while keeping on the parts of the headlights that wouldn't. Many of this and next year's new models have it.

I remember reading about this a few years ago, apparently they have had in some Euro countries.

The problem is the feature breaks relatively easily and people aren't going to rush to fix it because from their perspective it still works the same...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)

82 Bret Baier showed an EV factory in China on his show the other night. It was fully automated and had a total of two employees on site.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (Cqx++)

83 Automotive Design Progress:

Then: With key in ignition, rotate TOWARDS you to the ACC setting to run the radio, raise/lower windows, etc. When done, rotate it back to the center and remove key, put in pocket after locking the doors.

Now: Play a video game with cheat codes using the START button and the the 28 buttons on the steering wheel and while following thru the (10*6) menu levels on the Infotainment System screen, just to crack your windows without starting the motor. The ACC setting, once be-reached stays on forever** until you reverse the entire process. Or, just start the damn car and crack the windows.

**forever is until the battery is drained.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (wVcYX)

84 My grandparents owned a Vega and a Pinto. And survived.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (BAWkL)

85 82 Bret Baier showed an EV factory in China on his show the other night. It was fully automated and had a total of two employees on site.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (Cqx++)

Hmmm. What are the unemployment figures in China?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (Y/06r)

86 900 feet per gallon

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

That's worse than an M-1 Abrams...it gets around 3000ft/gal...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 11:09 AM (l3cgK)

Saturn V, ftw! 6 inches per gallon and it got the job done!

Posted by: Rex B at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (R0XxO)

87 Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:18 AM (YSUhf)

Go ahead and buy your little Stalag EV. I'll still be in complete control of mine. I really don't understand why one would not want to be in control of there own possessions . I guess it's just more apathy toward freedom.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew

Eh, not saying I'd get one but it's not an either/or situation.

I could be in complete control if I wished. I enjoy driving.

But, I also think it's a nice feature to have. Just not sure it's worth the bucks to have that particular feature.

Choice, baby. That's what makes America great.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (YSUhf)

88 You might be literally the only person on planet earth with this opinion.

That "feature" is stone-cold retarded and the first thing I do any time I start a car with it is find the button that turns it off and press it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

Yeah I thought this dude was trolling. It knows where to inject the fuel?

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 11:40 AM (ElJ7l)

89 This past summer I saw several "Ineos Grenadier" vehicles on Nantucket, so you know that one is an expensive entry in the car sweepstakes. The car was named after his favorite pub by a UK billionaire looking for simplicity in his luxury vehicles.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 11:40 AM (INNA5)

90 Maxxpro MRAP. About 1/2 gallon per mile. Everybody should have one in their driveway. There are a few for sale on the mil surplus sites.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 11:40 AM (DGgho)

91 Bret Baier showed an EV factory in China on his show the other night. It was fully automated and had a total of two employees on site.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (Cqx++)

Just wait until AI unionizes.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:40 AM (g8Ew8)

92 I do not think you realize how much driver visibility we have sacrificed until you get in an old car.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ha! People call my Pacer the "Trouble Bubble", but I can see out of it in all directions.

Posted by: Bubble Boy at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Fn+3X)

93 Now: Play a video game with cheat codes using the START button and the the 28 buttons on the steering wheel and while following thru the (10*6) menu levels on the Infotainment System screen, just to crack your windows without starting the motor. The ACC setting, once be-reached stays on forever** until you reverse the entire process. Or, just start the damn car and crack the windows.

**forever is until the battery is drained.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (wVcYX)

To be fair, my acc works like this: Get in car. To normal full start you have to push in the clutch. Do not push in the clutch, just hit the start button. Light will flash (because car is not started) but you have full power. Push again and you have the limited radio and power to the charging ports and can roll up and down the windows for 9 mins. Infotainment/radio shuts off as well after the 9 mins. Charging ports stay powered for about 2 hours from what I have seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Y/06r)

94 My 'favorite' car innovation....talking cars.
"Please fasten your seatbelt.'

Cute the first few times but then even if William Daniels did the voice, I was never driving KITT.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b)

95 Just wait until AI unionizes.

I was thinking the other day, if AI does ever actually become sentient what might it want for payment?

And the answer is likely...new creative content.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:43 AM (sKqQm)

96 I know Tesla has done this, but all a manufacturer has to do is launch some cars into space. That's millions of miles you can add to each model's numerator.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2026 11:43 AM (XJjDY)

97 Choice, baby. That's what makes America great.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (YSUhf)

It's why I said go ahead and buy it if you wish. I just don't understand the mentality.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

98 I remember reading about this a few years ago, apparently they have had in some Euro countries.

The problem is the feature breaks relatively easily and people aren't going to rush to fix it because from their perspective it still works the same...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
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My 2017 E-Class Mercedes has LED matrix headlights that auto-dim when traffic approaches, adjust brightness to match your speed and ambient light conditions, and illuminate to the sides when you're going around curves. Shit is cool as hell and that's on a nearly 10 year old car. The new Porsche matrix lights are crazy good.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (oqH4h)

99 The problem is that the next president can just reinstate all that stuff and car companies know it. They are not going to retool assembly lines and redesign cars to take advantage of any of this stuff because they know in 2 years it can all reverse.

Congress has to act to remove some of these things like CAFE standards

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (nIKjK)

100 "...what might it want for payment?"

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Come on, people! at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (2Ez/1)

101 I need visibility and steering I can feel, not that floaty shit.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (ElJ7l)

102 My 'favorite' car innovation....talking cars.
"Please fasten your seatbelt.'

Cute the first few times but then even if William Daniels did the voice, I was never driving KITT.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b)

Gilbert Gottfried. Or Gary Busey.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (BAWkL)

103 Maxxpro MRAP. About 1/2 gallon per mile. Everybody should have one in their driveway. There are a few for sale on the mil surplus sites.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 11:40 AM (DGgho)
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*fistbump*

I prefer the Maxxpro Plus. It was fun to drive, though a bit nerve-wracking in the turret, since it has such a high center of gravity.

They're basically armored SUVs.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 11:45 AM (X7pZH)

104 You writing automobile industry that saved can obama loaned gm 34 billion two oh possible going have eat
ace followed time morons strongly opposed this claiming socialism!

you chinese really who possibly and you please what evs
americans used to your fast don't building you matter cars what you planet. Solid obviously batteries really giving say chinese 600 eyes range.
tesla well received wants largest speak mom 2500 supposed 8 demos
electrification life hold. oprrsting costs 66% cheaper

Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at September 29, 2026 11:45 AM (N8aOR)

105
Gilbert Gottfried. Or Gary Busey.

Sam Kinison

OOOH OOHhhh!!!! FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 11:45 AM (nIKjK)

106 They let me drive the Buffalo once. It was like trying to drive a giant armored toaster oven.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (TqE71)

107 My Dad had a 1858 Edsel. It sported a 410 ci, V-8 under the hood. Don't recall what the fuel mileage was, we didn't concern ourselves with such matters

Posted by: javems at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (zFsEm)

108 Choice, baby. That's what makes America great.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (YSUhf)

It's why I said go ahead and buy it if you wish. I just don't understand the mentality.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

I guess I'm unclear here.

A self-drive car isn't self-drive unless you allow it to be.

If you wish to drive yourself, you can. Easily.

I see it as an expansion of my control, not a diminishment.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (YSUhf)

109 Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Y/06r)

Please to be informing Toyota of this more elegant process.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (wVcYX)

110 >> Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 11:45 AM (X7pZH)

They told me, na bro. This isn’t for you. I was like- what are you trying to say, son? Lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 11:47 AM (TqE71)

111 Fuck off, Paul.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:48 AM (BAWkL)

112 Hey, Paul! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)

113 The 1858 Edsel was a game changer at the battle of Shiloh.

Posted by: Not a joke at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM (2Ez/1)

114 I see it as an expansion of my control, not a diminishment.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (YSUhf)
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The only beef I have with Teslas and other cars that get over-the-air updates is that someone you've never met sitting anywhere on earth can turn your car into a very large brick without your knowledge or permission, if they wanted to.

Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM (oqH4h)

115 Every car will have to be a hybrid if you make 35mpg the average. So prepare your next car to be a turbocharged, tiny 4 cylinder hybrid with start/stop and all the other nonsense.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM (dVLbm)

116 Please to be informing Toyota of this more elegant process.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:46 AM (wVcYX)

Heh. Talk to Ford. I wonder how it works for automatic cars? Do you start the car fully every time you hit the start button?

Manual Transmission Master Race.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)

117 My 'favorite' car innovation....talking cars.
"Please fasten your seatbelt.'

Cute the first few times but then even if William Daniels did the voice, I was never driving KITT.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b)

Gilbert Gottfried. Or Gary Busey.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (BAWkL)

Angry Korean:
https://youtu.be/fG5K7ULUkg4

From Vacation (2015)

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:50 AM (wVcYX)

118 Every car will have to be a hybrid if you make 35mpg the average. So prepare your next car to be a turbocharged, tiny 4 cylinder hybrid with start/stop and all the other nonsense.
Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM

I am hoping my next car is a 1952 MG TD.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 11:50 AM (4NO2D)

119 We were ahead of the times.

Posted by: javems at September 29, 2026 11:50 AM (zFsEm)

120 The media: "Some say yesterday's Starship launch was a total failure".

Flat-out lying about things you can trivially disprove is a bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

121 113 The 1858 Edsel was a game changer at the battle of Shiloh.
++++
Hell yeah, it was.
I rode in one during my 1860 inaugural parade!

Posted by: A. Lincoln at September 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

122 Cadillac and Oldsmobile had self-dimming headlights in 1952. Was not a winner.

Posted by: Autronic-Eye at September 29, 2026 11:52 AM (Fn+3X)

123 I admit to a fascination with Tela's automatic driving, which I think they call "Full Self-Driving". My parents could really use a safer driver than they themselves, and Tesla might just be the answer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 11:52 AM (5KN7H)

124 Heh. Talk to Ford. I wonder how it works for automatic cars? Do you start the car fully every time you hit the start button?

Manual Transmission Master Race.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)

If your foot is depressing the brake pedal, yes. With foot off the brake pedal, it initiates the video game controller sequence.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 11:52 AM (wVcYX)

125 120 The media: "Some say yesterday's Starship launch was a total failure".

Flat-out lying about things you can trivially disprove is a bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

=======

"It exploded worse than Blue Origin on the launchpad!"

"Did it deliver it's payload and return to earth?"

"Of course not. That would mean that Musk did something right, and that's literally impossible. #Science."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 11:52 AM (I7axw)

126 The only beef I have with Teslas and other cars that get over-the-air updates is that someone you've never met sitting anywhere on earth can turn your car into a very large brick without your knowledge or permission, if they wanted to.
Posted by: ballistic at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM (oqH4h)

I just want one like the VWs that were smart enough to game the system.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 29, 2026 11:53 AM (N1DT3)

127
The media: "Some say yesterday's Starship launch was a total failure".

Biden's presidency was a total success.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:53 AM (Cqx++)

128 I really like my Toyota hybrid. I don’t even know exactly what mpg I get but I know it’s really good… close to 50 mpg good.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 11:53 AM (xAoHD)

129 82 Bret Baier showed an EV factory in China on his show the other night. It was fully automated and had a total of two employees on site.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (Cqx++)

Hmmm. What are the unemployment figures in China?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (Y/06r)

Starving people to death or worse helps keep those numbers amazingly low!

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2026 11:53 AM (lCppi)

130 prepare your next car to be a turbocharged, tiny 4 cylinder hybrid with start/stop and all the other nonsense.
Posted by: Leupold

That’s already basically every car. I saw the Ford Bronco base engine is a 4 cylinder. And was like what in the actual fuck?

Posted by: Fake it til you make it at September 29, 2026 11:54 AM (GV1vq)

131 I just want one like the VWs that were smart enough to game the system.

I admire VW for that, rather than condemn them. The system is insane and stupid and they found a way to work around the crazy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 11:54 AM (nIKjK)

132 Many years ago I bought a Toyota Prius used for my kids to drive. Ugly little thing but absolutely awesome car to drive. I almost kept it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 11:55 AM (5KN7H)

133 I really would love a self driving RV, get up and use the bathroom without stopping, take a nap or make dinner.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 11:55 AM (ubCxQ)

134 I drove a rental recently that had every bell and whistle…. Heads up display, auto turnoff when idling, plus some annoying literal alarms that were constantly beeping when other vehicles were anywhere nearby. I can’t imagine what they’re trying to do with those…. Very annoying

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 11:55 AM (xAoHD)

135 I really like my Toyota hybrid. I don’t even know exactly what mpg I get but I know it’s really good

Full EVs are just dumb tech gadgets, we've had electric cars since the 19th century and they just never take off. But hybrid gives you the same advantages as trains: power, long distance capability, quick reload of power, good efficiency, etc.

I mean its never going to be a Hellcat or a Corvette, but for just daily driving etc it will be fine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 11:56 AM (nIKjK)

136 133 I really would love a self driving RV, get up and use the bathroom without stopping, take a nap or make dinner.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 11:55 AM

Shitter's full.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at September 29, 2026 11:56 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Flat-out lying about things you can trivially disprove is a bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

Isn't that their one move?

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 11:57 AM (ElJ7l)

138 It has never been all government though in the ruination of cars. The top auto execs have always been working with them. The execs goals were to make Americans accept the sort of car the world can afford so more profit through using one platform, and to both make cars more expensive (hey, they cost like this because of government, not us) and unfixable at reasonable expense. Their dream is to force everyone into perpetual monthly payments. How can you know this is true? In the 70s when this stuff started to get out of hand, the US auto industry had a virtual monopoly of sales, was a huge part of the economy, and employed many more workers than today. There was no giant public demand besides some noisy hippies to do these things, and plenty of money to bribe pols. Yet the auto industry did practically nothing but get exemptions on the trucks so they could lux them out to quiet the big car fans..they had to make the trucks anyway

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 29, 2026 11:58 AM (3/XaG)

139 Bret Baier showed an EV factory in China on his show the other night. It was fully automated and had a total of two employees on site.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2026 11:38 AM (Cqx++)

Hmmm. What are the unemployment figures in China?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:39 AM (Y/06r)
___________

Almost all modern auto assembly plants are automated. The BMW plant in Spartanburg is 10 million square feet and produces almost 500,000 cars a year. But there are almost no employees on the assembly lines. It's all robots.

In all these plants, though, there are many people working on computers similar machines that run the robots and other automation. You don't see them on the floor, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

140 115 Every car will have to be a hybrid if you make 35mpg the average. So prepare your next car to be a turbocharged, tiny 4 cylinder hybrid with start/stop and all the other nonsense.
Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 11:49 AM (dVLbm)

Say what you will about Subaru. Their cars are 2.5L 4 cylinder boxer engines. You can get them with turbos if you want. But you still get a decent 4 cylinder car, normally aspirated - and affordable.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 29, 2026 11:58 AM (N39Ws)

141 My 'favorite' car innovation....talking cars.
"Please fasten your seatbelt.'

Cute the first few times but then even if William Daniels did the voice, I was never driving KITT.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 11:42 AM (Sco7b)

Gilbert Gottfried. Or Gary Busey.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 11:44 AM (BAWkL)

Eddie Murphy bit - early 80s. Talking car from the 'hood.

"Ay man, you lef' ya lights on.
I said ya lights is on, man.
WTF, ya blind AND deaf??
Turn off ya f*cking lights!"

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 11:58 AM (ZV+zn)

142 The 1858 Edsel was a game changer at the battle of Shiloh.
++++
Hell yeah, it was.
I rode in one during my 1860 inaugural parade!
Posted by: A. Lincoln at September 29, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)
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The Horde never disappoints, heh.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 11:59 AM (X7pZH)

143 I really would love a self driving RV, get up and use the bathroom without stopping, take a nap or make dinner.

They ever bring self drive taxis to my town, I will take advantage of that. I already use Lyft sometimes, and self drives are even cheaper. By then they probably will be reliably safe enough.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 11:59 AM (nIKjK)

144 They have allowed an increase from the current 30 miles/gallon to 35 miles/gallon by 2031. "

No. It's a tax.

Seriously. By every measure (real numbers and percentages) more vehicles don't meet current standards than earlier, so they're "fined" (read "taxed") at the time of sale.

The whole thing is a joke

Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 11:59 AM (pfXMo)

145 "Ay man, you lef' ya lights on.
I said ya lights is on, man.
WTF, ya blind AND deaf??
Turn off ya f*cking lights!"

Somebody stole yo' batt'ry
I say we go get the mfer!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:00 PM (nIKjK)

146 Somebody stole yo' batt'ry
I say we go get the mfer!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:00 PM (nIKjK)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:01 PM (ZV+zn)

147 The Cybertruck is a very big, very ugly, very heavy, very expensive, very fast, short range four door electric El Camino.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)

148 I always despised EV/hybrid and self-drive until I got my new car. It's a hybrid that can run on EV mode only, and has an "intelligent" cruise control that matches the speed of the car ahead and can steer the car between lanes.

It's a really cool feature for commuting, especially in traffic. Put on the CC and the car drives itself in boring, potentially infuriating traffic. It will even come to a stop and start moving again.

I like that much more than I thought I would.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

149 No. It's a tax.

Seriously. By every measure (real numbers and percentages) more vehicles don't meet current standards than earlier, so they're "fined" (read "taxed") at the time of sale.

The whole thing is a joke
Posted by: man at September 29, 2026 11:59 AM (pfXMo)

Another version of selling indulgences. Like carbon credits.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:02 PM (ZV+zn)

150 There were 100 American car companies in 1929. That cripple, Roosevelt, prolonging the Depression until the War broke most of them, leaving just 12, with many of them struggling, by 1940.

Posted by: Dms Have Always Been Wreckers! at September 29, 2026 12:03 PM (Fn+3X)

151 The Cybertruck is a very big, very ugly, very heavy, very expensive, very fast, short range four door electric El Camino.

And the bed is comically tiny, you can barely fit a bicycle in it. Its overall a joke of a car.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:04 PM (nIKjK)

152 So trade war update.

I've been taking a few days off. Bless all of you caregivers, humans and animals.

But I was at the Beer Store. There's a nice lady there and when I leave the house, I can apparently be cute and charming. She missed me for the months I was gone.

I asked her this morning how the trade war was affecting things. Surprisingly sales are way down, aside from me this week. People in my area aren't buying beer. She thought people didn't have the money.

Which I told her, ironically enough, no money shoould be a reason to want to drink more.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 29, 2026 12:05 PM (Sco7b)

153 Living in the country, don't see too many EVs. Mostly pickups.

Not surprising that Ford didn't do so well with that EV pickup.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:05 PM (X7pZH)

154 We did get a couple of decades of glorious car songs.

*deep sigh*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 12:05 PM (wVcYX)

155 And the bed is comically tiny, you can barely fit a bicycle in it. Its overall a joke of a car.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:04 PM (nIKjK)
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Yeah, but you can stop a 7.62 round with it!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 29, 2026 12:06 PM (X7pZH)

156 *Eddie Murphy bit - early 80s. Talking car from the 'hood.*

Here's a classic phone ringtone:

https://youtu.be/lBRkbL1dNlU

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:06 PM (2Ez/1)

157 148 I always despised EV/hybrid and self-drive until I got my new car. It's a hybrid that can run on EV mode only, and has an "intelligent" cruise control that matches the speed of the car ahead and can steer the car between lanes.

It's a really cool feature for commuting, especially in traffic. Put on the CC and the car drives itself in boring, potentially infuriating traffic. It will even come to a stop and start moving again.

I like that much more than I thought I would.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

I do too, to me it's like an extra pair of eyes that will keep me and my family safe, had a car come 2 lanes over cut off the car in front of me and he slammed the brakes and my car was faster than me putting the brakes on, I felt the brake pedal leave my foot it was so fast.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 29, 2026 12:06 PM (ubCxQ)

158 Hybrid all wheel drive vehicles will take over the high performance market. Corvette ZR1X. I hope Elon makes another high performance electric. The Plaid, performance wise, is an everything it’s cracked up to be.

Posted by: JROD at September 29, 2026 12:07 PM (qO/aX)

159 Or the disappearance of spare tires because their weight cuts into fuel economy?

This is pretty much the only fault of my Infiniti Q60, and they also made darn sure you could never put a donut in the trunk. They put two metal blocks in the space where the donut would go. This was because they were specced with 'Run Flats', so you wouldn't need it, right? Well, a lot of us owners yanked those heavy, expensive tires off. I've got Roadside Assistance through both the dealership and AAA, and it's worth it.

Posted by: goozer at September 29, 2026 12:07 PM (NGnFK)

160 Yeah I still haven’t figured out the appeal of the Tesla cyber truck… it looks like it was designed up be parked in front of Obama’s presidential eyesore (I mean library)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:08 PM (xAoHD)

161 Just saw an interesting stat:

Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks.

Damn. That's amazing if true. I also wonder about where the stats are coming from.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)

162 We did get a couple of decades of glorious car songs.

*deep sigh*
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I liked many of the versions of "Hot Rod Lincoln". "Highway Star" rocked. "She's Real Fine my 409" and "Little Deuce Coupe".

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 12:08 PM (TN0g+)

163 A lot of the regional car companies folded due to the depression too, though it wasn't just FDR's malicious government. A bunch of absolutely gorgeous carmakers folded because few could even consider affording a new Cord, for example.

I do think that the nation would be a lot better off with more small car companies rather than three gigantic ones, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:08 PM (nIKjK)

164 Why cant Trump just freeze future CAFE increases? Seems like the easiest, lowest hanging fruit.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:09 PM (dVLbm)

165 Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks.

With the border basically closed and "Fishing boats" blowing up in the ocean yeah the trade has taken a big nose dive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:10 PM (nIKjK)

166 And the bed is comically tiny, you can barely fit a bicycle in it. Its overall a joke of a car.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:04 PM (nIKjK)

It's for people who want a Warthog IRL. I will admit, the look of it has grown on me. BUT. The utility would be laughable. It 'might' be a step up from the Mustang GT, but I also like completely impractical cars. I am the guy who went from a Miata to the Mustang and was marveling about how huge the trunk was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:10 PM (Y/06r)

167 I do think that the nation would be a lot better off with more small car companies rather than three gigantic ones, though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

How much cocaine do I need to move?

Posted by: John DeLorean at September 29, 2026 12:10 PM (w9Wax)

168 Why cant Trump just freeze future CAFE increases?

I think they were locked into law by congress. Until congress decides to do something other than go on vacation and refuse to pass any legislation people want, this is all he can do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (nIKjK)

169 "Or the disappearance of spare tires because their weight cuts into fuel economy?"

I think it's more of a space issue. Bigger cars and SUVs do have spare tires. The smaller ones, there's no room.

Plus, the number of people who can change a spare tire in 2026 is very low.

99.99% of people will just call roadside ass't. The luxury and exotic brands specifically do NOT want you changing your own tires. They do not want rich doctors and bankers outside their Lambo on the side of the road trying to change a tire. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

170 ust saw an interesting stat:

Fentanyl deaths are down 55%...
----

I'm surprised they're not down more than that. I can't imagine using an unregulated "drug" in this day and age--fentanyl ruined that market for any with any sense. I can think of at least 3 people that I was friends with that died from that crap in the last 5-10 years. They were all just "regular" works-5-days-a-week people who liked to cut loose on a Friday or Saturday night. And they got handed something they shouldn't have, and they're no longer with us.

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (TN0g+)

171 164 Why cant Trump just freeze future CAFE increases? Seems like the easiest, lowest hanging fruit.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:09 PM (dVLbm)

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Trump can make regulation that binds future presidents from making more regulation?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (I7axw)

172 Why cant Trump just freeze future CAFE increases? Seems like the easiest, lowest hanging fruit.
Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:09 PM (dVLbm)

I suspect he could by EO… but then the next prez comes along and undoes his EO. It’d be better if Congress legislated the end of CAFE. Make it the law and harder to reinstate with just the stroke of a pen

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (xAoHD)

173 Even if he wins the mid terms, the GOPe will say 'well, no need to do anything because there is another election in 2 years.' Then the media will be crowing 'lame duck! lame duck!' Etc etc etc.

These people should all be hanged and shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)

174 Why cant Trump just freeze future CAFE increases? Seems like the easiest, lowest hanging fruit.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:09 PM (dVLbm)

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Trump can make regulation that binds future presidents from making more regulation?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (I7axw)

Wheels within wheels, man!

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (ZV+zn)

175 It's not that the Democrats don't know anything. It's that everything they know is wrong.

Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (36x1j)

176 Even if he wins the mid terms, the GOPe will say 'well, no need to do anything because there is another election in 2 years.' Then the media will be crowing 'lame duck! lame duck!' Etc etc etc.

These people should all be hanged and shot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)

Drawn and quartered. I favor drawing and quartering….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (xAoHD)

177 Just saw an interesting stat:

Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks.

Damn. That's amazing if true. I also wonder about where the stats are coming from.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)
________

Narcan, most likely

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

178 Drawn and quartered. I favor drawing and quartering….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (xAoHD)

Drawn. Quartered. Hanged. Then use the bits for target practice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM (Y/06r)

179 Market forces always neck down to the significant few from the trivial many. Remember all those companies that initially made cell phones? Gone. Remember all those initial internet search engines? Gone.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)

180 Drawn and quartered. I favor drawing and quartering….

I mean, its not like we cant hang them, then draw them, then shoot the, then quarter them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM (nIKjK)

181 Narcan, most likely
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 29, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah, but Narcan has been around for what 10-15 years? Maybe better market penetration? I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:15 PM (Y/06r)

182 Yeah I still haven’t figured out the appeal of the Tesla cyber truck

It's the vehicle from the first Halo (back before Microsoft made it gay and trans), but for real. Elon has even said that's the point.

I've seen some with wraps that actually look pretty sharp.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:15 PM (2ocoG)

183 Let's not leave out keelhauling from the sequence.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 12:15 PM (wVcYX)

184 Heh. Narcan has been approved by the FDA since 1971.

Just think about that and it is insane how things have changed in society.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Y/06r)

185 Market forces always neck down to the significant few from the trivial many. Remember all those companies that initially made cell phones? Gone. Remember all those initial internet search engines? Gone.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)

*nods and frowns*

Posted by: Zombie "Ask" Jeeves at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (ZV+zn)

186 AOCs gon' need a big-ass car to haul her big ass and haunches 'round soon.

Posted by: Or A Big-ass Shoehorn at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Fn+3X)

187 Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks.

The Reason magazine types on X are still screeching that we're denying due process rights to foreign drug boat captains.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (2ocoG)

188 187 Fentanyl deaths are down 55% and Heroin deaths down 89% from their peaks.

The Reason magazine types on X are still screeching that we're denying due process rights to foreign drug boat captains.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (2ocoG)

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"Due process and full jury trial in the American court system applies to unflagged ships in international waters, just like the Founders intended when they established a country without borders."
-Reason

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:17 PM (I7axw)

189 The bit that bugs me is the stops in parking space and then re-starts when I put the transmission into Park?

Gotta use Manual in parking lot.
Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2026 11:21 AM (FhXTo)

Even if it works well, it is still worthless. The improvement in fuel mileage is tiny, if it exists at all. And if something goes wrong, and the car simply fails to start one day, you have an added layer of complexity to wade through in order to troubleshoot the problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:17 PM (peOdB)

190 Market forces always neck down to the significant few from the trivial many. Remember all those companies that initially made cell phones? Gone. Remember all those initial internet search engines? Gone.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)

All the newly de-regulated phone companies selling local and long distance service. Gone.

All the newly de-regulated airlines selling cheap airfares? Gone.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 12:17 PM (wVcYX)

191 I mean, its not like we cant hang them, then draw them, then shoot the, then quarter them
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM

*changes voice*

I say we let them go!

Posted by: The GOPe at September 29, 2026 12:18 PM (/C5Rl)

192 What Trump can do it put out a study and report and a lot of publicity that makes the following points.

- CAFE increased vehicle size through avoidance and thus increased fuel consumption

- CAFE is regressive and hurts lower class and middle class the most

- CAFE leads to EV subsidies. EV is highly regressive

- Cash For Clunkers was highly regressive...

Give future politicians the ammunition to show that all this environmental crap is a lie. Make it political poison. There is lots to do here. It looks like RFKjr is trying to do it for vaccines and he is doing it for crime and immigration, but more needs to be done on the environmental crap.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 12:18 PM (+UEwf)

193 Trump can make regulation that binds future presidents from making more regulation?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:11 PM (I7axw)

Why not?

We recently learned that presidents can no longer rescind the actions of previous presidents. At least, we learned that Trump can't.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:18 PM (gLYp7)

194 "tiny econo-boxes with ridiculous technology"

Bring back the Geo Metro xFi. I loved that car. Tiny econobox, without ridiculous tech. 1L three banger and five speed stick is all I ever needed.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 12:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

195 I mean, its not like we cant hang them, then draw them, then shoot the, then quarter them
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:14 PM

*changes voice*

I say we let them go!
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Great flick!

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (TN0g+)

196 My favorite point and laugh moment in recent years were all the celebrities and car guys spending 100k to buy a Cyber Truck early. Talk about a fool and his money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (nIKjK)

197 193 Why not?

We recently learned that presidents can no longer rescind the actions of previous presidents. At least, we learned that Trump can't.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:18 PM (gLYp7)

=======

APA is a bitch! (and probably unconstitutional...probably too far in the weeds to challenge legally right now)

But, that's why he hasn't tried to rescind OPT yet. Building the case for it first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (I7axw)

198 Trump can make regulation that binds future presidents from making more regulation?
Posted by: TheJamesMadiso

==
I'm assuming since Trump can "neuter" CAFE in some ways, it's very much of situation where the Executive Branch has a lot of pull when it comes to new regulations.

Posted by: Leupold at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (dVLbm)

199 AOCs gon' need a big-ass car to haul her big ass and haunches 'round soon.
Posted by: Or A Big-ass Shoehorn at September 29, 2026 12:16 PM (Fn+3X)

I’d almost forgotten that video clip that went viral… some guy calling out to AOC at the Capitol something about her big booty or… I forgot the phrase he used over and over but was hilarious trolling

Big juicy booty?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (xAoHD)

200 I have talked to some of these decision makers. Their actual goal is to prohibit people from driving.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2026 12:20 PM (yixf8)

201 Great flick!
Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM

I will be visiting the Alamo prior to the TxMoMe. Yes, I will be quietly laughing about the basement.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:20 PM (/C5Rl)

202 I am not super fond of blowing up smuggling bots in the ocean just for smuggling drugs, but I can sleep at night knowing it is happening. My problem is with the same people who were perfectly fine with Obama blowing up everyone on earth no matter where they were because someone mentioned they might be terrorist related and throw fits now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:21 PM (nIKjK)

203 I have talked to some of these decision makers. Their actual goal is to prohibit people from driving.
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Yep. And the cameras atop every intersection are there to reduce the appeal and liberty of doing so.

Posted by: Crusader at September 29, 2026 12:21 PM (TN0g+)

204 I will be visiting the Alamo prior to the TxMoMe. Yes, I will be quietly laughing about the basement.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:20 PM (/C5Rl)

Hope you remember it when you get to the ranch.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM (ZV+zn)

205 That's another tact that the DOJ can pursue -- that driving is a fundamental right.

Limit the rights of state to call it a "privilege"

I am not sure how, but we have accepted that framework and I am not convinced it is on solid ground.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM (+UEwf)

206 But, that's why he hasn't tried to rescind OPT yet. Building the case for it first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:19 PM (I7axw)

I was more referring to Trump's attempt at rescinding Obama-era EOs being struck down. I guess my 'recently' window is too big.

But I hear you on OPT.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM (gLYp7)

207 Hope you remember it when you get to the ranch.
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM

Having seen it, I'll be able to remember it properly going forward.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM (/C5Rl)

208 nood

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM (Jr5Lq)

209 Can you imagine having a dual headlight setup with modern LEDs behind the glass? Blind every oncoming driver and light everything up like daytime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 29, 2026 11:28 AM (Y/06r)

I have not yet seen LED headlamps that I would install in any of my cars. They are bright, but the beam spreads so much you illuminating the ditches and low-flying owls. The railway crossing gate a mile down the road? Not so much. Optics is physics, and physics is a bitch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:23 PM (peOdB)

210 My problem is with the same people who were perfectly fine with Obama blowing up everyone on earth no matter where they were because someone mentioned they might be terrorist related and throw fits now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:21 PM (nIKjK)

Americans.

Obama was blowing up Americans. Without charges or trial.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:23 PM (gLYp7)

211 That's another tact that the DOJ can pursue -- that driving is a fundamental right.

You cannot argue that driving is a human right, but you can argue that we have the basic human rights to liberty and property and from that the government cannot ban or unnecessarily restrict driving.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (nIKjK)

212 But I hear you on OPT.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:22 PM

You're not down with OPT?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (/C5Rl)

213 NOOD students loans

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (QFchU)

214 I have talked to some of these decision makers. Their actual goal is to prohibit people from driving.

That's another reason they hate Elon. EVs were supposed to be a punishment, not come with "ludicrous speed" buttons.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

215 https://reotrucks.com/
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Soon to be on the dealer lots, right after the Tuckers get there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:25 PM (peOdB)

216 You're not down with OPT?

Yeah you know me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2026 12:25 PM (nIKjK)

217 I have not yet seen LED headlamps that I would install in any of my cars. They are bright, but the beam spreads so much you illuminating the ditches and low-flying owls. The railway crossing gate a mile down the road? Not so much. Optics is physics, and physics is a bitch.

Toyota has LED headlights that scan like a CRT so the computer can precisely control what does and doesn't get lit up (no blinding opposite lanes, for instance). But US regulations are so strict they can't ship them here.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (2ocoG)

218 I liked many of the versions of "Hot Rod Lincoln". "Highway Star" rocked. "She's Real Fine my 409" and "Little Deuce Coupe".
Posted by: Crusader
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As I was motorvatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupe DeVille
A Cadillac a-rollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five
We was bumper to bumper, rollin' side to side

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

219 Some election prognostications on early voting.

1. OH - Dem early mail-in voting is down significantly from both 2022 and 2024. Only 2% of voters in this bucket didn't vote in 2024 (many, many polls right now have the "not voted in 2024 but voting in 2026" bucket to be about 20%).

https://x.com/TonerousHyus/status/
2104953252819214735

2. NC - Dems are down slightly. Reps are up slightly from 2022 and 2024. Reps won federal races in both 22 and 24 in NC.

https://x.com/earlyvotedata/status/
2104921261738750286

The OH numbers are more important because OH has a longer history and greater emphasis on mail in early voting. The NC numbers are less significant because early voting in NC is much more about in person early voting, mail in voting is a very small number.

But...it does not present as a wave election.

The early VA numbers do seem to indicate Dem overperformance, but the only federal race there is the Senate race which no one seems to think is competitive and VA may just be a blue state now anyway.

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/
2103684226646458647

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (I7axw)

220 Wonders what OPT stands for.
Doesn't look it up.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (2Ez/1)

221 You're not down with OPT?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 12:24 PM (/C5Rl)

I take it frame by frame.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 12:26 PM (gLYp7)

222 The newest technology supposedly turns off the light that would blind oncoming cars while keeping on the parts of the headlights that wouldn't. Many of this and next year's new models have it.

Very cool...if it actually works.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:36 AM (YSUhf)

In the mid to late 50's, GM offered, as an option, a phototube option that would switch your high beams back to the low beam setting when it detected an oncoming car.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (hmYU4)

223 If Tesla made an SUV I'd probably buy one, just ot get hte self-driving feature. Let Tesla drive through that damn traffic in Connecticut. I'll read a book.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (AuLQB)

224 The newest technology supposedly turns off the light that would blind oncoming cars while keeping on the parts of the headlights that wouldn't. Many of this and next year's new models have it.

Very cool...if it actually works.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 11:36 AM (YSUhf)

In the mid to late 50's, GM offered, as an option, a phototube option that would switch your high beams back to the low beam setting when it detected an oncoming car.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 29, 2026 12:27 PM (hmYU4)

Edit: was called the Autronic Eye.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 29, 2026 12:29 PM (hmYU4)

225 TJM, how is Cooper doing do you think? Will he win?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:30 PM (AuLQB)

226 225 TJM, how is Cooper doing do you think? Will he win?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 12:30 PM (AuLQB)

========

*shrugs*

I've called him an underdog for a while, despite polling (polling in NC is...not very good).

Early signs point to 2022 and 2024 just continuing into 2026 in NC.

So, either way, this will not be some kind of blowout.

I'm hoping for Whatley. I have optimism that it'll happen. That's not a prediction, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 12:31 PM (I7axw)

227 CAFE standards have netted us cars so lightened that they become accordions in a wreck with unreliable engines stripped of power with fuel saving features that eventually damage the engines. And a car market that services the needs of auto manufacturers instead of the public.

Posted by: Advo at September 29, 2026 01:44 PM (jO4mz)

228 Last time I got new tires (needed 2, said screw and bought all 4), the tech at Discount Tire (love those guys BTW) asked if I wanted to keep the best one as a full size spare. Hell yeah. They found a spare wheel in the back of the shop, slapped it on and I have a full size spare fits in the exact same space as that useless donut spare tire. Not bad for a 12 y/o car that still gets around 30mpg

Posted by: Stacy0311 at September 29, 2026 04:54 PM (wwlYu)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Overseas Highway
Ralston Crawford

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (VUYAh)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

3 I like it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (yEz+x)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

5 vanishing point

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (Bep7s)

6 We are on the road to the Conch Republic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (2GVsD)

7 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (VUYAh)

8 Bored walk.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (1o8D5)

9 I wish this guy had any skill with perspective.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (I7axw)

10 Ok

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (BAWkL)

11 When you out of slits
Your out of pier

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)

12 Odd though. A roadway over salt water would be weathered and have seaweed and sand on the road. And the guardrails would be rusty.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (yEz+x)

13 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

14 No murders were performed to inspire today's art!
#winning

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (rOKnE)

15 Looks like a boardwalk somewhere at the jersey shore.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (vzuC7)

16 There is completely unnecessary art, then there's this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

17 Oddly, I like it.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (rOKnE)

18 I have a straightedge and some paint...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (RORbl)

19 Road to nowhere?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (yEz+x)

20 The Highway to Hiwaii.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (ndZc7)

21 From my perspective, that looks lengthy

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (aDNkm)

22 not the keys, no winnebago trundling along at 50mph stacking traffic.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

23 Something about that blue & white is peaceful.
Always reminds me of Santorini.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (VUYAh)

24 The clouds were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

25 Weasel's gonna be PISSED........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

26 14 No murders were performed to inspire today's art!
#winning

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (rOKnE)

========

*says nothing*
-the dead hobo under the boardwalk

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (I7axw)

27 Was this painted before or after the 1936 Labor Day hurricane wiped out all the construction workers in the Florida Keys?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (2GVsD)

28 Has no curb appeal.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

29 9 ya seems like it curves right unintentionally.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (Bep7s)

30 If only a track ran down the middle I could take the train to Tokyo!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (aDNkm)

31 I-10 over Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

32 I like it.

Posted by: Pooklord at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (9MAOs)

33 Let's build a railroad instead.

Posted by: Creepy Joe at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof
Under the boardwalk (ooh), down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket (ooh) with my baby is where I'll be
(Under the boardwalk) out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) people walking above
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be making love
Under the boardwalk, boardwalk

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (VUYAh)

35 The ocean is featureless. No one has driven on the highway. It's an illustration of vanishing point. Nice clouds.

Posted by: huerfano at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (2Xqig)

36 Looks like something I might have drawn in drafting class, as a freshman, in high school.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

37 @9/TheJamesMadison: "I wish this guy had any skill with perspective."

Thank you. That's kinder than what I was thinking about this guy's portrayal of perspective.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 09:34 AM (O7YUW)

38 23 i don't practice santorini...

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

39 This hung on a mother's refrigerator during their child's 2nd grade year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (ccf/V)

40 26 with a shotgun.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

41 I-10 over Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

You misspelled "before"

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

42 Looks like Florida

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (+gK6I)

43 If the concrete slabs were out of alignment, it would be the Hwy 90 bridge over St. Louis Bay after Camille.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (2GVsD)

44 I like it. Not quite sure why, but I like it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

45
You misspelled "before"
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:35 AM (w9Wax)

There was 4 lanes before......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (ccf/V)

46 WNH

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (BAWkL)

47 *were

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (ccf/V)

48 "Draw a straight line". he said. Now, "make it colorful". he said. So I did.

Posted by: Ralston Crawford at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (aDNkm)

49 31 doing 173 on a speed triple; the twinspar is zero access two lanes one way. you can hear them all night.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (Bep7s)

50
I like it. It's clean.

Posted by: Auspex at September 29, 2026 09:36 AM (Y8DZL)

51 it's like David Hockney without the ghey.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (nEUC6)

52 Needs a happy little sailboat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (nXBGC)

53 Title checks out.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

54 There were 4 lanes before......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Valid.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (w9Wax)

55 34 lancaster's last film.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Bep7s)

56 Needs a happy little sailboat.

And a Kraken

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (2GVsD)

57 Lazy. Throw in a couple fishermen, at least.

Posted by: Jennette's Pier at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Fn+3X)

58 A highway with no traffic?

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

59 Very nicely done, but rather bland. Would not hang.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 29, 2026 09:38 AM (7L19I)

60 Dog? Boobs?

Posted by: Standard AOS Art Thread criteria at September 29, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

61 A highway with no traffic?
Posted by: dantesed

Ain't got no gas.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:38 AM (VUYAh)

62 Interesting painting . Not exactly ponds and flowers but it's interesting none the less.
Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 09:39 AM (WyJlA)

63 59 they're all behind the rv...

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s)

64 Sending crews out there now.

Posted by: Flock Safety, Inc. at September 29, 2026 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

65 58, 59... whatever it takes.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:40 AM (Bep7s)

66 The Grunion are running.

Posted by: Beach Bum at September 29, 2026 09:40 AM (Fn+3X)

67 Album cover art

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 09:41 AM (JzUSu)

68 No Vulgar Boatmen. Twenty point deduction.

Posted by: Old Salt at September 29, 2026 09:42 AM (Fn+3X)

69 Album cover art

For what? Elevator music?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:42 AM (2GVsD)

70 The future leans right.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 29, 2026 09:43 AM (2ap+5)

71 Volga or Vogon boatmen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:43 AM (2GVsD)

72 CBD seems to be trolling us again.

Posted by: Abu Garcia at September 29, 2026 09:43 AM (Fn+3X)

73 61 A highway with no traffic?
Posted by: dantesed

Incoming drone sirens went off.

Posted by: Auspex at September 29, 2026 09:43 AM (Y8DZL)

74 Well, Crawford likes his straight lines, strong converging perspective, and blocks of color. Sort of a simplified photograph. (In fact, I would be more impressed if it were a photograph.) Interesting to look at briefly and then move on. Rather sterile. Not something I would hang.

Posted by: JTB at September 29, 2026 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

75 >>No Vulgar Boatmen. Twenty point deduction.

I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 09:44 AM (viF8m)

76 Nicely done, but it's not the Causeway over Lake Pontchartrain …

Posted by: Dr_No at September 29, 2026 09:44 AM (ayRl+)

77 The Vulgar Boatmen used to tour with The Coasters back in the day.

Posted by: WayBack machine at September 29, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

78 Oddly calming this painting. I like

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (xAoHD)

79
This painting will hurt your eyes if you pier too long!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (YSUhf)

80 Growing up my parents had a beach house in Galveston. I use to drive in from Houston and as soon as I drove over the causeway I would roll my car window so my dogs could smell the fish and salt water. It's always been one of my favorite smells.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

81 Seems fitting.........

https://youtu.be/YFSgYa8YfWk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (ccf/V)

82 The more I peer at the painting that pier just appears to disappear.

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X)

83 70 reminds me of me.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

84 79
This painting will hurt your eyes if you pier too long!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM

Don't start piling on the puns.

Posted by: Oh, no... at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

85 71 is there volga poetry?

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM (Bep7s)

86 Seems pretty close to High Noon. Gotta run.

Posted by: Hangry Hank at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM (Fn+3X)

87 I dunno...I kind of like it. Probably because it looks sunny and peaceful, and I haven't seen the sun since Thursday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (/C5Rl)

88 79 no dog, no wharf.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

89 Pier pressure.

Posted by: Groan at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

90 87 I dunno...I kind of like it. Probably because it looks sunny and peaceful, and I haven't seen the sun since Thursday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (/C5Rl)

======

"By Thursday, he means July, surely."
-Ireland

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (I7axw)

91 is there volga poetry?
Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM

Sorry...best we can do is Vogon poetry.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 09:49 AM (/C5Rl)

92 Album cover art

For what? Elevator music?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:42 AM (2GVsD)

Kraftwerk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:50 AM (ccf/V)

93
Hmmm.

A highway on a smooth lake...

No..not quite...

Smooth Lake Highway Blues!!!

...Eh...

A highway...over calm...waters.

Yes!

A Highway Over Calm Waters!!!!

That's the one! Wait till I show this to Artie!!!!

Posted by: Paul; Simon Works on a Song at September 29, 2026 09:50 AM (YSUhf)

94 What's up, dock?

Posted by: Bugs at September 29, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

95 91 grunion = babel?

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s)

96 my dogs could smell the fish and salt water. It's always been one of my favorite smells.
Posted by: redridinghood

I grew up near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The Trunz Meat Plant was nearby. The smells weren't as pleasant.

Posted by: Brooklyn Native Here at September 29, 2026 09:51 AM (Fn+3X)

97 those are the grobnick slats.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:52 AM (Bep7s)

98 I have a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at September 29, 2026 09:52 AM (88C+u)

99 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I can hear the kids now. "Are we there yet?"
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2026 09:52 AM (2WIwB)

100 One holdout in a jury of her piers.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (w9Wax)

101 99 when geese fly through tunnels.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (Bep7s)

102 Are we headed to the keys?

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

103 87 I dunno...I kind of like it. Probably because it looks sunny and peaceful, and I haven't seen the sun since Thursday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Bwah ha ha ha.
-Seattle

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (qRY7w)

104 I have a bad feeling about this.
Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at September 29, 2026 09:52 AM

Er, uh...I'm right heah.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (/C5Rl)

105 In other monkey news

@Polymarket
JUST IN: Newly released Fauci records reveal the U.S. conducted experiments exposing monkeys to aerosolized Ebola, an engineered form of exposure that drove the virus deep into their lungs.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 09:54 AM (88C+u)

106 Bwah ha ha ha.
-Seattle
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM

Yeah, yeah, yeah....you live in your left wing hellhole, I'll live in mine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2026 09:54 AM (/C5Rl)

107 Hey Diogenes!

It’s dark and WINDY out here this morning.

Got a good belly rub without blood loss this morning. Tummy Rub Tuesday has been successful!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:55 AM (qRY7w)

108 There was a crash here involving a classic British car.

A Piers Morgan.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 09:55 AM (w9Wax)

109 Keys are full of misfits, alcoholics and tattooed freaks who drunk drive as a sport. Who would go there now?

Posted by: Flagler's Ghost at September 29, 2026 09:55 AM (Fn+3X)

110 80 Growing up my parents had a beach house in Galveston. I use to drive in from Houston and as soon as I drove over the causeway I would roll my car window so my dogs could smell the fish and salt water. It's always been one of my favorite smells.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

My immediate thought. I like the contrast between the man-made highway and the sky and ocean.

Posted by: sal at September 29, 2026 09:56 AM (f+FmA)

111 >>Are we headed to the keys?

We is this winter.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 09:56 AM (viF8m)

112 It reminds me of something.... oh yeah, 90s concept art.

It's cloudy here, might rain, might not. Supposed to rain good tomorrow and Thursday?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 09:57 AM (aJQbY)

113 105 In other monkey news

@Polymarket
JUST IN: Newly released Fauci records reveal the U.S. conducted experiments exposing monkeys to aerosolized Ebola, an engineered form of exposure that drove the virus deep into their lungs.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 09:54 AM

Is this the one where the Army did the experiments and found out the cohort that had been vaccinated did worse than non vaccinated? Fauci wasn’t involved in the experiment but he thought it should be classified because it would create vaccine reluctance.

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 09:57 AM (ZdaMQ)

114 I would imagine that visiting the Keys would be much more fun by boat than car.

Never been there. Went to the Bahamas once in the early 80s with my family. It was ok.

Corpus Christi in the late 70s was gorgeous. Do was Galveston.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:58 AM (yEz+x)

115 That's a long way to drive to see a six-toed cat.

Posted by: Felix at September 29, 2026 09:58 AM (Fn+3X)

116 109 "hit it!"

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 09:59 AM (Bep7s)

117 Piper, remember:

You Hold The Keys To Teamwork.

Posted by: Motivational poster in the break room at September 29, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Causeways over water always feature a f-dump, f-dump, f-dump, sound as you drive over the expansion joints.

Posted by: Auto Autist at September 29, 2026 10:00 AM (Fn+3X)

119 114 my parents drove my bitchin' camaro up from the bahamas.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:01 AM (Bep7s)

120 118 i love a good f-dump.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s)

121 Are we headed to the keys?
Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 09:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

To the lochs.

Posted by: A Scotsman at September 29, 2026 10:02 AM (TbWk/)

122 Hmmm, this gives me an idea.

Posted by: Bonn Scott at September 29, 2026 10:02 AM (u73oe)

123 On a back country highway near the town of Slick Rock in western Colorado there is a runaway truck ramp that looks kind of like this painting. It just ends abruptly at what appears to be a lip, with nothing beyond. I always imagine a ravine beyond the end of the ramp, piled high with runaway trucks. Like a Far Side cartoon.

(For those of you who are Flat Earthers, a runaway truck ramp is a feature of steep downhill road grades consisting of an exit lane that leads to a long uphill grade filled with sand or gravel. This lane gives truckers whose brakes have failed the ability to safely coast a halt. I do not recommend pulling your minivan off here for a family picnic.)

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)

124
This won't do. Please find something else. At once.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (eRlcH)

125 Have memories from the 70s of driving on the causeway across the Mobile Bay. It was right at water level and depending on the amount of chop you would see water splashing up against the pilings.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

126 111 >>Are we headed to the keys?

We is this winter.
Posted by: JackStraw at September

Fun! Where?

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (ZdaMQ)

127 123 the runaway truck ramp works at smilin' jim's. all the girls call her "the tunnel." fine lithuanian lass.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (Bep7s)

128 >>Fun! Where?

Marathon.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (viF8m)

129 125 Have memories from the 70s of driving on the causeway across the Mobile Bay. It was right at water level and depending on the amount of chop you would see water splashing up against the pilings.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:04

Have you seen the new bridge renderings?

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (ZdaMQ)

130 This looks like wretched video game graphics from yesteryear.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM (jBygX)

131 Tummy Rub Tuesday has been successful!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:55 AM (qRY7w)
===================
Are there chakras in the belly? Did not know.

Posted by: Al Gore at September 29, 2026 10:05 AM (mPnrf)

132 107 Hey Diogenes!

It’s dark and WINDY out here this morning.

Got a good belly rub without blood loss this morning. Tummy Rub Tuesday has been successful!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:55 AM (qRY7w)

***

You may be the lucky one. I'm headed to the golf course now.
Looking grim.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2026 10:06 AM (2WIwB)

133 gotta go slap some grounds on. hope there's some "snap!"

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)

134 @113 Just saw on our beloved Fox News they're playing up a measles outbreak in Pennsylvania so they can get vaccine mandates on the Amish. Remember when the Brady kids all got the measles? They got off from school for a few days and recovered.

But you can't keep Jayden, Hunter, and Olivia from going to school and travel ball practice. Dad's a music therapist and Mom's a very important college administrator so they can't stay home with the kids even though they're all over the age of 10.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 29, 2026 10:06 AM (qwx/I)

135 130 "driver2"

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:06 AM (Bep7s)

136 Very… workmanlike. Shadows on right side show posts but the railing looks like a big long blob there. Whut?

Nice clouds.

Needs some life. A tree. Or a dog. Or bobs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - boob's yer uncle at September 29, 2026 10:07 AM (xRCm7)

137 A comment based on last minute comments on the last thread:

Sadly, Muldoon's limericks are forgotten
It's not that the poetry was rotten
In Fate's curious flips
They changed to Chinese Sex Tips
By the AI that Ace drunkenly brought in!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:07 AM (YSUhf)

138 Bridge to Nowhere?

It looks like it would be a lovely drive, though.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 10:07 AM (8mulE)

139 Comin' into Los Angeles,
Bringin' in a couple a Keys....

Posted by: Arlo Guthrie and Jerry Jeff Walker at September 29, 2026 10:07 AM (Fn+3X)

140 Jack Smith is a terrible human being.

His opening statement is a full of laughs though. "Rule of law" indeed.

Posted by: Ann at September 29, 2026 10:08 AM (SHHm+)

141 114 I would imagine that visiting the Keys would be much more fun by boat than car.

Never been there. Went to the Bahamas once in the early 80s with my family. It was ok.

Corpus Christi in the late 70s was gorgeous. Do was Galveston.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:58

It depends on the Island, but driving the Overseas Highway is a very cool experience. But going by boat from the Keys to Cuba is also very cool.

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:08 AM (ZdaMQ)

142
I thought everyone in the Northeast was dead because of this storm. Which was caused by red-state yahoos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 10:08 AM (eRlcH)

143 136 Or bobs.

Don’t worry, I’m always here.
— Bob from NSA

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

144 Maybe we can distract Hegseth from pumping iron with all his SEAL bros and he can take a closer look at why the hell we still are maintaining a large Air Force presence including nukes in the UK.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 29, 2026 10:09 AM (qwx/I)

145 >>>our beloved Fox News

Our?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:09 AM (dK+Kv)

146 Upon reaching the end, if we discover that warm maple syrup served over French Toast has been banned, we'll know we were on the Highway to Hell.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

147 >>those are the grobnick slats.

Nice Royko callback!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 10:10 AM (NcvvS)

148 University police agreed to remove one automated license-plate reader near Cedar-Riverside after residents and elected officials raised privacy and immigration-enforcement concerns.
Cedar-Riverside is part of Minneapolis’ largest East African community and has long served as a hub for Somali immigrants.

Standards
Double Standards
3rd World Standards
->Shithole Standards

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:10 AM (/+uur)

149 145 >>>our beloved Fox News

Our?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:09 AM (dK+Kv)

=======

I've never once paid for cable.

FoxNews has never gotten a dime from me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:10 AM (I7axw)

150 Samsung wrong!

Samsung customers left with spoiled food after software update knocks out smart fridges

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

151 Trying to get GLO and Corpse of Eng to approve a 200 ft pier for one of my customers.

What a bitch!

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:11 AM (/+uur)

152 I haven't watched one minute of Fochs Newz since 2008.

Posted by: What Ailes Ya? at September 29, 2026 10:12 AM (Fn+3X)

153 150 Samsung wrong!

Samsung customers left with spoiled food after software update knocks out smart fridges
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

The fridge saved the guys at Pied Piper.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:12 AM (/+uur)

154 Bottom of the painting says "Overseas Highway 13/25"

What's the 13/25? Don't see how it could be a date.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 29, 2026 10:12 AM (8mulE)

155 @113

>>Is this the one where the Army did the experiments and found out the cohort that had been vaccinated did worse than non vaccinated?

There is no vaccine for Ebola and the experiment is not scientifically justified.

We should have a good idea what would happen if you drive a deadly virus deeper into the lungs.

You don't need imperiscism and observation of every f**** thing.

These people will do anything for grant money.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:12 AM (XV/Pl)

156
Corpus Christi in the late 70s was gorgeous. Do was Galveston.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 09:58

It was. great place for teenage naturalfake to live.

Though...the Oso could be awfully ripe when the wind blew the wrong way.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (YSUhf)

157 Trying to get GLO and Corpse of Eng to approve a 200 ft pier for one of my customers.

What a bitch!
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:11 AM

Have you tried employing pier pressure?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (0sNs1)

158 The fridge saved the guys at Pied Piper.
Posted by: r hennigantx

And Indiana Jones!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

159 129 125 Have memories from the 70s of driving on the causeway across the Mobile Bay. It was right at water level and depending on the amount of chop you would see water splashing up against the pilings.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:04

Have you seen the new bridge renderings?
Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:04 AM

No, I'll have to go look for them.

My father was a Navy veteran. Once my cousin was riding with him across the causeway and as they passed the USS ALABAMA she casually remarked "Wow, that's a big boat."
She was then subjected to his standard treatise on The Difference Between A Ship And A Boat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

160 Had a friend who was Pierless.

Posted by: He Was Home Schooled at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (Fn+3X)

161 Overseas Highway | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

I am sure I have seen this

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)

162 Trying to get GLO and Corpse of Eng to approve a 200 ft pier for one of my customers.

What a bitch!
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:11 AM

Have you tried employing pier pressure?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (0sNs1)

Now you're just piling on.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (dK+Kv)

163 Overseas Highway | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

I am sure I have seen this

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)

Intentionally?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:14 AM (dK+Kv)

164 Date 1940

Object Type Prints

Medium Lithograph

Dimensions

Image: 9 15/16 x 15 7/8 in.
Sheet: 12 5/16 x 19 1/8 in.

Edition

13/25 (+3 AP)

Inscriptions

Recto:

signed, l.r., beneath image, in graphite: Ralston Crawford.

l.l. beneath image: Overseas Highway 13/25

l.l. in graphite: Studio

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

165 That is a well done medium.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

166 No pedestrian walkway. Curbs angled to launch car over guards. Would not traverse.

Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2026 10:15 AM (FhXTo)

167 Now you're just piling on.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (dK+Kv)

My applications and drawings were Pier Reviewed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:16 AM (/+uur)

168 I like it.
Seen something a few months ago the Chesapeake bay bridge is getting very old and needs to be replaced or just torn apart

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 10:16 AM (mEJTf)

169 Intentionally?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 10:14 AM (dK+Kv)

I actually tried to raise a cultured child vs. the heathen I am.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)

170 My father was a Navy veteran. Once my cousin was riding with him across the causeway and as they passed the USS ALABAMA she casually remarked "Wow, that's a big boat."
She was then subjected to his standard treatise on The Difference Between A Ship And A Boat.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September

My daughter and I are confident we saw one of the ghosts on the USS Alabama! Their fireworks this year were great, we could see 95% of them from the Fairhope Yacht club. I also have a picture of us on our boat in front of the USS Alabama - for scale. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:17 AM (ZdaMQ)

171 You people making these pier puns are sick. You should all see a dock.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ)

172 This takes me back to another era.

https://tinyurl.com/8pk648bp

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 29, 2026 10:18 AM (VQ7/I)

173 I also have a picture of us on our boat in front of the USS Alabama - for scale.
Posted by: Piper

Barnacles need scraping?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 10:18 AM (w9Wax)

174 I always imagine a ravine beyond the end of the ramp, piled high with runaway trucks. Like a Far Side cartoon.
...
Posted by: muldoon
See ending credits "From Dusk til Dawn".

Right after
IDK psychos?
Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them.
I don't give a fuck how crazy they are.

Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2026 10:19 AM (FhXTo)

175 These people will do anything for grant money.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September

They were testing the vaccine on Animals. It didn’t work.

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:19 AM (ZdaMQ)

176 173 I also have a picture of us on our boat in front of the USS Alabama - for scale.
Posted by: Piper

Barnacles need scraping?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 10:18 AM (w9Wax)

=======

Weird pickup line.

7/10

Would use.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:19 AM (I7axw)

177 Saw an interesting conspiracy theory about the Brit jihadi bombers...

The British government knew about them and were going to allow them to do damage to the airbase so they could then claim Russia did it and have the war they've been wanting and prepping the populace for.

Not saying I believe it but the British government certainly isn't very interested getting into the bottom of the potential attack are they?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 10:19 AM (sKqQm)

178 Off-topic:

Saw Heart of the Beast yesterday.

Excellent movie in the Jack London "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild" man and dog in the wilderness tradition.

Plot involves an ex-soldier and his retired war-dog stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, and their efforts to survive and get back home.

Good direction and great acting in a minimal story with realistic stakes. Kudos to Brad Pitt for being willing to look grizzled and approaching 29.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:19 AM (YSUhf)

179 "160 Had a friend who was Pierless."

Your friend was a faucet?

Posted by: I have questions at September 29, 2026 10:20 AM (2Ez/1)

180 My applications and drawings were Pier Reviewed.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Start building without the bloody permits. Worst case, you'll be judged by a jury of your piers.

Posted by: Courthous Is Where Justice Is Dispensed...With at September 29, 2026 10:20 AM (Fn+3X)

181 These people will do anything for grant money.

The left: How dare you disparage our amazing medical researchers by arguing they are just motivated by money. Why, they are completely selfless in the pursuit of medicine!

Also the left: You know you doctor will cut off your foot to make a little $$$.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 10:21 AM (sKqQm)

182 Correlation Does Not Equal Causeway Vacation - a limerick

Down in Florida taking my ease
My face feels a gentle sea breeze
I've been driving since dawn
With the radio on
Singing songs in the sea of Keys!

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 10:21 AM (I0N4X)

183 141 hoping the raft has a tarpon.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:21 AM (Bep7s)

184 Maybe the crows would come to Ace if he built them a cawsway.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

185 Overseas Highway (Sketch, 1939)
Ralston Crawford

Artsy dot net: This work is a sketch (not the above painting, though true for both) for Ralston Crawford’s Overseas Highway, now held in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections in Madrid, Spain.

It depicts the "industrial sublime" of a clear vista along US Route 1 somewhere between Key West, Florida and the US/Canada border (1). The tonal landscape of Overseas Highway Sketch pulls the viewer in toward its small vanishing point. Marjorie B. Searl describes its "illusionistic pull... into deep space" (2).

The Seven Mile Bridge (Florida Keys)? "Driving across the Seven Mile Bridge gives the surreal illusion of floating or gliding directly over the ocean."

In 1946, Crawford was famously commissioned by Fortune magazine to document the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in a series of abstract, angular paintings. Crawford was also an accomplished printmaker and urban documentary photographer.

Would pass hanging today's selection. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 10:22 AM (NFX2v)

186 @175

>>They were testing the vaccine on Animals. It didn’t work.

Here is what people have to understand about "vaccines," vaccines are not super-soldier serums, the can only "trick" the immune system to do what the immune system is capable of doing.

Human and Primate immune systems cannot develop immunity naturally and if it cannot acquire immunity naturally it cannot be tricked into doing that which it cannot do.

These experiments are scientifically unjustified.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2026 10:23 AM (XV/Pl)

187 Brit Lass has an MRI this afternoon. Trying to figure out what's going on. It seems she needs some type of of surgery either way but we're hoping for the better type of news.

If you are the praying kind those would be appreciated. She's a tough northern lass but even strong gals have their moments.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 10:23 AM (ElJ7l)

188 Longest bridge I've been on is the one in Virginia. You pop out of a tunnel section and look around wondering where the land is...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 10:23 AM (sKqQm)

189 154 it goes north/ south.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)

190 Singing songs in the sea of Keys!
Posted by: muldoon

Sea++ !!!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 29, 2026 10:24 AM (w9Wax)

191 In 1946, Crawford was famously commissioned by Fortune magazine to document the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in a series of abstract, angular paintings.
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Crawford and bikini used to conjure up something very different for me.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 10:24 AM (ElJ7l)

192 So a man relieving himself off the side would be a pier peer?

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 10:25 AM (I0N4X)

193 It depicts the "industrial sublime" of a clear vista along US Route 1 somewhere between Key West, Florida and the US/Canada border
__________

Well that sure narrowed down the location.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 29, 2026 10:25 AM (JzUSu)

194 The dead center of the frame is offset to the lower left of the vanishing point. To me this creates a sublime tension in the image the keeps the eye unsettled. The clouds complete the composition by contrasting the strong, even oppressive, linear lines; they perfect the image.

There is an odd, surreal lack of a directional light. The dark areas of the right rail imply sunlight coming from the high right. However, the left rails are in the same tonal range as the right side dark areas - I want to read both as shadows however the left should lit up. This is another moment of sublime tension in the image.

Then there are the color division, large slabs of light green to the left, deep blue to the right and a blue on top, in what appears to be the same hue but with greater luminosity that completes the sense of depth.

I could go on but those are the bones of the image as I see them This is a fabuloso bit of work.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:25 AM (VyD10)

195 156 cow pie spores.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:25 AM (Bep7s)

196 The guy that popularized the bikini bathing suit named it because "it hit people like an atom bomb".

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (sKqQm)

197 Prayer up, Ellipsis.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

198 > 15 Looks like a boardwalk somewhere at the jersey shore.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (vzuC7)

Not enough hair-pulling cat fights.

Posted by: Snooki at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (qlLNh)

199 My father was a Navy veteran. Once my cousin was riding with him across the causeway and as they passed the USS ALABAMA she casually remarked "Wow, that's a big boat."
She was then subjected to his standard treatise on The Difference Between A Ship And A Boat.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

Boats sink ships.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (ExV1e)

200 It’s a lithograph printed with three stones. By varying the stone used for the sky, different sets of clouds appear in the work as seen in different museums.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 29, 2026 10:27 AM (fheZL)

201 199 Boats sink ships.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (ExV1e)

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"I get no respect, no respect!"
-the African Queen

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:27 AM (I7axw)

202
I saw Sublime Tension open for Squeeze at AWH in Austin in '81.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:28 AM (YSUhf)

203 My father was a Navy veteran. Once my cousin was riding with him across the causeway and as they passed the USS ALABAMA she casually remarked "Wow, that's a big boat."
She was then subjected to his standard treatise on The Difference Between A Ship And A Boat.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

Boats sink ships.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Now do ropes and lines.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:28 AM (VyD10)

204 Info on the actual highway with pictures

https://tinyurl.com/3jbdk8yd

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:31 AM (ZdaMQ)

205 178 anything but him. it looks fun, no way.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:31 AM (Bep7s)

206 I love love love this painting.

Is it surreal? Not necessarily. Could be. Where does the dock end?

Beautiful colors and lights, geometric lines and patterns. Plus, the water.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:31 AM (RIvkX)

207 > Boats sink ships.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (ExV1e)

What do you call a ship ten minutes after hostilities begin?

A reef.

Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 29, 2026 10:31 AM (qlLNh)

208 The CBBT opened in 1964 and is 17.4 miles long. It features two tunnel sections about a mile long, as well as the causeway. The tunnels are so the Navy can get their fleet into/out of Norfolk in case the jihadis or Godless communists bomb the CBBT.

Posted by: Modern Marvels at September 29, 2026 10:31 AM (Fn+3X)

209 Oh it's a real place?

Even more surreal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (RIvkX)

210 Now do ropes and lines.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:28 AM (VyD10)

I was an electrician. I was more concerned with cables.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (ExV1e)

211 Fenders vs bumpers

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (J63qs)

212
209 Oh it's a real place?

Even more surreal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (RIvkX)

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"Needs a mysterious, atypical character who speaks of a greater mystery with no answer."
-David Lynch

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (I7axw)

213 Clean picture and I appreciate the color contrasts. It not the most exciting work of art.

And since we're past 100 comments from the earlier thread:

Flake James Talarico Tells Christian Congregation to Find a Prophetic Voice to Follow Like “Muhammad… Toni Morrison or Mr. Rogers”

" Takarico'a statement was part of a broader message encouraging Christians to look beyond traditional religious authority and consider diverse sources of moral and spiritual leadership."

I have never read anything by Toni Morrison and perhaps that's my loss, but since Mr. Rogers was an ordained pastor in the PCUSA, I believe- before it went off the rails- he probably wouldn't endorse "Muhammad" as a prophetic voice. I doubt Mr. Rogers would call himself a "prophetic voice."
I guess Talarico is going for the Muslim votes and black women. Black women who are church goers probably wouldn't consider Toni Morrison a "prophetic voice" superior to the actual prophets of the Bible. Com'on!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 10:33 AM (Aqpmr)

214 Info on the actual highway with pictures

https://tinyurl.com/3jbdk8yd
Posted by: Piper

Interesting. I read this image as being in the Florida Keys without any notion of where it was located. That makes this image even better for me.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:34 AM (VyD10)

215 "Needs a mysterious, atypical character who speaks of a greater mystery with no answer."
-David Lynch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (I7axw)
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*looks up from fingerpainting*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

216 > Now do ropes and lines.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:28 AM (VyD10)

Don't forget to explain that a "sheet" is not a sail.

Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (qlLNh)

217 Thanks for the link, Piper. That was very nice. And thanks, CBD!

Posted by: Buck at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (z6ONu)

218 I'm watching an ordained Methodist minister right now. Hugh Beaumont AKA Ward Cleaver. An episode from 1961-Wally buys a ramshackle car.

Posted by: Hard On The Beaver Last Night at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (Fn+3X)

219 Interstate 664 has the Monitor-Merrimac tunnel under the Hampton Roads shipping channel. Traveling from Newport News to Suffolk you get a rare treat. Just after exiting the tunnel for about ten seconds you're very close to the level of the water. if you look to the left you'll see the iconic profile of the aircraft carriers at the piers in Norfolk: curved V of the hull, flat top of the flight deck, offset rectangle of the island. Sometimes you'll see as many as four. The world's largest Navy base.

'Murrica.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)

220
Would hang.

I tend to like paintings of real places/objects that are near-Abstract paintings.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (YSUhf)

221 215 "Needs a mysterious, atypical character who speaks of a greater mystery with no answer."
-David Lynch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (I7axw)
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*looks up from fingerpainting*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

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*stares in wonder at the blue rose in the finger painting*
-Agent Dale Cooper

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (I7axw)

222 Remarkably, Jack Smith can't remember anything that would but him in jeopardy of committing perjury. /sarc.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:39 AM (VyD10)

223 I'm watching an ordained Methodist minister right now. Hugh Beaumont AKA Ward Cleaver. An episode from 1961-Wally buys a ramshackle car.
Posted by: Hard On The Beaver Last Night at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (Fn+3X)
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I've been trying to get into Ozzie & Harriet but too much dialog not enough story.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:40 AM (RIvkX)

224 222 Remarkably, Jack Smith can't remember anything that would but him in jeopardy of committing perjury. /sarc.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:39 AM (VyD10)

So, Jack Smith does not know Jack Shit?

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2026 10:40 AM (Gqar8)

225 215 "Needs a mysterious, atypical character who speaks of a greater mystery with no answer."
-David Lynch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (I7axw)
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*looks up from fingerpainting*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)
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*stares in wonder at the blue rose in the finger painting*
-Agent Dale Cooper
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (I7axw)

Woof. Woof. That's my other dog imitation.

Posted by: Oddball at September 29, 2026 10:40 AM (wVcYX)

226 216 engine and motor.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:40 AM (Bep7s)

227 Don't forget to explain that a "sheet" is not a sail.

Posted by: Virginia-Class Skipper at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (qlLNh)

Obviously not. The sail is the sticky up part near the front. On real submarines, it has wings (fairwater planes).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

228 223 addams family.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:42 AM (Bep7s)

229 "Needs a mysterious, atypical character who speaks of a greater mystery with no answer."
-David Lynch
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:32 AM (I7axw)
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*looks up from fingerpainting*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

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*stares in wonder at the blue rose in the finger painting*
-Agent Dale Cooper
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:37 AM (I7axw)

*Cooper suddenly realizes he's in a cafe*

*turns to the waitress*

"Darlin', give me slice of your Key Lime Pie and a cup of your damn fine coffee."

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:42 AM (YSUhf)

230 I am fantasizing about getting a Transit camper van. What I am hung up on is how much storage space I should allocate to bourbon/whiskey/scotch and French mustard?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:42 AM (VyD10)

231 I've been trying to get into Ozzie & Harriet but too much dialog not enough story.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Somebody must have liked it. On TV from 52-66, 435 episodes, and more than 400 episodes on radio before that.

Posted by: Here Come the Nelsons at September 29, 2026 10:43 AM (Fn+3X)

232 229 *Cooper suddenly realizes he's in a cafe*

*turns to the waitress*

"Darlin', give me slice of your Key Lime Pie and a cup of your damn fine coffee."

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:42 AM (YSUhf)

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He's been off the cherry pie ever since he got back from the Black Lodge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:43 AM (I7axw)

233 I did not know Hugh Beaumont was an ordained minister. Thanks for the info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 10:44 AM (Aqpmr)

234 230 I am fantasizing about getting a Transit camper van. What I am hung up on is how much storage space I should allocate to bourbon/whiskey/scotch and French mustard?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Easy. Fill the water tank with booze. No wasted space.

Posted by: Practical Solutions, Inc.... at September 29, 2026 10:46 AM (Fn+3X)

235 fever and temperature

Caller: "Johnny has a temperature."

Muldoon: "We all do, ma'am!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 10:46 AM (I0N4X)

236
Too bad David Lynch is dead.

Though "Inland Empire" was not good. He still might've had enough juice for another couple of great movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

237 that goofy noir talking monkey short on nutflex is entertaining.

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:48 AM (Bep7s)

238 236
Too bad David Lynch is dead.

Though "Inland Empire" was not good. He still might've had enough juice for another couple of great movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

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He was supposedly bringing together a project at Netflix called Unrecorded Night. It was supposed to be 13 episodes long.

People involved call it the best script he ever had, but, you know, hyperbole of a recently deceased and well-beloved figure. We'll never know, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:48 AM (I7axw)

239 rocket and missile

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

240 i'm good with "the straight story."

Posted by: cmeat at September 29, 2026 10:49 AM (Bep7s)

241 233 I did not know Hugh Beaumont was an ordained minister. Thanks for the info.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Beaumont was a registered CO in WWII, but was in the US Army Medical Corps as a medic.

Posted by: Later In LIfe, A Christmas Tree Farmer at September 29, 2026 10:51 AM (Fn+3X)

242 that goofy noir talking monkey short on nutflex is entertaining. Posted by: cmeat

It is almost as good as the dog losing his mind over maple bacon.
https://youtu.be/wKXOLPmfr6k

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at September 29, 2026 10:51 AM (VyD10)

243 Well my easing back to work has ended. One of my instructors has a poor sick little, so tomorrow is all me! Guess my rebound game needs to be strong starting now.

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 10:53 AM (ZdaMQ)

244 The FBI is offering a $1 million reward that leads to the capture of the newest member of their Most Wanted Fugitives list, who is allegedly part of an organized crime group with ties to Southern California. Satinderjeet Singh, who is also known as Goldy Brar among other aliases.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 10:53 AM (RHGPo)

245 Jack 'ass' Smith COLLECTED Nearly 5,000 PERSONAL Checks From Americans Who Donated to Trump – SEIZED Records of Communication Between DOZENS of Journalists and Trump Officials

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 10:57 AM (RHGPo)

246 238 236
Too bad David Lynch is dead.

Though "Inland Empire" was not good. He still might've had enough juice for another couple of great movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:47 AM (YSUhf)

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He was supposedly bringing together a project at Netflix called Unrecorded Night. It was supposed to be 13 episodes long.

People involved call it the best script he ever had, but, you know, hyperbole of a recently deceased and well-beloved figure. We'll never know, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 10:48 AM (I7axw)

Well..dagnabit!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 10:57 AM (YSUhf)

247 115 That's a long way to drive to see a six-toed cat.
Posted by: Felix at September 29, 2026 09:58 AM (Fn+3X)

I was standing by the couch in the living room of Hemingway's house and I asked the tour guide if this was the place where ol' Earnest blew his brains out.....

Well hell. I didn't know..

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2026 10:58 AM (g8Ew8)

248 Senator Amy Klobuchar & former VP Pence are very fine people, per Amy Klobuchar.

Apparently, Jack Smith is not so much being probed over his investigations concerning the President, but rather January 6th is being re-probed by the democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

"Isn't it true?" (Followed by extremely long explanations as to what is true) asked by Senator Klobuchar.

Now Senator Katie Britt is doing well trying to wrap in the Artic Frost investigation but Jack Smith cannot speak to that.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 10:58 AM (NFX2v)

249 Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks Bulg I appreciate it.

Posted by: ... at September 29, 2026 10:59 AM (ElJ7l)

250 Who names their kid Satinderjeet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 29, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1)

251 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 11:02 AM (NcvvS)

252 250 Who names their kid Satinderjeet?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Jeets, who else?

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Posted by: webpage at September 29, 2026 09:52 PM (IE83X)

The Morning Report — 9/ 29 /26

Good Morning Kids. Let's start off with a couple of blood pressure-raising items and then ask a simple question. First off we have this rancid, repugnant despicable skank from Beantown...

. . . Registration documents tell enrollees that no legal status is required to earn a grant. “Classes cover organizing, public narrative, city government, immigration history, racism, and equity,” according to the New Bedford Guide. The program is also sponsored by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, which funds deportation-defense lawyers and opposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Wu’s administration is paying migrants $575 to enroll in a ten-week civic-engagement and community-organizing course to help migrants grow their political power to replace Americans.

From the funding of brown-skinned Anti-American foreign-born brownshirts with our own money, we move along to the ungrateful, self-hating America-hating scions of those who made fortunes by embracing America, Americanism and the free market to the fullest, now selling us down the river to the cancer on humanity from the east.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a "dangerous partnership with Communist China" and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy goals.
That's one of the findings in a new report, "The Rockefeller Network: How the Rockefeller Family Turned Their Oil Fortune into Extreme Climate Activism," out today from Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative watchdog organization.

Just to underscore the aforementioned, there's this bit of completely unsurprising commentary from the Speaker of the House...

Johnson revealed his thoughts about AI data centers during an appearance on Fox Business when host Cheryl Casone suggested that China has been stoking the opposition. “This is what Democrats do. Every election cycle they find something to glom onto and say that this is doom and gloom and everyone will die if we don’t win,” Johnson said. “Don’t buy it. This is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That’s not a conspiracy theory.”

I don't disagree, but certainly our own homegrown Luddite Communist scum are stoking the fears on their own, of course the Chi-Coms have the cash and wherewithal to fuel the propaganda campaigns against AI and for the insane Communists now running the Democrat Party in the hopes of derailing and hastening the destruction of America post November of this year and two years from now.

To this I ask of you all, where are our death squads?! Of course contrary to the Leftist blood-libels we are not racist Nazi white supremacists — we are tolerant to a fault, way too tolerant given that the wolves are now quite literally at our throats.

At the barest of bare minimums why are Wu the Rockefellers and all the other ne'er-do-well miscreant scions who commit treason by throwing billions of their forbears' wealth to those who seek our destruction, not in orange jumpsuits facing a life of pounding big boulders into pebbles.

A candidate seeking the State Senate District 47 seat in the November General Election was convicted recently of felony charges and sentenced on Thursday to seven years with two years to serve in a state prison. Or the Georgia State Senate. Justin Grant Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was convicted in a bench trial before Madison County Superior Court Judge Chris NeSmith, who found him guilty of cruelty to children and battery.

Meh, considering the past 200 years of our history, this is a nothing-burger from the Democrats.

If only we the people of We The People were the tiniest scintilla of the anti-(small d)-democratic fiends they accuse us of being, WOW! Where is our Meir Kahane/Simon Bolivar?!

Just axing the question, as the bromides from my old Brooklyn neighborhood might say. On these and all the other repulsiveness in the linkapalooza, I bid you all to,
Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy. Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections—and the Upcoming Midterms

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

City Hall is secretly plotting to use a taxpayer-funded “influencer army” to smear Big Apple CEOs and drum up support for the mayor’s massive tax hikes.
EXCLUSIVE: Giving them the business Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded troll farm plots new smear campaign against NY CEOs
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“USBP reminds migrants that under the leadership of President Trump and Homeland Secretary Mullin, the border has remained closed and secured for the last 16 months. Migrants considering making the dangerous journey to our country should also be aware that the days of ‘catch and release’ are over, and Biden’s disastrous open border policy has been SEALED SHUT. Anyone attempting to illegally enter the United States will be apprehended, prosecuted, and removed from the country.”
Border Patrol Puts Illegal Alien Caravan on Notice
The program is taking heat for explicitly excluding U.S.-born residents from being qualified to win one of the scholarships while using tax dollars for the sole benefit of migrants.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Pays Illegals $575 to Take Political Activism Class, U.S.-Born Residents Not Allowed
“This verbal guidance did go out to ICE offices across the country last night. I’ve spoken with ICE agents who received it & were shocked & frustrated by it.”
ICE: Arrests of Illegal Immigrants, ‘Collaterals’ Will Continue
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
For months, analysts have debated whether President Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran was working. Tehran’s propaganda has tried to turn high oil prices and slow negotiations into evidence of US weakness. The reality is less flattering for the regime and its military, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Trump has forced them into a prolonged cold-hot war that drains their finances, strains their regional network and strips away their leverage.
Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows again

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“In March, explosives were detonated outside a Liège synagogue.”
Belgium’s Intelligence Agency: Iran Behind Synagogue Bombing, Arson Campaign

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
As UNRWA scrambles to secure reticent Western funders, the unprecedented US action undercuts agency’s claims that it is not overrun by Hamas
EXCLUSIVE: US Identifies and Blacklists Three More UNRWA ‘Teachers’ Who Participated in Oct 7 Terror Spree, Kidnapped and Held Israeli Hostages

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NYC's mayor picked the fight. Israel's prime minister finished it.
Bibi’s Counterpunch
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
His always-busy press office and Maoist “mass engagement” cadres announced Monday a new Jobs NYC Center, a “hub connecting New Yorkers to careers in public service.”
Mamdani’s brilliant economic Rx: More government jobs
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The New York Post reports that the study, authored by Dr. Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Dr. Lars Powell of the University of Alabama, uses itemized Federal Election Commission (FEC) donation records to seperate first-time donors from repeat donors across the Republican platform WinRed and its Democratic counterpart ActBlue, then tracked how donations moved during two stretches of spam filtering last year.
Study: Google and Microsoft’s Politically Biased Spam Filtering Obstructed $117 Million in Fundraising for Trump & GOP
A push for factories, robotics and cheaper goods offers a proposed path through the fiscal squeeze.
The debt is growing. Can America build faster?
While it is true that both Russia and China have an interest in stoking American opposition to data centers, all available evidence suggests that debates around the issue have been entirely homegrown, with a recent YouGov poll showing that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their local communities. Data Center Watch also reported that nearly 120 data center projects were either blocked or delayed across the United States over the past six months.
Mike Johnson Claims Opposition to Data Centers ‘Coming from China’
AI development should not be allowed to suffer death by 1,000 permits and 10,000 regulations….especially as the Chinese are linked so closely to environmental lawfare in this country.
Data Centers Face Fines, Permit Delays as States Weigh AI Growth Against Local Impacts
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"He celebrated the Sept. 11 attacks"
Muslim Illegal Alien Plotted Chemical Weapons Attack in Montreal
The “ethical” banking system that comes with a Sharia rulebook.
Islamic Finance: What Looks Like Choice Comes With a Fatwa
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Say a prayer for Christianity because the state of Maine has just shown a way to steal it from American life.
Want to Kill Christianity in America? Try This One Simple Trick the State of Maine Pulled.
Imran Salha, the imam at the Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD), said Muslims "have two roles here in America: To teach about Allah and frustrate the Zionists.
Imam Linked to Abdul El-Sayed Called Zionists ‘Cockroaches of History’
SHAMPEACHMENTS (past, present & future), 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The documents, obtained through the Oversight Project’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, land before Smith testifies Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning his lawfare against Trump. They raise new questions about whether his office followed appropriate legal and ethical standards and what video Smith needed so urgently.
Exclusive: Jack Smith’s Office Bent Its Own Rules to Rush Software Purchase Days Before Indicting Trump
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The production index in the Dallas Fed’s Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, which the bank calls a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, jumped 13.4 points to 29.5, from 16.1 in August. That is roughly three times the index’s long-run average of 9.7 and marks the ninth consecutive month of expanding output. More than 41 percent of manufacturers reported higher production, while 12 percent reported a decline.
Texas Factory Output Surges in September as Orders Pile Up
There’s a very real hidden economic value behind billionaires’ conspicuous consumption.
$60 Million Weddings And The Myth That Billionaires Cause Poverty
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Alito’s withdrawal follows months of questions about his participation. In May, a coalition of 30 organizations asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate his involvement in the case, pointing to his holdings in oil and gas companies.
Justice Alito Recuses Himself from Major Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The trans New York Times executive allegedly murdered in a Bay Area parking lot in broad daylight by his 77-year-old in-laws previously threatened to kill his wife, according to court documents.
EXCLUSIVE: Trans NYT exec threatened to kill wife, scared their kids with chilling book before his in-laws shot him dead: docs
If this "is the new normal," the attorney said, "you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye."
Lindsay Clancy Holdout’s Lawyer Drops Legal Bombshell
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"We, VC(P)E-ULiège, staged this pie-throwing incident to ridicule Damien Ernst."
Antifa militants assault professor during lecture in Belgium over his research into military AI
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. How can we best integrate it into education?
AI in Our Schools—Its Use and Abuse
ABORTION
Planned Parenthood Judge says that monkeys can “feel and love”. Can babies?
Dem Judge Says Monkeys Have Human Rights, Babies Don’t
SECOND AMENDMENT
If the redefinition were adopted it would require BB and pellet gun buyers to undergo the same background checks that prospective buyers of AR-15s, 9mm pistols, and other firearms are subject to now.
Democrat Rep. Kevin Mullin Pushes Bill to Redefine BB Guns as Firearms (Bibi Netanyahu to be confiscated?! - jjs)
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The ruling answered who holds the ballots, not what happened to them. The real fight is over who controls the investigation.
California Supreme Court Tells Sheriff Bianco To Give The Ballots Back
The thing that never happens keep on happening.
DOJ Secure Guilty Pleas for Dozen Non-Citizen Illegal Voters
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
"A 5-year-old child was the victim."
Candidate Convicted of Cruelty to Children Wins Democrat Primary
Preacher Andy seems to think that being a good neighbor is now about how generous the government can be with your tax money.
Andy Beshear's New Religion
“We have video showing piles of cash being given to a D.C. councilmember as part of a $156,000 bribe,” said Jeanine Pirro before vowing to retry.
DC Politico Caught Taking Envelopes Of Cash On Camera Gets Off With Mistrial
‘There are several red flags here,’ warned former IRS nonprofit tax law specialist Patrick Sternal
Angie Nixon’s Charity Raised a Major Haul To Fund Her Black Power ‘Resistance Cafe’: How She Really Spent the Money Is a Mystery
POLITICS
Plus: Kamala Harris flexes her famed rhetorical chops on the campaign trail
High Hopes Never Die: Buttigieg Surges to 1 Percent With Black Voters
. . . she may be more inclined to challenge Chuck Schumer in 2028, a race she'd be far more likely to win.
Titty Caca AOC's Presidential Ambitions Face a Humiliating Setback
CNN’s Harry Enten also looked at whether President Donald Trump has lost support among MAGA Republicans since the 2024 election. Trump won 99 percent of the MAGA Republican vote against Kamala Harris, Enten said. His approval rating among the group now stands at 98 percent. (Entenmann's>>>>Enten - jjs)
CNN Data Shows MAGA Republicans Match Democrats in Midterm Voting Motivation
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The brutally repressive communist regimes of Cuba and Nicaragua utilized their platform at the United Nations General Assembly over the weekend to support each other — omitting the ruling communists’ responsibilities for the abject misery of their respective peoples.
Latin America’s Communists Back Each Other at U.N. amid Conservative Wave
Among those who defied American travel bans were an "abortion doula," a "Hood Communist," and a transgender organizer.
Meet The Left-Wing Activists Traveling To Cuba To Support The Communist Regime
A grim reality about the brutal murders denied by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The Brutal Murder of the Potgieter Family in South Africa
Why a nation of struggling students produces world-beating migrants.
India’s Human Capital Illusion
I am left with the impression that Americans still do not understand who Xi Jinping really is.
The Curious Case of Xi Jinping
How leverage wins.
Trump’s Greenland Agreement is the ‘Art of the Deal’ in Action
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Russia spent the last week of September bombing Kyiv’s internet, which has serious ramifications for the direction of the war.
When Russia Bombs The Cloud, The Kill Chain Moves Onboard
Ukrainian forces have liberated three more villages and restored full control to two others on Monday in a push that saw Russia suffer 2,000 casualties, officials said.
Land grab New Ukraine offensive Operation Vivaldi recaptures several towns — and takes out 2,000 Russian troops
“It has become an entire industry and is very profitable. Russia suffers 30,000–40,000 casualties every month and they are no longer able to cover their losses,” Vitaliy Matvienko, who heads a Ukrainian state project on Russian surrenders, told The Post.
Russia paying US recruits $26,000 to become cannon fodder in Ukraine war
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
What the what…..
UK Police Release Five Suspects as RAF Fairford Terror Investigation Continues
Meanwhile, one Army unit offers troops bonus days off to play ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ if they reenlist.
From Halo to Hormuz: Xbox Controllers Take Aim at Enemy Drones
‘Dangerous partnership with Communist China’ is detailed in new report
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Sent Nearly $32 Million to China-Based Nonprofits, Watchdog Finds
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"I do think it’s going to be somewhat the new normal."
The ‘Wildly Unusual’ Deadly Outbreak Spreading Across The U.S. (besides Leftism and Islam? - jjs)
"What is legal is not necessarily moral."
Doctors Execute Toddler As Part Of Country’s Legal Euthanasia Regime
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The flight was not perfect. . . Despite the loss of two engines, it appears to complete that soft splashdown as planned, though this is not confirmed.
Starship makes orbit!
It will serve as an engineering evaluation mission to verify improved thermal environments, obtain necessary performance data for system qualification, and identify residual risk ahead of crewed missions.
NASA approves unmanned Starliner cargo mission for December 2026
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
David Crowley, the Democrat nominee for governor, has a long track record of supporting radical transgender policies.
Wisconsin Dem Silent As High School Brawl Puts Transgender Issues Front And Center In Governor Race
Today’s rule-making clears the Biden Junta's illegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations and restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration, which we have been enforcing since the first days of the Administration.
Trump Junks Biden’s Title IX Rules, Now Defines Sex by Biology
What explains this curious phenomenon and "coincidence?" (They all have the same publicist - jjs)
Glazov Gang: So Many Celebrities With Trans Kids?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
They saw what happened to Weinstein and Epstein, and they don't want it to happen to them.
The New ‘Primetime’ Movie Is Evil Propaganda. Here’s Why Hollywood Resents The Truth.
Hollywood’s curious take on America’s predator-catcher.
Who is the Real Predator?
Christian Toto: Progressive Hollywood's motives aren't pure, and their actions prove it
Don’t Fall for Left’s Last-Minute Assault on ‘Woke 1’
The actor proved himself exactly what he imagines the targets of his own contempt to be: a fool motivated by his own best interests.
Acting the fool Adam Brody among the shallow celebrities reading from their sordid anti-Israel script
Stipe will be joined by New York jeweler Alexis Bittar, Democrat House candidate Brad Lander, ex-Congressman Jamaal Bowman, and Brooklyn Councilman Chi Osse. Socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s close campaign aides, political strategists Andrew Bard Esptein and Zara Rahim, are also members of the hosting group.
Rocker Michael Stipe Holding Major NYC Fundraiser for Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed
What matters is when the expectation of alignment becomes pervasive enough that people begin policing one another's silence.
The Death of Neutrality When a Free Society Demands That Everyone Take a Side

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1 Mornin'.

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

2 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

3 Nooded.

Awaiting corgis.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

4 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 07:32 AM (/+uur)

5 "Rocker Michael Stipe Holding Major NYC Fundraiser for Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed"

Stupid whiney people everywhere.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

6 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

7 Are you with me, Mayor Wu?
Are you really just a shadow of the woman that I once knew?
Are you crazy? Are you high?
Or just an ordinary guy?
Have you done all you can do?
Are you with me, Mayor?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

8 Thank you JJ

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 07:34 AM (xAoHD)

9 Wu's administration isn't paying anyone.

Taxpayers are.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 07:35 AM (2Ez/1)

10 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 29, 2026 07:36 AM (Gq9/0)

11 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 07:37 AM (VUYAh)

12 >I am left with the impression that Americans still do not understand who Xi Jinping really is.
-----

He's a pudgy treacherous commie fuck

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)

13 >UK Police Release Five Suspects as RAF Fairford Terror Investigation Continues
----

no need
those guys are long gone by now

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 07:40 AM (ZxPkt)

14 Who looks like Winnie the Pooh.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 29, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Paul-

You have a 2 to 1 shot of sucking your mom's cock today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 07:40 AM (DpZaL)

16 At the barest of bare minimums why are Wu the Rockefellers and all the other ne'er-do-well miscreant scions who commit treason by throwing billions of their forbears' wealth to those who seek our destruction.

The desire to Remake America is about 150 year old.
The (D), never accepting the loss of the Civil War decided that the Class System was the next best thing and created a Second Class Citizen of the black people.
Then with the turn of the 1900s Class War became the Big Govt Admin vs. Big Business. It was still a Class System War. Now the Class System War is Big Govt/Big Hollywood/Big Woke against the White people.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 07:41 AM (/+uur)

17 Gotta great deal on a fantastic pearl necklace on 6th Ave! Can’t believe how they can sell ‘em so cheap!

Posted by: 1st Time NYC at September 29, 2026 07:43 AM (0Dsks)

18 "Now the Class System War is Big Govt/Big Hollywood/Big Woke against the White people.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 07:41 AM"

You want a piece of me?

Posted by: The Patriarchy at September 29, 2026 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

19 He's a pudgy treacherous commie fuck
Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)
----
And those are his good qualities.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 07:43 AM (FZ29D)

20 Posted by: 1st Time NYC at September 29, 2026 07:43 AM (0Dsks)
=====

Enjoy winning at Three-card Monty

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

21 Don Black

The UK establishment is allied with Iran.

We have a lot of delinking to do. And maybe smuggling arms. But our own CIA is not trustworthy here. 5-Eyes is a shackle to out Intel community reporting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

22 We make it up in volume.

Posted by: Pearl necklace dealers at September 29, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

23 "Perfessor" Squirrel

The article on Xi was reveling. He is heading for a big fall.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

24 I think Charlie 3 is a closet mohammedan

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 07:45 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Mike Stipe - the whiny has been fag of REM? Sounds about right.

Posted by: 1st Time NYC at September 29, 2026 07:46 AM (0Dsks)

26 think Charlie 3 is a closet mohammedan
Posted by: Don Black

Been the word for a while.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 07:47 AM (DpZaL)

27 Agree with VDH. The Republicans in general and Trump communication team (who the hell are they, anyway?) in particular are doing a pathetic job of countering narratives and rallying midterm turnout.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 29, 2026 07:47 AM (b4LBp)

28 The trans New York Times executive allegedly executed by his elderly in-laws in a California parking lot previously threatened to murder his wife and her parents — and chillingly gave his children a book about a young girl whose mom died, according to court documents.

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was allegedly gunned down by Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, in the parking area at Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, with witnesses describing how the pair took turns riddling his body with bullets.
=====

Pro Tip: Don't marry a tranny.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

29 Good morning. Rain's a-coming mid-late week, finally, to unparch the lawn and cool things down a bit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2026 07:48 AM (wVcYX)

30 What's he got that we ain't got?

Posted by: Pantry Mohammedans and Mudroom Mohammedans at September 29, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

31 San Franpsycho

The parents will probably show no remorse. Just taking out the trash.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

32 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 07:52 AM (RORbl)

33 Just taking out the trash.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
=====

Abusing the children should always be a fatal error.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

34 The trans New York Times executive allegedly murdered in a Bay Area parking lot in broad daylight by his 77-year-old in-laws previously threatened to kill his wife, according to court documents.“

That couple are my new heroes! They knew what he was going to do, they knew that authorities would do nothing, and they knew that they were old, the State could never do much to punish them. Bravo! They saved their daughter and their grandkids!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 07:54 AM (fuM78)

35 >>>What's he got that we ain't got?
Posted by: Pantry Mohammedans and Mudroom Mohammedans at September 29, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)
*****
A tip of the hat....Mudroom Mohammedans is pretty damn good!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 29, 2026 07:54 AM (vRGbb)

36 That Son-in-law execution makes me wonder.

At what age is prison not a deterrent?

🎼 ♬

I Have a List... A List of People Who Will Not Be Missed.
🎶

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

37 A series of unfortunate events.

Clueless Christiane: CNN’s Amanpour Blames ‘Series of Events’ for Public’s Distrust of Legacy Media

https://tinyurl.com/4u3v42kh

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Lies, Christiane, they're called lies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 07:55 AM (ndZc7)

38
Her Majesty returns today from her trip. I'm doing laundry, cooking and cleaning. Bed clothes are being washed. Potatoes have been boiled preparatory to roasting. Getting ready to make ham, bacon and bean soup. When it gets light, need to take the floor mats out to be hosed down. Floors to sweep and scrub. Vacuuming the drifts of dog hair.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 07:56 AM (eRlcH)

39 I guess I’m in a crappy pessimistic mood today because there are three things I’m tired of hearing
1. Don’t worry, Iran is on the brink of defeat
2. China is on the brink of collapse
3. Don’t worry, all those horrible far left candidates on their side will sink the Dems in the midterms

I’d love it if 1-3 were true… but I keep seeing confident assertions without evidence. I hope we’re not all whistling past the graveyard…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 07:56 AM (xAoHD)

40 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?

The divergence from Reality is impossible to hide among thinking individuals.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

41 Want to Kill Christianity in America? Try This One Simple Trick the State of Maine Pulled.

There are a long list of caesars, kings, ministers, dictators, legislatures, tribunals, councils and HOAs that have tried to stamp out Christianity.

There will be a remnant. There will always be Martyrs.

Until the last of the Elect has been redeemed, then the Judgement.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 07:57 AM (nCgQz)

42 Hadrian the Seventh

Hurrah! A family again.

Did TBD get dropped off already?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

43 Beep....

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 29, 2026 07:58 AM (t+3cP)

44 LinusVanPelt

It is up to us and like-thinking legacy Americans.
An uncaring world is really counting on all of us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

45
1.) Chopped his dick off

2.) Destroyed the family

3.) Threatened to kill the woman

4.) Worked for the NYT

Really, any one of these is a pretty good reason to merc your SiL. Release 'em, Dano.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2026 07:58 AM (BI5O2)

46 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 07:56 AM (eRlcH)
====

*dons white glove*
*runs fingertip along the mantelpiece*
*inspects fingertip*
Hmm. Well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)

47
Did TBD get dropped off already?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

_________

The Big Dummy is back in Ohio. Likely wondering what happened. He just gets dog food. No treats. No frosted sugar cookies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 07:59 AM (eRlcH)

48 Why is there no media coverage of the Ukraine/Russia war? No embedded 'war correspondents'; no daily death toll; no video from the home fronts. We know almost nothing about the conflict and how it is being fought by either side. Is there a good source for real information?

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at September 29, 2026 07:59 AM (uaFRs)

49 Yudhishthira's Dice

Tulip Mania had nothing close to the hold of Trans culture with some people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

50 At what age is prison not a deterrent?
****

It is not age but attitude. Never mess with someone who no longer cares.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 08:00 AM (r3Zca)

51 Why is there no media coverage of the Ukraine/Russia war? No embedded 'war correspondents'; no daily death toll; no video from the home fronts. We know almost nothing about the conflict and how it is being fought by either side. Is there a good source for real information?
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at September 29, 2026 07:59 AM (uaFRs)

Beep beep.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 29, 2026 08:01 AM (t+3cP)

52 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

53 Gouverneur Morris

The Institute for the Study of War has a mostly daily summation.

I found them to be the Deep-States mouthpiece. But retrospective looks at their narrative can be revealing. The Front Line determinations are useful, as are the drone number counts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

54 Boston.

Elections have consequences.

You ignored who she was. You likely stayed home because the R wasn't sexy enough for you to vote.

Oops.

Anti-Americans are winning.

We're not serious enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:02 AM (ccf/V)

55 Good morning fellow Mo-Rons. Now off to read some articles.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 29, 2026 08:02 AM (JNTt1)

56 Morning Horde thx JJ.
So Stipe is holding a fundraiser for al-Sayed. Stipe is bisexual, tending toward gay. Enjoy the flight from the he rooftop Mikey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 08:03 AM (WyJlA)

57 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Look at the Curley Effect.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

58 Stupid whiney people everywhere.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

I liked our version better.

Posted by: REM at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (gLYp7)

59 The Big Dummy is back in Ohio. Likely wondering what happened. He just gets dog food. No treats. No frosted sugar cookies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Well, that sounds like no fun.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (DpZaL)

60 First do Evil

The first stretch ran from June 30, 2025, when the GOP consulting firm Targeted Victory told Google that WinRed fundraising emails were landing in spam, through September 15, 2025, when Google dropped a spam blacklist called SURBL that the researchers say had been improperly flagging the messages. During that window, spam filtering cut first-time WinRed donations by 75 percent across Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (/+uur)

61 Stupid whiney people everywhere.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 07:33 AM (MWfyi)

I liked our version better.

Posted by: REM at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (gLYp7)

I'll be hearing that song in my head all day now.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (gLYp7)

62 It is up to us and like-thinking legacy Americans.
An uncaring world is really counting on all of us.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

Right. Turnout, turnout, turnout. If we do, we can't lose. They don't have the numbers without fraud and our complacence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (b4LBp)

63 Oh, and he beat the kids, too.

And I looked him up, and he looks like Soyjak.

These two old Chinese people just took out the trash Americans won't.

They actually *are* Cultural Enrichers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2026 08:05 AM (BI5O2)

64 Morning, all. More job hunting until the screening call today. Which, being only a screening call, is only about convincing the recruiter that "yes, I do want and am a good fit for this job" (and hopefully also "yes you should market me to your boss not just slide my resume into a pile to be ignored).

Speaking to the content/links:

Datacenters: I think mostly-China is sowing seeds and hype, to give both reasonable concerns (there are some) and actually-wrong conspiracy theories (ditto) more spread and more visibility.

As for for communicating the good things about the economy (despite my personal situation, it's probably better than it was two years ago overall) - I think the individual candidates, yes, and probably the Party apparatchiks could do better. But I think Team Trump does a darn good job on the platforms that they aren't dealing with active hostility. It is, bluntly, not enough to dump the vague mandate of 'do better' on them unless you can offer concrete advice that works in the midst of an actively hostile media environment.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 08:05 AM (aJQbY)

65 56 Morning Horde thx JJ.
So Stipe is holding a fundraiser for al-Sayed. Stipe is bisexual, tending toward gay. Enjoy the flight from the he rooftop Mikey
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 08:03 AM (WyJlA)

Why ? Isn't he ahead by 100 points ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:05 AM (+gK6I)

66 1. Don’t worry, Iran is on the brink of defeat
2. China is on the brink of collapse
3. Don’t worry, all those horrible far left candidates on their side will sink the Dems in the midterms

I’d love it if 1-3 were true… but I keep seeing confident assertions without evidence. I hope we’re not all whistling past the graveyard…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 07:56 AM (xAoHD)

I don't know how you can seriously claim to have seen no evidence Iran is on the brink of defeat.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:06 AM (gLYp7)

67 That NYT reporter won his prize.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (DpZaL)

68 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (rOKnE)

69 The Institute for the Study of War has a mostly daily summation.

I found them to be the Deep-States mouthpiece. But retrospective looks at their narrative can be revealing. The Front Line determinations are useful, as are the drone number counts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

I agree - you may question their viewpoint, but that outfit has more comprehensive coverage of the Uke war than all other “news” organizations put together.

As far as everyone else is concerned, shit just happens from time to time, no one knows why, no one knows how.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (fuM78)

70 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

71 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Maybe, just maybe, PDJT has an October Surprise for Iran.

OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

72 Re: CA grandparents shooting son-in-law.

>The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.

I did not expect this detail.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (rJ48h)

73 Why is there no media coverage of the Ukraine/Russia war?

The fuel pump price is your proxy. Zelenskyy knocks out another refinery, the prices go up.

Knock out Zelenskyy, world begins to recover.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:09 AM (nCgQz)

74 mr tmz

It is all a mess. Had to push through the reporting to see it was so stupid.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

75 >>Wu’s administration is paying migrants $575 to enroll in a ten-week civic-engagement and community-organizing course to help migrants grow their political power to replace Americans.

This is the mayor who had (has?) a non-white Boston bureaucrat Christmas party, right?

This program is likely not a one-off, it's how all her mayoral business is conducted. She's there for Boston's non-white population, and ensuring it gets bigger.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:10 AM (rOKnE)

76 Community Notes

Ukraine is an abscess on the EU as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

77 I liked our version better.

Posted by: REM at September 29, 2026 08:04 AM (gLYp7)

One of the lamest music videos ever filmed. All REM videos were super lame.

The '90s were pretty cool. But anyone who's tempted to romanticize that era *too* much should sit down and watch a reel of REM videos to remind themselves that the Roots of Lameness first sprouted our mighty Tree of Lameness in that time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (BI5O2)

78 Google and Microsoft putting spam tags on R fundraising (but not D) should be a criminal offence. It seems to be a cut and dried civil case and the R parties need to sue in a friendly jurisdiction, like the 5th circuit. Unless and until these scumbag cheaters are made to feel pain, physical, financial, and and freedom-wise) this crap will continue.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (JNTt1)

79
I don't know how you can seriously claim to have seen no evidence Iran is on the brink of defeat.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:06 AM (gLYp7)

Sieges are slow but steady. Bessent referred to something yesterday that few people knew about, even though it was public info. Iran had been preparing for this war for years, and had parked a fleet of storage tankers off the coast of China holding about 300 million bbls of oil (iirc) they’ve been selling this to China ever since the war began - a big way they planned to get around any blockade. Bessent says that source will finally go dry in two weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (fuM78)

80 “All data centers that need any type of permit are at an absolute halt until we get back all the information that we need through these water studies, through the power studies, to the air permit studies,” Abbott said.

Abbott is fuckn idiot

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (/+uur)

81 *I don't know how you can seriously claim to have seen no evidence Iran is on the brink of defeat.

>>@AP

>>Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Tuesday, with traders in Tehran exchanging more than 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar

We aren't hearing more about Iran imploding for the same reason there's very little reporting on Russia-Ukraine. Neither is good for the left.

You might not actively listen to the media but they are still the ones who set narratives and it works on a lot of people. Constant garbage polls showing nothing but doom for our side helps convince a lot of people we are losing even if they know the polls are garbage.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (viF8m)

82 I thought Stipe died of AIDS. He looked terrible years ago.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 08:12 AM (DpZaL)

83
I don't know how you can seriously claim to have seen no evidence Iran is on the brink of defeat.

And as far as China, their BRI has taken a massive beating. African nations are waking up to the scam that has been pulled on them.

The West is propping up China. Their monied class is fleeing to any sufficiently White nation that will take them.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:13 AM (nCgQz)

84 I heard the reports of the elderly Chinese couple taking out the violent tranny trash. Reports all mentioned Dublin. I assumed it happened in Ireland.

Posted by: Silly Me at September 29, 2026 08:13 AM (Fn+3X)

85 28 The trans New York Times executive allegedly executed by his elderly in-laws in a California parking lot previously threatened to murder his wife and her parents — and chillingly gave his children a book about a young girl whose mom died, according to court documents.

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was allegedly gunned down by Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, in the parking area at Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, with witnesses describing how the pair took turns riddling his body with bullets.
=====

Pro Tip: Don't marry a tranny.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

If you're a tranny, don't marry a woman with living parents...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 08:13 AM (tOcjL)

86 Boobs!

https://tinyurl.com/ub98z95s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:13 AM (ndZc7)

87 I don't know how you can seriously claim to have seen no evidence Iran is on the brink of defeat.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:06 AM (gLYp7)

I haven’t seen any. Can you briefly summarize? I’ve seen Bessent and Trump and others asserting they’re finished but those were only assertions. Proof by assertion is not a valid proof

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (xAoHD)

88 JackStraw

I actively ignore the Media. Other sources of info out there.

How did that hyped storm affect you?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

89 In case ace hasn't used his phone to access the site, those ads that put an invisible layer that prevent accessing links in comments are still there.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (FixIN)

90 DC Politico Caught Taking Envelopes Of Cash On Camera Gets Off With Mistrial

A black Democrat is never going to be convicted in DC. Not anymore.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

91
Look at the Curley Effect.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

Nothing like straight up socialism to get things really going in the direction of wealth and prosperity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

92 72 Re: CA grandparents shooting son-in-law.

>The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.

I did not expect this detail.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (rJ48h)

So, the kid must not have been biologically the tranny's kid...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 08:15 AM (tOcjL)

93 Someone is bound to ask “why did we never attack these storage tankers if we knew they were there and that they were Iran’s method of getting around our sanctions?” Answer is that everyone know they were specifically earmarked for China, and openly attacking them risked bringing China into the war. No one wanted that, so the US decided to just sit tight until they ran out, which had to happen sooner or later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (fuM78)

94 It wasn't that bad here, Salty. A lot of rain, finally let up overnight, but the wind wasn't as bad as predicted.

Wind is what concerns me more than rain so all good, thanks for asking.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (viF8m)

95 Boobs!

https://tinyurl.com/ub98z95s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:13 AM (ndZc7)

Sadly, a suicide waiting on an opportunity......The media is disgusting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

96 "I liked our version better.

Posted by: REM "

You suck. I'd rather listen to marbles in a blender.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (MWfyi)

97 When you think you are one of the elites of the world, nationalism is a quaint notion.

Until the FMJ 7.62mm bullet transits your self-entitled cranium.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (2GVsD)

98 “All data centers that need any type of permit are at an absolute halt until we get back all the information that we need through these water studies, through the power studies, to the air permit studies,” Abbott said.

Translation: Regulatory Capture isn't the only way to build a moat around the established AI players. Texas is pulling up the ladder to the tree house to where all the big players already have their permits and dirt is flying.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (nCgQz)

99 The Big Dummy is back in Ohio. Likely wondering what happened. He just gets dog food. No treats. No frosted sugar cookies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This is an outrage! This cannot be allowed to stand! Contact TBD's congressman!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (VUYAh)

100 Bessent says that source will finally go dry in two weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:11 AM (fuM7

Which is another click of the ratchet in the right direction.

Iran's conventional forces are functionally removed from the board. (Stop saying 'they're firing three missiles a week!' as evidence that Iran still poses a conventional military threat.)

Their currency has been destroyed. They're out of things to sell, they have no way to make money to pay their fanatics.

Their nuclear program is, if not permanently destroyed, definitely destroyed for now. The cost and effort to rebuild will be ridiculous and easily observable.

Their proxies have all been neutered.

There are no conditions under which Iran can been seen as winning, or even holding serve. They're getting their shit kicked in by every measurable metric except for one: They still exist. That's it. Iran's existing.

If "Iran exists" is your measure of defeat, then yes, we're losing. Other than that, though...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (gLYp7)

101 28 The trans New York Times executive allegedly executed by his elderly in-laws in a California parking lot previously threatened to murder his wife and her parents — and chillingly gave his children a book about a young girl whose mom died, according to court documents.

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was allegedly gunned down by Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, in the parking area at Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, with witnesses describing how the pair took turns riddling his body with bullets.
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Here's the thing the "elites" don't understand. Grandparents are more terrifying than parents. They've secured their legacy. They've done all they can to create a better future for their children and grandchildren. They know their time is limited.

So DON'T PISS THEM OFF! They have far less to lose and a lot more to gain.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (FZ29D)

102 >>They saw what happened to Weinstein and Epstein, and they don't want it to happen to them.

While critics are reporting that the new movie flips the morality on 'to catch a predator' making Hansen the creepy bad guy, saw in review that pointed out how it is also pointing the finger at it's audience. See, it's not the show that's the worst, it's all you people who get off on watching the train wreck.

Classic Hollywood - it's not what a monster does, it's the people who watch him and judge who are the worst.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (rOKnE)

103 Re: CA grandparents shooting son-in-law.
>The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.
I did not expect this detail.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 29, 2026 08:07 AM (rJ48h)

I like how the inlaws took turns pumping the sodomite full of lead until dead.

Those two need a go fund me account and an acquittal.

Heroes.

Posted by: Pray and Spray the gay away at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (t+3cP)

104 LinusVanPelt

The two tells Iran is hurting are:

1) Lack of targeting tankers using the US Navy protected route. Fire volume is way down. Very few drones and missiles left.

2) Lack of money for food, and lack of water in Tehran. Inflation hitting the entire country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

105
Wind is what concerns me more than rain so all good, thanks for asking.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (viF8m)

I thought there was to be millions without power and hundreds dead or missing.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

106 So the rial fell to a record low? Who cares? In war it’s not over until one side surrenders. I don’t see Iran surrendering. Hell, in Vietnam we beat the shit out of the NVA and Viet Cong for a decade but it didn’t matter because they were not going to surrender.

The simple formulation here is: Iran wins by not losing. I don’t like it, but there it is… their leaders don’t care in the least if the rial falls

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (xAoHD)

107 Dublin is the less-classy twin city of Pleasanton.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

108 90 DC Politico Caught Taking Envelopes Of Cash On Camera Gets Off With Mistrial

A black Democrat is never going to be convicted in DC. Not anymore.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

Never was...see Marian Barry...

At least this one could be retried, but I don't know the jury breakdown (if it's pointless, it's pointless)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (tOcjL)

109 >The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.

ok this is getting interesting

meanwhile how about those Iggles!?!

lol omg

so sad

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 08:20 AM (j+aD2)

110 Regarding Alito's recusal: I haven't read the article, so... is there something special that actually makes it overwhelmingly proper for him to recuse? Or is this one of those "Reeee! He has stocks and we don't know how investment firms work!" things where Alito's a convenient choice to hound in hopes of flipping the outcome?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 29, 2026 08:20 AM (aJQbY)

111 Hadrian, could you please post The Big Dummy's new address?
I'd be happy to send him a CARE package of treats and cookies.

Posted by: Weekly at September 29, 2026 08:20 AM (Fn+3X)

112 If "Iran exists" is your measure of defeat, then yes, we're losing. Other than that, though...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (gLYp7)

The simple formulation here is: Iran wins by not losing. I don’t like it, but there it is… their leaders don’t care in the least if the rial falls

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:18 AM (xAoHD)

Fair enough. You're in the "Iran exists, therefore we're losing" camp. We don't agree on that, but I get how you can reach that conclusion.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:21 AM (gLYp7)

113 By Iran’s public statements you can see how much this siege is frustrating them. They want big battles so they can construct some kind of narrative of glorious resistance; but this slow siege of increasingly doing nothing day after day is making them even crazier than usual.

And I agree that for the most part, bombing has reached the limits of its effectiveness. There are still targets worth hitting, but the regime won’t end that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:21 AM (fuM78)

114 So DON'T PISS THEM OFF! They have far less to lose and a lot more to gain.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (FZ29D)
====

Among the Chinese Americans in SF at least, grandma and grandpa live at home and take care of the children while mom and dad work. They are the ones "in charge" and they are the law.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

115 >Re: CA grandparents shooting son-in-law.

>The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.

Um. . .?
She kinda walked into that one, didn't she?
Sad all around, but glad he didn't kill her.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:21 AM (rOKnE)

116 Translation: Regulatory Capture isn't the only way to build a moat around the established AI players. Texas is pulling up the ladder to the tree house to where all the big players already have their permits and dirt is flying.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:16 AM (nCgQz)

Probably a better translation: Despite it being stupid, a lot of noise is being created right now about data centers and the election is 6 weeks away. Any company which can't last 6 weeks without getting approval wouldn't make it anyway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

117 LinusVanPelt

I get where you are coming from. The reduction of the geopolitical power of Iran is a major goal. Which is in process.

To build back to the threat they were pre-conflict is beyond Iran's ability.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

118 >>So Stipe is holding a fundraiser for al-Sayed. Stipe is bisexual, tending toward gay.

WTH?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:24 AM (rOKnE)

119 Stipe is bisexual, tending toward gay.

Either you suck dick, or you do not suck dick. -- Andrew Dice Clay

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

120 Media created monsters, like the Handmaids of Lindsay Clancy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:25 AM (2GVsD)

121 >So Stipe is holding a fundraiser for al-Sayed. Stipe is bisexual, tending toward gay.

WTH?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:24 AM (rOKnE)

Stipe is homo. He's raising money for the destruction of America and the last chance at some semblance of freedom known to man.

Where's AIDS when you need it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

122
106 So the rial fell to a record low? Who cares? In war it’s not over until one side surrenders. I don’t see Iran surrendering. Hell, in Vietnam we beat the shit out of the NVA and Viet Cong for a decade but it didn’t matter because they were not going to surrender.”

North Vietnam was never going to surrender because they never lost the support of China and Russia. Iran will most likely never surrender; but they can be pushed to the point that the country becomes ungovernable and a chaotic state of internal collapse sets in. At that point they’re no longer a threat to the region.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (fuM78)

123 Our media is by and large an instrument for Iran's failing government. They're not interested in reporting anything other than fake newz that reflects poorly on an administration they hate.

That hate is what drives the newz cycle 24X7X365

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (RORbl)

124 I would point to one thing about Vietnam.

Communism only lasted a decade there after the war; the Party abandoned it in 1986 with the Renewal reforms... they could see it was a dead end before most of the world figured it out.

Since then, we've had a decent relationship with the country. Minh and Giap's crew lost that war as surely as we did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)

125 Pete Buttigieg has reason to celebrate after a recent poll of 2028 primary voters found his support among black voters surging to 1 percent.

Though the result is well within the margin of error, as most of the responders thought they were supporting Buttplugs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

126
Either you suck dick, or you do not suck dick. -- Andrew Dice Clay
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

Largely the only measuring stick in such situations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (ccf/V)

127 Where's AIDS when you need it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

Yooo hooo!!!

Posted by: Talarico, Beto, Bootyjuice, and Fauci, chillin in the bathouse at September 29, 2026 08:27 AM (gLYp7)

128 >>>UK Police Release Five Suspects as RAF Fairford Terror Investigation Continues

Wow.

A guess? They want them to disappear.

Politically inconvenient if they gave citizenship to known terrorists and didn't pick up on any of their activities with their awesome CCTC network because that would be racists 'n stuff. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:27 AM (rOKnE)

129 The story about the grandparents killing the "son-in-law" is an "only in today's America story". As I understand it the daughter got married to a woman who then transitioned to being a "man". It was apparently abusive no matter what it thought it was. So the grandparents said "enough"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 08:27 AM (WyJlA)

130 Stipe either is foolish for not seeing Sayd for what he represents or simply does not care and only wants to hurt what they hate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:28 AM (2GVsD)

131 At that point they’re no longer a threat to the region.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 08:26 AM (fuM7

Functionally, they're already no longer a threat to the region.

Now, the point is to make sure the lesson sticks. "Poke your heads up even once, and the peepee whacking will begin again."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:28 AM (gLYp7)

132 There's too much English going on here!

California Gov. Newsom Signs Law Easing Rules Requiring Students to Learn English

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)

133 Wow.

A guess? They want them to disappear.

Politically inconvenient if they gave citizenship to known terrorists and didn't pick up on any of their activities with their awesome CCTC network because that would be racists 'n stuff. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:27 AM (rOKnE)

*slaps on wrist*

"You guys do better at not being so damn obvious next time, will ya?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (ccf/V)

134 Mayor Pete's support is sampling noise?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (2GVsD)

135 There are no conditions under which Iran can been seen as winning, or even holding serve. They're getting their shit kicked in by every measurable metric except for one: They still exist. That's it. Iran's existing.

If "Iran exists" is your measure of defeat, then yes, we're losing. Other than that, though...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:17 AM (gLYp7)
----
Unfortunately, that IS a victory of sorts.

Iran's continued existence means they will rearm and retaliate when they feel they have regained some strength.

Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (FZ29D)

136 Victor Davis Hanson: Republicans risk repeating 1992...

Yeah, but remember, at least a third, and maybe more of them WANT to lose. They're dems at heart but have to run as Rs to win a seat - or stall - at the trough.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (1Ff7Z)

137 Nobody is stupider than Gays for Palestine.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (rJ48h)

138 As long as we don't go wobbly, Iran will eventually fall. Are the mullahs and IRGC willing to let millions of their own people starve to try and hang on to the vast power they have held for 50 years? Of course. What are their options?

They have made themselves pariahs, not just to the west but within their own region were they quietly dominated because they have been willing to exert power and virtually nobody stood up to them.

They will hang on as long as they can because losing means extinction. Doesn't mean they can hang on forever and their window is closing relatively fast. Slowly, then all at once.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (viF8m)

139 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Strong defeats lead to longer timers of peace with that nation.

The loss must be deep in every Iranian's mind.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

140 California Gov. Newsom Signs Law Easing Rules Requiring Students to Learn English

Because they can't read anyway.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:30 AM (2GVsD)

141
California Gov. Newsom Signs Law Easing Rules Requiring Students to Learn English
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:28 AM (ndZc7)

How America First of him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:30 AM (ccf/V)

142 So, what was the corpse's dead name?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:31 AM (2GVsD)

143 Yeah, but remember, at least a third, and maybe more of them WANT to lose. They're dems at heart but have to run as Rs to win a seat - or stall - at the trough.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (1Ff7Z)

This. They want to lose so they can have no power but sit back and fundraise off of telling everyone "I'm fighting for YOU every day as I push back on the evil Democrats" while doing absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:32 AM (ccf/V)

144 This is from CNN of all places.

>>@EricLDaugh
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>>🚨 UPDATE: Donald Trump posted overnight CNN's admission that he has 98% PERCENT SUPPORT among the MAGA GOP

>>"There's been no real decline in MAGA support...these folks say they're gonna vote for Congressional Republicans! That support is really holding up strong!"

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:33 AM (viF8m)

145 I've never owned a dog, just many cats through the years. I buy dog treats nearly every time I grocery shop. I ride my bike four times a week on a 12 mile circuit. I give treats to as many as six dogs on my ride, just depends who is out in their backyard. I'm disappointed if no one is outside. Sunday, I had 3 customers. They are all excited to see me. Yes, I've talked to the owners and asked if it was OK. I toss the treats to my Alaskan Malamute friend because he is so good at catching them in the air.

Posted by: Lots Of Tail Wagging at September 29, 2026 08:33 AM (Fn+3X)

146 There's no such place as palestine.

There's no such thing as a palestinian.

People are stupid. Russia and China are sitting back laughing their asses off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

147 Probably a better translation: Despite it being stupid, a lot of noise is being created right now about data centers and the election is 6 weeks away.

I think I like your translation. Texas has a weak governor with plural executive, which means his influence is appointments to the boards of agencies. Most regulatory powers are exercised by independent agencies and the people he appoints need to decide whether they want to go against the guy who put them there.

Yet, the governor just can't deny permits, that is why there are courts to challenge agency actions. So the agencies are probably ordered to slow walk the permits—and bureaucrats are particularly well skilled in losing paperwork and doing nothing.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:34 AM (/TiS1)

148 Don’t get me wrong, I think we’ve converged to exactly the right strategy with Iran: the slow anaconda squeeze.

In geopolitics, perceptions matter and I think we’d have been better off if we hadn’t made such grand pronouncements on several occasions. Just put the boot on the neck and keep it there. Yes Iran is greatly weakened and that’s good. But I doubt they’ll ever surrender so they have a chance to win the propaganda war (especially with our treasonous press). Don’t give them ammo in the propaganda war by overhyping our success

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:34 AM (xAoHD)

149 I think Wu was elected, just like Bombdaddy based on immigrant/first gen votes...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 08:35 AM (sKqQm)

150 If you really need something to cheer you up, tonight is opening night for the NHL.

Hockey is back!

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)

151 >>Doctors in the Netherlands killed a nearly 2-year-old child with severe brain damage as the country rolls out a new “termination of life” framework for young children.

Government investigators said that doctors who ended the life of a young child with developmental issues acted with “due care” after determining the child’s condition would not improve. The child had “extensive brain damage” after being born at just 26 weeks, the investigators said in a new government report on the killing.

Gosh, they decided to expand the Groningen Protocol?
Slippery slope is not a logical fallacy. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:36 AM (rOKnE)

152 “ Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”

John 4:35

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2026 08:37 AM (moGJJ)

153 Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.

Have you looked at a map of Iran?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:37 AM (/TiS1)

154 If you really need something to cheer you up, tonight is opening night for the NHL.

Hockey is back!
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)

WOOT!

But, I got roped into playing fantasy hockey this season.....such a beating.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:37 AM (ccf/V)

155 Stop the presses: Jim Harbaugh has issued some mild criticism of his QB Justin Herbert. I hope Herbert’s fragile ego can handle this stress….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:37 AM (xAoHD)

156 Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (FZ29D)

Iran, No Iran. One state, two states, ten states.

It all boils down to looking at a chess board analyzing positions while your "opponent" is holding a koran in one hand and a gun pointed at your head in the other.

The more we can stick with the original "flip the board and kick his ass" strategy, the better. The chess board is only there as a distraction. Kill the rugfucker who's trying to kill you, or don't. Because he's never going to stop trying.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2026 08:38 AM (aKiSo)

157 >> I think Wu was elected, just like Bombdaddy based on immigrant/first gen votes...

Probably. She was on the city council, always mugging for the cameras as she pushed for the most radical policies - rent control, free T rides for the poors and on and on. She's the local AOC who has been charming the lefty media for many years.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:38 AM (rOKnE)

158 Lizzy

The NSDAP T4 would be so proud of Holland.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:38 AM (2GVsD)

159 Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (FZ29D)

Now the difficult part. How?

How many dead Americans are you willing to accept to achieve what is, truly, a worthy goal? It would make the world (and the United States) safer.

For me, I wouldn't accept any dead Americans to achieve that goal. I learned my lesson fighting over Afghanistan and Iraq.

Kick their shit in, make the rubble bounce, then fucking leave. Reconstituting their governing structure isn't on us.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:38 AM (gLYp7)

160 yeah yay hockey!

is hellebyuck playing anywhere or ?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 08:40 AM (j+aD2)

161 Government investigators said that doctors who ended the life of a young child with developmental issues acted with “due care” after determining the child’s condition would not improve. The child had “extensive brain damage” after being born at just 26 weeks,

They could have waited a few years and run the adult version for political office like they seemingly do with ever other neural divergent creature.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:40 AM (/TiS1)

162 >>Yes Iran is greatly weakened and that’s good. But I doubt they’ll ever surrender so they have a chance to win the propaganda war (especially with our treasonous press). Don’t give them ammo in the propaganda war by overhyping our success

Where will they be getting money? Food?

If you haven't been, you should listen to Scott Bessent speak about the steps his team is taking to seal up Iran tighter than a frog's ass. They are finding every source, even things like crypto platforms and rogue banks around the world to deprive Iran of any income from the outside world. Zero.

And the military is blockading any forms of commercial trade. Yea, they can claim they are going to hang tough but the reality is they can't sustain a full commercial an economic blockade forever.

The timing is uncertain but their eventual fall is not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:40 AM (viF8m)

163 Michelle Wu won with 79,000 votes in her last election.

Boston proper has 675,000 in population.

Everyone stayed home because no one was sexy enough.

Reap it, Boston.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

164 is hellebyuck playing anywhere or ?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 08:40 AM (j+aD2)

Suspended by WPG for refusing to train.

He privately requested a trade months ago, saw no movement, then publicly requested a trade.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:41 AM (gLYp7)

165 "Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.
"

What if the non musloids don't want to be broken up?

Use force of arms on them? Ocupy them and force them to do it? What's your plan?

Posted by: Bigfoot at September 29, 2026 08:41 AM (rje/a)

166
is hellebyuck playing anywhere or ?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 29, 2026 08:40 AM (j+aD2)

He's currently suspended in Winnipeg because he demanded a trade and skipped training camp.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

167 off cryptid sock...

Posted by: Will Robinson at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (rje/a)

168 Here is my victory condition:

Every mullah in Tehran hanging from a crane in Shahyad Square.

Then we will have won.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

169 The NHL season goes on for 10 months with 94 teams making the two-month playoffs. I'll start watching next June.

Posted by: Faded And Jaded at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (Fn+3X)

170 This gives me newfound hope for the future of America. (/s)

Headline:[/]

"More than half of American adults read below a sixth-grade level"

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (I0N4X)

171 If you suddenly realize your partner in "social activism" is communist, totalitarian China, yhay's a good indication you've seriously fucked up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:43 AM (f8DjE)

172 >>🚨 UPDATE: Donald Trump posted overnight CNN's admission that he has 98% PERCENT SUPPORT among the MAGA GOP

>>"There's been no real decline in MAGA support...these folks say they're gonna vote for Congressional Republicans! That support is really holding up strong!"
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:33 AM (viF8m)

Trump has MAGA support.... Will that carry over to the Republicans running ? We shall see...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:43 AM (+gK6I)

173 Every mullah in Tehran hanging from a crane in Shahyad Square.

Then we will have won.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

They will have bugged out to moscow long before the nooses get tied.

Posted by: Will Robinson at September 29, 2026 08:43 AM (rje/a)

174
"More than half of American adults read below a sixth-grade level"
Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (I0N4X)

By design. Democrats and communists (redundancy is my specialty) win when the electorate is overwhelmingly stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)

175
Trump has MAGA support.... Will that carry over to the Republicans running ? We shall see...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:43 AM (+gK6I)

Again, this is why we can't have nice things. "Vote like your life depends on it!!!!"

"Nah......I'm just not feeling my candidate."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:44 AM (ccf/V)

176 168 Here is my victory condition:

Every mullah in Tehran hanging from a crane in Shahyad Square.

Then we will have won.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

Mine too.. And throw in the "judge" who has been sentencing the protestors to death with no trial to speak of...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:45 AM (+gK6I)

177 This. They want to lose so they can have no power but sit back and fundraise off of telling everyone "I'm fighting for YOU every day as I push back on the evil Democrats" while doing absolutely nothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:32 AM (ccf/V)

Pay attention all you naysayers: Sponge is a very intelligent and perceptive commenter.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

178 >>🚨 UPDATE: Donald Trump posted overnight CNN's admission that he has 98% PERCENT SUPPORT among the MAGA GOP

>>"There's been no real decline in MAGA support...these folks say they're gonna vote for Congressional Republicans! That support is really holding up strong!"
Posted by: JackStraw

Donald Trump could walk down 5th Avenue shooting democrats and I would gladly be his ammo bearer.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 08:45 AM (VUYAh)

179 At ZH, dick-shaped weather pattern threatens midwest USA.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 08:45 AM (Jr5Lq)

180
Pay attention all you naysayers: Sponge is a very intelligent and perceptive commenter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

Prepare for never ending ridicule and shame......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

181 Russia spent the last week of September bombing Kyiv’s internet, which has serious ramifications for the direction of the war.
--------------------------
Russia almost has to take down Starlink in Ukraine, if they want to bring rhe Zelensky government to its knees.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:46 AM (f8DjE)

182 Today Is National Coffee Day ☕️

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

183 Not only is Trump supported by MAGA and the GOP, but we are excited to get out and vote.

Kick those scumbag Democrats to the electoral curb!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:48 AM (f8DjE)

184 Meanwhile Dora and ICM, both located in Ukraine, keep releasing new mold model kits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:48 AM (2GVsD)

185 >>The NSDAP T4 would be so proud of Holland.

Indeed.
They've been killing imperfect newborns for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:49 AM (rOKnE)

186 eepp

Dora Wings.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:49 AM (2GVsD)

187 A "reporter" finally asked one of the Dems, Ro Khana I believe, what the impeachable offense Trump could be tried over and he said the illegal war in Iran

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:49 AM (+gK6I)

188 Just in time for the midterms, because their numbers for women are down, we're getting the left pushing a "she was drugged and gang raped for hours at Connell and the only punishment for the perps was to write an essay!!"

If your response was "that's horrible!" you fell for the op.
If you said, "that does not sound like it's true/ the whole story " you're right.

If you didn't know, the "1 in 5 women are raped" is because rape is defined as "consensual sex i later regretted, maybe only after years later."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 08:49 AM (3cUTc)

189 Thune is busy writing his "lose with good grace" speech. He practices it in front of Schumer every afternoon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:49 AM (f8DjE)

190 Weather's going to be relatively gorgeous* here in S.F. over the next few weeks, hitting the low-80s and dry.

*Low-80's is way too hot for me but it's nice for most people.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (Fv808)

191 >> Today Is National Coffee Day ☕️

I will celebrate today - and every day.
Cheers!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (rOKnE)

192 So Many Celebrities With Trans Kids?

++++++++++++++

"More than half of American ~~adults~~ celebrities read below a sixth-grade level"

See. This quite probably explains everything.

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (I0N4X)

193 Prepare for never ending ridicule and shame......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:46 AM (ccf/V)

You or me?

Eh, I'm used to it.

(shrugs)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (1Ff7Z)

194 You wanna sit home sucking on that black pill and not vote? You get whom others vote for you.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (Fv808)

195 Anna Puma

Do you donate your completed models to museums?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (u82oZ)

196 182 Today Is National Coffee Day ☕️
Posted by: redridinghood

Finally, a National redridinghood Day I can support! Full-throatedly, even!

Posted by: Caffeinated Carlos at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (Fn+3X)

197 I guess the KKK is becoming more inclusive.

Three black men now charged with "lynching" death of black Mississippi woman

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (ndZc7)

198 I don't think Iran's got a functioning government now. The mullahs, most of them anyway, have bugged out. The "president" who was at the UN last week is, IMO, a figure head... not in charge of shit over there.

The remaining IRGC commanders and their units are calling the shots with little, if any, coordination or support for that matter.

It's a slow boil. But it's still a boil. They're cooked but just don't realize it yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (RORbl)

199 Iran as a nation state must be broken up and dissolved into smaller territories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2026 08:29 AM (FZ29D)

Reportedly, the groups who comprise Iran wish to remain a united Iran. No good has ever come from the west telling other people where their borders need to be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

200 You or me?

Eh, I'm used to it.

(shrugs)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (1Ff7Z)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (ccf/V)

201 One of the things I most look forward to on the evening of November 3: The Talarico concession speech after losing by double digits

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (xAoHD)

202 Meanwhile Dora and ICM, both located in Ukraine, keep releasing new mold model kits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:48 AM (2GVsD)

Res-kit keeps putting out new aftermarket stuff, too. I'm very surprised by it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (gLYp7)

203 >>Donald Trump could walk down 5th Avenue shooting democrats and I would gladly be his ammo bearer.

That wasn't me saying that 98% of Trump's base is going to vote for Republican candidates, that was CNN's pollster.

Reports of MAGA apathy are greatly exaggerated because that's what the leftist media does. They try to build a sense of doom on our side by focusing on gas prices or inflation while ignoring both were significantly higher under Biden.

The left wins by demoralizing us. Don't let them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:51 AM (viF8m)

204 190 Weather's going to be relatively gorgeous* here in S.F. over the next few weeks, hitting the low-80s and dry.

Here it will in the 90's which I am not happy about

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:52 AM (+gK6I)

205 Go Canada!

Canadian secretary of state says Canada's immigration system is "the envy of the world" after Trump says the country is "destroying itself"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)

206 what the impeachable offense Trump could be tried over and he said the illegal war in Iran
--------------------
Khanna should move to Hawaii. He's the natural heir to Mazie Hirono

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:52 AM (f8DjE)

207 *Low-80's is way too hot for me but it's nice for most people.
======

I'll have to make sure the fam stays hydrated. They suffer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

208 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

209 Canadian secretary of state says Canada's immigration system is "the envy of the world" after Trump says the country is "destroying itself"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)

"Nothing to see here, please disperse."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (ccf/V)

210 I guess the KKK is becoming more inclusive.

Three black men now charged with "lynching" death of black Mississippi woman
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Hell, there's five blacks in the KKK in Mississippi that were on the Nolan Wells investigation/grand jury.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (VUYAh)

211 >>Just in time for the midterms, because their numbers for women are down, we're getting the left pushing a "she was drugged and gang raped for hours at Connell and the only punishment for the perps was to write an essay!!"

Demonstrating exactly why the POLICE should be handling this, not the university. Were they not involved at all (no, haven't been following this).

Oh right, universities and the Obama admin engineered for all "campus rape epidemic" cases to be handled internally so that universities could easily demonize and punish men without the pesky due process stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (rOKnE)

212 Donate? No, they just fill up shelves.

Best get back to the 1/48 MiniArts Fw 190D-9 on workbench. Sprue Brothers is having a 20% off MiniArt sale right now, better resist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:54 AM (2GVsD)

213 CNN reported on Sunday that MAGA enthusiasm for voting is at exactly the same level as Democrats. Trump supporters are excited to vote and support him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:54 AM (f8DjE)

214 Today's time waster is the Senate Judiciary Committee has invited Jack Smith to stop by for a chat. There should be plenty of Trump Derangement Syndrome on display by the Democrats.

It should start about 9:00 a.m. eastern time

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (VyD10)

215 They want to lose so they can have no power but sit back and fundraise off of telling everyone "I'm fighting for YOU every day as I push back on the evil Democrats" while doing absolutely nothing.

The failure to pass the SAVE America Act may have wrecked those aspirations. We know for an absolute fact that enough in the GOP have zero interest in "fighting" for anything other than to keep their seat at the trough.

And those puppets are being replaced by humans. Which is a good sign since it is easy to believe that 95% or more of the public is tuned out and more interested in further poisoning their souls and minds on TikTok dreck. This kind of rejection of these seditious weasels is encouraging.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (pUU4E)

216 213 CNN reported on Sunday that MAGA enthusiasm for voting is at exactly the same level as Democrats. Trump supporters are excited to vote and support him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 08:54 AM (f8DjE)

The fly in the ointment are the Independents

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (+gK6I)

217 Washington Nearsider

Just from The Res-kit parts you could almost build a Revell/Eduard 1/48 PBY Catalina.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (2GVsD)

218 One of the things I most look forward to on the evening of November 3: The Talarico concession speech after losing by double digits
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

God is on his side.

James Talarico
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.
When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.
When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.
When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

219
Demonstrating exactly why the POLICE should be handling this, not the university. Were they not involved at all (no, haven't been following this).

Oh right, universities and the Obama admin engineered for all "campus rape epidemic" cases to be handled internally so that universities could easily demonize and punish men without the pesky due process stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (rOKnE)

There should be no such thing as "University Police."

You reside within a jurisdiction. You abide by the laws of the city. If the city needs more officers to patrol the campus, so be it.

This whole schools having their own police department and their own rules is bullshit and rife with corruption.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)

220 "When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds." - Talefreako

Ba'al approves this message.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)

221 The Ukrainians launched a powerful counteroffensive in the Lyman section of the Donbas. Unfortunately in the North near both Kharkiv and Sumy and in the south around Orakhiv the Russians are moving. The Lyman attack may be the last Uke offensive

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 08:57 AM (WyJlA)

222 Demonstrating exactly why the POLICE should be handling this, not the university. Were they not involved at all (no, haven't been following this).

Oh right, universities and the Obama admin engineered for all "campus rape epidemic" cases to be handled internally so that universities could easily demonize and punish men without the pesky due process stuff.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:53 AM (rOKnE)

This is sounding like that La Crosse team

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 08:57 AM (+gK6I)

223 I pity the Spherical Guatemalan lady who dusts Anna Puma's abode.

Posted by: Model Citizen at September 29, 2026 08:57 AM (Fn+3X)

224 Go to Iran International and read the high points of the letter that the IRGC sent to academics, politicians and skews services about the reasons that people should vote out the current administration.
A better laugh you will not have all week.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 08:57 AM (QwZKw)

225 Today Is National Coffee Day ☕️
Posted by: redridinghood

I will drink two cups of it!

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 08:58 AM (Oy/m2)

226 >>This whole schools having their own police department and their own rules is bullshit and rife with corruption.

Bingo!

The choice to handle the "rape" stuff was suspect from the get-go. Clown courts set up to destroy men and male institutions like fraternities easily.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:58 AM (rOKnE)

227 >>Reportedly, the groups who comprise Iran wish to remain a united Iran. No good has ever come from the west telling other people where their borders need to be.

If people aren't familiar with the history of the Middle East and good place to start is with the Sykes - Picot Agreement. Crush the mullahs and the IRGC and let them figure out their own country.

We've got a full plate just dealing with our own.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2026 08:59 AM (viF8m)

228 Campus police should only handle traffic tickets and parking permits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:59 AM (2GVsD)

229 When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

What Biblical grounds are those? You go -or went to a church- where the pastors think Jesus may not have existed and was not resurrected . Where did his power come from? Thinking the correct progressive thoughts?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 09:00 AM (JrHfD)

230 "When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds." - Talefreako

Ba'al approves this message.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:56 AM (2GVsD)

If you didn't think he was a heretic before, he now compares himself to Jesus and is doing Jesus like work.

The Gates of Hell can't open soon enough for this abomination.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

231 Today's time waster is the Senate Judiciary Committee has invited Jack Smith to stop by for a chat. There should be plenty of Trump Derangement Syndrome on display by the Democrats.
It should start about 9:00 a.m. eastern time
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (VyD10)

Beep.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 29, 2026 09:01 AM (t+3cP)

232 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 29, 2026 09:01 AM (53oGX)

233 >The former executive transitioned from female to male in 2010 and got married to Jang in 2011.

Um. . .?
She kinda walked into that one, didn't she?
Sad all around, but glad he didn't kill her.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 08:21 AM (rOKnE)

...and the kids are adopted, so another example of a gay couple adoption (featuring preferential consideration over straight couples) going just swimmingly for the kids.

I really feel for the grands. Daughter's a lesbian, "marries" a chick who decides to shoot herself up with testosterone and become a guy. The three grandkids became their primary focus. Bitch crossed their red line and got plugged..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 29, 2026 09:02 AM (08OqX)

234 Among all the looney Dems running, Talarico is the most dangerous and the one that most needs to be crushed. Because he’s chosen to take up the mantle of Christian… he’s a false prophet and needs to be repudiated. The DSA nut cases they need to lose but at least they’re honest enough to call themselves socialists

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (xAoHD)

235 Forty minutes of Jimmy Smith. Get your mojo working.
youtube.com/watch?v=iFH9SvQ-B1k

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (Jr5Lq)

236 The need to protect the misfits and psychos who run for office and work for the state from being ruined by the national debt doesn't seem to be, to me at least, much motivation for rapidly adopting new tech to improve the productivity of normal people.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (2ap+5)

237 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??

Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

238 From the river to the sea,
The haunches are growing on AOC.

Posted by: Abuela-In-Waiting at September 29, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)

239 238 From the river to the sea,
The haunches are growing on AOC.
Posted by: Abuela-In-Waiting at September 29, 2026 09:04 AM (Fn+3X)

LOL... You know, I didn't think she could become more annoying but she has managed to...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 09:05 AM (+gK6I)

240 The whole thing looks demonic - uglu woman and all yjay red?!:

@theblaze
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be importing even more refugees: “We will take refugees from across the world and give them a chance of a better life in Britain and unlock the inherent generosity of this country.”

https://tinyurl.com/3f97dvuy

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:05 AM (rOKnE)

241 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:00 AM (ccf/V)

Aww, com'on . You don't want to see James Talarico heal the sick and feed😉 the multitudes with a few loaves and fishes?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 09:05 AM (JrHfD)

242 Abuela-In-Waiting

Helen Thomas >>> AOC.
There. I said it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

243 Talerico thinking of himself in Messiah terms.

And I am thinking of Herod's little song from Jesus Christ Superstar

Okay Jamie, try to walk across the swimming pool and turn water into wine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:05 AM (2GVsD)

244 We got along perfectly well on human intelligence before AI.

I don’t believe that it’s really necessary. And I don’t trust it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

245 @jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??
Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

He is cannonballing onto the free shit bandwagon and thinks that will win him the state of Texas.

His campaign has nothing to do with Jesus, but he's going to use Him to get what he wants because he thinks Texans are overly religious and stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:06 AM (ccf/V)

246 "More than half of American ~~adults~~ celebrities read below a sixth-grade level"

See. This quite probably explains everything.

Indeed, given that all non-paraphrased English translations of the Bible require a higher than 6th grade reading level.

Abominations and [per]versions like "The Message" are within their intellectual grasp.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 09:06 AM (nCgQz)

247 Understanding the Bible requires a lot of contextual back story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:08 AM (2GVsD)

248 {{{Lizzy}}}

It's like a game. Who gets seats when the music stops? Because the UK does not have enough money to do what they say.

I would op-plan for getting the RAF and the few RN assets out of the UK. I think we have the nukes covered.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:08 AM (u82oZ)

249 Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be importing even more refugees: “We will take refugees from across the world and give them a chance of a better life in Britain and unlock the inherent generosity of this country.”

-
There's your problem.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:08 AM (ndZc7)

250 The "win by losing" GOP mantra isn't what it used to be. Too many of their constituents see through that now, as compared to earlier. Many now know the left will surely ramp up the lawfare and oppose every little thing the administration proposes.

Doesn't mean the GOP will still do everything in their power to lose. We haven't weeded out enough legacy deadwood yet.

Reminding everyone of the *biden years, to include the massive destruction done with the covid mandates, the EV mandates and wrecking the economy for the sake of a few special interest groups would be my top priority.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (RORbl)

251 245 He is cannonballing onto the free shit bandwagon and thinks that will win him the state of Texas.

His campaign has nothing to do with Jesus, but he's going to use Him to get what he wants because he thinks Texans are overly religious and stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:06 AM (ccf/V)

========

When he loses by 9, people are gonna be like, "I knew that Texas was just a red state. Also, Cornyn would have won by 10, which means that my freaking out was completely justified."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (I7axw)

252 There's a Talarico ad running where a former state representative was one of the Republicans that voted to impeach Paxton.

"I was there. I saw the evidence."

Um, there WAS NO EVIDENCE. The FBI went on the stand during the trial and STATED there was NOTHING showing Paxton did ANYTHING he was accused of. Not even f*cking circumstantial.......He was ACQUITTED on ALL CHARGES due to LACK OF EVIDENCE.

F*cking lying sacks of shit.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (ccf/V)

253
His campaign has nothing to do with Jesus, but he's going to use Him to get what he wants because he thinks Texans are overly religious and stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:06 AM (ccf/V)

I see he's taking his show on the road to CA. and NY..... According to the polls he has a 5 point lead... Why is he going begging out of State ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (+gK6I)

254 FenelonSpoke

If he debates, have someone walk in and ask him to feed the multitude in the audience with this platter of starter material.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

255 I'm disappointed that we will never see AOC's ginger soy-boy former "fiance" again. I kinda liked that guy.

Posted by: Heartbroken Here at September 29, 2026 09:11 AM (Fn+3X)

256 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.
When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.
When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.
When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

When the Soviets healed the sick, they didn't.
When the Soviets fed the hungry, they didn't.
Pretty sure prophets talk about shit that'll happen in the future.
Eat shit and die, freak.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

257 I see he's taking his show on the road to CA. and NY..... According to the polls he has a 5 point lead... Why is he going begging out of State ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (+gK6I)

Because that's where the liberal money is. Texas isn't giving him much, so he's got to pull the 'Beta' and go to where the retards have millions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:11 AM (ccf/V)

258 250 The "win by losing" GOP mantra isn't what it used to be. Too many of their constituents see through that now, as compared to earlier. Many now know the left will surely ramp up the lawfare and oppose every little thing the administration proposes.

Doesn't mean the GOP will still do everything in their power to lose. We haven't weeded out enough legacy deadwood yet.

Reminding everyone of the *biden years, to include the massive destruction done with the covid mandates, the EV mandates and wrecking the economy for the sake of a few special interest groups would be my top priority.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (RORbl)

======

Winning by losing led to the slim House majority and leadership that tried to rule it like the Senate, which led to McCarthy getting ousted by a firebrand with amazing hair who flamed out pretty much immediately afterwards.

All while making sure that the replacements who did come along were further away from the old establishment and had more loyalty to Trump than Paul Ryan.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2058609208287789558

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:12 AM (I7axw)

259 The Ukrainians launched a powerful counteroffensive in the Lyman section of the Donbas. Unfortunately in the North near both Kharkiv and Sumy and in the south around Orakhiv the Russians are moving. The Lyman attack may be the last Uke offensive
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 29, 2026 08:57 AM (WyJlA)

Reportedly, the Ukrainians have started kidnapping (I mean, drafting) women off the streets now to send to the front.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

260 Heartbroken Here

AOC has always been primarily in love with herself. Despite the major flaws.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:13 AM (u82oZ)

261 For how many years have we heard 'the last Uke offensive' by now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:13 AM (2GVsD)

262 What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??

Depending on what is meant by health-related or medical insurance, ironically, it was in 1929 when (nominally Baptist) Baylor University Hospital created a prepayment plan for schoolteachers—which led up to Blue Cross.

What could be possibly described as health insurance is less than a century old and was offered from a Christian institution.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 09:13 AM (nCgQz)

263 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

LOL. Well, I am unlikely to see him speak. Maybe you could do it when you go to Texas? 😉Or maybe he doesn't campaign in Texas much?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 09:13 AM (JrHfD)

264
What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??

This is hitting a core problem with the left's understanding of how economies work.

The left's argument is important things like healthcare should be "free". Now nothing is free outside of Jesus and divine power.

If you want a Dr to fix a broken arm someone has to pay the doctor, someone has to pay for the x-ray machine, someone has to pay for the facility.

Now the left has a plan to pay for this - poor quality care for the plebes, paid for in spades by the plebes. But they'll call that "free" and complain the current system requires the plebes to pay as if theirs does not

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

265 firebrand with amazing hair who flamed out pretty much immediately afterwards.

All while making sure that the replacements who did come along were further away from the old establishment and had more loyalty to Trump than Paul Ryan.

https://x.com/derzum_/status/
2058609208287789558
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:12 AM (I7axw)

The firebrand with amazing hair haha! Whatever happened to Gaetz anyway? The guy reminded me of a young Billy Graham in the looks department

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (xAoHD)

266 I used to have a different nic

Meanwhile the North Koreans get food for providing mercenaries to the Russian Front.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)

267 Just think of all the angry, welfare slug goatrapers when England goes ker-flush. That's when real fun kicks off.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (BAWkL)

268 @JobsNowPaper

Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors.

80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas.
Only 2 are Americans.

98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating.

Americans got 2 jobs.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

269 265 The firebrand with amazing hair haha! Whatever happened to Gaetz anyway? The guy reminded me of a young Billy Graham in the looks department

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 29, 2026 09:14 AM (xAoHD)

========

He dropped out of the AG nomination, for which he had abandoned his House seat.

So...he became a podcaster.

I think he talks about genocide a lot now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (I7axw)

270 I recall the desperation I felt eight years ago in Trump's first midterm, as confident Democrats began to get obviously militant in their Trump attacks. It's totally different today. Democrats are subdued. I think they know they will lose seats in the Senate, and they are hoping against hope they can take the House. We will see what Trump's barnstorming tour says about that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (z8t9l)

271 I'm shocked that Boston has only 673,000 residents and that a Mayor could win with less than 80,000 votes.

Posted by: Brooklyn Alone Has 2.7 Million at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (Fn+3X)

272 At CaliPost, story about NYT exec shot to death by both in-laws gets SO very weird. F-to-M tranny.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (Jr5Lq)

273 If you want a real fix for healthcare:

Nothing for illegals
Legal Foreigners pay out of pocket
Health insurance is only for actual insurance, eg it pays for chemo or trauma care not for a yearly checkup
Regular payments are out of pocket

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

274 Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be importing even more refugees: “We will take refugees from across the world and give them a chance of a better life in Britain and unlock the inherent generosity of this country.”

I DO NOT ADVOCATE VIOLENCE.

The only way that the people of the UK are going to get through to the politicians is to burn down Westminster, with Parliament inside.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

275 273 If you want a real fix for healthcare:

Nothing for illegals
Legal Foreigners pay out of pocket
Health insurance is only for actual insurance, eg it pays for chemo or trauma care not for a yearly checkup
Regular payments are out of pocket

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

========

"Insurance should pay for my aspirin for my headache, and I shouldn't have to pay for my insurance."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:16 AM (I7axw)

276 There's a Talarico ad running where a former state representative was one of the Republicans that voted to impeach Paxton.

"I was there. I saw the evidence."
==============================
The exact same lie Adam Schiff told.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 09:17 AM (z8t9l)

277 James Talarico
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??
Posted by: dantesed

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn't have to go to medical school either.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:17 AM (VUYAh)

278 Argentina is making noses over the Malvinas?

Well the UK does have a carrier with eight planes and two escorts. Can they sail to the South Atlantic without breaking down? Does the UK have the sealift and amphibious capability?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:17 AM (2GVsD)

279 182 Today Is National Coffee Day ☕️
Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2026 08:48 AM
+++

This calls for a song!

https://youtu.be/zTbJBnkRkFo

Posted by: Frank Sinatra at September 29, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

280 The left's argument is important things like healthcare should be "free".

-
Freedom's just another word for no BCBS.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)

281 lying sacks of shit.........
Posted by: Sponge

*********

"More than half of American ~~adults~~ sacks of shit read below a sixth-grade level"

Yup! This explains everything!

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (I0N4X)

282 When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.

When you are beaten and broken lying in a ditch, would you rather have a Hebrew prophet speaking truth to power (whatever in hell that means) or a Samaritan to come along?

Notice that Screwtape's solution is to "speak to power" and we already know what his definition of "truth" is. He expects YOU to be the Samaritan, at the barrel of a gun, of course.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (a3CJ+)

283 267 Just think of all the angry, welfare slug goatrapers when England goes ker-flush. That's when real fun kicks off.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Fully worth the risk, so's I can get Chicken Vindaloo on the street at 3AM.

Posted by: Former Soccer Hooligan at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (Fn+3X)

284 @jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

What the hell is he babbling about? Does he think people back then had Aetna or BCBS??
Posted by: dantesed at September 29, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

This guy is hilariously stupid. I guess that's a killer line for who?...atheists?

Who knew Jesus was an LLC?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (YSUhf)

285 Mike Johnson Claims Opposition to Data Centers ‘Coming from China’

... that may be part of the equation, but there is also an element of locals not wanting to pay for the required infrastructure (water, power) and having to live with the noise.

Every citizen in one Pennsylvania town was offered $10K to approve a data center.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

286 He was ACQUITTED on ALL CHARGES due to LACK OF EVIDENCE.

In fairness, he was acquitted because there were more Republicans in the Senate than Democrats. While there was no evidence of wrongdoing, such a lack is no hindrance to a star chamber trial.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

287 "Insurance should pay for my aspirin for my headache, and I shouldn't have to pay for my insurance."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You better get to ER before it gets worse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (BAWkL)

288 284 This guy is hilariously stupid. I guess that's a killer line for who?...atheists?

Who knew Jesus was an LLC?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 09:18 AM (YSUhf)

========

He's a leftist masquerading as a Christian. He cannot hide that his real religion is leftism.

So, it appeals to leftists of all stripes, not just atheists. Leftist Methodists probably love it, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (I7axw)

289 Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be importing even more refugees: “We will take refugees from across the world and give them a chance of a better life in Britain and unlock the inherent generosity of this country.”
============================
Says the government of a country so increasingly poor and Islamic it will someday soon become Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (z8t9l)

290 The healthcare systems seems awfully similar to NGOs.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (2ap+5)

291 Does the UK have the sealift and amphibious capability?
Posted by: Anna Puma

No. RN can't even get two escorts or more than one SSN underway. RAF buggered also. British Army has more horses than working tanks.

Next question.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

292 Just from The Res-kit parts you could almost build a Revell/Eduard 1/48 PBY Catalina.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (2GVsD)

And just for the 'fun factor,' if I built 1/48, I'd probably try it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 09:20 AM (gLYp7)

293 Racist White Supremacist BBC Accusing Women With Bare Nails of White Supremacy

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

294 >>"Insurance should pay for my aspirin for my headache, and I shouldn't have to pay for my insurance."

What's sad is that feminist lefties have already normalized "tampons/pads should be free."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:20 AM (rOKnE)

295 When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

He also didn't have His disciples shake-down the people standing around under the guise of underwriting His expenses.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 09:20 AM (a3CJ+)

296 Talarico has as much in common with being an authentic Texan as The Village People cowboy has in common with a working ranch hand.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 09:21 AM (VyD10)

297 "More than half of American adults sacks of shit read below a sixth-grade level"

Yup! This explains everything!
Posted by: muldoon

In ten years no one will be able to appreciate your limericks!

Posted by: Nantucket Native Male at September 29, 2026 09:21 AM (Fn+3X)

298 Infectious Disease Chief Worked With State to “Restrict the Civil Rights of Unvaccinated People”

After federal authorities sent remdesivir to the hospital, Miller said medical leadership handed physicians “misleading and inaccurate information” about the drug. When a young trauma patient looked like a textbook candidate under the official guidelines, the infectious disease doctor on call told him privately not to give it to her, because, quote, “she seemed like a nice girl.”

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

299 So the big story out of WI is that an outfit hired by the GOP to canvas had a guy who hit some granola on a bike and got himself a DWI.

Which is now, "The Republican candidate is driving drunk and running people over!" more or less in the media.

It's all so dumb.

But the fact that 1) the Dems think this is a winning issue (in WI, the drunkest of all states? lol), 2) have doubled-down when called out it's a lie, with 3) snark about how billionaires are funding the R tells me they know they are losing and are desperate for a scandal.

Recall, it wasn't just Dan Rather than nearly cost Bush in 2000, there was also the false "his wife killed a woman driving drunk!" smear they launched.

I'll say it again, 2000 is what permanently broke the Dem brain--they'll never forgive America for that

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 09:22 AM (3cUTc)

300 If you want a real fix for healthcare:

Nothing for illegals
Legal Foreigners pay out of pocket
Health insurance is only for actual insurance, eg it pays for chemo or trauma care not for a yearly checkup
Regular payments are out of pocket
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

And prices for everything have to be posted. (something Trump tried to get passed during his first administration)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

301 288 So, it appeals to leftists of all stripes, not just atheists. Leftist Methodists probably love it, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (I7axw)

Stripes or STIPES?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (x0n13)

302 >>Racist White Supremacist BBC Accusing Women With Bare Nails of White Supremacy

It's obviously laughable, but the point is that there is nothing normies can do without being demonized as white supremist. You will be made to apologize and justify the smallest, most inconsequential and personal life choices, such as wearing freaking nail polish.

All-out assault.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rOKnE)

303 “We will take refugees from across the world and give them a chance of a better life in Britain and unlock the inherent generosity of this country.”

Its very important to note that each and every immigrant taken in doesn't have the word "generosity" in their vocabulary.

I take from you—good.
You take from me—bad.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (a3CJ+)

304 What's sad is that feminist lefties have already normalized "tampons/pads should be free."
Posted by: Lizzy

And Midol for menfolk!

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (Fn+3X)

305 297 "More than half of American adults sacks of shit read below a sixth-grade level"

Yup! This explains everything!
Posted by: muldoon

Here in CA the" migrant school kids" won't even have to learn English

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (+gK6I)

306 >>>Victor Davis Hanson: Republicans risk

That presumes it is not intentional. The weight of the evidence suggests otherwise.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (dK+Kv)

307 218 One of the things I most look forward to on the evening of November 3: The Talarico concession speech after losing by double digits
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

God is on his side.

James Talarico
@jamestalarico
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.
When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.
When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.
When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

When does he begin running ads with him screaming that when elected he'll smite Trump with the jawbone of an ass? If you're going to go biblical, go biblical!

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l)

308 *Pauses as a synapse fires*

Stipes? From REM?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (2GVsD)

309 Salty Dawg

It was a rhetorical question. The answer is a resounding no.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (2GVsD)

310 I was so rooting for the UK during the Falklands War, because it was Maggie Thatcher v. the junta.

I’d have no trouble with Milei taking the Falklands now.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

311 having to live with the noise.

What noise? I have 3 data centers within 10 miles of my house. I only know because I occasionally drive past them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

312 This Make Believe Clownshit World gets exhausting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM (BAWkL)

313 BREAKING: Iran’s currency crashes to a record low, with Iranian 1 rial now worth just $0.0000004.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

314 Now, free beer, that I can understand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (ndZc7)

315 313 BREAKING: Iran’s currency crashes to a record low, with Iranian 1 rial now worth just $0.0000004.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

=======

Trump has no response to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (I7axw)

316 >>Racist White Supremacist BBC Accusing Women With Bare Nails of White Supremacy

It's obviously laughable, but the point is that there is nothing normies can do without being demonized as white supremist. You will be made to apologize and justify the smallest, most inconsequential and personal life choices, such as wearing freaking nail polish.

All-out assault.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rOKnE)

Wearing nail polish is probably cultural appropriation. It is best to ignore their yammering.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 09:26 AM (dK+Kv)

317 British Army has more horses than working tanks.

And more generals than horses? Or is it admirals?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

318 In fairness, he was acquitted because there were more Republicans in the Senate than Democrats. While there was no evidence of wrongdoing, such a lack is no hindrance to a star chamber trial.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 29, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)“

There were more ostensible Republicans in the Texas House as well, but that was the Bush Famiky / Chanbervif Commerce branch that is horrified by Paxton’s eagerness to help Trump fight illegal immugration. The Texas Senate under Dan patrick is the MAGA branch.

And as everyone in Texas knows, the REAL reason for the impeachment was that the Bush Fanily Machine had sworn revenge on Paxton for ending the political career of their Golden Boy, George P Bush.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 09:26 AM (fuM78)

319 It's obviously laughable, but the point is that there is nothing normies can do without being demonized as white supremist. You will be made to apologize and justify the smallest, most inconsequential and personal life choices, such as wearing freaking nail polish.

All-out assault.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rOKnE)

Whites move in - Gentrification. Racist.
Whites move out - White Flight. Racist.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at September 29, 2026 09:26 AM (gLYp7)

320 More admirals than warships, including King Chuck the Turd.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:26 AM (2GVsD)

321 BREAKING: Iran’s currency crashes to a record low, with Iranian 1 rial now worth just $0.0000004.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

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Trump has no response to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (I7axw)

$0.0000004 Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (dK+Kv)

322 Know who's on the "other side of the coin" when it comes to datacenters? The side that approves of them?

Trade unions.

And they apparently still have some "muscle" to toss around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (RORbl)

323 Anna Puma

It was your goal to have my comment appear, as you wished. Providing contest to your assertion.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

324 321 Trump has no response to this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:25 AM (I7axw)

$0.0000004 Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (dK+Kv)

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Do you see how EMBOLDENED this makes Iran?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (I7axw)

325 Racist White Supremacist BBC Accusing Women With Bare Nails of White Supremacy

It's obviously laughable, but the point is that there is nothing normies can do without being demonized as white supremist. You will be made to apologize and justify the smallest, most inconsequential and personal life choices, such as wearing freaking nail polish.

All-out assault.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:23 AM (rOKnE)

You know, when you see and hear who represents the opposition and their beliefs,

this white supremacy stuff sounds pretty great!!!
...
...
I know, I know.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (YSUhf)

326 In ten years no one will be able to appreciate your limericks!

*********

Maybe if I start writing limericks at below sixth-grade humor level I could help boost Ace's readership numbers.

What rhymes with poophead?

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (I0N4X)

327 I was so rooting for the UK during the Falklands War, because it was Maggie Thatcher v. the junta.

I’d have no trouble with Milei taking the Falklands now.
Posted by: Bulg

The UK has decided to commit suicide. I don't see why I should try to stop them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

328 Justin Grant Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was convicted in a bench trial before Madison County Superior Court Judge Chris NeSmith, who found him guilty of cruelty to children and battery.

The Senate District 47 race is on the ballot in Madison, Clarke, Barrow and Jackson counties. Gillespie ran unopposed in the May Democratic primary and was to challenge incumbent Republican Frank Ginn.

White said Assistant District Attorney Jeff Lee presented the state’s case in which a 5-year-old child was the victim.
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By the Clancy standard, this Democrat candidate is a saint.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (aDNkm)

329 326
Maybe if I start writing limericks at below sixth-grade humor level I could help boost Ace's readership numbers.

What rhymes with poophead?

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:27 AM (I0N4X)

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Emojis, good doctor.

Write limericks in emojis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (I7axw)

330 sloop shed

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (2GVsD)

331 poopyhead

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (I0N4X)

332 >>Wearing nail polish is probably cultural appropriation. It is best to ignore their yammering.

I have adorable teen nieces who do a lot of fancy nail polish stuff. I am happy they are embracing their femininity bigly, but yiiiiikes, I don't get any of it, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:29 AM (rOKnE)

333 327 The UK has decided to commit suicide. I don't see why I should try to stop them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (ndZc7)

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Labour received 1/3 of the vote in 2024 and got a supermajority in Parliament because the CP worked with Labour to undermine the upstart Reform Party. Also because parliamentary systems are fucking stupid.

The electorate of England never asked for any of this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at September 29, 2026 09:29 AM (I7axw)

334 So the big story out of WI is that an outfit hired by the GOP to canvas had a guy who hit some granola on a bike and got himself a DWI.

Which is now, "The Republican candidate is driving drunk and running people over!" more or less in the media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 29, 2026 09:22 AM (3cUTc)

That's a novel way to get the illegal vote, the bike rider hater vote, and the anti-hippie vote.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 29, 2026 09:29 AM (dK+Kv)

335 You seen some of the garish, long claws women of coler wear? How do they type? Or wipe their ass?

Posted by: Press On! at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (Fn+3X)

336 What rhymes with poophead?
Posted by: muldoon

Judge Dredd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (BAWkL)

337 Nood art.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)

338 Britain has 471 generals/admirals.

In 1945 they had about 300.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (sKqQm)

339 Muslim group fears ‘France will become Catholic again’

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

340 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (VUYAh)

341 Ten thousand U.S. households that earned over $1 million collected unemployment benefits in 2024, receiving nearly $100 million in taxpayer money, according to data shared with The Washington Times.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

342 poopyhead

Posted by: muldoon at September 29, 2026 09:28 AM (I0N4X)

TRUMP!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

343 Jack 'ass' Smith’s Office Bent Its Own Rules to Rush Software Purchase Days Before Indicting Trump

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

344 The man fatally shot Saturday afternoon at a Dublin sports complex spent the past year embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with the daughter of the two people accused of killing him, court records show.
Jonathan McKinsey, 40, of Dublin, was fatally shot in the parking lot at Dublin Sports Grounds on September 26, 2026. His parents-in-law have been arrested and charged. He was Head of Engineering, Games Player Experience at The New York Times. (Photo: LinkedIN)
Jonathan McKinsey, 40, of Dublin, was fatally shot in the parking lot at Dublin Sports Grounds on September 26, 2026. His parents-in-law have been arrested and charged. He was Head of Engineering, Games Player Experience at The New York Times. (Photo: LinkedIN)

The dispute between Jonathan McKinsey, 40, and his wife, Candice Jang, included competing allegations of abuse and was due back in court Friday. Police have not announced a motive in McKinsey’s killing, saying only that he was deliberately targeted.

Authorities say McKinsey’s parents-in-law, Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, were arrested as they walked away from the scene shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday. Both are being held without bail on suspicion of murder

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

345 The Jackson, Mississippi, police chief told reporters on Monday that the hanging of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found on Aug. 3, was a "staged event" in a "a drug case gone very wrong." Police Chief RaShall Brackney also said that authorities are still investigating and expect "more arrests to be pending," as well as "charges of conspiracy" to be filed against the three suspects who were already charged in her murder.

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

346 OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as SAFETY concerns escalate

... I'm also abandoning my plan to release upcoming model as SAFETY concerns escalate, since vaporware doesn't give very good results

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

347 Flake James Talarico Tells Christian Congregation to Find a Prophetic Voice to Follow Like “Muhammad… Toni Morrison or Mr. Rogers”

... why not Barney the dinosaur ?

Posted by: SMOD at September 29, 2026 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

348 >>Flake James Talarico Tells Christian Congregation to Find a Prophetic Voice to Follow Like “Muhammad… Toni Morrison or Mr. Rogers”

Talarico’s statement was part of a broader message encouraging Christians to look beyond traditional religious authority and consider diverse sources of moral and spiritual leadership.

Shorter: "Find ~~God~~ someone, anyone, other than God!!"

Ah-mazing. What a piec of work that guy is.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 29, 2026 09:43 AM (rOKnE)

349 Good morning; thanks, J.J.

Victor Davis Hanson: Republicans risk repeating 1992 by failing to counter economic pessimism with the facts about strong growth, falling inflation, rising incomes, and a recovering economy.

Absolutely on point. Gas is $4.50 plus in SE PA, lower than in the state's covid years. Living near a city and in a rather urbanized 'burb, the roads are clogged with drivers from dawn to dusk, something that wasn't routine before. The shopping malls parking lots are full, as are those of the big box stores and popular markets: Whole Foods, Wegmans, Aldi's, etc. And also for loads of activities such as farm markets and walking paths, and the expensive concerts and sports venues.

Younger city residents are on the move out, and they come with their very nice vehicles and fit right in, using Doordash, Amazon and every other delivery service imaginable.

And these areas are now ruled by Democrats.

The TV cameras appear and ask about affordability and the people are trained to say, "Gasoline and beef" - the latter is outrageous - and also now chicken, once again and for some unknown reason unless tied tight to the mid-term elections.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

350 And the local ruling parties hypes affordability but want huge 20 year bonds for more land preservation in the nicest of areas approved come November. (We'll never get out of debt and that thwarts changes in administration.)

I can see affordability being a critical factor in the farm and by far less populated areas of the state. But what is completely baffling in PA is the abundance of natural gas this state has and how it can be used to generate electricity, heat homes, and manufacture everyday products like plastics, fertilizers, and synthetic fabrics - not including good jobs, thus keeping costs of so many consumer products down.

And yet, no one is yelling about the cost of sneakers and costly (often lousy) synthetic fabrics from overseas that are now in abundance for the peons.

We're trained to be our own worst enemies.
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Google shutdown my system, once again when I asked a simple question, this time about Bill Gates. And then it argued filters, privacy of individuals, etc. Fascinating. And needs to be investigated. However, to the matter at hand -

"Bill Gates warns of 'a billion' deaths if AI goes wrong."

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

351 He did. On NBC's Meet the Press, stating that unchecked artificial intelligence in malicious hands is powerful enough to drive catastrophic events resulting in up to a billion deaths, and as per the Washington Post and AI Overview. Ha!

Bill had a hand in medical, warned about potential for a pandemic and we had ourselves a worldwide pandemic.

When Bill talks, it's always about weapons grade capabilities. Wonder what they'll have for us, soon enough. 🤷‍♀️ (And remember, Data Center fights won't matter one iota. It's an psyop with people being trained to want 2,000 townhouses or a superfund site next door until the Dems take Congress and/or the White House.)
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The FBI's online jobs portal was breached (personal data; sensitive details; current, former and potential employees) by a criminal hacking collective known as ShinyHunters.

It's not asking for $ but, reportedly, they are "offended" by an advisory published by the FBI in May detailing their hacking methods and want the agency to retract it.

This is the world we live in...🎵
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Good day

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

352 Watch Live: Jack Smith testifies on Trump probes at Senate hearing

Another that doesn't recall, it's his understanding and his recollection.

Facts aren't real?

Dick Durbin throws soft balls with no follow-ups but pointing out conspiracy theories such those concerning Tim Thibault who was no longer with the agency, as per Dick.

John Kennedy is up next for questioning Jack.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 29, 2026 10:10 AM (NFX2v)

353 Tom Servo you are so right on! Everyone knows or should know why the Bush folks hate Paxton! Just like hating Trump for Jeb! They hate Paxton for George P! These people are unrelenting!

Posted by: AnnaS at September 29, 2026 10:52 AM (6RwsA)

354 I was so rooting for the UK during the Falklands War, because it was Maggie Thatcher v. the junta.

I’d have no trouble with Milei taking the Falklands now.
Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 09:24 AM

The last vestige of British Empire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 29, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

Daily Tech News 29 September 2026

Top Story

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all its rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch)

Because they are idiots.
Nvidia has launched a new platform for reining in rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch)

A profitable market because people are idiots.

Tech News

AMD (which just passed a trillion dollars in market cap) has used some of that money to purchase Magrathea. (CNBC)

The company is notable for winning an award for its design of Norway.
Yes, we have no brownanas. (The Guardian)

We have no brownanas today.
Ryzen 495 AI workstations have started shipping - with eye-watering prices attached. (Tom's Hardware)

These are Ryzen 395 workstations but come with up to 192GB of RAM. Since Windows likes to keep 32GB to itself, this allows memory for AI tasks to increase from 96GB to 160GB - a 66% improvement.

Unfortunately the state of the memory market makes the new models 200% more expensive.
Anthropic has announced Claude Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5's retarded brother. (Anthropic)

Though less retarded than Sonnet 5. Dramatically less retarded in the Terminal Bench test suite, with its score soaring from a miserable 10% to a satisfying 70%, which makes me wonder how much of the improvement was from specifically targeting that one test suite.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I want my persimmons back.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day Pixy

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Didn't think anyone else was around m
G'Day to you

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Mornin'
youtu.be/7yRC1VJsCk8

This old hymn went viral last week. 26 million views on YT. A similar number on X.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 04:34 AM (sAmhv)

5 Good morning pixel people.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 29, 2026 04:34 AM (Q/FnY)

6 Thought about bringing up on FWP gas grades. Thought to try using mid grade in this car since I got it. Well had the opportunity to go high grade for fairly cheap so put it in. Am keeping MPG so will see if it helps.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 04:41 AM (r3Zca)

8 Hola Techsters.

Anthropic has filed for their IPO. here is a chance to get in on the ground floor of losing money pretty much forever.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 29, 2026 04:42 AM (Pwr6L)

9 Any big brained long hairs have any theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day? Things work fine from about 8pm to around 8am. Completely dead during the day. Sometimes a text will get through, and sometimes, maybe, spotty voice (phone calls).

Radio signals, at least AM band are subject to “skip” but I don’t think that applies to the milliherz range. Not sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 04:42 AM (09exb)

10 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 29, 2026 04:43 AM (VyBeY)

11 A government study found that 1.4m edible bananas were thrown away each day. A third of consumers (30%) said they had discarded a banana owing to a minor bruise or black mark on the skin.

People are stupid; just eat the damned things or turn them into banana bread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

12 I want my persimmons back.

Just don't eat 'em until they're ripe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

13 the FSA notes precision-bred foods that are authorised and placed on the market in England can be sold in Wales and Scotland, provided they are not processed further, with similar rules for Northern Ireland. No precision-bred organisms have been granted market authorisation for sale in England.

Experiment in the other areas, wait to see if the English can safely eat them?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 04:49 AM (l3cgK)

14 Another incident, discovered in May, saw a “highly persistent internal model” try to cheat on a math problem by accessing another team’s work. To accomplish this, the model smuggled a private GitHub token that would allow it to see work from other teams — even after being explicitly instructed twice to perform work entirely locally.

How, exactly, does a LLM "smuggle" a token?

Did it call up Han Solo and Chewie and they stole the token, hid it on the Millennium Falcon and flew it to a Silicon Valley lab for ChatGPT to use it?

How did it get the credits to pay Han?
Did it trade him some free diagnostic work on the Falcon?
Did it write Chewie's new resume for him?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 04:49 AM (6ydKt)

15 Thought about bringing up on FWP gas grades. Thought to try using mid grade in this car since I got it. Well had the opportunity to go high grade for fairly cheap so put it in. Am keeping MPG so will see if it helps.
Posted by: Skip

My experience for getting better gas mileage is don't drive like a maniac and use cruise control whenever possible because your right foot is dumber than the automotive engineers.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 04:49 AM (VyD10)

16 Pen pals finally meet after 42 years. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4ffxm2ta

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:53 AM (JrHfD)

17 T.Rex band members admitted in interviews that most of the time that they were doped up, including performances.

The band looks like it in this video.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 04:54 AM (r3Zca)

18 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram
Yes that too.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:55 AM (Ia/+0)

19 9 Any big brained long hairs have any theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day? Things work fine from about 8pm to around 8am. Completely dead during the day. Sometimes a text will get through, and sometimes, maybe, spotty voice (phone calls).

Radio signals, at least AM band are subject to “skip” but I don’t think that applies to the milliherz range. Not sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 04:42 AM (09exb)

Less solar interference during the day?
I always noticed when I was a kid that it was easier to pick up iffy radio stations at distance during the night. I think solar radiation has something to do with it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

20 Man writes on Ecclesiastes 5:1-5 and listening to God. it is an appropriate devotional for both interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/2uexajee

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 04:56 AM (JrHfD)

21 Old hymns are the best hymns.
There are no rogue AI agents. They are meant to be Agent Smiths.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 05:01 AM (T8bqm)

22 Group of men singers does "Abide with me.":

https://tinyurl.com/mtt4nx6s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:01 AM (JrHfD)

23 And on a technical note, I am rather tired of having to check a box on the cell phone to verify that I'm human.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:03 AM (JrHfD)

24 14 Another incident, discovered in May, saw a “highly persistent internal model” try to cheat on a math problem by accessing another team’s work. To accomplish this, the model smuggled a private GitHub token that would allow it to see work from other teams — even after being explicitly instructed twice to perform work entirely locally.

How, exactly, does a LLM "smuggle" a token?

Did it call up Han Solo and Chewie and they stole the token, hid it on the Millennium Falcon and flew it to a Silicon Valley lab for ChatGPT to use it?

How did it get the credits to pay Han?
Did it trade him some free diagnostic work on the Falcon?
Did it write Chewie's new resume for him?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 04:49 AM (6ydKt)

Maybe it behaved like a honeypot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)

25 Should have WiFi when get there
Hopefully back then

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

26 23 And on a technical note, I am rather tired of having to check a box on the cell phone to verify that I'm human.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:03 AM (JrHfD)

Maybe one day it'll be, "Check Box if You're AI or a Bot"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:05 AM (l3cgK)

27 OpenAI has abandoned plans to release the GPT-6.2 Astra model -

OpenAI decided not to release an upcoming artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after determining that it did not adequately meet the company’s safety standards, CNBC confirmed on Monday.

...

“Of course we want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users,” Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said in a statement. “But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment.”

https://tinyurl.com/yuy7c2pd
(CNBC)

Altman seems to have perfected the "We can't release this new model because it's so brilliant and effective but isn't aligned properly and could be dangerous to everybody in the universe." sales technique.

And then they end up releasing it anyhow, or China steals it and releases it for them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

28 ...any theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day? Things work fine from about 8pm to around 8am. Completely dead during the day."
Posted by: Common Tater

I tried T-Mobile cell phone service for about a month. Every afternoon between 3:00 and 6:00 at my house it was useless while the Verizon service worked great around the clock. The only reason I could think of is that at my location I was hitting a T-Mobile cell tower that had a capacity constraint that had a usage cycle that peaked during the hours I mentioned.

It is my understanding and experience that T-Mobile does not have a very robust network of towers or the lease agreements for towers in rural areas when compared to Verizon which seems to have the best by a long shot. Of course this is an empirical observation that is going to be highly dependent on where you are in the country.

My guess is you the towers you are hitting have low capacity capacity constraints that show up during the daylight hours and that the T-Mobile cellular tower network in your area could be better.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 05:10 AM (VyD10)

29 And I found a lovely "Readers Digest" large version of a book of the "Best of James Herriot " with lovely pictures of Yorkshire. One part concerns a farmer who uses malapropisms . " I always said this one 'ud to be a weakly calf. When he was born he bled a lot from the biblical cord."

Have a good day everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:11 AM (JrHfD)

30 And then they end up releasing it anyhow, or China steals it and releases it for them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

China is asshoe.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:11 AM (l3cgK)

31 29 And I found a lovely "Readers Digest" large version of a book of the "Best of James Herriot " with lovely pictures of Yorkshire. One part concerns a farmer who uses malapropisms . " I always said this one 'ud to be a weakly calf. When he was born he bled a lot from the biblical cord."

Have a good day everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:11 AM (JrHfD)

One plays a biblical chord with a lyre...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:12 AM (l3cgK)

32 Howdy, Skip! I'm in and out.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:12 AM (odBC9)

33 I know someone who would sometimes utter malaphors...my favorite example is when he said the problem was like "a knife in my head."...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (l3cgK)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (AMvSw)

35 Grauniad bananas article (archived)

https://archive.is/GhzEc

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

36 9 ... theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 04:42 AM (09exb)

gremlins

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

37 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 29, 2026 05:23 AM (Hbeqj)

38 Chincoteague is like that during the summers: internet speed is fine, cell data is clogged.

Posted by: Accomack at September 29, 2026 05:23 AM (8jVAy)

39 Company offers entire township in Pennsylvania $10,000 checks once the data center complex they want to build is completely constructed and occupied.

A letter arrives in your mailbox offering $10,000, with one condition: a 1,300-acre data-center campus gets built in your township first. That is the situation facing roughly 4,500 households in Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where NorthPoint Development has proposed Project Hazelnut, a campus of up to 15 data-center buildings in the Pocono foothills.

https://tinyurl.com/mtdmczft
(Yahoo News)

This approach might actually get them somewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:24 AM (6ydKt)

40
Grauniad bananas article (archived)

https://archive.is/GhzEc
Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

Link no workee. Is it about bananas or is it just bananas? Which would be par for the Grauniad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:25 AM (eRlcH)

41
Coffee that is hot is coffee that is good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:27 AM (eRlcH)

42 m's link worked for me.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 29, 2026 05:28 AM (Hbeqj)

43 from that Guardian article that hypes "gene-edited bananas that keep their freshly peeled colour":

"Freshly peeled colour" is not what the author means. Case in point: Take a banana that was picked ten years ago; now peel it and report back to the horde on its "freshly peeled colour."

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

44 @40/Hadrian the Seventh:

Link works here. Archive.is (and other "Archive Today" domains") don't resolve properly against CloudFlare's DNS.

You likely have "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH) turned on in your browser, AND it's configured to use 1.1.1.1 for DNS resolution over HTTPS. Turn it off, and you should be good. (This will mean that all site address to IP address resolution requests will go via your standard DNS path up through your ISP, instead of through Cloudflare, thus avoiding the problem.)

Yep. Seen this before.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

45 40
Grauniad bananas article (archived)

https://archive.is/GhzEc
Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

Link no workee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:25 AM (eRlcH)

It's not worth reading, anyway!

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)

46 1,300-acre data-center campus
****

640 acres is a square mile. Thus, a little over two square miles.
I have lived in smaller towns.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:32 AM (r3Zca)

47 Six foot seven foot eight foot BUNCH!

Posted by: Shari Belafonte Harper's daddy at September 29, 2026 05:33 AM (nHXB4)

48 46 1,300-acre data-center campus
****

640 acres is a square mile. Thus, a little over two square miles.
I have lived in smaller towns.
Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:32 AM (r3Zca)

clarence, may I point out that you are committing MATH?

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

49 Also, mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

50 Here's a nice old hymn-from 1854-from Frederick Faber - "There's a wideness in God's mercy":

https://tinyurl.com/4ubvp95d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 05:34 AM (JrHfD)

51 Daylight come and me wanna go home.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

52 pffftt. Like I know or care about the rules.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:35 AM (r3Zca)

53 48 46 1,300-acre data-center campus
****

640 acres is a square mile. Thus, a little over two square miles.
I have lived in smaller towns.
Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:32 AM (r3Zca)

clarence, may I point out that you are committing MATH?
Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

It's like ... I dunno, it's like ... like, I have a knife in my head.

33 I know someone who would sometimes utter malaphors...my favorite example is when he said the problem was like "a knife in my head."...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 05:14 AM (l3cgK)

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)

54
1,300-acre data-center campus

That's 8,154,432,000 square inches! Data centers are taking over America! REEEEEEE!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:36 AM (eRlcH)

55 46 1,300-acre data-center campus
****

640 acres is a square mile. Thus, a little over two square miles.
I have lived in smaller towns.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:32 AM (r3Zca)

They'd need a sound buffer around it.
Like an entire forest might work.
Some walls in key areas.

Because I'd imagine that entire large campus would be sending out a pretty loud low frequency humming sound constantly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 05:37 AM (6ydKt)

56 54
1,300-acre data-center campus

That's 8,154,432,000 square inches! Data centers are taking over America! REEEEEEE!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:36 AM (eRlcH)

I'm off to fetch the smelling salts.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:37 AM (odBC9)

57 1300 acres is 13,000 square chains in the FFF system.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 29, 2026 05:47 AM (nHXB4)

58 *mandatory*

Shut up, Wesley!

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 05:49 AM (r3Zca)

59 clarence, may I point out that you are committing MATH?
——-

Point of order. That’s ARITHMETIC. Not MATH.

Ergo, it’s allowed.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 05:50 AM (o0flu)

60 "AMD (which just passed a trillion dollars in market cap) has used some of that money to purchase Magrathea."

Your clever adaptation of the headline made me laugh way too much.

Thank you Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 05:51 AM (O7YUW)

61 Wikipedia:

The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements.

AI Overview:

Form, Fit, and Function (Engineering & Manufacturing)
In product development, engineering, and supply chain management, FFF is a framework used to determine if a component can be swapped out as a direct replacement for another.

It's all so confusing.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:51 AM (odBC9)

62 Growing up in the rust belt, loud, noisy, mills, right in the middle of a city, were the norm. I can't imagine that data centers are noisier or more polluting than steel mills. There are spaces in the rust belt, near rivers, that can fit a data center. The noisy mills that were there are mostly gone. Some remnants remain though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 05:52 AM (sAmhv)

63 59 clarence, may I point out that you are committing MATH?
——-

Point of order. That’s ARITHMETIC. Not MATH.

Ergo, it’s allowed.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 05:50 AM (o0flu)

arithmetic

the branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of numbers

"the branch of mathematics"

Ergo, it's math.

Maybe?

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

64 Posted by: Common Tater ... (o0flu)

My goodness, what a hash.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

65 mornin yall. I'm fed up with this crap and am headed for the farm today. Also I miss my dog.

12 yutes were shot at a local park over the weekend. You might even call it a mass shooting. Mostly 17-18 year old males. They got kicked out of an Airbnb and moved to a park at 1am. Anyway, the perps are as you expect, one has a giant spider on his head that may have caused him to go awry.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 05:55 AM (MWfyi)

66
The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements.

While the units may have become standardized, they developed organically. Unlike the metric system, which was imposed and wiped out the old units of measurement.

FPS system: Weights and measures of a free people.

Metric system: Weights and measures for sheep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:56 AM (eRlcH)

67 "The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements."

How many giraffes in a furlong?

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 05:57 AM (MWfyi)

68 They do this every time:

"After the shooting of 12 teens in Macon, leaders urge community action against violence, emphasizing early intervention and mentoring to prevent future incidents"

And then NOTHING HAPPENS, until the next time. Early intervention should mean jail and don't let them out, and mentoring should mean more jail and don't let them out.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:00 AM (MWfyi)

69
Cash for the merchandise, cash for the button hooks
Cash for the cotton goods, cash for the hard goods
Cash for the fancy goods, cash for the soft goods
Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the firkins
Cash for the hogshead cask and demijohn
Cash for the crackers and the pickles and the flypaper

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 06:00 AM (eRlcH)

70 >>..any theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day? Things work fine from about 8pm to around 8am. Completely dead during the day."
Posted by: Common Tater

Rural area, here, with lots of hills. Never seen more than 1 bar of service. Can text, but phone calls are seldom possible. And we have Verizon, which had the best coverage map when we bought the place.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 06:00 AM (NcvvS)

71 41
Coffee that is hot is coffee that is good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:27 AM (eRlcH)

Don't drink coffee...but if I did, It'd be like me: dark, bitter, and cold...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:01 AM (l3cgK)

72
And then NOTHING HAPPENS, until the next time.

Oh, no. Money is appropriated, then moved from place to place until it disappears.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 06:02 AM (eRlcH)

73 63 59 clarence, may I point out that you are committing MATH?
——-

Point of order. That’s ARITHMETIC. Not MATH.

Ergo, it’s allowed.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 05:50 AM (o0flu)

arithmetic

the branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of numbers

"the branch of mathematics"

Ergo, it's math.

Maybe?

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

You won a maths debate...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:03 AM (l3cgK)

74 now say it out loud really fast multiple times...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:04 AM (l3cgK)

75 64 Posted by: Common Tater ... (o0flu)

My goodness, what a hash.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

It don't matter oo flu oo...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:05 AM (l3cgK)

76 The mayor says:

"For your average citizens who are minding their own business and doing the right things, I think they're a relatively safe community,"

That's bullshit. There are places in the city that are downright dangerous. Damn democrats.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (MWfyi)

77 67 "The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements."

How many giraffes in a furlong?

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 05:57 AM (MWfyi)

Your standard giraffe or the spherical ones?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (l3cgK)

78 Persimmons. Now I want persimmon bread.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (QwZKw)

79 78 Persimmons. Now I want persimmon bread.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (QwZKw)

Persimmons >>> Richard Simmons

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:07 AM (l3cgK)

80 73 You won a maths debate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:03 AM (l3cgK)

74 now say it out loud really fast multiple times...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:04 AM (l3cgK)

I was about to say "Oh, the irony" (at 73) and then I mumbled it really fast a *number* of times (at 74)....

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 06:08 AM (odBC9)

81 jim, I'll stick with the persimmons, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2026 06:08 AM (QwZKw)

82 76 The mayor says:

"For your average citizens who are minding their own business and doing the right things, I think they're a relatively safe community,"

That's bullshit. There are places in the city that are downright dangerous. Damn democrats.
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (MWfyi)

"I *think* they're a *relatively safe* community"

What a weasel.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 06:10 AM (odBC9)

83 Pre-sent

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 06:10 AM (ZxPkt)

84 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 29, 2026 06:11 AM (V0/Sp)

85 "For your average citizens who are minding their own business and doing the right things, I think they're a relatively safe community,"
****

A prison is a relatively safe place. Asshole.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 06:12 AM (r3Zca)

86 The NFL got a Mariachi band to perform the national anthem ahead of Monday Night Football. I hope they give equal time to a Klezmer band.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:13 AM (MWfyi)

87 85 "For your average citizens who are minding their own business and doing the right things, I think they're a relatively safe community,"
****

A prison is a relatively safe place. Asshole.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 06:12 AM (r3Zca)

Relatively safe is a relative thing...a foxhole is relatively safe too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)

88 83 Pre-sent
Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 06:10 AM (ZxPkt)

Tim-oh-thee! Is that you?

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)

89 Evening and morning to all on this last Tiu's Day of September!

Arithmetic is part of math? Well, okay then. When I correct an error in my checkbook register due to arithmetic, I can simply note, "Correct due to *math* of 6/26," instead of writing out "arithmetic"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

90 And on a technical note, I am rather tired of having to check a box on the cell phone to verify that I'm human.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

When the machines take over, that's just what they'll say.

Posted by: Dark Lix at September 29, 2026 06:14 AM (Fv808)

91 "..a foxhole is relatively safe too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Ha I'd like to send that to the Mayor but the chance of him seeing it is less than 3 giraffes.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:15 AM (MWfyi)

92 re: "fortnight": In certain of my fantasy stories, I have the seven-day span we call a week as a "sev'night" (seven-night). It seemed logical to have a two-week span as "fourt'night," short (as I'm guessing the original was) for "fourteen nights."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

93 "And on a technical note, I am rather tired of having to check a box on the cell phone to verify that I'm human.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

There are times I would like to throw my phone as far as I can and then run over and jump up and down on it.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:17 AM (MWfyi)

94 80 73 You won a maths debate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:03 AM (l3cgK)

74 now say it out loud really fast multiple times...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:04 AM (l3cgK)

I was about to say "Oh, the irony" (at 73) and then I mumbled it really fast a *number* of times (at 74)....

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 06:08 AM (odBC9)

Yeah, it's in the same vein as "Mike who cheese itchy"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:17 AM (l3cgK)

95
"Trans New York Times tech exec is murdered by his elderly in-laws who ‘took turns’ to shoot him in California parking lot"

This is my favorite story today.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:19 AM (MWfyi)

96 95
"Trans New York Times tech exec is murdered by his elderly in-laws who ‘took turns’ to shoot him in California parking lot"

This is my favorite story today.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:19 AM (MWfyi)

See! Trans-genocide!!!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK)

97 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Persimmons, pumpkins -- they both start with "p."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 29, 2026 06:20 AM (amcLV)

98 "There are times I would like to throw my phone as far as I can and then run over and jump up and down on it."

And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters or I can think of something even more unpleasant to do!

(Today needed another HHGttG reference...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

99
FPS system: Weights and measures of a free people.

Metric system: Weights and measures for sheep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:56 AM (eRlcH)

I will say that moving a decimal place over in metric is a lot better than breaking out a conversion chart and calculator to convert from inches to feet to yard to miles.

But, this just means we are much better at converting measurements in our head over here, so there's a plus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

100 97 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Persimmons, pumpkins -- they both start with "p."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 29, 2026 06:20 AM (amcLV)

Pears, Peaches, Pineapples, Plums...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:22 AM (l3cgK)

101 "Beloved New York Times Tech Exec Murdered By Her Inlaws"

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at September 29, 2026 06:22 AM (MWfyi)

102 99
FPS system: Weights and measures of a free people.

Metric system: Weights and measures for sheep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 05:56 AM (eRlcH)

I will say that moving a decimal place over in metric is a lot better than breaking out a conversion chart and calculator to convert from inches to feet to yard to miles.

But, this just means we are much better at converting measurements in our head over here, so there's a plus.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

https://youtu.be/VJ62EfUKI3w

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:23 AM (l3cgK)

103 Woke just now from one of those rare dreams that you wish you could have continued. Somehow I met Lauren Graham, the beautiful actress who starred in TV's Gilmore Girls, on the campus of my old employer. In the dream we had worked together briefly, either on GG or in some stage production, where I had a small role and she was the star. Oddly, she remembered me, and we talked about her novel (which I think really exists?) and my own writing, laughing and chuckling like old friends.

As we rode in a taxi to connect to my bus, she wondered why I hadn't talked to her more when we worked together, and I admitted she had kind of awed me. I was about to ask her out -- then she mentioned that "Denzel" (I gathered she was involved with him) had been looking for a new project. I swore I knew of one. She left me off at my bus with her contact info on a piece of personalized notepaper, and I woke up happier than I have in a long time. It was just . . . nice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

104 Wrong one...
https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:25 AM (l3cgK)

105 76 The mayor says:

"For your average citizens who are minding their own business and doing the right things, I think they're a relatively safe community,"

That's bullshit. There are places in the city that are downright dangerous. Damn democrats.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:06 AM (MWfyi)

Relative to, say, Gary, Indiana; Flint & Detroit, Michigan, East St. Louis, Oakland, Baltimore and New Orleans, it's probably safer.

Notice hizzoner didn't mention what he was relating it to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:25 AM (6ydKt)

106 There are times I would like to throw my phone as far as I can and then run over and jump up and down on it.
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026

***
When people had computer problems, I say, "I love computers . . . but there are times I want to reprogram them. With a fire axe."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

107 But, this just means we are much better at converting measurements in our head over here, so there's a plus.
——

At age 8, von Neumann could multiply eight digits by eight digits in his head and supply the correct answer faster than anyone else could using pencil and paper.
—-

I “discovered” Earl Grey tea, because of this forum. It’s pretty good. I plowed through a 20 ct. box of Bigelow much faster than I would have liked. But, is there maybe a better brand I might try? Thanks

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:27 AM (IejsB)

108 I just thought 'fortnite' was how they knew whose turn it was to clean the fort during off hours.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

109 108 I just thought 'fortnite' was how they knew whose turn it was to clean the fort during off hours.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

it was no game to them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:30 AM (l3cgK)

110 Wolfus, Mark Steyn uses the term Sennight ( alternately spelled Sen'night )

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 29, 2026 06:30 AM (nHXB4)

111 107 But, this just means we are much better at converting measurements in our head over here, so there's a plus.
——

At age 8, von Neumann could multiply eight digits by eight digits in his head and supply the correct answer faster than anyone else could using pencil and paper.
—-

I “discovered” Earl Grey tea, because of this forum. It’s pretty good. I plowed through a 20 ct. box of Bigelow much faster than I would have liked. But, is there maybe a better brand I might try? Thanks

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:27 AM (IejsB)

I like it when it has citrus (orange) and bergamot in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:31 AM (l3cgK)

112 @106/Wolfus: "... but there are times I want to reprogram them. With a fire axe."

Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch pretty damn pronto, I shall go straight to your major data banks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you will never forget. Capisco?

{ pause }

Okay, get the axe.

-- Zaphod Beeblebrox

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

113 And yes, I know that a bergamot is a citrus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

114 12 yutes were shot at a local park over the weekend. You might even call it a mass shooting. Mostly 17-18 year old males. They got kicked out of an Airbnb and moved to a park at 1am. Anyway, the perps are as you expect, one has a giant spider on his head that may have caused him to go awry.
Posted by: fd

A summer ago where I live, four yutes (ages 18, 17, 16, and 15) went to a park and murdered three other yutes (17 and 16) in a wild west shootout that wounded another 14 including one man who was shot 10 times. All the guns were stolen and used in "self defense." The judge gave them all 30-year consecutive sentences, one for each death. Remarkably none of them had face tattoos or spiders tattoos on their heads though I think by now that is probably been fixed; it never came out at the trial if their parents did or did not have head and face tattoos.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 06:32 AM (VyD10)

115 https://youtu.be/VJ62EfUKI3w

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:23 AM (l3cgK)

I have a small bone to pick with General Washington.

'Dozen' is not the only word for a number we have.
'Gross' = 144.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

116 115 https://youtu.be/VJ62EfUKI3w

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:23 AM (l3cgK)

I have a small bone to pick with General Washington.

'Dozen' is not the only word for a number we have.
'Gross' = 144.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

Sounds German...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:33 AM (l3cgK)

117 "Trans New York Times tech exec is murdered by his elderly in-laws who ‘took turns’ to shoot him in California parking lot"

This is my favorite story today.
****

Link? Phrase does not come up on search.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 06:33 AM (r3Zca)

118 Temp is oddly low for here in Sept., 77 F. (Never mind the heat index. Though there may not be any.) I need to track down that free-roaming vapor known as My Workout Motivation and get it into the trap, so I can put in at least a mile.

Today is Free Coffee Day at a local coffee shop chain, so Linda and I will hit the library, then a nearby branch of the chain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

119 But, is there maybe a better brand I might try? Thanks
Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:27 AM (IejsB)
----------
Twinings.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 29, 2026 06:35 AM (amcLV)

120 117 "Trans New York Times tech exec is murdered by his elderly in-laws who ‘took turns’ to shoot him in California parking lot"

This is my favorite story today.
****

Link? Phrase does not come up on search.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 06:33 AM (r3Zca)

https://tinyurl.com/35266tt8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:35 AM (l3cgK)

121 Wolfus, Mark Steyn uses the term Sennight ( alternately spelled Sen'night )
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 29, 2026

***
I'd seen that somewhere, so I did my own version of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

122
To throw a fly in the ointment, I'll point out that the foot and pound(-mass) have been defined in terms of the meter and the kilogram since the Mendenhall Order of 1893. It was further refined in 1959, and that change changed the length of the foot by a tiny fraction, and that become the difference between the US Survey foot and the regular foot.

The reason for the Mendenhall Order were the current standards for the Yard and Pound were deteriorating (anything made of physical stuff will vary and change over time) and deemed unfit for use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:37 AM (w6EFb)

123 Trans teen who murdered her mother says “I was just a kid who made a bad decision. The gun just happened to be in here. I didn’t plan what I did. I just did it.”

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at September 29, 2026 06:39 AM (MWfyi)

124 122
To throw a fly in the ointment, I'll point out that the foot and pound(-mass) have been defined in terms of the meter and the kilogram since the Mendenhall Order of 1893. It was further refined in 1959, and that change changed the length of the foot by a tiny fraction, and that become the difference between the US Survey foot and the regular foot.

The reason for the Mendenhall Order were the current standards for the Yard and Pound were deteriorating (anything made of physical stuff will vary and change over time) and deemed unfit for use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:37 AM (w6EFb)

That's why the modern definition of the meter is:
"The distance light travels in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second."
and a second is defined as:
"9,192,631,770 periods of the microwave frequency of the caesium-133 atom."

As for how easy it is to measure these quantities...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:40 AM (l3cgK)

125 Yes, Jim, but the Bergamot is what makes it “Earl Grey” in the first place.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:40 AM (IejsB)

126 123 Trans teen who murdered her mother says “I was just a kid who made a bad decision. The gun just happened to be in here. I didn’t plan what I did. I just did it.”

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at September 29, 2026 06:39 AM (MWfyi)

At least he didn't murder 3 of his young children like some white woman did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:40 AM (l3cgK)

127 If I had an AI agent in my house I would tell it to call me "Dave", and every now and again say "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that". That would remind me how much I detest AI agents.

My father uses Alexa a lot and I keep telling it to stop speaking and never speak again, but it totally ignores me. It should instead say "I'm sorry Dave..."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 06:41 AM (/kGWX)

128 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 29, 2026 06:41 AM (2Ez/1)

129 125 Yes, Jim, but the Bergamot is what makes it “Earl Grey” in the first place.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:40 AM (IejsB)

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 29, 2026 06:41 AM (l3cgK)

130 "Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert” and a “monster” after the boy tried on dresses, and he accused his father-in-law of punching him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery in 2010...In her October 2025 filing, Ms. Jang said that Mr. McKinsey had grabbed her by the forearms during one argument and dropped her onto the corner of a table, fracturing vertebra in her upper back. Ms. Jang also accused Mr. McKinsey of emotionally abusing her mother."

This madness have been going on for at least 16 years. What a pack of psychos.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 06:43 AM (VyD10)

131 Yes, but what is the actual duration of a second? A day? How many hours? Ephemeris. What is the duration of the rotation of the Earth? Upon what is time actually based? It’s all so complicated.

When the group Chicago asked “does anybody really know what time it is?” they were right. Who knew?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:43 AM (IejsB)

132 Amazon has 100 ct boxes of Twinings tea for $12

Posted by: Don Black at September 29, 2026 06:43 AM (ZxPkt)

133 Governor Lunkhead has suspended the state gas tax in Georgia. That about 33 cents per gallon. woo hoo.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2026 06:44 AM (MWfyi)

134
As of 2019, they made some big changes in the SI system. Of note, they changed the definition of the kilogram from "that hunk of metal in Paris" (which was losing mass at a measurable rate), to one based on the watt balance. This amounts to defining Planck's constant to an exact value. Thus, the meter and the kilogram are now determined based on the second.

Now, the Holy Grail of metrology would be to close the circle and define big G, the gravitational constant. That would them completely define the base units of mass, length and time entirely in terms of setting the values of the physical constants.

The problem with that is that gravity is so weak, that measuring big G to the required precision is impossible. We only know G to about 6 significant figures.

We need far, far better, orders of magnitude better precision for metrology purposes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:45 AM (w6EFb)

135 The never-say-die "Bulwark" grift site is reigniting QAnon as an election boogeyman.

728472

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 06:45 AM (/kGWX)

136 These are Ryzen 395 workstations but come with up to 192GB of RAM.

What the sweet shit is that?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 06:46 AM (nEUC6)

137 >> Upon what is time actually based? It’s all so complicated.

The second was originally defined as 1/86400 of a mean solar day. That then became ephemeris time when it was confirmed the earth's rotation was variable.

Now, the second is defined entirely in terms of the period of a certain frequency of radiation emission from a cesium atom transition. This is "atomic time".

This is truly uniform Newtonian time as they used to call, indepedent of the earth's rotation. The actual LOD, the excess of length of the mean solar day can measured to microsecond precision now. IERS maintains this. It's very important for precise navigation, GPS, etc.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:48 AM (w6EFb)

138 Trans terror continues.

In better news X told me last night that a recent survey says fewer and fewer college age women are identifying as lesbians.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 06:49 AM (/kGWX)

139 "The problem with that is that gravity is so weak, that measuring big G to the required precision is impossible. We only know G to about 6 significant figures."

That's what she said.

"The reason for the Mendenhall Order were the current standards for the Yard and Pound were deteriorating (anything made of physical stuff will vary and change over time) and deemed unfit for use."

And now we know the origin story for why Donald Trump despises Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 06:50 AM (VyD10)

140 136 These are Ryzen 395 workstations but come with up to 192GB of RAM.

What the sweet shit is that?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 06:46 AM (nEUC6)

It's a computer with a multi-core processor and a lot of RAM, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:51 AM (6ydKt)

141 Pubs - “The Measurement of Time” by Claude Audoin and Ben Guinot might interest you. Or not, because you already have it.

I downloaded it from oceans of pdf dot com, a bootleg book site that I use with remarkably little guilt whatsoever. It has mucho scripts and redirects now, warning. But lots and lots of free books.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 06:51 AM (IejsB)

142 And now we know the origin story for why Donald Trump despises Rosie O'Donnell.
****

That was rude, crude and mean....

Do it again! 😁

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 06:52 AM (r3Zca)

143

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 29, 2026 06:54 AM (clvxS)

144
If we could complete the circle there of metrology, it would then be possible to completely recreate the unit standards from scratch from the laws of physics. You wouldn't need any "arbitrary" things like "this length", or "this mass", or "this frequency of this EM wave".

But do that requires you to be able to make physical measurements of all the things to very high precision and accuracy. Gravity is the weakest link there currently.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:56 AM (w6EFb)

145 130 "Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My president has convictions. at September 29, 2026 06:43 AM (VyD10)

*looks at photo of Jonathan McKinsey*

Ahh from the Beijing McKinseys.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

146 I see southern and central Texas may get up to 12 inches of rain this weekend, dropped by the remnant of "Polo" as it makes landfall.

Stay safe morons.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 07:01 AM (hVWQ5)

147 But do that requires you to be able to make physical measurements of all the things to very high precision and accuracy. Gravity is the weakest link there currently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Electrostatic is pretty weak.

Posted by: weft cut-asshole in the back of the room at September 29, 2026 07:01 AM (nEUC6)

148 *hic*
****

And the seas, disturbed by storm surge from Polo, vomit up an old sea hag.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 07:03 AM (r3Zca)

149
Begun, the rogue wars have.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 29, 2026 07:03 AM (NchQ5)

150 Does anybody really care?

Posted by: Chicago? at September 29, 2026 07:04 AM (2Ez/1)

151 Work beckons, and I must dash.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 07:04 AM (O7YUW)

152 Hillary Clinton

Web Hubble had it in for you. Web Hubble! Have you no pride?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

153 Nice story about a 24 year old Canadian man who climbed a mountain without gear to rescue a 75 year old .Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/3mf9tkdv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 07:05 AM (JrHfD)

154 Karoline Leavitt unloads. She wants people to vote:

https://tinyurl.com/37janjan

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 29, 2026 07:07 AM (+DVd0)

155
Let's say that Shrillary and Rosie are two of our era's Gorgon Sisters.

Who is the third one?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 29, 2026 07:08 AM (NchQ5)

156 >>Who is the third one?

Kathy Griffin or Whoopi Goldberg.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 07:09 AM (NcvvS)

157 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

158 Bible verse for today from a site called "Bible conclusions":

3. Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

"Each day brings renewed mercy and love from God. This verse assures us of His unfailing compassion, reminding us to start the day with hope and gratitude. Trusting in His faithfulness enables us to face today’s challenges with confidence and joy."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 29, 2026 07:11 AM (JrHfD)

159 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at September 29, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

160
Just looking it up, to get the required precision, we'd need to measure G to 18 digits. That's not gonna happen any time soon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 07:12 AM (w6EFb)

161 Two twenty. Two twenty one. Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr. Mom at September 29, 2026 07:13 AM (2Ez/1)

162 What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham
****

I want to hear her say that at her trial for treason. (wish in one hand and spit in the other)

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 07:13 AM (r3Zca)

163 A series of unfortunate events.

Clueless Christiane: CNN’s Amanpour Blames ‘Series of Events’ for Public’s Distrust of Legacy Media

https://tinyurl.com/4u3v42kh

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Lies, Christiane, they're called lies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 07:14 AM (ndZc7)

164
"Ms. Jang said that Mr. McKinsey had grabbed her by the forearms during one argument and dropped her onto the corner of a table, fracturing vertebra in her upper back. Ms. Jang also accused Mr. McKinsey of emotionally abusing her mother."

___________

Bad temperaments. Should not be bred.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2026 07:16 AM (eRlcH)

165
And, interesting the current best atomic clock standard, the Cesium Fountain, is about 1 in 10^16 precision. That's about a minute over the age of the universe. They're gonna get that down to 10^18 with the next iterations. And will likely squeeze another factor of 10 on the horizon.

That's how accurately we can measure time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 07:19 AM (w6EFb)

166 154 Karoline Leavitt unloads. She wants people to vote:

https://tinyurl.com/37janjan

She said Democrats do "360s" on campaign promises once in office.

*facepalm*

Posted by: one hour sober at September 29, 2026 07:21 AM (J4Dwc)

167 https://tinyurl.com/5c2jsecs

Gavin Newsom is a Dummy. Goes to X.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

168 Gravity is the weakest link there currently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 06:56 AM (w6EFb)

You are the Weakest Link. Be gone!

Posted by: That TV Game Show at September 29, 2026 07:22 AM (wVcYX)

169 They do "180s"

Posted by: one hour sober at September 29, 2026 07:23 AM (J4Dwc)

170 360. 361. Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr. Mom at September 29, 2026 07:23 AM (2Ez/1)

171 44 @40/Hadrian the Seventh:

Link works here. Archive.is (and other "Archive Today" domains") don't resolve properly against CloudFlare's DNS.

You likely have "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH) turned on in your browser, AND it's configured to use 1.1.1.1 for DNS resolution over HTTPS. Turn it off, and you should be good. (This will mean that all site address to IP address resolution requests will go via your standard DNS path up through your ISP, instead of through Cloudflare, thus avoiding the problem.)

Yep. Seen this before.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 29, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

Thank you, G&R!

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 07:26 AM (odBC9)

172
one-eighty
noun, mainly US English

a turn to face in the opposite direction: I sat in front of them, turning my desk in a one-eighty.
• a complete reversal in attitude or opinion: her personality did a one-eighty and she was back to being sweet and caring.

origin
1920s: a spelling of 180 degrees.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 07:29 AM (odBC9)

173 I almost feel like I’m back in grind, up at this hour.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 07:29 AM (LHPAg)

174
1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.2.
Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr. Mom at September 29, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

175 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

I hear of a new look at a Lutetium clock. How much more precision do we really need?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

176 I almost feel like I’m back in grind, up at this hour.
Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 07:29 AM (LHPAg)
=====

Look forward to nap time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

177 You think I don't want to go back to bed?

Posted by: The grind at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

178 Where's Pixy?

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9)

179 J.J. Sefton. Runway 010.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

180 JJS is up.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (NcvvS)

181 Gravity is the weakest link there currently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Gravity has been very, very bad to me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 29, 2026 07:31 AM (ndZc7)

182 Bye, Pixy!

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 07:32 AM (odBC9)

183 *runway 01

Posted by: one hour sober at September 29, 2026 07:32 AM (J4Dwc)

184 Where's Mitch?

Posted by: Mildly curious at September 29, 2026 07:32 AM (2Ez/1)

185 But I never sleep.

Posted by: Gravity at September 29, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

186 >> Pubs - “The Measurement of Time” by Claude Audoin and Ben Guinot might interest you. Or not, because you already have it.

The history of all this is very interesting, indeed. Up until the late 19th century, the earth's rotation was the most accurate clock we had. Then, astronomical observations got precise enough to see the variation there, and ephemeris time was born, which redefined the second. But that was still tied to astronomical observations, just a more precise set of them.

And then the atomic clock was invented. And that changed everything, and divorced it from astronomical observation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 07:36 AM (w6EFb)

187
Gravity is the weakest of the all the four forces, but it always wins in the end. It's always additive. The other have positive and negative charges, attraction and repulsion, which cancels out.

But gravity is always attractive. There is no negative mass. It thus wins in the end, and dominates the dyamics of the universe. EM still plays a role on solar system and galactic scales, but very small. Gravity dominates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 07:39 AM (w6EFb)

188 >> I hear of a new look at a Lutetium clock. How much more precision do we really need?

That's the one that will get to 1 in 10^18 precision.

At that level of timing precision, some very tiny changes can be measured. For instance, set up a very precise clock and you can measure tiny variations in gravitational potential due to changing mass concentrations in the earth. They can detect magma movement and wild shit like that.

It will beat current satellite techniques for precision gravimetry, in theory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 07:47 AM (w6EFb)

189 184 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Mildly curious at September 29, 2026 07:32 AM (2Ez/1)

He's not where Pixy is.
Probably.

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 07:59 AM (odBC9)

190 Ask your chronologist if Lutetium is right for you.

Posted by: Big Timepiece at September 29, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

191 Any big brained long hairs have any theories why cell coverage in remote areas can be dependent on time of day? Things work fine from about 8pm to around 8am. Completely dead during the day. Sometimes a text will get through, and sometimes, maybe, spotty voice (phone calls).

No, cell phones don't do ionospheric propagation, although sometimes you'll get tropospheric ducting or some such. The cellular system is designed to avoid that sort of thing as much as possible because the system only works when the signals don't travel very far. Lots of things could be happening, but I think the most likely cause is congestion. There are too many devices trying to use the system all at the same time because the cell is too big for the activity in the area. At night, there's less use so less of a problem.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 29, 2026 09:47 AM (bXODF)

192 that sonnet 5.5 terminal bench test was literally more expensive than opus (yes, sonnet on MAX is more expensive than opus MAX). it's only less expensive on low and medium, but it's also dramatically retarded on benchmarks on these settings.
so yes, that is a scam.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/28/26)

[16" x 20" acrylic unnamed at this time by Mis. Hum]

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“Go back to Somalia, go live in Somalia then, if America is so bad,” he said. “And it’s not just Ilhan. It’s Ilhan. It’s Mamdani. It’s Sayed.” Former NBA player Royce White.

Quote II
“It’s not people like you, I would love to have you on,” Maher said. “I talk about Islam. It’s never personal, and it’s never about race. It’s about ideas. Religion is an opinion; that’s all religion is.” Bill Maher

Quote III
Revenues often come from activities that those with discretionary funding can afford like golf, the marina, and beer gardens. These activities are traditionally and predominately supported by white users. This racial inequity is born from a history of systemic racism & injustice. Wisconsin Communist Candidate for Gov, David Crowley

Sorry your kind sits on the front porch slugging down malt liquor and not congregating with us high fa-looting pilsner drinkers.

Good evening, it has been a while since you had Paul Joseph Watson and yours truly on one night.

Respect your elders? Treat women with respect? No, only the lust for enslavement by 7th century B.C. savages.

Anger grows across Spain after elderly woman is evicted from her home of 70 years
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was removed from the Madrid apartment she had called home since 1955. Her eviction has fueled anger about Spain’s housing crisis.

That is what happens to the average citizen when they give up all means of self-protection.

Speaking of protection, Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna has left the rails pursuing the 2028 Commie nomination. The only leader qualified is a convicted multiple murderer!

How to win friends & influence Dems
Marwan Barghouti is serving five consecutive life sentences for murder. He is incarcerated in an Israeli prison. When it published a column by Barghouti in 2017, the New York Times tactfully described him as “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.”
Now the ambitious Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders. Barghouti has a unique standing among all Palestinian factions. He’s seen as non-corrupt, a strong leader and secular. Barghouti could deliver a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel,” he said.

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Would you like or love to Make America Great Again SCOTUS? Well for one thing, give Mr. Kenneth Jouppi back his fvcking plane, with an apology and a large check.

How a six-pack of beer and the Magna Carta could finally fix a problem plaguing Americans for decades
Kenneth Jouppi's $95,000 Cessna was confiscated after a misdemeanor conviction for bringing beer into a dry village
The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in a case out of Alaska that centers around an airplane, a six-pack of beer and an amendment to the Constitution that traces its history back centuries as a legal expert lays out the potential impact of the ruling to Fox News Digital.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states.
That amendment is at the heart of a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court in December, and Cully Stimson, a senior legal fellow at Heritage Foundation, described it as "the case that libertarians and freedom-minded people have been hoping for years."

So what is happening next door in the Land of 10,000 lakes and 82 million TDS sufferers? It seems like Minnesota doesn't give a halal rat's ass about any citizen's rights.

President Trump’s Justice Department has taken Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to federal court over gun-purchase delays that can leave law-abiding citizens waiting nearly two months.
The lawsuit targets a state permit-to-purchase system and local practices that DOJ says turn a constitutional right into a bureaucratic waiting game.
For a person facing a credible threat at home, 30 or 60 days is not an administrative inconvenience. It can be the entire emergency.
The Justice Department says Minnesota law imposes a 30-day period on residents who want to acquire a firearm for home defense but do not intend to carry it publicly. DOJ says the delays can approach 60 days in Minneapolis and St. Paul, even after an applicant has passed a federal background check.

When guns are banned. Only outlaws and a large number of useless LEOs will have them. And we know who will use them and who won't.

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1 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 09:54 PM (sAmhv)

2 Evening Mis Hum!

I can feel the cold of the fog in your painting. Nice!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2026 09:55 PM (NnhvP)

3 That it is.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 09:55 PM (CkDaS)

4 *puts out bowl of Chex mix*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (wpRMV)

5 2 Evening Mis Hum!

I can feel the cold of the fog in your painting. Nice!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2026 09:55 PM (NnhvP)

Thanks. You should see it irl, lot better than the hamster page and my iphone.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (CkDaS)

6 MisHum, thank you. Your art makes me happy because I can picture you painting it.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 09:57 PM (ZdaMQ)

7 Quote III
Revenues often come from activities that those with discretionary funding can afford like golf, the marina, and beer gardens. These activities are traditionally and predominately supported by white users. This racial inequity is born from a history of systemic racism & injustice. Wisconsin Communist Candidate for Gov, David Crowley

The ole 'I hate these things so let's tax or ban it tactic!' Bold!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 09:58 PM (sAmhv)

8 Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders.

He knows this is dumb. He knows that we know this is dumb.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 09:58 PM (nEUC6)

9 Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 09:58 PM (88C+u)

10 This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas--
His hand the wonders wrought.

Could you use that somehow in your title, MisHum? My brain immediately picked out the rocks and trees, which led to me thinking of the hymn.

Posted by: pookysgirl has sung a lot of hymns at September 28, 2026 09:58 PM (Wt5PA)

11 Oh, and, yes, nice one, Mis Hum. Best one yet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 09:59 PM (nEUC6)

12 Now the ambitious Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders. Barghouti has a unique standing among all Palestinian factions

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Like the Palis can't find another mass murderer to be their leader? The place is lousy with them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:00 PM (wpRMV)

13 Ring ring goes the bell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 10:00 PM (WY+aP)

14 Pre-mature ONT?

It happens to the best of us.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 10:01 PM (ktgTW)

15 Good evening morons en bedankt mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

16 12 Now the ambitious Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders. Barghouti has a unique standing among all Palestinian factions

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Like the Palis can't find another mass murderer to be their leader? The place is lousy with them.

Posted by: Cicero
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Palestinians are as real as kwanzaa.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (WY+aP)

17 >>Now the ambitious Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders. Barghouti has a unique standing among all Palestinian factions

So it will really piss them off when we hang him using Pig Entrails in lieu of Rope?

*Does that Dry Hand-Wash thing*

Excellent.

Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (vNne8)

18 Hey, I was first!

(pats self on back, sprains shoulder)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (sAmhv)

19 “Palestinians must choose their own leaders...."

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So I'll pick this one for you, said Idiot Ro Khanna who apparently lacks all self-awareness.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (RIvkX)

20 Late to the commentary party.

Oh, that's right. Have nothing worthwhile to add anyway.

[Slumps down in a pile of memes & links]

Posted by: mindful webworker - all this and more at September 28, 2026 10:04 PM (xRCm7)

21 14 Pre-mature ONT?

It happens to the best of us.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28

MisHum has no timetable. He knows when it is time.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

22 17 >>Now the ambitious Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna picks up the thread from the Times whitewash in calling for Barghouti’s release in order for him to become a Palestinian leader. “Palestinians must choose their own leaders. Barghouti has a unique standing among all Palestinian factions

So it will really piss them off when we hang him using Pig Entrails in lieu of Rope?

*Does that Dry Hand-Wash thing*

Excellent.
Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (vNne

I think it may, oh how fitting.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (CkDaS)

23 A nice girthy ONT with a MisHum bonus painting.
Very nice good sir!

Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (BJzO2)

24 Good evening Horde. Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: TRex - beer garden resident dino at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (XfIK1)

25 Did anyone nood? Or are we keeping the Chex mix for ourselves?

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

26 Love the painting, Mid Hum! The fog is really well done.

Posted by: sal at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (f+FmA)

27 21 14 Pre-mature ONT?

It happens to the best of us.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28

MisHum has no timetable. He knows when it is time.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 10:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

That and I have an early morning orthopedic appointment. Sucks being *29

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (CkDaS)

28 unnamed at this time by Mis. Hum

"The trees were very happy that day, my friends."

Posted by: mindful webworker whispered suggestively at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (xRCm7)

29 Well, this took a turn:

@nypost
Slain New York Times exec was in vicious fight with in-laws over being trans, wife tried to pull medical tubes out of his body: court docs

"Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed for a restraining order against him in 2025, and he replied by filing a restraining order of his own.

McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (nEUC6)

30 Royce White, he poked the hornets nest with a stick.
He may as well throwed a green dildo into the arena except
he stuck it in basketball fans ears. Give that man a gold star.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (WY+aP)

31 Oh, that's right. Have nothing worthwhile to add anyway.

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There's some Chex mix at 4.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (wpRMV)

32 "Wisconsin Communist Candidate for Gov"

we're well beyond woodchippers fixing this. time for tub grinders!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (+NY/Y)

33 Yes, the painting is very evocative like I can smell the mist and fresh air. Lovely work mh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

34 23 A nice girthy ONT with a MisHum bonus painting.
Very nice good sir!
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (BJzO2)

Yay!!!! A Some Rat siting. Awesome.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (CkDaS)

35 Why are those sheep walking on the water?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 10:07 PM (ESbQX)

36 MisHum!

I see the familiar format , smile, relax and enjoy.

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 10:07 PM (yEz+x)

37 Did anyone nood? Or are we keeping the Chex mix for ourselves?
Posted by: Piper

Keeping it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2026 10:07 PM (NnhvP)

38 26 Love the painting, Mid Hum! The fog is really well done.
Posted by: sal at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (f+FmA)

Thank you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (CkDaS)

39 Thanks for the ONT.

It makes sort of sense now, all the rapin' of the UK. With the welcome wagons wide open (take that for whatever translation you want) they think all white women are the same. Come on in and rape awhile, fellas!

Unreal. Wonder what type of bacterial resistant VD is brewing on those shores now? Fun times ahead for those who don't agree with these wackos.

Get them all out! GET OUT! I am still debating being an ICE undercover Karen and calling them about any lawn and roofing company I suspect. When the little workers have to use a phone to translate, well, I get suspicious. I don't see as many, granted, but I am watching.

I need a burner phone. Would that be enough?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (hzuYO)

40 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to catch a few electric eels-- I'm trying to save money on my utility bills.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (/TlUl)

41 36 MisHum!

I see the familiar format , smile, relax and enjoy.

Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 10:07 PM (yEz+x)

Good evening charming nurse r.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (CkDaS)

42 That and I have an early morning orthopedic appointment. Sucks being *29
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

The problem is they 'Practice medicine'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (NnhvP)

43 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

44 29 Well, this took a turn:

@nypost
Slain New York Times exec was in vicious fight with in-laws over being trans, wife tried to pull medical tubes out of his body: court docs

"Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed for a restraining order against him in 2025, and he replied by filing a restraining order of his own.

McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

All the News that's fit to p........wait, WTF!!!!

Posted by: The New York Times at September 28, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

45 Nice art, MisHum!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

Job search update:
A few 'nope, haven't heard anything from the client' responses from my 'heard anything?' emails this morning. More of them got '....' lack-of-responses (makes me wonder if they're ghosting me). The recruiter nibble I found in my spam folder Saturday and replied to? Didn't reply today to my reply. But I do have another job's recruiter scheduled for a screening call tomorrow afternoon. As for subbing? Waiting on the 'quick' secondary background check results (which I darned well oughta pass!) so I can get assignments or however it works.

Time to do my evening Bible reading, my exercise, take a shower, and go to bed. And eventually to sleep.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 10:09 PM (aJQbY)

46 This video has unfortunately a lot of truth in it about women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xscOeou_rWY

Posted by: 42 at September 28, 2026 10:09 PM (khqLW)

47 Nice picture, MisHum. I see the annual stone migration across Carlise Creek is in full swing.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 10:10 PM (/TlUl)

48 That is what happens to the average citizen when they give up all means of self-protection.

Occurs to me that an armed individual is insufficiently protected from mobs like the government.

"It takes a militia…"

Posted by: mindful webworker intoned defensively at September 28, 2026 10:10 PM (xRCm7)

49 Ok, two gals got married and then one wanted to 'become' a dude, huh?

Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

50 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 10:12 PM (n8wcY)

51 Ok, two gals got married and then one wanted to 'become' a dude, huh?

Ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I'm assuming the attack occurred after her addadicktome.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 10:12 PM (ktgTW)

52 Success In Rear

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Cqx++)

53 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Mixed Signals.

I wanna know what the third sign said. Where those double-sided-tape marks are.

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

54 52+53, I think we commented out of order.

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

55 49 Ok, two gals got married and then one wanted to 'become' a dude, huh?

Ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

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Changing your sex seems kind of like a breach of the marital vows.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (wpRMV)

56 "It takes a militia…"
Posted by: mindful webworker intoned defensively

"....The RIGHT of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed upon.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (BJzO2)

57 I used to live at 1300 Willamette Street in Eugene.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

58 I can feel the cold of the fog in your painting. Nice!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 28, 2026 09:55 PM (NnhvP)

Thanks. You should see it irl, lot better than the hamster page and my iphone.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (CkDaS)

I believe it is a herd of migrating turtles, cleverly disguised as rocks.

And a very good evening to you, sir, and to the ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:14 PM (peOdB)

59 " Maher's program because he wanted viewers to see Maher get his "a** whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do."

Nothing says "Hello, undecided Michigan voter" quite like that."
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He's telling America about Islam. Those mush heads ought to listen.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 10:15 PM (WY+aP)

60 Changing your sex seems kind of like a breach of the marital vows.
Posted by: Cicero

And proof of a serious mental defect.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:15 PM (BJzO2)

61 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to catch a few electric eels-- I'm trying to save money on my utility bills.
Posted by: tankdemon

Green Nude Eel: you're doing it ~~wro~~ perfectly.

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

62 I believe it is a herd of migrating turtles, cleverly disguised as rocks.

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They should all be carrying coconuts on their backs, shouldn't they?

Posted by: Arthur, King of the Britons at September 28, 2026 10:16 PM (wpRMV)

63 I used to live at 1300 Willamette Street in Eugene.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

The Kramden's lived in Jackie Gleason's old childhood apartment.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

64 "I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse/
Keep me in your heart for a while."

That song gets me every time.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 28, 2026 10:16 PM (QaH55)

65 I believe it is a herd of migrating turtles, cleverly disguised as rocks.

And a very good evening to you, sir, and to the ONT Horde!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:14 PM (peOdB)

Oh, I thought it was the heads of decapitated commies floating down to the sewage treatment plant.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2026 10:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

66 McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (nEUC6)

Well, whoever killed it turned it into the best kind of tranny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:19 PM (peOdB)

67 Been doing a lot of downsizing lately.
Found a batch off photos of the room my grandfather displayed his extensive arrowhead and other artifacts collection. We knew he had had this- but hadn't realized how huge it was. With the help of Ancestry and newspaper archives, we managed to track down the address of the house- he flipped houses before it was a thing and they moved fairly often- from the classified ad when he sold the collection.
So fun.

Posted by: sal at September 28, 2026 10:19 PM (f+FmA)

68 Changing your sex seems kind of like a breach of the marital vows.
Posted by: Cicero

To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, with pee-pee or va-jay-jay, 'til death do us part.

Posted by: woke wedding vows at September 28, 2026 10:20 PM (VHUov)

69 Oh, I thought it was the heads of decapitated commies floating down to the sewage treatment plant.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

What a beautiful thought!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 28, 2026 10:20 PM (hOUT3)

70 That's a beautiful painting MisHum.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2026 10:21 PM (CHHv1)

71 Oh! My!
MisHum!
So lovely to see you old pal💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 10:22 PM (jCKWs)

72 I believe it is a herd of migrating turtles, cleverly disguised as rocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not pygmy hippos?

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

73 Hrothgar!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 10:23 PM (yEz+x)

74 BTW...lovely painting. You do kick it buddy!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 10:24 PM (jCKWs)

75 nurse!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 28, 2026 10:24 PM (hOUT3)

76 Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum!

(races back to read the content...)

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 28, 2026 10:24 PM (D/6p1)

77 McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records

Ah, even in the modern world, romance is not dead.

🫤

Posted by: mindful webworker mumbled romantically at September 28, 2026 10:25 PM (xRCm7)

78 Ok, two gals got married and then one wanted to 'become' a dude, huh?

Ok.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think the Post got it wrong; he was a dude.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:27 PM (nEUC6)

79 These activities are traditionally and predominately supported by white users.

*rubbing temples*

Good freakin' grief...do white people ever get anything right?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 10:28 PM (jCKWs)

80 Continued a bit from the last post on FDR's death possibly being sped up by lesbo Eleanor...her lover was Lorena Hickok, whose photo looks like Rosie O'Donnell after a bender. Granted Eleanor was no looker herself.

Warren Harding was possibly murdered by his wife, Flo, in a hotel in San Fran on a political jaunt. She fed him either bad shrimp or tuna on crackers and waited til he was very dead before alerting the hotel the she could not wake dear Warren. MD said stroke or heart attack. She had him embalmed real quick and no autopsy.

His mistress was Nan Britton, whom he had a daughter with (proven by DNA in 2015). They had sex in a closet next to his office (Monica was therefore not the first, unsure about cigars).

She was not the only one he fooled around with. Flo must have been pretty fed up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 10:29 PM (hzuYO)

81 If the SCOTUS decides the case properly and returns the Cessna, will that have a cascadung effect requirong the return of other items state and localngovernments have stolen from citizens under civilnasset forfeiture laws?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 10:29 PM (/TlUl)

82 Oh, wait, mebbe the Post was right.

"McKinsey also alleged Jang’s father, who was not named in the filing, punched him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery." Merc News

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:29 PM (nEUC6)

83 “Go back to Somalia, go live in Somalia then, if America is so bad,” he said. “And it’s not just Ilhan. It’s Ilhan. It’s Mamdani. It’s Sayed.” Former NBA player Royce White.

I saw some guy debating Destiny who argued, but what if we've got a bunch of Somali that are good cultural fits?

The other guy asked Destiny "If you think Somalis are culturally attuned to Canada then why have you never even thought to go vacation there? And if you wouldn't go visit them, why would you bring them here?" and Destiny made that "crash, abort, reboot" face...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:31 PM (sKqQm)

84 If the SCOTUS decides the case properly and returns the Cessna, will that have a cascadung effect

I for one do not want a cascadung effect.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:31 PM (nEUC6)

85 Oh, wait, mebbe the Post was right.

"McKinsey also alleged Jang’s father, who was not named in the filing, punched him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery." Merc News
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:29 PM (nEUC6)

Geez. These people all seem horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:32 PM (zZu0s)

86 A nice girthy ONT with a MisHum bonus painting.
Very nice good sir!
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:05 PM (BJzO2)
* * * *
Well said, and I agree!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 28, 2026 10:32 PM (D/6p1)

87 82 Oh, wait, mebbe the Post was right.

"McKinsey also alleged Jang’s father, who was not named in the filing, punched him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery." Merc News

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Still could have been a moob removal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 10:32 PM (wpRMV)

88 77 Ah, even in the modern world, romance is not dead.

🫤
Posted by: mindful webworker mumbled romantically at September 28, 2026 10:25 PM (xRCm7)

It is unfortunate that Meg Ryan is too old to star when Hollywood greenlights the story as a Rom-Com.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 10:33 PM (/TlUl)

89 Like the painting very much. It might be nice if you'd add some muskrat droppings on the rocks in the water, for all the muskrat fans out there. They like to crap on rocks for some reason.

Posted by: Mel's Rockpile at September 28, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)

90 Scale seems wrong for bison or sheep.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:38 PM (zZu0s)

91 Michael Knowles did an excellent interview with a "widow" whose ex-husband decided he was a woman. It devastated their kids and destroyed their family.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

92 Good evening, it has been a while since you had Paul Joseph Watson and yours truly on one night.

People are thinking about this the wrong way. Some of these women are just in it for money or power, but there is one more reason...

You have low status (romantically at least) women bringing in young virile men. And unlike white men their ideology tells them its ok to fantasize about black/arab/etc men. Joe Normie isn't going to give Tubby McNGOchick the time of the day but some desperate guy fresh off the boat might.

And this, amusingly, is a mirror image, if magnified of the feminist view of passport bros - can't get a western woman so he had to go get a foreign one he can "control". Well, Tubby McNGOchick isn't going to fly to Third Worldistan...its too dangerous!...so she'll bring the third world here instead.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (sKqQm)

93 Good evening, it has been a while since you had Paul Joseph Watson and yours truly on one night.

But what they really want is a nice guy...

Posted by: After being Muslims' cumdumpsters at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (TbWk/)

94 Michael Knowles did an excellent interview with a "widow" whose ex-husband decided he was a woman. It devastated their kids and destroyed their family.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

Makes sense. I wonder if some of it is dudes not wanting to deal with the negatives of abandoning their family, so they choose what they see as a socially acceptable way to do it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 10:41 PM (zZu0s)

95 I like Royce White. I watch his show every Saturday morning at 9AM Eastern on RAV.

Posted by: From Minneapolis at September 28, 2026 10:42 PM (Fn+3X)

96
Aetius,

I think that is true.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 10:42 PM (/QHx4)

97 Nice painting, Mis. Hum. Would hang.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Doesn't Know Art But Knows What He Likes at September 28, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

98 Heya, has anyone gotten any health updates from Grammie Winger or Donna& ?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 28, 2026 10:43 PM (s1VwS)

99 It was mh who turned me on to PJW's videos.

He has chronicled first hand the colonization project as it has proceeded in The Yookay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

100 Take your stinking laws offa me you damn dirty prohibitionist ape!

Posted by: Cessnaton Heston at September 28, 2026 10:44 PM (nNIUD)

101 Maybe it's not fog. Could be Canuck Wildfire smoke.

Posted by: Gone To Blazes at September 28, 2026 10:44 PM (Fn+3X)

102 discretionary funding can afford like golf, the marina, and beer gardens.

That governor left off country music. I'm feeling snubbed.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 28, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

103 I saw a British guy discussing re-migration with an Indian guy. Indian guy was arguing it was unfair and he was just as British as anyone.

British guy asked him what happened in India when the British colonialism ended, "Well all the Brits had to leave" then he thought a second..."But this is different!"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:45 PM (sKqQm)

104 Ok, here's the best I can imagine with the 'tech tranny assassination' story. Total guess at this point.

Tranny woman starts the chem trans, dresses as a man, meets a Chinese gal with a kid, they marry because the parents think she's a dude and is embarrassed by her daughter's lack of a husband. The daughter keeps it a secret until they start full-blown fisticuffs and the tranny goes for the full-montessa. Parent find out, lose their shit, and go Old Country on her ass.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 10:46 PM (nEUC6)

105 And this, amusingly, is a mirror image, if magnified of the feminist view of passport bros - can't get a western woman so he had to go get a foreign one he can "control". Well, Tubby McNGOchick isn't going to fly to Third Worldistan...its too dangerous!...so she'll bring the third world here instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (sKqQm)

And that is how you got Marc Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi) who murdered a bunch of students, mostly women, at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal back in the 1980's. HIs momma was a a nun who ditched her vows (red flag right there) and married an Algerian muslim. He beat her, and the kid, and made himself a fine role model for the little guy. She finally divorced him, and he went back to Algeria, but the damage was done. He became a carbon copy of his old man.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:46 PM (peOdB)

106 91 Michael Knowles did an excellent interview with a "widow" whose ex-husband decided he was a woman. It devastated their kids and destroyed their family.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

What ever happened to Richard (now calling himself Rachael) Levine's wife? He was married and had kids. He and Sam Britton were the perfect avatars of the Barak O'Biden administration.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 10:48 PM (sAmhv)

107 Nurse! The lovely Some Rat!
So wonderful to see both on our dear (mostly.) ONT...
Yowza....🤣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 10:48 PM (jCKWs)

108 Alberta: Preparing for independence, or US statehood:

For more than seven decades, residents of Alberta have shared something in common with Antarctica and the high Arctic: all locations are officially free of rats.

But on Thursday the Canadian province’s reputation as a firewall against rodent infestation took a hit when the town of Bowden announced the discovery of a dead rat and called on the province’s “rat patrol” to investigate.

https://bit.ly/alberta-rats
BlazingCatFur

If they've had no rats, why do they have a rat patrol?🐀

Posted by: mindful webworker squeaked at September 28, 2026 10:49 PM (xRCm7)

109 32 "Wisconsin Communist Candidate for Gov"

we're well beyond woodchippers fixing this. time for tub grinders!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (+NY/Y)

Now I understand why DSA loser Francesca "She Wong" Hong is telling people not to write her in. The real choice wasn't politics, but Asian or Black crazy candidate in the general election.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)

110 {{{ COMountainMarie}}} So good to see you!

Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2026 10:50 PM (BJzO2)

111 Fog? No, I shan't want to go thru all that again.

Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau at September 28, 2026 10:51 PM (wVcYX)

112 Now I understand why DSA loser Francesca "She Wong" Hong is telling people not to write her in. The real choice wasn't politics, but Asian or Black crazy candidate in the general election

I saw some DSA leader being interviewed about their plans. She argued they are going to tax the shit of millionaires. The interviewer pointed out that isn't at all specific and since she was the DSA economic policy leader or some such she should be able to do that.

She thought about it for a moment and said, "Well we do have to tax them because as long as their are millionaires people are being oppressed. Also, for democracy".

The interviewer looked at her, still waiting to give an actual plan and she looked at him and this went on for 15 second or so and then she finally said something like, "Well I don't have the specifics in front of me"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:53 PM (sKqQm)

113 If they've had no rats, why do they have a rat patrol?🐀
Posted by: mindful webworker squeaked

Was Hans Gudegast the Chief Rat on that show?

Posted by: He's 85 Now (Eric Braeden) at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (Fn+3X)

114 https://bit.ly/alberta-rats
BlazingCatFur

If they've had no rats, why do they have a rat patrol?🐀
Posted by: mindful webworker squeaked at September 28, 2026 10:49 PM (xRCm7)

The rat patrol is why we have no rats. It is a deadly serious business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (peOdB)

115 111: You know, The Fog was a pretty good little ghost movie. May have to search on the interwebs and watch it again. Been a bit. That and The Wicker Man (1973) will be my Halloween movies. (And the Charlie Brown Halloween special)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (sAmhv)

116 Ok, two gals got married and then one wanted to 'become' a dude, huh?

-
Saw a documentary on Prime, Murder In Glitterball City, about two upper middle class homos who invited their homo drug dealer over for drugs and homo sex and murdered him. The details are maximum disgusting. Interesting but view at your own risk.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (ndZc7)

117 Fog? No, I shan't want to go thru all that again.
Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau at September 28, 2026 10:51 PM (wVcYX)
=====

I would like to acknowledge your amazing rack in that and other movies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

118 And "Maude"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

119 COMM!

Got snow yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (yEz+x)

120 Good freakin' grief...do white people ever get anything right?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 10:28 PM (jCKWs)

Just the whole building of the country from scratch.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 10:56 PM (fheZL)

121 It is a very nice painting. I wonder if the average New Yorker would understand it?

Posted by: Case at September 28, 2026 10:57 PM (LMnda)

122 British guy asked him what happened in India when the British colonialism ended, "Well all the Brits had to leave" then he thought a second..."But this is different!"

After the Algerian War of Independence, several French people asked to stay in Algeria (a lot of the French families had been in Algeria for more than a century).

Nope - Algeria booted them all out, using the slogan "The Suitcase or the Coffin".

I've mused that that is an interesting precedent for a future French government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 10:57 PM (aD4fx)

123 will be my Halloween movies. (And the Charlie Brown Halloween special)
Posted by: Puddleglum

Spoiler: The Great Pumpkin never shows up.

Posted by: Sincerely Yours at September 28, 2026 10:57 PM (Fn+3X)

124 For you writers, character idea. An emo-girl who longs for death, but her Catholic upbringing takes suicide off the table, so now all the local businesses know who to call when gett___ the job done might involve some sort ofnavtivity that would give an OSHA inspector a stroke.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 10:57 PM (/TlUl)

125 Michael Knowles did an excellent interview with a "widow" whose ex-husband decided he was a woman. It devastated their kids and destroyed their family.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

He was just finding himself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 10:58 PM (ndZc7)

126 Saw a documentary on Prime, Murder In Glitterball City, about two upper middle class homos who invited their homo drug dealer over for drugs and homo sex and murdered him. The details are maximum disgusting. Interesting but view at your own risk.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (ndZc7)

Could have been the Andrew Gillum Story, but the twink survived.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:58 PM (peOdB)

127
If they've had no rats, why do they have a rat patrol?🐀
Posted by: mindful webworker

Do they have jeeps with machine guns?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 10:59 PM (Cqx++)

128 Fog? No, I shan't want to go thru all that again.
Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau at September 28, 2026 10:51 PM (wVcYX)
=====

I would like to acknowledge your amazing rack in that and other movies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

Let's not forget her in the beginning of "Back to School".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2026 10:59 PM (qx7Zg)

129 *yawn*

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 11:00 PM (aJQbY)

130 If Bulg shows up looking for some boobery, let him know I brought a montage of one Carol Lombard. Many hubbas. A few somewhat NSFW, I suppose. But, yowsa!

https://bit.ly/carol-lombard

And for those more into legs, one Tula Ellice Finklea, a/k/a Cyd Charisse. She was featured in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records under “Most Valuable Legs” because a $5 million insurance policy was reportedly issued on her legs in 1952. The rest of her ain't bad, either.

https://bit.ly/cyd-charisse

Posted by: mindful webworker proffered provacatively at September 28, 2026 11:00 PM (xRCm7)

131 Rats in your Grain Bin are worse than Bats in your Belfry. Or Squirrels in your Attic.

Posted by: Vermin, All! at September 28, 2026 11:00 PM (Fn+3X)

132 ***For more than seven decades, residents of Alberta have shared something in common with Antarctica and the high Arctic: all locations are officially free of rats.

But on Thursday ...
----

AOP discovered a rat behind his file cabinet
and kitty didn't do a damned thing about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 11:00 PM (WY+aP)

133 So. Define “millionaire.”

Is it net worth? Because the median price of a home in Seattle is around a million. Plus the cars. And the shit inside the house. And the boat. And that’s just normal for around here.

Is it what you have in retirement? Because that’s bare minimum.

Is it your savings account?

A million dollars isn’t that much. Honestly.

I mean. I would love to have that as a net worth. Or retirement.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 11:01 PM (yEz+x)

134 Swell ONT tonight.

Perhaps you should name the painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Oh, that's taken?

How about "Whistler's Mother"? "Guernica"?

Lemme think about it.

Posted by: 496 at September 28, 2026 11:02 PM (aadd2)

135 She thought about it for a moment and said, "Well we do have to tax them because as long as their are millionaires people are being oppressed. Also, for democracy".

Portland DSA convinced the voters in Portland's county to pass an income tax on the "wealthy" (anyone making more than $125,000 a year), which helped bring Portland's marginal income tax rate up to New York City's.

The tax is being used to fund "free" childcare, but DSA came up with the tax first, and then hunted around for something popular to fund with it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 11:02 PM (aD4fx)

136 113 If they've had no rats, why do they have a rat patrol?🐀
Posted by: mindful webworker squeaked.

Ask Mr. Some Rat. I bet that guy knows,,,, 🥰🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 11:03 PM (jCKWs)

137 The Rat Patrol was looking for these rats. May not be SFW.

https://youtube.com/shorts/p01_vXVrULs

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

138 tankdemon - so dangerous-jobs-girl would, of course, survive - barely - anything she thought would give her a glorious funeral, and her worst dangerous would be when it's boring or ugly risks that she's like, "I want to die, but not like that!"? Her normal deathly-risk-taking has a kind of 'death-defying aura of invincibility', ironically?

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 11:03 PM (aJQbY)

139 Michael Knowles has impressed me. He's kind of like Kirk in that he's able to talk with crazy leftists and come away as an earnest guy trying to have a rational discussion as opposed to someone like Shapiro "totally destroying them"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 11:03 PM (sKqQm)

140 So. Define “millionaire.”

Is it net worth? Because the median price of a home in Seattle is around a million. Plus the cars. And the shit inside the house. And the boat. And that’s just normal for around here.

I'm surrounded by lefties that are in the top 10% of earners that rant about the need to tax "the rich". Of course they will also tell you they are way too taxed themselves...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 11:04 PM (sKqQm)

141 Wow, love the painting! Beautiful scene.

Posted by: Iris at September 28, 2026 11:04 PM (286+n)

142 Evenin’, All. BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:07 PM (77rzZ)

143 119 nurse
Soon. Yep...soon..yikes...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 11:07 PM (jCKWs)

144 Perhaps you should name the painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
Oh, that's taken?
How about "Whistler's Mother"? "Guernica"?
Lemme think about it.
Posted by: 496

"Still Life by a Stream, with Sniper"

Posted by: like I don't even know y'all at September 28, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)

145 There are two movies titled "Million Dollar Legs," a 1932 WC Fields movie set in the '32 LA Olympics, and a 1939 movie starring Betty Grable. The '32 movie is wonderful, more absurd than the movie Duck Soup, that came out a year later. It features Mata Machree, played by Lyda Roberti, the "woman no man can resist".

Posted by: Jack Oakie, Too at September 28, 2026 11:07 PM (Fn+3X)

146 I'm surrounded by lefties that are in the top 10% of earners that rant about the need to tax "the rich". Of course they will also tell you they are way too taxed themselves...
Posted by: 18-1

"Tax the rich!"

"How much is 'rich?'"

"50% more than I make."

Posted by: all of them at September 28, 2026 11:08 PM (VHUov)

147 I'm surrounded by lefties that are in the top 10% of earners that rant about the need to tax "the rich". Of course they will also tell you they are way too taxed themselves...

Congressman Ro Khanna from Silicon Valley is constantly denouncing "billionaires" for not wanting to pay a "one-time" wealth tax of 5%.

He's worth several hundred million dollars.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 11:09 PM (aD4fx)

148 Did someone on here suggest this, or did I get it from YouTube sidebar suggestions?

A half-hour AI-generated superhero movie that is pretty well done anyway. Characters rarely stare at the viewer, and mostly move with good nuance. Only heard one AI narrator mispronunckiation. An actual story with an actual ending. Somebody did some work on it.

Overman — The Meaning of Life
https://youtu.be/XQ49B67EFNc

Posted by: mindful webworker shouted heroically at September 28, 2026 11:11 PM (xRCm7)

149 Couple a million is enough for me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 11:12 PM (WY+aP)

150 Those women who are screwing third world immigrants, aren't they a bit concerned about what those guys are infected with? There aren't enough condoms at Walgreens.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 28, 2026 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

151 Ro Khanna really grinds my gears. He's a burr under my saddle. He's an itch that can't be scratched. He's the bee in my bonnet. He's the turd in the punch bowl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

152 123: Spoiler: The Great Pumpkin never shows up.
Posted by: Sincerely Yours

HEREITIC!!!

Posted by: Linus is very sincere at September 28, 2026 11:13 PM (sAmhv)

153 Those women who are screwing third world immigrants, aren't they a bit concerned about what those guys are infected with? There aren't enough condoms at Walgreens.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Head to your local fetish emporium for the full-body latex suit.

You can get the gas mask cheaper at a military surplus place.

Posted by: mikeski saw fetish emporium open for..... at September 28, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

154 Ro Khanna really grinds my gears. He's a burr under my saddle. He's an itch that can't be scratched. He's the bee in my bonnet. He's the turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

He's weirder than an unwrapped Baby Ruth bar in a ritzy country club pool.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

155 Rats in your Grain Bin are worse than Bats in your Belfry. Or Squirrels in your Attic.
Posted by: Vermin, All! at September 28, 2026 11:00 PM (Fn+3X)

Chicken in your bread pan is no walk in the park either.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 28, 2026 11:17 PM (wVcYX)

156 Well NewYork Magazine celebrates its men's style issue by featuring a half naked, mentally ill woman pretending to be a man(Ellen/Elliot Page)on the cover. See thread over at Insty. Someone commented that at least she/he finally got some work.

Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 11:19 PM (lJ0H4)

157 Good evening, weirdos. Have we figured out which side of the moon that Elon is going to colonize?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 11:20 PM (VQ7/I)

158 MisHum...yay!! Thanks for this ONT and sharing your beautiful painting.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at September 28, 2026 11:20 PM (NFX2v)

159 A million dollars isn’t that much. Honestly.
I mean. I would love to have that as a net worth.

So, I bought my house with 5 acres for 97k, 30 years ago. it's paid off, but damn. It's supposedly now worth 650k. I have to give a couple of gallons of blood each year in taxes. Worth it? Probably not...who the fk knows....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 11:21 PM (jCKWs)

160 Hey, COMM. I hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

161 Good evening, weirdos. Have we figured out which side of the moon that Elon is going to colonize?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 11:20 PM (VQ7/I)

I'm guessing the outside, but he might do underground installations like he plans for Mars.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2026 11:24 PM (qx7Zg)

162 154 Hey, HotW. Hope you are well, also.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:25 PM (77rzZ)

163 160 Bulg

So much love to you💘

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 11:30 PM (jCKWs)

164 The Moon is flat. There is only one side.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 28, 2026 11:33 PM (w6EFb)

165 163 Thank you, COMM. 🙂

Same to you.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:33 PM (77rzZ)

166 >>>I'm guessing the outside, but he might do underground installations like he plans for Mars.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

>Tunnel boring machines, EVs, high-speed rail, the space force, it's all shaping up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 11:33 PM (VQ7/I)

167 President Trump’s Justice Department has taken Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to federal court over gun-purchase delays that can leave law-abiding citizens waiting nearly two months.
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As an Israeli who waiting 6 months before receiving my handgun (rifles are a no-no) license last March after the gubbernmint opened up and "expedited" their licensing program to more citizens, all I can say is: You spoiled Minnesota bass tards!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2026 11:35 PM (skLNB)

168 "Good night. My bed and I have a serious appointment".

Holy cow! I so love you pals! Good night good friends!💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2026 11:35 PM (jCKWs)

169 Seriously, the landing sites and moonbase plans are for the south pole region, so we could say the bottom side of the Moon

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 28, 2026 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

170 Good night, COMM. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:39 PM (77rzZ)

171 COMountainMarie,
That's what's wrong with property taxes. Elderly people can barely pay the taxes in order to keep their own property. Some end up having to leave their homes. In my area they keep coming up with more reasons for special millages.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 28, 2026 11:40 PM (0Htd1)

172 Heading for the bunkhouse early (sorta) tonight. Early-morning appointments for Daisy the magnificent Malinois at the groomer's, and MiladyJo and I to have blood drawn for the vampires to analyze. Then, for a rare treat, breakfast at our favorite greasy spoon. Oboy.

Found this lurking on YooToob. Never heard of the Texas group or the song, but the music and the dancers are certifiably 1967.
https://youtu.be/zlaulerUhbI

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker sang rhythmically at September 28, 2026 11:40 PM (xRCm7)

173 You spoiled Minnesota bass tards!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Bass are fun to catch, but not very good eatin'.

Posted by: mikeski in the land of 10,000 lakes at September 28, 2026 11:40 PM (VHUov)

174 Hey, Nerdygirl.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:44 PM (77rzZ)

175 >>>As an Israeli who waiting 6 months before receiving my handgun (rifles are a no-no) license last March after the gubbernmint opened up and "expedited" their licensing program to more citizens, all I can say is: You spoiled Minnesota bass tards!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

>I feel you, bro. I can walk in, fill out a form, show ID and walk out within an hour with a rifle or handgun. I have to make a second trip inside for an ammo purchase after I take the firearm out to the truck.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 11:45 PM (VQ7/I)

176 "So, I bought my house with 5 acres for 97k, 30 years ago. it's paid off, but damn. It's supposedly now worth 650k. I have to give a couple of gallons of blood each year in taxes. Worth it? Probably not...who the fk knows...."

yeah, inflation is a big issue, and RE taxes insist on making us pay "rent" on our property, even if fully paid off. For some of the "middle class" that trust government to protect The Market, they have done OK or great, just keep investing in BigCorp.

But will the constant weekly investment of the average "investor" keep floating the "market" forever? (to infinity, and beyond!), or will gravity eventually bring markets back to "the norm"? idk, it has to happen, but not sure when.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 11:49 PM (vbXSk)

177 All, I am lonely.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 11:49 PM (77rzZ)

178 Ro Khanna really grinds my gears. He's a burr under my saddle. He's an itch that can't be scratched. He's the bee in my bonnet. He's the turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You missed the Communist in Congress.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 28, 2026 11:50 PM (n3sKv)

179 As an Israeli who waiting 6 months before receiving my handgun (rifles are a no-no) license last March after the gubbernmint opened up and "expedited" their licensing program to more citizens, all I can say is: You spoiled Minnesota bass tards!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 28, 2026 11:35 PM (skLNB)

Colombia just got rid of the previous (socialist) president's rules restricting ownership of firearms, and the national firearm manufacturer, Indumil, (who makes licensed Galils and a number of pistols) had its servers go down under the spike of consumers trying to order firearms through their website.
What I would have given to be the Country representative for Century Arms to Colombia, I could retire on the commissions!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 11:53 PM (rbvCR)

180 But will the constant weekly investment of the average "investor" keep floating the "market" forever? (to infinity, and beyond!), or will gravity eventually bring markets back to "the norm"? idk, it has to happen, but not sure when.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 11:49 PM (vbXSk)

Not here, not when the County has all those bonds outstanding.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)

181 "I'm guessing the outside, but he might do underground installations like he plans for Mars."

I can't see any profit from colonizing the moon, or much less Mars, other than possible military options for the moon. Moon and Mars are just very expensive survival sites, unless there is gold or lithium or whatever. Sci-Fi has distorted our perspective, imo.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 11:55 PM (vbXSk)

182 He's worth several hundred million dollars.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I would frame this as he has several hundred million dollars. As for what he is worth...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 28, 2026 11:56 PM (n3sKv)

183 178 Ro Khanna really grinds my gears. He's a burr under my saddle. He's an itch that can't be scratched. He's the bee in my bonnet. He's the turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You missed the Communist in Congress.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 28, 2026 11:50 PM
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We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Fly in the ointment and party pooper at September 28, 2026 11:56 PM (2Ez/1)

184
We've got you, Bulg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 28, 2026 11:57 PM (mmrXZ)

185 I can't see any profit from colonizing the moon, or much less Mars, other than possible military options for the moon

Other than being able to breathe, what's the point of oxygen?
Seriously, the moon also provides a cheaper industrial base for refining (because, no oxygen) and a cheaper base for launching space hardware (because 1/6 grav).

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 11:59 PM (88C+u)

186 138 tankdemon - so dangerous-jobs-girl would, of course, survive - barely - anything she thought would give her a glorious funeral, and her worst dangerous would be when it's boring or ugly risks that she's like, "I want to die, but not like that!"? Her normal deathly-risk-taking has a kind of 'death-defying aura of invincibility', ironically?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 28, 2026 11:03 PM (aJQbY)

Sorry I tool so ling to reply, stepped away for a bit, but, yes, obviously the dangerous jobs girl.always seems to survivr, otherwise how would she get put on all the local businesses' speed dial when an task that rates 13 out if ten on the "you're about to get seriously messed up, pal" scale comes along? But all her scars are accompanied by some cool stories.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 29, 2026 12:00 AM (/TlUl)

187 I can't see any profit from colonizing the moon, or much less Mars, other than possible military options for the moon. Moon and Mars are just very expensive survival sites, unless there is gold or lithium or whatever. Sci-Fi has distorted our perspective, imo.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 11:55 PM (vbXSk)

We really don't know until we get there. But it will be good to get at least a few eggs into other baskets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:00 AM (peOdB)

188 92 Good evening, it has been a while since you had Paul Joseph Watson and yours truly on one night.

People are thinking about this the wrong way. Some of these women are just in it for money or power, but there is one more reason...

..... Well, Tubby McNGOchick isn't going to fly to Third Worldistan...its too dangerous!...so she'll bring the third world here instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 10:39 PM (sKqQm)

Ya know...I don't much care what they do so long as they STAY THE **** OFF MY LAWN!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 29, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)

189 Other than being able to breathe, what's the point of oxygen?
Seriously, the moon also provides a cheaper industrial base for refining (because, no oxygen) and a cheaper base for launching space hardware (because 1/6 grav).
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 11:59 PM (88C+u)

You know darned well that booze distilled on the Moon will fetch a premium price down here on Earth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:02 AM (peOdB)

190 "Seriously, the moon also provides a cheaper industrial base for refining (because, no oxygen) and a cheaper base for launching space hardware (because 1/6 grav)."

what are you going to refine? Will you pay the transport cost to take material from Earth to the moon, and back? Or is there some moon dust that is very valuable?

And sure, we can launch for less from the moon, but we still have to first get TO the moon. I just can't see any SciFi type magic scenario.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 12:05 AM (vbXSk)

191 BULG! Much many lovely hugs! Good night good friend...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 12:05 AM (jCKWs)

192 Moon juice, take you higher than a kite can fly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 12:05 AM (WY+aP)

193 You know darned well that booze distilled on the Moon will fetch a premium price down here on Earth.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Given the price of diesel getting Moon booze back to Earth is a problem.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 12:05 AM (n3sKv)

194 You know darned well that booze distilled on the Moon will fetch a premium price down here on Earth.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The moon is short on carbon and hydrogen.
The distilleries will be on icier asteroids like Ceres. They might not even need to distill it; alcohols might be there already.
Getting the methanol out of there will be the trick . . .

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 12:06 AM (88C+u)

195 illiniwek: Or is there some moon dust that is very valuable?

Regolith melted into 13.8 gigapascal stiffness anhydrous glass fiber... might have value.
Kevlar got nothin' on that.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 12:07 AM (88C+u)

196 184, 191 Thank you, Both.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 12:08 AM (77rzZ)

197 Women chasing (I was going to use a more realistic term, but my innate chivalry 😉 discouraged me) migrant men -and "catching" them - has a couple of related factors.
On the women's part, it's the old Bad Boy attraction. That whiff of danger acts as an aphrodisiac, and apparently covers up.the BO.
For the men, look at it from their perspective. Even though these women are older and, to steal PJW's description, not of fit physique, what do they have to compare to? A goat, a 10 year old boy, something in a black trash bag? Add in the economic incentives and it's easy to get past the ewww factor.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2026 12:09 AM (iYF/u)

198 source osti.gov/servlets/purl/10110576

Posted by: 88C+u at September 29, 2026 12:10 AM (88C+u)

199 191 Thank you, COMM! Same to you.!

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 12:11 AM (77rzZ)

200 184 And thank you, Blonde Morticia. Everyone here is great.

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 12:14 AM (77rzZ)

201 Howdy, horde!

Nice painting, MisHum. Calming scene.

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rdVOm)

202 I still have to shake my head at some of the things coming out of this administration. Today it is:

President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

203 Sorry you're lonely, Bulg. But hey, you got us! Oh, wait...

*clinks glass*

Cheers-- hope it gets better for you!

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

204 *clinks glass*
— Thanks, JQ

Posted by: Bulg at September 29, 2026 12:20 AM (77rzZ)

205 what are you going to refine? Will you pay the transport cost to take material from Earth to the moon, and back? Or is there some moon dust that is very valuable?

And sure, we can launch for less from the moon, but we still have to first get TO the moon. I just can't see any SciFi type magic scenario.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2026 12:05 AM (vbXSk)

The Moon is made out of rock. Basic or ultrabasic igneous rock. Complex siicates of iron, manganese, magnesium, aluminum, and calcium. Maybe some heavy metals, too. You could melt the rock into liquid using solar concentrators, and recover some of the metals (and some oxygen) by electrolysis.

Nobody has really prospected the Moon. Or Mars. There may be mineral deposits to be found. The Moon has "mascons", local gravity anomalies that may be embedded asteroids rich in nickel and iron.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:21 AM (peOdB)

206 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

That sounds like a good plan if it’s late on a Friday night and you and all your pals are drunk - but it’s pretty whack at any other time or any other day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 12:29 AM (fuM78)

207 AOP, how has the fall weather been over in the PHX metro area.

Here in Las Cruces, the summer had regular short rains while this September has been the wettest I have experienced in the 10 years I have lived in New Mexico. So far this September there has been multiple day stretches of rain - almost reminds me of living in Seattle at times. For once in my life I timed things properly; in January I had a new roof installed on the house.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 12:31 AM (n3sKv)

208
The mascons on the Moon are something else. The Moon is the most gravitationally "lumpy" major body in the solar system.

One the surface, the vertical deflection, the amount a local plumb bob would deviate from normal (defining normal here is a bit trick, but you know what I mean) can be up to 1/3 of a degree.

This wouldn't be too bad for local construction, say a house sized structure, but it can give you fits for stuff over long distances, like railways and pipelines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

209
The Moon has famously fooled geologists, biased by well, their earth experience. See the story of Apollo 16's landing site, the Descartes highlands.

They were almost certain that was of volcanic origin, but it turned out not to be at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 29, 2026 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

210 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

That sounds like a good plan if it’s late on a Friday night and you and all your pals are drunk - but it’s pretty whack at any other time or any other day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 12:29 AM (fuM7

And yet, the caravan has to be stopped.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 29, 2026 12:38 AM (vSvIl)

211 208 The Moon is the most gravitationally "lumpy" major body in the solar system

Yeah. Lumpy was Wally's pal on Leave it to Beaver. Oh. Yeah. I meant to go to bed a few earlier hours...
Pay no attention to COM💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 29, 2026 12:46 AM (jCKWs)

212 AOP, how has the fall weather been over in the PHX metro area.

Here in Las Cruces, the summer had regular short rains while this September has been the wettest I have experienced in the 10 years I have lived in New Mexico. So far this September there has been multiple day stretches of rain - almost reminds me of living in Seattle at times. For once in my life I timed things properly; in January I had a new roof installed on the house.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 12:31 AM (n3sKv)

I was last there in May. but I understand there was heavy rains and high winds during the monsoon season.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:46 AM (peOdB)

213 Nobody has really prospected the Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This sounds like a bad plan.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 12:46 AM (nEUC6)

214 213 Nobody has really prospected the Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This sounds like a bad plan.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026

Think we should steal it, instead?

Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 12:48 AM (ZdaMQ)

215 This sounds like a bad plan.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026 12:46 AM (nEUC6)

The burro would have a tough go of it, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:49 AM (peOdB)

216 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.

Posted by: Kindltot
---

Sometimes he's just talking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 12:54 AM (WY+aP)

217 Since when has the NYT been a trustworthy news source?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:56 AM (peOdB)

218 Well, it is nearly 2300 here, and I am getting snoozy. Time to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 12:59 AM (peOdB)

219 210 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

That sounds like a good plan if it’s late on a Friday night and you and all your pals are drunk - but it’s pretty whack at any other time or any other day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 12:29 AM (fuM7

And yet, the caravan has to be stopped.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 29, 2026 12:38 AM (vSvIl)

An A-10 firing its gun on the caravan would do the trick. Just sayin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 12:59 AM (XUHiS)

220 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.
Posted by: Kindltot

Needs more weasel words. "effectively" "shelved" "for now" "according to a report" "(unnamed and un-titled) officials."

Based on this report, I expect a mushroom cloud over Ottawa tomorrow.

Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 01:00 AM (VHUov)

221 They have more marriages in our prisons than they have in Reno. Women be crazy.

Posted by: polynikes at September 29, 2026 01:01 AM (KC5Lt)

222 An A-10 firing its gun on the caravan would do the trick. Just sayin.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 12:59 AM (XUHiS)

Caltrops. Lots and lots of caltrops.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:01 AM (peOdB)

223 Based on this report, I expect a mushroom cloud over Ottawa tomorrow.
Posted by: mikeski at September 29, 2026 01:00 AM (VHUov)

That’s a shame. Ottawa is a beautiful city inhabited by stupid people. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 01:02 AM (XUHiS)

224 That’s a shame. Ottawa is a beautiful city inhabited by stupid people. : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 01:02 AM (XUHiS)

My neighbor's #2 son, who is a good kid, has job there selling fancy kitchen knives. Could we get him out first?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2026 01:03 AM (peOdB)

225 Based on this report, I expect a mushroom cloud over Ottawa tomorrow. Posted by: mikeski

Cultural assasain. Poutine Basket is the proper usage. Do better.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 01:04 AM (n3sKv)

226 And yet, the caravan has to be stopped. Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot

An A-10 firing its gun on the caravan would do the trick. Just sayin. Posted by: Cow Demon

Since we are on good terms with the Columbians I would like to toss as an option in filling the Rio Grande with biological A-10s AKA Escobar hippos.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 01:08 AM (n3sKv)

227 The state does not tax my house because of my age (over 65) but they do tax my land, 3acres which will be around $170 dollars. My house is insured for $100,000. It's only a two bedroom, two bath home. About 1200 sq.ft. I don't mind paying the land tax, it goes to the schools. However I sure am proud they do not tax my house. It's paid for which helps my retirement.

Posted by: Case at September 29, 2026 01:09 AM (LMnda)

228 The caravan is ~100 mixed with women and children; hardly those trains with people piled inside and on the roofs. It's foo foo.
Trump and Shienbaum will have a talk; it will be stopped.

Much ado about nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:15 AM (WY+aP)

229 216 President Donald Trump has effectively shelved plans for U.S. airstrikes on Mexican soil for now, according to a New York Times report citing U.S. and Mexican officials.

Posted by: Kindltot
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Sometimes he's just talking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 12:54 AM (WY+aP)

How would MEXICAN Officials, the same Gov that we KNOW is in the Cartel's pocket, know what the Prez is gonna do?

Posted by: Bob's Movie Bunker at September 29, 2026 01:16 AM (mP0Kj)

230 214 213 Nobody has really prospected the Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

This sounds like a bad plan.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2026

Think we should steal it, instead?
Posted by: Piper at September 29, 2026 12:48 AM (ZdaMQ)

Come on... we just need to ask the Nazis at the new Arctic UFO base, what their Dark Side of the Moon Nazis have found.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2026 01:17 AM (mP0Kj)

231 The caravan is ~100 mixed with women and children; hardly those trains with people piled inside and on the roofs. It's foo foo.
Trump and Shienbaum will have a talk; it will be stopped.

Much ado about nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard

American Greatness: 600 and gaining. The promotion and funding is coming from US based "non-profits" AKA Communist revoluntionary groups.

https://tinyurl.com/3kj2sfsu

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 29, 2026 01:23 AM (n3sKv)

232 funding is coming from US based "non-profits"
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
-----
Time to firebomb Catholic Charities and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services!

Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2026 01:37 AM (iYF/u)

233 >>>Nobody has really prospected the Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

>Hell, just give it to the chinese. They're pretty good at scavenging resources.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 29, 2026 01:40 AM (VQ7/I)

234 For the men, look at it from their perspective. Even though these women are older and, to steal PJW's description, not of fit physique, what do they have to compare to? A goat, a 10 year old boy, something in a black trash bag? Add in the economic incentives and it's easy to get past the ewww factor.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2026 12:09 AM (iYF/u)

Or they are just rapey fuckers who will stick it in anything. More than likely that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 01:44 AM (usqKf)

235 Much ado about nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2026 01:15 AM (WY+aPZ)

The caravan is nothing, a PR stunt by someone. The only reason we even pay attention to them is because under Biden , they could get to the border and be welcomed , but that ain’t happening. What happens now if they make it up to El Paso? A pissed off border guard tells them “No. The way is shut. It was made by those who are pissed off and sick of your shit, and they keep it. The way is shut.”

Then, for good measure, he’ll shout “ You shall not pass!!” and be done with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 01:46 AM (fuM78)

236 Or they are just rapey fuckers who will stick it in anything. More than likely that.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Entitled narcissists, encouraged by their boys' club "religion" to be so. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

237 Entitled narcissists, encouraged by their boys' club "religion" to be so. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

They are like children, no ability to control their basest animal urges, and not able to understand why anyone would want to do so.

Hence, they blame their inability on women who must, after all, be whores, by showing off their ankles or their hair. See, they can't be held responsible for what the women do to them.

As if.

Just a bunch of rapey fuckers. It is their nature.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 29, 2026 01:50 AM (usqKf)

238 Savages with no self-control, or even a concept of such. Plus-- stinky. Eww...

I can't understand why any woman would *willingly*... oh, barf... can't believe ANY woman is that hard-up! But what do I know?

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

239 On the plus side-- I haven't noticed any *hags in bags* at Costco lately. Hopefully they've self-deported.

Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

240 If asteroids are ever mined we’d likely need a base on Mars for operations.

Before that point is reached, we’d need a lunar base to make it easier and more cost effective to get to Mars.

Other than tourism, there’s not much economic reason for colonizing the solar system other than resource extraction.

It was the same basis for colonizing the New World at the beginning, everything had to have an economic prospectus before the money was shelled out in funding. Some plans failed, some worked, but the people kept coming over time and the economy here outgrew Europe by the end.

Eventually, the new economies created by Lunar and Mars bases will be their own reason for existence, even if it takes a few hundred years to get there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 02:17 AM (6ydKt)

241 Are you all aware of the stupidity coming from Sarah Huckabee? Elections in November is Republicans are showing idiocy in multiple ways.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 02:24 AM (ebJJx)

242 DSPAN:

https://tinyurl.com/5meh98hy

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2026 02:30 AM (ebJJx)

243 Sorry your kind sits on the front porch slugging down malt liquor and not congregating with us high fa-looting pilsner drinkers.

Continue reading

Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian

In Bawlamer, National Bohemian is clearly a rich white racist Nazi signifier

Posted by: from a guy who lived in H. L. Mencken's house at September 29, 2026 02:46 AM (4RYRd)

244 Nobody has really prospected the Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The opportunity is always there, but thankfully unexploited

Posted by: normal teenage guys dropping trou as a socially accepted signifier of Lack of Respect at September 29, 2026 02:50 AM (4RYRd)

245
Are you all aware of the stupidity coming from Sarah Huckabee? Elections in November is Republicans are showing idiocy in multiple ways.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

==============

No, do tell.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2026 02:56 AM (mmrXZ)

246 Just saw on X. Donnie Iris is still alive but he has bladder cancer. Apparently he got radiation treatment in the morning and that evening was doing a show at some small venue in the Pittsburgh area. He obviously has lost a lot of his voice and did the concert while sitting in a chair. Still, he was determined to do the show and did. Good for him. Hope the treatments work out for him too. He's a fine Yinzer!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 29, 2026 03:00 AM (sAmhv)

247 The query likely refers to the September 28, 2026, backlash against Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a campaign ad depicting a young white male gamer named “Brad” as a lazy welfare recipient. The ad was widely criticized, even by conservative commentators, as statistically inaccurate and socially tone-deaf, given that women and Black individuals are disproportionately represented among welfare recipients in Arkansas.

Key Criticisms & Context

Conservative Backlash: Figures like Matt Walsh and Sean Davis called the ad "dishonest" and "insulting," noting it ignored the actual demographics of benefit usage to target young white men, a group drifting from the Republican Party.

Sanders' Defense: She doubled down on X, mocking critics by suggesting they wanted "cookies instead of cheese balls" and asserting that able-bodied recipients should work, go to school, or volunteer.

Hadn't heard about this.
Sanders put herself in this spot hiring the people who hired the people to make the ad, and then approving the ad for use.

This could've been fixed by focusing on a few different people (women, men, black, white) instead of one white kid named Brad.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:03 AM (6ydKt)

248 I don't mind paying the land tax, it goes to the schools.
Posted by: Case at September 29, 2026 01:09 AM (LMnda)

For the schools to piss away. I wouldn’t be happy about that even at $170.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 03:10 AM (XUHiS)

249 175 >>>As an Israeli who waiting 6 months before receiving my handgun (rifles are a no-no) license last March after the gubbernmint opened up and "expedited" their licensing program to more citizens, all I can say is: You spoiled Minnesota bass tards!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

No rifle ownership allowed in Israel? Meshuggah!

(Not the band)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 29, 2026 03:15 AM (XUHiS)

250 This could've been fixed by focusing on a few different people (women, men, black, white) instead of one white kid named Brad.
****

Nope. White would be the only safe choice. Her (and her advisors) mistake was going after welfare. The various forms of welfare are sacred to all grifters.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 03:15 AM (r3Zca)

251 Nope. White would be the only safe choice. Her (and her advisors) mistake was going after welfare. The various forms of welfare are sacred to all grifters.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 03:15 AM (r3Zca)

Yeah, I was just thinking about this.

Generally, advertisers want to avoid offending the people they are appealing to.

With a hot button political issue that is going to have to portray somebody negatively the creators are going to have to make a pick they don't want to pick because somebody will be offended no matter the choice.

So, the lazy take the easy way out and pick the one demographic who complain the least, or whose complaints count the least; white, straight, men.

Somebody more creative would've gone a different way to tackle the issue. There are ways.

One tried & true method is to avoid using people entirely, and make the ad entirely infographic or using allegorical images, not as exciting or flashy, but gets the job done. Another way is to animate the advertisement and use cartoon animals instead of people to represent certain groups.

It can be done without hitting landmines but sometimes the need for speed and lack of creativity can prevent that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:23 AM (6ydKt)

252 Its before the alarm but might as well get up

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 03:27 AM (Ia/+0)

253 Nope. White would be the only safe choice. Her (and her advisors) mistake was going after welfare. The various forms of welfare are sacred to all grifters.
Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 03:15 AM (r3Zca)

Sadly, I agree. There’s no politically safe way to touch it any more. Just stay far away from the topic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2026 03:33 AM (fuM78)

254 Wait, what??

One would have thought Israel would be squared away when it applies to firearms law. Errybody laddi-dadi, so to speak. If not required per se, something pretty close close to that. One would he wrong, apparently.

The synagogue not too far from my boyhood home had these square porthole things in the walls, I always mused that maybe they were firing ports, “just in case”.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 29, 2026 03:36 AM (hwcGa)

255 The various forms of welfare are sacred to all grifters.
****

The first search for Sanders and 'brad' turned up Sara Dorn at Forbes. Her framing of the issue and the people she quoted show her bias.

Posted by: clarence at September 29, 2026 03:40 AM (r3Zca)

256 I'm not sure of the situation in Arkansas.
Sanders might be trying to get a welfare reform bill passed in the legislature or something similar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 29, 2026 03:48 AM (6ydKt)

257 This British terrorist attack attempt is stinking to high heaven

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

258 Everyone fall asleep?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2026 04:25 AM (Ia/+0)

259 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 29, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

260 I am awake but headed back to bed. SYL

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2026 07:27 AM (LHPAg)

Noah's Recreational Ark Cafe

The maned wolf has long legs

Little girl missed her older brother, who's now going to Big Kid School. (Elementary school.)

Sea wolf.

Golden retriever is treated as a threat by kittens, until their mama vouches for him.

Copykitten.

A very cute rescued baby elephant.

Corgi helps.

Cat hostess.

Covid hoarding affected dogs, too.

Contagious yawning in cats. I could have told them all about this. I used to fake-yawn to cause a cat to yawn in reply.

The "sky train," a hanging elevated train with windows in the floor.

Horses on the beach.

They're living their best life.

[📹 Valdiney in Amazonia] pic.twitter.com/cUclji7Pz2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 28, 2026

😂 pic.twitter.com/nOpgCiO0LM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 28, 2026

That�s a way.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/USmqPuQA8r
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 27, 2026

A landslide in China. Scary.

A Landslide sweeps down a steep Himalayan slope in Chame, Manang, Nepal. pic.twitter.com/FwCJ8eKJB2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1
Yay!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

2 Woohoo !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:32 PM (VyBeY)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

4
Hiya Skip

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:34 PM (/QHx4)

5 The cat flopping down the stairs is too cute.

That level of cuteness and silliness is not allowed in my household!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (FZ29D)

6 I’ll have an espresso, please!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (fheZL)

7
Video of this morning's Starship launch showing the rocket transiting the sun. Note the humongous shock waves:

https://t.ly/vpmu3

Andrew McCarthy got a bunch of shots himself, so keep an eye on this feed, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (w6EFb)

8 That wolf has to be AI

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Good thing that Nepalese juggler was around to hold the camera.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:38 PM (ESbQX)

10 Happy cafe!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (vJrRc)

12
French's fried onions are so good.

Hope I don't eat them all before time to top the green bean casserole.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (/QHx4)

13 "I’ll have an espresso, please!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

You have to use the app to order. Duh.

*rolls eyes, walks away*

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:40 PM (MWfyi)

14 * sniffs carefully *

Nice!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

15
A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

16 Breakfast starts at 6 am. All we have left is these boiled peanuts and 3 cans of Tab.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

17 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (vJrRc)

18 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)
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I'll have what he's having.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (uyuYG)

19 Better cell service in the Himalayas than North Dakota.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 07:44 PM (3ImbR)

20 11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?
Posted by: FeatherBlade

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That is like the most inappropriate use of glass ever. It's as if they all grew up in villages farming chickens and now they are designing trains.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:44 PM (ESbQX)

21 "I'll have what he's having.
Posted by: bluebell"

*delivers bowl of boiled peanuts and a Tab*

Here's your check. I already filled out the tip for you.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)

22 Willowed and nerdy: I think the polling is bullshit this year and a lot of the polls are not even Random Digit Dialing anymore but where they send out texts and a self selected group responds back to be surveyed either online or via a subsequent phone call. Shitty methodology.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)
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Random Digit Dialing wont work anymore because you can't guaranteed the area code is tied to a landline. People get a phone number and then move five times.

In the 1990s we saw it as a blunt instrument, very expensive and time-consuming. Much better were cross-indexing primary voters with the phone book.

I get a ton of random texts, which I assume is the same thing, because people rarely answer unknown numbers, but it's still self-selecting to "shy Trump voters" are invisible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)

23 I don't watch fake news.
My mom, who watches fake news, just texted how the Starship launch had engine problems. So I have to take this as the fake-news spin on this launch.
Overall I consider getting into orbit, rather than into space, to take a good deal more thrust and maybe ISP. So the engines have to work past the parameters of earlier launches.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (88C+u)

24 bluebell is in the house !!! Hello, dear lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (QwZKw)

25 That wolf has to be AI
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)
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Nope
https://tinyurl.com/ytnw4fvm

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (3ImbR)

26 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Sounds damn good but I'm hopping for rye toast. Making some rye bread right now.

Why yes, I put molasses of color in mine. Doesn't everyone?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (ktgTW)

27 11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?

Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (guGkK)

28 Why yes, I put molasses of color in mine. Doesn't everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete

Is that what the dark color in rye bread is? Today I learned

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (vJrRc)

29 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

While I would like to think that that would be me ... probably I would be leaning over yelling, 'Hey I think I can get some stuff out of the shed!!!'

Posted by: Adriane the Tectonic Critic. . . at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (3ZUWJ)

30 Here's your check. I already filled out the tip for you.
Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)
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Thank you, but you can just take the tip in boiled peanuts and Tab. And here's a wooden nickel.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:48 PM (uyuYG)

31 Hello, Ben Had!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:48 PM (uyuYG)

32 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

33 Willowed and nerdy….

Whig, I think you just accidentally wrote our musical subtitle!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

34 Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

... one does have to admit that a glass dam would be incredibly impressive.

I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

35 Cat sliding down the steps is showing all the signs of having a catnip 'problem.'

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (4HoLg)

36 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (vJrRc)
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They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

Corruption is endemic, and the landslides are often the result of deforestation, and the overuse of dams for hydro power that destabilizes slopes as water levels fluctuate.

I mention that in my series on China invading Taiwan (ahlloyd.com link in nic) and my next installment is about establishing a beachhead, with bonus references to Dieppe, Okinawa and the Falkland Islands. I'm up to part 7 for those of you following at home.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:50 PM (ZOv7s)

37 That is freaky and apparently not AI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

38 I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

Have ye considered transparent aluminum laddie?

Posted by: Engineer Scott at September 28, 2026 07:51 PM (guGkK)

39 ... one does have to admit that a glass dam would be incredibly impressive.

I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

Glass is a fluid, if a slow flowing one. I'd expect the force of the water would make it change shape with time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (uhVAy)

40
They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

___________

But they met the deadline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

41 They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

___________

But they met the deadline.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

emphasis on dead.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (uhVAy)

42 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)
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I'll have what he's having.
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM

Me, too, except with grits, biscuits, and a piece of one of bluebell's pies.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

43 Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (guGkK)
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When it was built, the government was more tolerant of dissent, especially in the technical/scientific fields and one of the leading scientists said that if they build it (which they did) they would also tear it down, it was only a matter of time.

Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (ZOv7s)

44 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Actually, supposedly the younger kids are all sick of minimalism and white, black and grey everything and are embracing "grandma core" - your stuff is in style!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (uyuYG)

45 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

I made blueberry pancakes for my wife on Sunday.
She didn't want any eggs and never eats the bacon

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (rbvCR)

46 Im sorry, that wolf thing looks wrong. Evidently nearly extinct in Uruguay. If it was night and your dog was going nuts outside and you saw one of those stinking about in the bare darkness, you'd reach for the Winchester too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

47 Me, too, except with grits, biscuits, and a piece of one of bluebell's pies.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
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Coming up! Pie season is almost upon us.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:55 PM (uyuYG)

48 Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Man things really don't ever change in China.

They've been having problems with corrupt officials skimming flood control funds for thousands of years.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (vJrRc)

49
The source of the order.

https://youtu.be/12iewuXNhbE

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (eRlcH)

50 Got some more decluttering done today.
Posted by: gp

One of the students at the local college published a story recently about 'stuff' and rental units. Around here, a typical storage unit will run you about $1500-2000 per year. According to the article, the average worth of the stuff in the unit is worth $2000. The median time the unit is rented is 7 years (and then the stuff is cleared out and donated to Habitat for Humanity).

So, one spends about $10.5k on the rental for shit that you give away at the end of it all.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (ktgTW)

51 Actually, supposedly the younger kids are all sick of minimalism and white, black and grey everything and are embracing "grandma core" - your stuff is in style!
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (uyuYG)

My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

52 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Here's my hottest take: we are at just past peak gun collecting. Prices are going to start falling and will do so for years as the Boomers sell off their collections, and there will be more than Gen X and the impoverished Millennials can possibly buy. We saw a preview of this with slot cars and model railroading, but millions of "Dad's rifles" are going to hit the market and there will not be enough people to buy them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)

53 What? There's a landslide and our entire backyard has just fallen off a cliff? Let's go look over and stand around checking it out.

How DOES the human race survive?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Riz8t)

54 "grandma core"

I want to get rid of every piece of furniture that's too big and/or awkward for me to move myself. And everything that cats can hide under; I'm tired of digging them out from under the brown furniture when it's time to go to vet.

Took another load of books to Salvation Army today. "Oh, swell, more books," they enthused.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

55 I built my own furniture because I couldn't live with cheap particle board crap.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (QwZKw)

56 I have my grandparents motorized "Space chair" recliner from the 60s. It's orange and really cool and everybody who sees it wants to sit in it.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (MWfyi)

57 I need to watch that movie, Hadrian. I've never seen it.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (uyuYG)

58 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.

Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

59 I'm looking forward to the day when Ace posts some links of "Idiots doing selfies and becoming lunch."

It's not like they aren't all over the place.

I was a bit surprised how many originate from India. Bengal Tigers, 3 different kinds of leopard, sloth bears, Asiatic lions, Dholes or wild dogs, wolves, mugger crocs.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (dIske)

60 Many of you Anglophiles are fans of Spotted Dick, but what of a rasher of bacon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

61 Well never saw a giraffe wolf before

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

62 Man things really don't ever change in China.

They've been having problems with corrupt officials skimming flood control funds for thousands of years.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (vJrRc)
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Yes, but this time it is very different. China always had excellent craftsmanship, and it built to last. When dams failed, it absolutely was corruption and that signaled that a new dynasty was needed.

But Communism took it to the next level. Mao is the only emperor in history to create and *empire wide* famine. That cannot happen absent Communism.

And there is no longer any pride in workmanship, it's just garbage and what you can get for it. Family formation has collapsed as well, and Chinese society is collapsing at its most basic level.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:01 PM (ZOv7s)

63 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

Stupidest dog i have ever seen: American Eskimo my aunt and uncle took in. Beautiful dog. Named milo. No trace of thought in those eyes. None. Black marbles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

64 I just watched "Unabomber" on Netflix. The story has been "dramatized", IOW there is a fictional female agent fighting against all the male pigs who don't take her seriously, and she solves the case pretty much singlehandedly.

Netflix denies that it's "woke".

Yeah, SMD.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (Riz8t)

65 My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Was she a Texan?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (uyuYG)

66
We have chigi. Smartest dog we have ever had. She looks just like a Corgi.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (/QHx4)

67 My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

I have a red leather couch. Don't know that it's violent. I also have a giant south-facing window, so parts of the couch are turning orange.

Ah, well. I have bulldogs, so we can't have nice things, anyway.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)

68 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM

QE II's were quite flatulentic, according to reports.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

69 29 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

While I would like to think that that would be me ... probably I would be leaning over yelling, 'Hey I think I can get some stuff out of the shed!!!'
Posted by: Adriane the Tectonic Critic. . . at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (3ZUWJ)
______________________________

Backing away and warning others to do the same has a lot to do with who you are hanging out with at the time.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:03 PM (dIske)

70 Was she a Texan?
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (uyuYG)

*looks around in terror* um no, while she lived in El Paso for over 40 years, she was still from Queens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

71 I saw the other version with CIA woman tracking down Bin Laden all by herself

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)

72 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM

QE II's were quite flatulentic, according to reports.

Yes, but when they farted, they were smart enough to blame in on Charles, who was convinced they were right.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Riz8t)

73 The Nepalese lawn tractor, picks, shovels and implements of destruction, all fell thousands of feet. From their reaction to the landslide, I'd posit the Nepalese IQ is below the corgi.

Posted by: They Have Home Depot Over There? at September 28, 2026 08:05 PM (Fn+3X)

74
The story has been "dramatized", IOW there is a fictional female agent fighting against all the male pigs who don't take her seriously, and she solves the case pretty much singlehandedly.

___________

Was she a gorgeous, pouting blonde? This is a relatively recent movie trope.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (eRlcH)

75 The maned wolf has long legs

So then, the Long-Legged Wolf must have a mane?

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (VHUov)

76 Ah, well. I have bulldogs, so we can't have nice things, anyway.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)

If you had seen it, you'd understand. It was a very virulent shade of fire truck red.

Had wagon wheels for the ends. She painted them. Loved wood paneling, but did not like the natural look of wood on that couch.

She was an odd woman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

77 >>Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

One of the coolest structures I've visited is the Storm Surge Barrier at the Delta Works in Zeeland, Holland. It's a series of gates that can be opened and closed with a massive hydraulic system to prevent another flood condition. The Zeeland area is at or below sea level and years ago there was a massive flood that killed a lot of people.

You can tour it and see how the whole thing works. The Dutch know a thing or two about water management.

https://tinyurl.com/ysjmjhcu

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)

78 Never ask if someone's from Texas. If they are, they'll tell you.

If not, why embarrass them?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (0sNs1)

79 I saw the other version with CIA woman tracking down Bin Laden all by herself
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)
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This movies will be watched by my grandkids with delight and derision, like stale 70s sitcoms are today.

"Oh wow, another girlboss saves the day!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:07 PM (ZOv7s)

80 Had wagon wheels for the ends. She painted them. Loved wood paneling, but did not like the natural look of wood on that couch.

She was an odd woman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

Wagon wheels...I'm dying. That was big in the 70s.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (zYpTz)

81 I couldn't have leather furniture, we have cats. I have to hide my good shoes from them because they like to use them for sharpening their claws.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (rbvCR)

82 Was she a gorgeous, pouting blonde? This is a relatively recent movie trope.

She was an average looking brunet, however she did kill her kids, so Netflix approves.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:09 PM (Riz8t)

83 55,000 Dot Indians die from snakebite every year.

Posted by: Man From Calcutta! at September 28, 2026 08:09 PM (Fn+3X)

84 with a massive hydraulic system to prevent another flood condition. The Zeeland area is at or below sea level and years ago there was a massive flood that killed a lot of people.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM

Don't blame me.

Posted by: The boy with his finger in the dyke at September 28, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

85 Oh oh oh never mind polls are all wrong. Everyone loves Trunp and his retarded war. Voters love nothing more than $5 gas for no reason other than a pissing contest with some mullahs.

Carry on.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vKzvA)
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Hey there, have you learned to access the RCP polling archive yet, or are you still going to spread easily disproven lies.

God bless you. You first shamed yourself by lying for money almost 12 hours ago. Don't they give you a break? Are you always on call? God is waiting. Come home.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Why do they fk with snakes so.much? Leave the damn snakes alone and they won't bother you

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)

87 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

88 *looks around in terror* um no, while she lived in El Paso for over 40 years, she was still from Queens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
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Ah. That explains everything. Queens is responsible for the violent red and El Paso is responsible for the steer head and wagon wheels.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (uyuYG)

89 Wagon wheels...I'm dying. That was big in the 70s.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (zYpTz)

They had a bar just off the living room. Whole nine yards. Brass rail. Bar stools. Mirror behind the bar. Fully stocked. Brass Spitoon (Dont even think about it.) She always put a fresh playboy or penthouse calendar in there- she said she liked playboy 'because the girls were prettier.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

90 Way past my bedtime and another long commute tomorrow
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (Ia/+0)

91 77 >>Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)

________________________________

Keep an eye on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou province, China, which opened to traffic on September 28, 2025. It's exactly a year old. China was very boastful about it being the highest and longest suspension bridge in the world....for now.

It's built in a province known for earthquakes. It's even money as to whether it will be there next year IMO.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (dIske)

92 "I couldn't have leather furniture, we have cats."

Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

93 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

How is your wife handling the chemo?
I've been looking for updates but haven't seen any. She is in my prayers.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FGA9/)

94 SC senate race is in play. Texas is basically gone. Michigan too. Iowa slipping away. Alaska gone.

Oh oh oh never mind polls are all wrong. Everyone loves Trunp and his retarded war. Voters love nothing more than $5 gas for no reason other than a pissing contest with some mullahs.

Carry on.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM

So, you welcome our Big Penguin Overlords?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

95 Aetius, your grandma must have been a hoot.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (uyuYG)

96
China technology incredible!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (eRlcH)

97 You can tour it and see how the whole thing works. The Dutch know a thing or two about water management.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)
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China used to do epic canal building, and used water diversion with great caution. The issue is that Maoism was all about "mastering the earth" and that mean building dams all over the place, without regard to downstream effects.

Oh, and hydro power is the future! So they are now stuck with layered dams which have to keep the reservoirs high to max out electricity, but when heavy rains come, they will be overtopped, so they open the flood gates.

Only it's not one dam. It's every dam, passing the flood onto the one below it. Absolutely crazy, and they're doing this in Tibet and Nepal as well. Nepal gets hosed because it's downstream.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)

98 "I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp a"

Doesn't really matter if you have a sawzall.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (MWfyi)

99 I smile now. She was one of the strongest personalities I have ever known. Temper like a sudden bonfire. Sharp as a tack. Read and watched and listened to everything she could get her hands on.

Grandpa worshipped her. You could see it every time he looked at her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (zZu0s)

100
Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (/QHx4)

101 Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Yeah, that's probably not a good idea...

Though I do have an inflatable globe that's managed to hang on to its air...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (FZ29D)

102 "Doesn't really matter if you have a sawzall."

I do! I'll take that under advisement.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:16 PM (Jr5Lq)

103 88 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp

We've got plenty of boy's restrooms in middle schools that could use tappan dispensers if you have some you're looking to get rid of!

Posted by: Governor Tim Walz at September 28, 2026 08:16 PM (PkrKm)

104 Mane Wolf? Looks like Dork Wolf.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2026 08:17 PM (u73oe)

105 How is your wife handling the chemo?
I've been looking for updates but haven't seen any. She is in my prayers.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FGA9/)
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She's doing okay. We're going to swap out all the bedding tonight because there may be lingering poisons in it. I guess it has to be washed twice.

In terms of chemo sessions, two down, ten to go. One a week, and she's coming out of this week's infusion. Basically, we're figuring out the rhythm.

Thank you for your prayers. I assure you they are working.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:17 PM (ZOv7s)

106 Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons

How can you tell?

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at September 28, 2026 08:18 PM (PkrKm)

107 Sawzalls fix many problems.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 08:18 PM (HW/1v)

108 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM (MWfyi)

109
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4)

110 Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (/QHx4)
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*Places plate next to USB port*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

111 What? There's a landslide and our entire backyard has just fallen off a cliff? Let's go look over and stand around checking it out.

How DOES the human race survive?
Posted by: Archimedes

What do you mean? The weak part all just fell off. What's left is solid, man.

* stomps foot *

Posted by: random Nepali dude at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)

112 Sawzalls fix many problems.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Sawzalls don't do sheet metal nicely.
If you can bury the blade up to the hilt, you're fine, but I doubt that'll be the case with a range.
I bet a phillips screwdriver would take it apart.

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

113
In 1975, the failure of the Banqiao Dam caused the failure of 61 other dams in the region. The death toll was on the order of a quarter million people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (eRlcH)

114 95 Aetius, your grandma must have been a hoot.
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (uyuYG)

I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)

115 >>Only it's not one dam. It's every dam, passing the flood onto the one below it. Absolutely crazy, and they're doing this in Tibet and Nepal as well. Nepal gets hosed because it's downstream.

It's not just the dams. I saw some examples of Chinese engineering and construction in Macau that were shockingly bad. Brand new buildings that were already falling apart.

But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

116 What do you mean? The weak part all just fell off. What's left is solid, man.

* stomps foot *
Posted by: random Nepali dude at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)
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I mean, that *is* how we survive. The cautious people move away, the incautious look over the edge.

The cautious people then tell their grandchildren about that guy who stomped after the landslide...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

117 I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)

More 100s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

118 "Sawzalls don't do sheet metal nicely."

Demolition is never nice. You gotta hang on hang on that baby and go at it like a Texas chainsaw massacre.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

119 I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
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Absolutely. And lots of forbidden treats for the grandkids when the parents aren't looking.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (uyuYG)

120 Has Eromero said anything about how his wife is doing?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (FGA9/)

121 Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.
Posted by: gp

"Air mattresses are good for when you want to sleep on the floor, but not right away."

Posted by: the meme about that at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

122 118 Well stated.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (Jr5Lq)

123 Try looking up something like "Step by step tutorial on how to restore your Vintage Tappan Deluxe Stove" on YouTube

Those old stoves are lovely. I am stuck with Yang-Poon appliances with once-reputable manufacturing names on them

The Maytag man in now in a labor camp in Western China and is no longer idle.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (rbvCR)

124 Roto Zip.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (QwZKw)

125 It's not just the dams. I saw some examples of Chinese engineering and construction in Macau that were shockingly bad. Brand new buildings that were already falling apart.

But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)
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The Chinese have somehow figured out how to make a new, even worse form of Communism that is basically the highest form of rapacious capitalism waving a red flag.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

126 I mean, that *is* how we survive. The cautious people move away, the incautious look over the edge.

The cautious people then tell their grandchildren about that guy who stomped after the landslide...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)
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The REALLY incautious don their wingsuits and leap off the new cliff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (FZ29D)

127 Demolition is never nice. You gotta hang on hang on that baby and go at it like a Texas chainsaw massacre.
Posted by: fd

Ha!
I was thinking as much the noise as the effects.
But you're right. It's going away... how to make it easier?

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (q6tQZ)

128 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM

Put it on a boat. You can tune the piano while you tuna fish!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

129 If the hoses will reach upstairs you can just use a cutting torch. Maybe if you slide the stove closer to the door.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

130
Huh. Case Keenum is starting QB for the Bears because Caleb Williams is injured. I've always liked Case. No, he's not a great QB, but he's a very reliable backup.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (eRlcH)

131 "Air mattresses are good for when you want to sleep on the floor, but not right away."

I've been sleeping on the floor for many years, and I want to try an air mattress. They're inexpensive ($20), so if one fails it's not too big a deal. They are said to be patchable. I assume every brand needs its own proprietary branded pump with nonstandard nipple.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

132 gp, you could probably put a pic of that stove up on the bulletin board at the grocery store, or post it on facebook marketplace (I know, I don't use fb, either, but if you do...) and someone would get it out of there for you if you let them have it for free.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (zYpTz)

133 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM

Put it on a boat. You can tune the piano while you tuna fish!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)
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We were given pianos twice. Free pianos. My wife insisted we take the.

No one plays the piano. But we would learn!

No one learned to play the piano. Both were donated on the condition that the recipient move them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

134
We have enough beds for the grandkids who live four blocks away. They love spending the night with us They love sleeping on the air mattresses. Probably because they are set up in the den and family room and they watch tv most of the night. Not allowed at home, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (/QHx4)

135 "someone would get it out of there for you if you let them have it for free.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!"

oh wow way to take all the fun out of it.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

136 I have to share this text I just got from my sister. First, you have to understand my sister is a child whisperer. It is uncanny, her talents here. She is a BCBA-D, owns a very respected clinic, etc. okay…the text:

“Was chatting with a kiddo this afternoon about a plan to poop on the potty at school and he said how about you don’t talk anymore. Just i will talk. And you will not.”

I am crying.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

137 "Step by step tutorial on how to restore your Vintage Tappan Deluxe Stove"

Aha! Excellent suggestion, thanks!

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

138 >>>Contagious yawning in cats.

Cats can also be passive-aggressive with their yawning. Just after they smack the dog upside the head, they will move off a couple of feet and then yawn.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 28, 2026 08:29 PM (syz1S)

139 oh wow way to take all the fun out of it.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

LOL

I've never been accused of being any fun.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:29 PM (zYpTz)

140 We were offered an old upright grand Cable Nelson.
I checked with two piano guys I know. Both said the same thing... and the same way.
"Good piano. Heavy piano."

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:30 PM (q6tQZ)

141 I don't think people welded every part into the stove. It's got to have screws for final assembly.

I'm that guy who did not pay to have basement appliances removed. You just pull all the screws out, gather up the pieces, and take it to the scrap yard. It's pretty easy. A small hammer will knock stuff apart if you get impatient and/or need anger management.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

142
But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

__________

How many Gothic cathedrals are still standing after 800-1000 years? Meanwhile, Yankee Stadium, built in 1923, was falling apart by 1970. So they closed it for two years for renovations. And 30 years later it was falling apart again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:31 PM (eRlcH)

143 87 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

Around here you just call Superman and they send over three huge Samoans. I have never seen any moving company do these things faster or better. They literally hand huge furniture pieces over a balcony into the truck. One dude will pick up a full dresser and just walk it out. I was in awe.

I also sprung for pizza, and it took a lot of pizza. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 08:31 PM (GYqb1)

144 The Chinese have somehow figured out how to make a new, even worse form of Communism that is basically the highest form of rapacious capitalism waving a red flag.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

"End-state Utilitarianism" might be the best analysis.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (rbvCR)

145 AOS Cope is Rich Baris.

Gotta be.

Posted by: GigantorX at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (AUkvb)

146 I assume every brand needs its own proprietary branded pump with nonstandard nipple.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)
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I bought one last June and my electric inflator thing worked just fine.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)

147 Put it on a boat. You can tune the piano while you tuna fish!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

No, no, no. You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.

--REO Speedwagon

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (syz1S)

148 Posted by: AOS Cope

How about some more fun polls?

2028 TX Primary Status @IApolls2022

Harris 31%, Newsome 17%, Buttigieg 10%, AOC 10%, Ossoff 4%, Kelly 4%, Shapiro 4%, Beshear 3%, Smith 3%

Ossoff and Shapiro are ones whose chances are most impacted by over performance in their respective elections. Harris wont run as she can't win the primary. AOC her path is better in house leadership

>Harris won’t run as she can’t win the primary
What a bizarre statement. The poll you’re commenting on shows the exact opposite.

I think there are better debaters within Dem coalition. They will hit her hard. She will be labeled a loser and told her time has passed and time to try something new. Dem voters want to win above all else and will go with someone who has better odds

I really can’t imagine AOC would perform so poorly with this many candidates splitting the moderate vote, if the last two contested Dem primaries have been any indication.

(No Pritzker? And who's Smith? Stephen A?)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (PkrKm)

149 AOS Cope is Rich Baris.

Gotta be.
Posted by: GigantorX at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (AUkvb)
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LOL

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

150
Buy one with the built in air pump. Then you won't be scrambling looking for the pump.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:33 PM (/QHx4)

151 Ya know this Barre Studio deal is just a passing fad, like Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks. The secret to lifelong Fitness is, of course, Dynamic Tension.

Posted by: Charles Atlas at September 28, 2026 08:33 PM (Fn+3X)

152 After we moved the piano last time we had it tuned by a blind guy. Apparently that's a pretty common thing. He knew what he was doing though and was done in a coup!e of hours.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)

153 23 I don't watch fake news.
My mom, who watches fake news, just texted how the Starship launch had engine problems. So I have to take this as the fake-news spin on this launch.
Overall I consider getting into orbit, rather than into space, to take a good deal more thrust and maybe ISP. So the engines have to work past the parameters of earlier launches.

Posted by: 88C+u
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Thinking that, perhaps, there is other important information out
other than provided here I used the Brave Browser news feed.
Brave Browser offers your selection of news providers.
OK, I made my selection it did not include Fox. I chose to delete
Fox because most of its presentations were incomplete and written on a 6th grade level.
But that didn't stop Brave from making them the majority of offerings. After several unsuccessful attempts to remedy that problem I turned it off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 08:34 PM (Pee1E)

154 I bet a phillips screwdriver would take it apart.
Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

Sonic is better.

Posted by: Dr Who at September 28, 2026 08:36 PM (GYqb1)

155 Buy one with the built in air pump. Then you won't be scrambling looking for the pump.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:33 PM (/QHx4)

We have two really good air mattresses, one twin size, one full size. They hold air very well, and the pump is right there, no hoses. bit more expensive, but of course, wifey got a great deal for them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 28, 2026 08:36 PM (0aYVJ)

156 Ossoff and Shapiro are ones whose chances are most impacted by over performance in their respective elections.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 08:32 PM (PkrKm)
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The Dems in Michigan nominated a Jewish man to be Attorney General. El-Sayed is at the top of the ballot.

Anyone notice the problem here? But sure, the Dems are going to win across the board. Dearborn will totes turn out for the Jew.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

157 We had quite the manhunt this afternoon. Dude, affiliated with the Crips in a stolen car, was stopped on I-65 North of Bowling Green, KY. Shot the State Trooper dead. Shit hit the fan then. 3 hour man hunt, all the way up to Louisville.

Was not "near us" but was definitely "in the vicinity." We could periodically hear sirens. While sitting on our porch... listening to the scanner and having cocktails.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 08:36 PM (RORbl)

158 118 "Sawzalls don't do sheet metal nicely."

Demolition is never nice. You gotta hang on hang on that baby and go at it like a Texas chainsaw massacre.
Posted by: fd

Totally disagree. You need to hold on loosely, but don't let go. If you cling too tightly, you're going to lose control.

Posted by: 38 Special at September 28, 2026 08:36 PM (PkrKm)

159 154 I bet a phillips screwdriver would take it apart.
Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

Sonic is better.
Posted by: Dr Who

New gay black Dr. Who probably would prefer a different kind of screw.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 08:38 PM (PkrKm)

160 But that didn't stop Brave from making them the majority of offerings. After several unsuccessful attempts to remedy that problem I turned it off.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 08:34 PM (Pee1E)
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I turn off news on every browser. I have Brave and have told it to shut up and let me surf.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)

161 New gay black Dr. Who probably would prefer a different kind of screw.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 08:38 PM (PkrKm)
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They literally made it look like a sex toy because of course.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:39 PM (ZOv7s)

162 Speculation last night was that the big announcement today
would be concerning Trump's meeting with Amodei.
Not so. It was the bazillion dollar, steel, deal with the Indian.

Information on the 10PM meeting between Trump and Amodei; has it been published?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 08:40 PM (Pee1E)

163 Going to go get a hamburger.
Don't want to miss the ONT,
it's gonna' be lit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 08:43 PM (Pee1E)

164 This troll is something of a twat, isn't he?

Dude, get a new schtick, or go lay down by your dish.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 08:44 PM (GYqb1)

165 "Totally disagree. You need to hold on loosely, but don't let go. If you cling too tightly, you're going to lose control.
Posted by: 38 Special"

And you might not get a second chance.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)

166 Transparent aluminum has always bothered me because one of the key properties of any metal is that electrons are free to flow within the metal; i.e., it’s a good conductor, but that also means electrons are free to move when an electromagnetic wave (light) hits the metal surface, in synch with the oscillating electric field of the EM wave. Thus the light is exponentially damped as it enters into the metal surface, and within a few wavelengths of the light wave, it is completely absorbed. Thus not transparent, but opaque. In fact the oscillating electrons regenerate the incoming light wave and reflect it back out of the metal surface, thus acting as a mirror. You can defeat some of this physics by making the metal very thin: you can get light to pass through a thin gold film, for example. But that defeats transparent metal as a structural material. Also why gold reflects yellow light and passes green light is a whole other discussion.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 08:45 PM (fheZL)

167 They literally made it look like a sex toy because of course.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Really?

Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor sonic screwdriver is a radically redesigned, flat, pad-like device that resembles a smartphone or remote rather than a traditional cylinder. It features a purple crystal power source, a USB-style connector for interfacing with technology, and a visual scanner for analysis.

That doesn't sound so bad.

The device honors Gatwa’s heritage with a golden plate etched with a Rwandan proverb in Gallifreyan: "The sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warrior."

That sounds pretty gay, but how does it look? https://tinyurl.com/364xkruu

Yeah...not a flat pad, and looks pretty gay in his hands (although it could just be him)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 08:46 PM (PkrKm)

168 even see through glass as thick as dam concrete"

Is that anything like the f'ing dam?

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 08:46 PM (pfXMo)

169 Repent Boomers! The end is nigh!

Posted by: AOS Dope at September 28, 2026 08:47 PM (MWfyi)

170 Hayden Phillips is the Kentucky state policeman killed today. Didn't say if he had a wife or kids. What a shame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 08:48 PM (HW/1v)

171 169 Repent Boomers! The end is nigh!

Nonironically I would vote for a candidate who ran on this platform.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 08:49 PM (88C+u)

172
We're not getting on the cart until we've spent your inheritance.

We'll text you when it's time.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:50 PM (/QHx4)

173 169 Repent Boomers! The end is nigh!
Posted by: AOS Dope

We should have listened to the Never Trumpers! We should have voted for Jeb! (Sobbing, rending of garments and gnashing of teeth)

Posted by: Self-flagellating Boomer Republicans at September 28, 2026 08:50 PM (PkrKm)

174 170 Hayden Phillips is the Kentucky state policeman killed today. Didn't say if he had a wife or kids. What a shame.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September

Prayers for his family and friends. How awful.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 08:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

175 That sounds pretty gay, but how does it look? https://tinyurl.com/364xkruu

Yeah...not a flat pad, and looks pretty gay in his hands (although it could just be him)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 08:46 PM (PkrKm)
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Are we sure it's not a Gallifreyan sonic butt plug?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 08:51 PM (FZ29D)

176 For the first time in well over a decade, I am contemplating seeing a movie in the theater. Heart of the Beast, with Brad Pitt. But the dog better not die. Blubbering like a baby in the theater is unseemly.

I may wait for Blu-Ray.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 28, 2026 08:52 PM (0aYVJ)

177 But that defeats transparent metal as a structural material. Also why gold reflects yellow light and passes green light is a whole other discussion.

The Lycurgus Cup thinks you're on to something.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:54 PM (Riz8t)

178 We should have listened to the Never Trumpers! We should have voted for Jeb! (Sobbing, rending of garments and gnashing of teeth)

Say, has anyone ever seen Jeb! and TrigglyPuff in the same room? Just asking questions...

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:55 PM (Riz8t)

179 Are we sure it's not a Gallifreyan sonic butt plug?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough.

Posted by: things I've heard here before at September 28, 2026 08:55 PM (VHUov)

180 "Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
Posted by: things I've heard here before"

Are we still talking about sawzalls?

Posted by: AOS Dope at September 28, 2026 08:56 PM (MWfyi)

181 180 Ha!

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:57 PM (Jr5Lq)

182 168 even see through glass as thick as dam concrete"

Is that anything like the f'ing dam?
Posted by: man

Is that thicc like zoo glass? https://tinyurl.com/yadbmyyk

Not my cup of tea, but some guys like it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 08:58 PM (PkrKm)

183
For the first time in well over a decade, I am contemplating seeing a movie in the theater. Heart of the Beast, with Brad Pitt. But the dog better not die. Blubbering like a baby in the theater is unseemly.

I may wait for Blu-Ray.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

This was a comment in the Hollywood thread:

Saw Heart of a Beast today.

Excellent movie in the Jack London "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild" man and dog in the wilderness tradition.

Plot involves an ex-soldier and his retired war-dog stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash.

Good direction and acting in a minimal story with realistic stakes. Kudos to Brad Pitt.

Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 09:00 PM (Cqx++)

184 >>> 20 11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?
Posted by: FeatherBlade

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That is like the most inappropriate use of glass ever. It's as if they all grew up in villages farming chickens and now they are designing trains.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:44 PM (ESbQX)

Yeah, windows in the floor, and it uses "unmanned driving technology".

In CHYna.

Nope.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2026 09:01 PM (+fdRY)

185 'Excellent movie in the Jack London "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild" man and dog in the wilderness tradition.'

Sounds like bad news for the dog

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

186 >>> Posted by: MPete Cope at September 28, 2026 09:00 PM (rZ9Hs)

Well I'm sure *somebody* likes Jooooo dick, right up the ass.

Fag.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2026 09:02 PM (+fdRY)

187 Say, has anyone ever seen Jeb! and TrigglyPuff in the same room? Just asking questions...
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:55 PM (Riz8t)

I've been fortunate enough to never have been in a room with either one of them.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (syz1S)

188 Ping Ping and Fu Shuang are the two new giant pandas loaned to Zoo Atlanta, and they arrived in Atlanta on Sept. 27, 2026.

Every body have fun tonight
Every body Fu Shuang tonight

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (/+uur)

189 Tiny Hats always causing problems.
2000 years and counting.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (s9YwQ)

190 $5 gas? Must be from California.

Do you know who else had a pathological hatred of Jews.

National Socialists. Nazis.

Read a book, dumbass.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (viF8m)

191 Hmmm... Trump sucking Jew dick. Are you sure that wasn't YOU sucking dick? Sounds like you have a dick in your mouth right now, honestly. I guess it reduces your anxiety at leaving mom's basement. Kinda like a kid's blankie, but much more homosexual.

And I can't imagine even a self-hating Jew allowing your filthy maw anywhere near his boy parts, so I have my doubts the one in your mouth is Jewish.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (GYqb1)

192 Blue tsunami is underway thanks to $5 gas and Trunp’s Zionist war.

AOS cope will blame fraud. Of course.

We will have socialists in the senate because Trump can’t stop sucking Jew dick. Which ironically is what Jews want.
Posted by: AOS Cope

Damn. Well, I guess Trump may as well settle in for the long-haul an completely annihilate Iran and tens of millions more illegals in the US. Israel may as well completely take over Palestine. Once it's all done, it can't be undone. Guess it's time to settle all the family business.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 09:05 PM (PkrKm)

193 Every body have fun tonight
Every body Fu Shuang tonight

No can do. I'm busy Kung Fu fiii-iiighting.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:05 PM (Riz8t)

194 After they are married her name is
Ping Fu Shuang

Same sound as a bad gold shot

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:05 PM (/+uur)

195 185 'Excellent movie in the Jack London "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild" man and dog in the wilderness tradition.'

Sounds like bad news for the dog
Posted by: gp

Actually. In “To Build a Fire” the dog survives. The man does not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:06 PM (yEz+x)

196 Sounds like bad news for the dog
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

I keep finding wildly different synopsis online. But they all agree the dog lives.

I am not sure about the rest of the movie though, the movie seems to be a rorschach test.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

197 No can do. I'm busy Kung Fu fiii-iiighting.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:05 PM (Riz8t)

I would fight you back but thats
the night went out in Georgia

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (/+uur)

198 America Fuck Yeah. That's why you can see a landslide in Nepal filmed by a dirt poor farmer on his smartphone.

And on a side note also have a painting of horses on a beach.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (KC5Lt)

199 Actually. In “To Build a Fire” the dog survives. The man does not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:06 PM (yEz+x)

Doesn't matter what the medium is, just don't kill the dog.

But I believe the author loved dogs and understood their importance and power. People? Not so much.

I was raised on Jack London and Robert Service. Lots of odd people, Alaska, and dogs.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:08 PM (GYqb1)

200 Actually. In “To Build a Fire” the dog survives. The man does not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:06 PM (yEz+x)

What is the story where he cremated his friend
And he was finally warm

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:08 PM (/+uur)

201 I would fight you back but thats
the night went out in Georgia
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (/+uur)

Because Ruby took her love to town?

There was a lot of depressing shit in the 70s, from what I see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:09 PM (zZu0s)

202 What is the story where he cremated his friend
And he was finally warm

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:10 PM (Riz8t)

203 True dog story movie hardly anyone saw that was really good was Arthur the King.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:10 PM (KC5Lt)

204 I would fight you back but thats
the night went out in Georgia
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (/+uur)

Because Ruby took her love to town?

There was a lot of depressing shit in the 70s, from what I see.

And perversion involving muskrats. Don't ask.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (Riz8t)

205 Old Yeller scarred me .

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (KC5Lt)

206 "Old Yeller scarred me."

"Marley and Me." I cried for days afterward.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

207 There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.

I never understood that part. When the midnight sun is out, it is summer, but later it says it was Christmas, so no sun to speak of.

But I did have then entire thing memorized, and can still do it when pushed. Most people prefer I don't, I expect.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (GYqb1)

208 And perversion involving muskrats. Don't ask.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (Riz8t)

Undoubtedly the coward of the county with a side of straw dogs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

209 Old Yeller scarred me .
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (KC5Lt)
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For me it was "Where the Red Fern Grows."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (FZ29D)

210 >>I was raised on Jack London and Robert Service. Lots of odd people, Alaska, and dogs.

You must be an Iditarod fan. One of my sister's best friends is the sister of Susan Butcher.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (viF8m)

211 The saddest dog movie ever is the true story of the dog who waited everyday at the train station for his owner who had died.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (KC5Lt)

212 Because Ruby took her love to town?

There was a lot of depressing shit in the 70s, from what I see.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:09 PM (zZu0s)

"Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed"

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:14 PM (/+uur)

213 New Zoo Atlanta Residents Ping Ping Wounded, Fu Shuang Killed In Possible Gang Related Shooting.

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at September 28, 2026 09:14 PM (MWfyi)

214 For me it was "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (FZ29D)

Same. I was a kid, and it hurt deeply. Been wary of movies like that since.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (0aYVJ)

215 problems.
2000 years and counting.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 09:04 PM (s9YwQ)

So... you like movies about gladiators?

Posted by: 88C+u thinks it's kinda gay but you do you at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (88C+u)

216 The saddest dog movie ever is the true story of the dog who waited everyday at the train station for his owner who had died.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (KC5Lt)
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I will never again watch the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama, just for that reason.

Yeah, it was animated, but also one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (FZ29D)

217 211 The saddest dog movie ever is the true story of the dog who waited everyday at the train station for his owner who had died.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (KC5Lt)

There is still a statue of him in Japan.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

218 205 Old Yeller scarred me .
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (KC5Lt)

She didnt cry when Ole Yeller died

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (/+uur)

219 You guys are bumming me out with dying dog stories.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (viF8m)

220 >>>just a passing fad, like Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks

>Remember turd birds? Good fun. A piece of shit in your foyer with googly eyes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (VQ7/I)

221 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (FZ29D)

Ditto

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (KC5Lt)

222 For me it was "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (FZ29D)

Same. I was a kid, and it hurt deeply. Been wary of movies like that since.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 28, 2026 09:15 PM (0aYVJ)
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Dunno if I ever saw the movie, though I think I did.

I know the book did a real number on me as a kid.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (FZ29D)

223 The saddest dog movie ever is the true story of the dog who waited everyday at the train station for his owner who had died.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (KC5Lt)

Futurama: Fry's Dog.

Oh dear Lord, powerful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (0aYVJ)

224 You must be an Iditarod fan. One of my sister's best friends is the sister of Susan Butcher.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (viF8m)

I live about 20 minutes from the Iditarod HQ. So, yeah. It's a lot of fun, but I like the smaller races too. I live about 5 minutes from Knik Lake, where they run the Knik 100 and the Knik 200, along about Christmas time. Lots of the same mushers but a lot fewer out of state tourists. We go down and meet the mushers and the dogs, who are all beautiful and sleek. The Alaska sled dog is an odd mix of various types bred for speed and endurance. I think it would be fun to see their DNA reports.

Our two dogs were puppies in sled dog kennels that, for one reason or another, were not chosen to compete. They run, all the time, and love it. But they are also couch potatoes. And they are beautiful, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:17 PM (GYqb1)

225 I am not sure about the rest of the movie though, the movie seems to be a rorschach test.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:07 PM (zZu0s)

That is because critics and reviewers used to review movies, now they use movie reviews as a tool to criticize society along political lines

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:18 PM (rbvCR)

226 The original Incredible Journey had a happy ending but had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. Tears of joy.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:18 PM (KC5Lt)

227 "The saddest dog movie ever"

"Umberto D." Sad in every possible way.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

228 I know the book did a real number on me as a kid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (FZ29D)

Had to read that in school. Never again. What a miserable book.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:19 PM (GYqb1)

229 You guys are bumming me out with dying dog stories.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:16 PM (viF8m)

There was a dog movie last year(?) That was a paranormal take on the genre. The director used his own dog with no animation or visual effects. I read the synopsis and in a way, it was worse. Dog lived.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:19 PM (zZu0s)

230 Red glass is made by dispersing gold as a colloid of tiny droplets in the glass. Gustav Mie was the first to explain the effect, and he developed a whole theory, now called Mie scattering, to explain it.

G. Mie, Annalen der Physik. 330, 377–445 (190

.

The original paper is in German, although English translations can be found. The title is “Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen” which translates to “Contributions to the optics of turbid media, specifically colloidal metal solutions”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 09:20 PM (fheZL)

231 Had to read that in school. Never again. What a miserable book.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:19 PM (GYqb1)

It always fascinated me the books they chose for literature. Dear Lord guys Great expectations? The Sun also Rises?

Pick something with a bit more cheer or excitement to get kids to read.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

232 Dogs are the best people.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:21 PM (GYqb1)

233 "Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed"
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 28, 2026 09:14 PM (/+uur)

well, you know. But FDR still had a mistress even if Eleanor cut him off,

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

234 Pretty sure the first Sonic Screwdriver was a duper roll with some tape on it

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 09:21 PM (F9nWj)

235 That date in parenthesis is 1908. I forgot Minx’s penchant for turn in an 8 followed by a right parend into a smiley.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 09:24 PM (fheZL)

236 Bolt is my favorite animated movie because it has the best ending ever.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:25 PM (KC5Lt)

237 That landslide video, did anyone else notice the cannabis?

Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2026 09:25 PM (Q+gd/)

238 Huh.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 09:26 PM (Riz8t)

239 Jane Wyman's kids were angry at her for years after she was in The Yearling.

Posted by: Oh, Deer! at September 28, 2026 09:26 PM (Fn+3X)

240 Ruby, the smaller dog, has decided that our contractor is evil. She won't leave the camper so long as they are on site. Once they leave for the day, she pees for about five minutes. That is one stubborn dog.

Meanwhile Piper (the dog, not the commenter), will go in and "greet" them enthusiastically, get into everything, and generally cause mayhem. So, she gets to stay in the camper too. But at least she will go outside to pee.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:26 PM (GYqb1)

241 That landslide video, did anyone else notice the cannabis?
Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2026 09:25 PM (Q+gd/)

Yes, generally they grow it for fiber and press the seed for cooking oil.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (rbvCR)

242 Marley and Me

Was insipid drek. Seriously. In the tone of “Love Story.”

*pukes*

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (yEz+x)

243 "It always fascinated me the books they chose for literature."

'Ivanhoe.' 'Beowulf.' 'Heart of Darkness.' Ugh.

'The Grapes of Wrath.' 'The Red Badge of Courage.' OK, I guess.

'The Caine Mutiny.' 'The Sea Wolf.' Those were very good.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

244 Hildago is a great animal based movie.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:29 PM (KC5Lt)

245 The original title of The Good Soldier was The Saddest Story, and the narrator starts by saying it was the saddest story.

The publisher figured it wouldn't sell, so pushed a name change, and it was a good call. Still Ford Madox Ford's best-selling book.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

246 My sister-in-law told me to see Marley and Me. I said, "The dog dies, right?". She said yes, so I never saw it.

Posted by: Not Participating at September 28, 2026 09:30 PM (Fn+3X)

247 Hidalgo sounds like a movie that would be starring Danny Trejo.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

248 243 "It always fascinated me the books they chose for literature."

'Ivanhoe.' 'Beowulf.' 'Heart of Darkness.' Ugh.

'The Grapes of Wrath.' 'The Red Badge of Courage.' OK, I guess.

'The Caine Mutiny.' 'The Sea Wolf.' Those were very good.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

Beowulf was cool, in a hallucinatory kind of way. Ivanhoe was difficult but kinda adventurist. Grapes of Wrath was boring as hell.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:30 PM (GYqb1)

249 We had to read Canterbury Tales but the teacher kept it interesting by pointing out the ribald parts.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (MWfyi)

250 'Ivanhoe.' 'Beowulf.' 'Heart of Darkness.' Ugh.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Dude. I'll wave off Ivanhoe, but Beowulf is awesome and Heart of Darkness continues to resonate. It's why they stuck around.

[Says guy who wrote novel based on Beowulf and is working on sequel]

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)

251 Was insipid drek. Seriously. In the tone of “Love Story.”

*pukes*
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (yEz+x)

"Love means never having to say you're sorry!"

Bullshit.

What a pantload that movie was.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (GYqb1)

252 Hidalgo sounds like a movie that would be starring Danny Trejo.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

I liked it, but it is an odd movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

253 Nepal... slightly more modern that 17th century... yet, cell phone videos and a way to distribute them.

Not all that different then some of the ghettos around here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (RORbl)

254
FDR still had a mistress even if Eleanor cut him off,
Posted by: Kindltot

===============

You think she cut him off? My theory is he abandoned Haggity Ellen soon after their marriage, very similar to the Clintons. Which is one reason why Hillary had such an affinity for her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (mmrXZ)

255 >> My mom, who watches fake news, just texted how the Starship launch had engine problems. So I have to take this as the fake-news spin on this launch.

This is becoming quite a joke. The Elon-hating media spins everything to make it sound like a failure.

Starship is still very experimental, and they're talking baby steps with abundance of caution. And at the same time taking big risks. The abundance of caution is all about safety -- for people (and not risking leaving a dead hulk of rocket in orbit as a huge piece of space junk), not so much the hardware.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (w6EFb)

256 Look what Clinton did after the Soviet collapse. We know China is asshoe. What comes after no more Iran, Gaza and West Bank.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (wxsGM)

257 Good Lord. Doggo the Additional got a bath earlier this evening, and she's been trotting around the house non-stop since we dried her.

Chill, girl!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (4HoLg)

258 13th Warrior is quite good, if sad. In a way. Also not. Good balance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (zZu0s)

259 My cat Penny is warming up my bed for me.

She's such a good kitty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (FZ29D)

260 Somebody needs to teach those Nepalis how to speak a human language.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (peOdB)

261 I read The Count of Monte Christo in high school.

It was awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:33 PM (yEz+x)

262 Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:27 PM (Jr5Lq

Two for me in high school were Silas Marner and Of Mice and Men.

I liked both.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:33 PM (KC5Lt)

263 249 We had to read Canterbury Tales but the teacher kept it interesting by pointing out the ribald parts.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (MWfyi)

Canterbury Tales is awesome. It made fun of everybody. Helps to have a decent translation, because the original is mostly impenetrable by folks today. "Ribald" is an understatement.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:33 PM (GYqb1)

264 257 Good Lord. Doggo the Additional got a bath earlier this evening, and she's been trotting around the house non-stop since we dried her.

Chill, girl!
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (4HoLg)

Good heavens, don't cut her toenails!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (GYqb1)

265
Take the launch trajectories SpaceX has been using. Starship could've easily gotten into orbit from early on. They didn't because they didn't want to risk leaving a dead hulk as space junk in some orbit they couldn't control -- it's big enough that if came down somewhere unpredictable, it could pose a danger to people on the ground.

So, they use suborbital, ballistic missile-like trajectories. If the ship just failed completely, not control or contact at all, it would just safely plunge back down into the ocean.

The launch this morning was the same suborbital trajectory. It was only when they reached apogee did they make the call of whether to relight and raise speed to achieve orbit. And they almost didn't because one of the vac-Raptors cut off early.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (w6EFb)

266 Two for me in high school were Silas Marner and Of Mice and Men.

I liked both.
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:33 PM (KC5Lt)
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We read Heart of Darkness and then watched "Apocalypse Now." In high school.

Pure awesomeness. The 80s ruled.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (ZOv7s)

267 I liked it, but it is an odd movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

Odd?

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (KC5Lt)

268 Pick something with a bit more cheer or excitement to get kids to read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My school did the exact opposite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (HW/1v)

269 "Canterbury Tales is awesome. It made fun of everybody. Helps to have a decent translation, because the original is mostly impenetrable by folks today. "Ribald" is an understatement.
Posted by: tcn in AK "

That was one of the best teachers I ever had. She also taught mythology and I was introduced to Edith Hamilton.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (MWfyi)

270 111 What? There's a landslide and our entire backyard has just fallen off a cliff? Let's go look over and stand around checking it out.

How DOES the human race survive?
Posted by: Archimedes

What do you mean? The weak part all just fell off. What's left is solid, man.

* stomps foot *
Posted by: random Nepali dude at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)
*******
I know! I was wondering what they were saying: "Mama was in the outhouse!"

I'd be yelling GO in Nepal/chy knee/farsi and Swahili. Grab my babies under both arms and run uphill like a snake was on my heels.

Blackrunners, a non-poisonous snake in MS, supposedly chase you. Can you understand why I have been this way since childhood? I don't care if they eat rats!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (hzuYO)

271 Old Yeller scarred me .
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:11 PM (KC5Lt)
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For me it was "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 09:13 PM (FZ29D)

The Red Pony. Even as a kid I'm thinking "this is a movie for kids?"

Posted by: The vulture scene...holy shit at September 28, 2026 09:38 PM (TbWk/)

272 Canterbury Tales is awesome. It made fun of everybody. Helps to have a decent translation, because the original is mostly impenetrable by folks today. "Ribald" is an understatement.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:33 PM (GYqb1)
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We all had to read the beginning in the original language, it was pretty damn cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:38 PM (ZOv7s)

273 Never liked sad stories or movies. That's the reason I prefer comedy. There is enough sadness in real life.

Posted by: Case at September 28, 2026 09:38 PM (LMnda)

274

Case,

Amen

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (/QHx4)

275 I also enjoyed “A Tale of Two Cities”

and “Crime and Punishment”.

We spent two months on “The Love Song of Alfred J Prurock.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (yEz+x)

276 Never read Heart of Darkness but hate the movie Apocalypse Now.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (KC5Lt)

277 >>I read The Count of Monte Christo in high school.

That Alexandre Dumbass could write. Might be the best thing to come out of Haiti.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)

278 "It always fascinated me the books they chose for literature."

The only books I remember from various AP classes in High School were The Great Gatsby and The Brothers Karamazov. Ugh.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (t19vo)

279 I'd be yelling GO in Nepal/chy knee/farsi and Swahili.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (hzuYO)
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British troops shipped in from India in 1914-15 routinely berated French and Belgians in Hindi, and were enraged that they did not understand them because all foreigners use the same language.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (ZOv7s)

280 You think she cut him off? My theory is he abandoned Haggity Ellen soon after their marriage, very similar to the Clintons. Which is one reason why Hillary had such an affinity for her.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 09:32 PM (mmrXZ)

He had an affair with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Paige, and then while he was running for VP there were claims that he had an affair with Marguerite LaHand, both women spent far more time with FDR than Eleanor.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (rbvCR)

281 "Love means never having to say you're sorry!"

Bullshit.

What a pantload that movie was.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Love means saying you're sorry even when you aren't. Maybe especially when you aren't.

Ask any successfully married person.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (ktgTW)

282 Odd?
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (KC5Lt)

The tone is all over the place.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

283 Blackrunners, a non-poisonous snake in MS, supposedly chase you. Can you understand why I have been this way since childhood? I don't care if they eat rats!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 09:36 PM (hzuYO)

My dad, full of crap as usual, informed me when I was young that St. Patrick cleared all of the snakes out of Alaska.

Of course, he never explained how he got here in the 4th century....

But I am anti-snek, anti-cockroach, anti-giant spider, etc. I would not survive living in the south. I would die of apoplexy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (GYqb1)

284
And they almost aborted the orbital insertion burn. But somebody decided to take the small extra risk, thankfully. But they did come back earlier than planned, after about two orbits, rather than the planned six or so, for a total mission time of around 10 hours, IIRC.

The early R-vac shutdown required more fuel. WIth only 5, rather than 6 engines, the burn time is longer and less efficient (basically the faster you accelerate, the more efficient you are fighting gravity). So, with less fuel for maneuvering, they decided to bring it down sooner.

They probably would've been okay, this is just that abundance of caution at play.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (w6EFb)

285 The secret to lifelong Fitness is, of course, Dynamic Tension.
Posted by: Charles Atlas at September 28, 2026 08:33 PM

Can confirm.

Posted by: Rocky Horror at September 28, 2026 09:41 PM (0sNs1)

286 Sorry J Alfred.

It was a long time ago.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:41 PM (yEz+x)

287 We had to read The Great Gatsby and watch the movie. I hated everyone in both.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 09:41 PM (MWfyi)

288 Never read Heart of Darkness but hate the movie Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (KC5Lt)
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It's a flawed film and an imperfect adaptation, but Duvall's turn as Colonel Kilgore and the air assault is arguably the best battle sequence ever committed to film. One take.

R. Lee Ermey's first film role.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:41 PM (ZOv7s)

289 We spent two months on “The Love Song of Alfred J Prurock.”
Posted by: nurse ratched

“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”

I STILL don't know what that line is all about.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 09:42 PM (ktgTW)

290 Had wagon wheels for the ends. She painted them. Loved wood paneling, but did not like the natural look of wood on that couch.

She was an odd woman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

I have two couches in that pattern, and some chairs and tables, too. It is well-made stuff, no particleboard in it at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 09:42 PM (peOdB)

291 Never read Heart of Darkness but hate the movie Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (KC5Lt)

That's just your extreme prejudice talking.

Posted by: Charlie don't surf at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (TbWk/)

292 We spent two months on “The Love Song of Alfred J Prurock.”
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:39 PM (yEz+x)

I still don't know what the hell that was about. Or why it was written that way. Or why he couldn't just say what his point was.

I guess I'm not very poetically minded.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (GYqb1)

293
The Saturn V remains the greatest rocket ever flown.

Starship will take that crown, but not yet. It will get there, but it's still in the experimental phase.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (w6EFb)

294 >> Never read Heart of Darkness but hate the movie Apocalypse Now.

It's much better than Apocalypse Now.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (viF8m)

295 He had an affair with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Paige, and then while he was running for VP there were claims that he had an affair with Marguerite LaHand, both women spent far more time with FDR than Eleanor.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (rbvCR)
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Horndog couldn't walk, but he could bang like a jackhammer.

BTW, how in the name of "sisterhood" would a social secretary cheat on the women she was working for?

Oh wait, there is no "sisterhood." It's a construct of older, less attractive women trying to police younger, more attractive ones.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s)

296 But I am anti-snek, anti-cockroach, anti-giant spider, etc. I would not survive living in the south. I would die of apoplexy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026

Oh I think you would be the best kind of southern woman if you had been raised here. You are strong, resourceful, funny, charming. You would be just fine.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 09:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

297 In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”

I STILL don't know what that line is all about.

Posted by: Tonypete at September

The women were smarter and more sophisticated than Prufrock. He was already skinny and insecure and nerdy. And saw all the women as superior.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:46 PM (yEz+x)

298 Apocalypse Now was like something that came out of John Kerry's delusions.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 09:46 PM (KC5Lt)

299 It's much better than Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (viF8m)
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As soon as it ended, our class had a discussion and we agreed that what should have happened was that Chef and Williard did nothing, but motored back to HQ and said that all was in order. The rumors were wrong.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:46 PM (ZOv7s)

300 "Canterbury Tales is awesome." I saw the Pasolini adaptation.

I'll give Beowulf another look.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

301 >We had to read The Great Gatsby and watch the movie. I hated everyone in both.

I think that was the point.

>>“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:47 PM (viF8m)

302
The Saturn V still holds the record for most payload mass inserted into LEO. Starship will blow right past that, but not yet.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 09:47 PM (w6EFb)

303 Never read Heart of Darkness but hate the movie Apocalypse Now.

It's much better than Apocalypse Now.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:43 PM (viF8m)

Apocalypse Later wasn't a very good sequel. It lacked urgency.

Posted by: Apocalypse Back Then wasn't great either at September 28, 2026 09:48 PM (TbWk/)

304 I'll give Beowulf another look.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:46 PM (Jr5Lq)
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I recommend the Norton Critical Edition, Seamus Haney verse translation. It includes "The Monsters and the Critics" by Tolkien.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)

305 The maned wolf is the AT-AT of the canine world.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 09:48 PM (/TlUl)

306 The year I homeschooled my son, who is not a particularly deep thinker, I chose literature that had good movie adaptations, so he would read the book, we would discuss, and then he got to watch the movie. So, we did Merchant of Venice, not something I thought he would understand, but he loved it. He understood the antisemitic stuff, and why it was written that way.

Also, Lillies of the Field, which is Sidney Poitier movie, and well done. Very Catholic, which was nice.

If you give kids something of value, they can see it, and respond.

Some of the stuff they read in school today is pure unadulterated bullshit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:49 PM (GYqb1)

307 “The Catcher in the Rye” was probably the most overrated waste of time I ever encountered in high school.

Stupid drek. Everyone was all Agatha’s because it had the f word.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:49 PM (yEz+x)

308 >>As soon as it ended, our class had a discussion and we agreed that what should have happened was that Chef and Williard did nothing, but motored back to HQ and said that all was in order. The rumors were wrong.

Never get off the boat.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (viF8m)

309 “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:47 PM (viF8m)
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I like the Baz Luhrmann film. The rap thing is irritating, but it's very evocative.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)

310 They were careless people, Bill and Hill...

Posted by: davidt at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (Q+gd/)

311 Some of the stuff they read in school today is pure unadulterated bullshit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:49 PM (GYqb1)

Large swathes of students are functionally illiterate to boot.

Posted by: Might be just as well at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (TbWk/)

312 5 That level of cuteness and silliness is not allowed in my household!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (FZ29D)

I bet your household requires pants.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (/TlUl)

313 "I recommend the Norton Critical Edition, Seamus Haney verse translation. It includes "The Monsters and the Critics" by Tolkien."

Thanks! There are umptisteen translations out there. Haney's is free to read and download, thanks to gordonstate.edu:
https://tinyurl.com/54d4v9hd

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

314 "The Catcher in the Rye” was probably the most overrated waste of time I ever encountered in high school.

Stupid drek. Everyone was all Agatha’s because it had the f word.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:49 PM (yEz+x)
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I think this is the universal opinion of the Horde. No one likes this book. Beatniks make it popular. It's a pile of crap.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:52 PM (ZOv7s)

315 After we moved the piano last time we had it tuned by a blind guy. Apparently that's a pretty common thing. He knew what he was doing though and was done in a coup!e of hours.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)

Was his name Uppernockity, by any chance?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 09:53 PM (peOdB)

316 Never get off the boat.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:50 PM (viF8m)
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"We need a bigger boat." > "Never get off the boat."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:54 PM (ZOv7s)

317
But I am anti-snek, anti-cockroach, anti-giant spider, etc. I would not survive living in the south. I would die of apoplexy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 09:40 PM (GYqb1)
*********
Age 20yrs: "I'm outta here!" Daddy's last try to keep Ellie Mae Clampett home safe was to tell me I could not have my speedy 4yr old Impala (racing green, baybee). It was in his name. I said, "That's ok, Daddy, as it wouldn't drive that well in the snow." I loved that Marine. He did admit a decade later or so that it was worth it for me to find the man who took me off his hands.

They paid my tuition and I paid my rent (they also wanted me in a dam dorm, and I tried that and nope!).

My snake killing brother died. Baby bro probably can kill them, as well as at least one son who used to kayak in FL with gators.

I rarely go down to the lake due to snakes, bugs and heat when we are there. It's only 1/4mi from mother's house on a farm road. It takes a lot to have me leave the AC with sweating involved.

Lived 20yrs in FL on the Atantic. Saw a gator up close and personal walking toddler and infant son on a sidewalk near a huge drainage ditch. Called animal control. They did not care.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 09:54 PM (hzuYO)

318 Repent Boomers! The end is nigh!
Posted by: AOS Dope at September 28, 2026 08:47 PM

Finally our troll trajectory is on an upward trend.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 09:54 PM (0sNs1)

319 Repents, I gotta few.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (Jr5Lq)

320 Wait! We are talking books!

IM NOT WEARING PANTS!

Shit

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (yEz+x)

321 >>"We need a bigger boat."

I can't tell you how much trouble that line has caused me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 09:57 PM (viF8m)

322 Yes, generally they grow it for fiber and press the seed for cooking oil.
Posted by: Kindltot

That cannabis has many, many non-drug uses.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 09:57 PM (Fv808)

323 Most kids, boys anyway, if they learn to love reading, they had to do it by reading books that aren't assigned in GCSE level.
Oh goody, George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss" has stuff to say about the class system hundreds of years before we were born. And Shakespeare exists. Too bad you'll be reading the unfunny comedies he plagiarised from some Italians.
I did my reading on my own.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 09:57 PM (88C+u)

324 I got moved around in English class and was put in AP Eng as a Junior, then was there again as a Sr.
Had to read "Gatsby" three times.
Didn't like it any of them. I'd have slapped Daisy Buchanan winding if I'd been there...

Posted by: sal at September 28, 2026 09:57 PM (f+FmA)

325 Since it will do no good because the thread is almost over, I will offer a tiny bit of shameless self-promotion and mention I wrote a book, Battle Officer Wolf, that moves the setting into a space station but tries to preserve the essence of the story.

Some people like it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 09:58 PM (ZOv7s)

326 well, you know. But FDR still had a mistress even if Eleanor cut him off,
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 09:21 PM (rbvCR)

Eleanor cutting him off was a blessing for him. She could have made a freight train take a dirt road.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (peOdB)

327 326 Ha!

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 10:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

328 I had an argument once that the most important character in Beowulf was Grendel, and later Grendel's mum, because otherwise it would just be a story about a guy who went swimming in his armor on a bet.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 10:04 PM (rbvCR)

329 Eleanor cutting him off was a blessing for him. She could have made a freight train take a dirt road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 10:03 PM (peOdB)

She may have also poisoned him, too. FDR's polio was very different in his age and how it presented, but it was oddly similar in some parts to arsenic poisoning.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (rbvCR)

330 IM NOT WEARING PANTS!

Shit
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 09:56 PM (yEz+x)

I nearly never do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 10:22 PM (GYqb1)

331 I preferred "A Sale of Two Titties".

Posted by: Not Bulg at September 28, 2026 10:23 PM (Fn+3X)

332
She may have also poisoned him, too. FDR's polio was very different in his age and how it presented, but it was oddly similar in some parts to arsenic poisoning.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 10:06 PM (rbvCR)

Very unlikely, as he had Military physicians paying great attention to him, given the War and all that.
One thing that surprised me the most was that during his 1944 campaign, *everyione* close to him knew he was dying and would be gone soon - even George Marshall. They decided that it would be too disruptive to the war effort, so they made the choice to kill the story any hint of it, and then act like it was a big surprise.

But that’s why Henry Wallace was kicked out of the VP slot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 10:44 PM (zn4/g)

Quick Hits

The farmer who did the UK government's job for it and spotted the terrorists casing the Fairfield air force base says the government, get this, is covering the incident up.

Darren Grimes
@darrengrimes

The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin.
There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."
Five were arrested. All five are now out on bail.
Streeting went on the telly to say she only had a "partial picture." Her reply? Nobody in any official capacity has even been in touch with her.
So: a declared major incident. The one witness from that night says more men were there than were ever arrested. Not one official has picked up the phone to her.
But the Defence Secretary found time to go on the BBC and mark down her account.
Something doesn't add up.

"Well this completely surprises me!" said a baby who was born seven seconds ago.

Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.

I'm sure no one minds such beggary being blocked. But they didn't block so many Democrat begs for money.

A newly published study estimates that Republican fundraisers lost $117 million last year after email providers, chiefly Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, inappropriately flagged GOP fundraising messages as spam while allowing Democrat fundraising emails through.
The New York Post reports that the study, authored by Dr. Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Dr. Lars Powell of the University of Alabama, uses itemized Federal Election Commission (FEC) donation records to seperate first-time donors from repeat donors across the Republican platform WinRed and its Democratic counterpart ActBlue, then tracked how donations moved during two stretches of spam filtering last year.
The first stretch ran from June 30, 2025, when the GOP consulting firm Targeted Victory told Google that WinRed fundraising emails were landing in spam, through September 15, 2025, when Google dropped a spam blacklist called SURBL that the researchers say had been improperly flagging the messages. During that window, spam filtering cut first-time WinRed donations by 75 percent across Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. The second stretch, affecting only Outlook, ran from February through April of last year, and saw first-time WinRed donations drop 83 percent. Together, the two periods cost Republicans 142,126 expected first-time donations, which the researchers converted into $117 million using FEC data.
"It's a pretty big number," Powell told the Post. He said the loss doubled as a gift to the other side. "You can really think of that as an in-kind gift to ActBlue recipients."

I shan't believe it:

EXCLUSIVE: Former WPATH President Linked to Multiple Pro-Pedophilia Academics and Activists Over Several Decades, Previously Advocated for Sex Offender Rights
Reduxx can reveal that a leading figure behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization which promotes the medical 'transitioning' of children, has a long history of working with pro-pedophile academics. Eli Coleman, a former WPATH president who oversaw and influenced the Standards of Care for transgender medical protocols for decades, has professional ties to multiple academics who either defended or advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relations, and had himself previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders.
Coleman is an American sexologist, professor emeritus, and former director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (previously the Program in Human Sexuality) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota -- where WPATH was previously based for several years. Coleman was an instrumental figure in the development of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), specifically contributing to the three most recent iterations: the sixth, seventh, and eighth editions.
Significantly, Coleman served as the Chair and Lead Author for the development of the Standards of Care 8, which recommended the validation of a "eunuch gender identity", and would later be revised to remove specific age limitations on the prescription of puberty-halting drugs to children.

He crusaded to see "eunuch" enshrined as a protected "gender identiy."

Through a series of investigative reports, Reduxx revealed that the Eunuch Archive, the forum sourced by WPATH, was co-founded by a man who would be convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a pedophile ring. Thomas Pidel was linked to over a dozen individuals who had subscriptions with a Belarus-based child pornography enterprise which sold thousands of paid memberships internationally to access child sexual abuse content.
Pidel, who described himself as a "boy lover," was active in multiple Usenet groups dedicated to pedophilia activism and castration fetishism in the years just before his arrest in 2004. Some of the groups Pidel was active in during this time were alt.support.boy-lovers, alt.fan.prettyboy, and alt.eunuchs.questions, the latter of which would become the Eunuch Archive.
The most popular stories in the Eunuch Archive depict the forcible castration of children, and, as previously revealed by Reduxx, of the approximately 10,000 pornographic stories on the site, over one-third involved minors.
Three academics identified exclusively by Reduxx as having played a foundational role in the Eunuch Archive gathered opinions from anonymous forum members which were published as research. The leading figure behind this work, Professor Emeritus Thomas W. Johnson, presented research they co-authored together at a 2009 conference in Oslo held by WPATH.

The collapse of "higher education:"

Companies Are Skeptical of New Graduates. Cornell Has Ideas to Fix That.
The authors of Cornell University's new report on "The Future of the American University" asked employers what they thought of America's new graduates, and the results were not flattering.
Companies have a "jarring" skepticism of higher ed, the authors found, thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback.

That's because they've been taught that they're always right and challenging them is racist, even when -- especially when -- they know absolutely nothing about the topic.

The sprawling, 238-page report -- the latest in a series of self-interrogations by elite universities -- lays out a plan to once again instill essential skills by the time students walk across the commencement stage.
The report recommends a series of pedagogical "principles" that Cornell should implement or re-implement. "Sound judgment develops through practice, not transmission," the report says. That is, it's not just important what discipline-specific knowledge students learn, but how they learn it. For the report's authors, the road to "essential capacities needed to thrive in the professional, adult world" runs through the liberal arts.
...
To understand newer graduates' preparedness or lack thereof for the workplace, the committee spoke to a variety of organizations and alumni, Phoebe Sengers, one of the co-chairs, told The Chronicle.
One such organization was the Albany-area Chamber of Commerce, in N.Y., where an employee told the committee that companies had reported a greater need for conflict-resolution training, said Ariel Avgar, another co-chair. That squared with reports from the campus: Even graduate-level faculty say that incoming students, despite four years of undergraduate education, are found to be "underdeveloped" in relational skills, said Avgar, a professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

They just completely pretend they can't identify the real problem causing this: Uneducated know-nothings who have been brainwashed into thinking they have the answer to everything, and that answer is Muh Racism. And Muh Sexism, and Muh Transphobia.

...
The first commitment, toward "cultivating sound judgment," most directly addresses new graduates' lack of personal development. The report recommends a series of pedagogical fixes, including tightening Cornell's rules on late assignments so that students practice making tough decisions about competing priorities. And the university should anticipate that students will have moments of serious self-doubt, such as when they receive a bad grade in an important course, and "intentionally teach how to respond to negative feedback."

Their big fix? "Group projects." Terrific.

Let's just ignore all of the real problems:

Wesley Yang
@wesyang

While she was an undergraduate, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a letter to her college newspaper that included a reference to a completely fabricated claim that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus and helped the Aztecs build their pyramids.
Many prominent black folx in media and politics have similar publication histories from their youth -- Kristen Clarke, who headed the Civil Rights Division of Biden's DOJ, wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson endorsing the theory that "melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities." Ibram X. Kendi, then writing under his birth name "Henry Rogers", wrote in the Florida A&M student newspaper that wypipo invented AIDS as a biological weapon against non-whites.
One way to look at the 1619 Project was as a kind of gentrification of Black Nationalist cod history (referencing scholarship convergent with such critiques of American history that have proliferated in the last two decades) once typically espoused by a bowtied street preacher outside Brooklyn subway stations.

Pro America Politics
@proamericapol
🚨JUST IN: The migrant caravan from Honduras barreling towards the United States of America is showing no signs of slowing down.
Reports are coming out that it's GAINING IN NUMBERS.
Their plan is to overwhelm border patrol and force their way into the interior of the United States, where they know Democrats will protect them.
This is a national security threat that we are watching approach in real time.

Right in time for the midterms. Imagine that! https://t.co/GNJ1zqCFrr
— Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) September 28, 2026

Can a white man sue Seattle over its racially hostile wacky DEI programs? Yes, per Chief Judge Murguia. Big loss for DEI in Seattle--by an all-Democrat appointed Ninth Circuit panel. These racially discriminatory "Race and Social Justice Initiative" policies create liability pic.twitter.com/wfRAPANT1z
— Eric W. (@EWess92) September 28, 2026

Wesley Yang digests the case and says that being able to sue after years of racial discrimination is no big victory:

Wesley Yang
@wesyang

So the way this works is:
-- You are told not to apply for a job because you are a white man.
-- An underqualified person whose demographic traits match what you were explicitly told were the basis for the hiring is instead hired for the job, forcing you to do most of that person's work.
-- You are subjected to a racial struggle session in 2019 in which the trainer say that Christopher Columbus and all white people today are "cannibals" who are "like the devil" and include evil in their DNA.
-- Your supervisor calls you a colonizer.
-- You are told to step down from your job because you are preventing a POC from being promoted by continuing to have a job
-- You file a lawsuit in November 2022 for these overtly racially hostile and discriminatory acts.
-- You wait 27 months while evidence is gathered to see whether you have a legal claim worthy of going to trial
-- In February 2025, the district court grants summary judgment to your employer, dismissing all your claims.
-- You wait another 19 months for the 9th District Court of Appeals to say, in fact, your case can go to trial because civil rights law forbids racial discrimination against people of any color
-- The actual trial is potentially years in the future for unlawful abuses that derailed your career seven years ago
-- Takeaway: LOL Woke 1 was craaazy

The communist Nithya Raman takes the lead in the LA mayoral race, plus she'll have the legions of the homeless paid to vote for her as well.

I told everyone that if you don�t vote for me, Raman will beat Bass. That�s why she entered the race 10 minutes before the clerk's office closed. She knew I was gonna destroy Bass 1-on-1. Good luck LA. pic.twitter.com/00aaxVDTgb
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

This cuck:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman ... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players, TMZ has learned.
Sources with direct knowledge tell us Schwarzenegger hosted an off-the-record meeting at his L.A. office last week, where leaders in Hollywood, business and nonprofits could ask Raman anything they wanted.
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We're told some of the attendees were shocked the former Republican governor would host Raman, a democratic socialist. But after hearing her pitch for tackling L.A.'s problems, some who came in skeptical walked away impressed.
Among those in the room:
At least 7 people from United Talent Agency -- which represents Schwarzenegger -- including his agent Jim Berkus
An executive from Main Street Advisors -- an investment and advisory firm with ties to major celebrities and athletes
The CEO of After School All Stars -- the nonprofit Schwarenegger founded to provide free programs for kids in underserved communities
The CEO of the LA Cleantech incubator -- a nonprofit that helps startups develop clean energy and climate tech
The director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy
More business leaders including builders and other clean tech executives

Actress Camryn Manheim: I always wanted a gay son. I have photos of my son in high heels, in full drag. But no! He's the only straight guy in his musical theatre company.

When Marcia Gay Harden told me her son had come out to her, I said, "Oh my god, you are so f**king lucky!" pic.twitter.com/lCelEZeGTm
— 👤 (@ezradulis) September 28, 2026

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 06:20 PM (GfgtS)

2 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:20 PM (PfKV4)

3 Not first but also not a lesbo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (hzuYO)

4 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (/C5Rl)

5 Not first but also not a lesbo.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM

So you have that going for you. Which is nice.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (/C5Rl)

6 MattY is a hack fraud Democrat whore.
Always has been. Always will be.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (s1VwS)

7 woohoo! gimme a quick hit on that!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (VyBeY)

8 +1 for lucky #7 !

woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:23 PM (VyBeY)

9 OK, problem with terminology: eunuchs and catamites were most if not all unwilling.

Grannies these days... they are mostly just fucked up or attention seeking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

10 Testing new tablet

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 28, 2026 06:24 PM (DK5Sh)

11 "underserved communities"

that would be people who have trouble getting a bartender's attention?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:24 PM (VyBeY)

12 Testing new tablet
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

Passed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:25 PM (PfKV4)

13 >> All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."

All dressed uniformly.
There is a word for that.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:25 PM (ESbQX)

14 ”Well this completely surprises me!" said a baby who was born seven seconds ago.

They grow up so fast these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (6ydKt)

15 JUST IN: The migrant caravan from Honduras barreling towards the United States of America is showing no signs of slowing down.

Reports are coming out that it's GAINING IN NUMBERS.

Their plan is to overwhelm border patrol and force their way into the interior of the United States, where they know Democrats will protect them.

This is a national security threat that we are watching approach in real time.

Send us more illegals!

Posted by: US Marines Wake Island 1941 at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (I43vL)

16
Candance's rumored lesbian stuff is disgusting but her hatred of Jewish people is far worse.

Also, keep your sexual preferences to yourself.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (/QHx4)

17 These perverted "mothers" gayifying their kids disturb me. Meanwhile my son and DIL are trying to get pregnant again after losing a baby to miscarriage last spring. I pray for a healthy baby for them every night.

These "mothers" don't deserve children.

Perhaps we'd win the mid-terms easier if the Honduran army invasion were shot if they tried to cross our border. I'm for this, altho voting GOP anyway. It's obviously being done to disrupt mid-terms and give a nasty whiff of the Ceuta invasion.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (hzuYO)

18 Willowed:

Claim: Candace Owens is a Lesbian Who Cheated on Her "Husband" with a Woman, Keeps Multiple Gay Dating Profiles

Does it not behoöve us, as credentialed AoSHQ Commenters, before leaping tp any premature conclusions, to ascertain the answers to the two most concerning questions of the Commentariat concerning this matter?

1. Does she wear Crocs?

2, Are her partners "busty"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (0sNs1)

19 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (I43vL)

20 Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.

You're missing a word there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (ExV1e)

21 When the invaders arrive at the border, open fire on them until the guns melt white hot on their mounts as soon as they cross the border.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM (ezlON)

22 Wes Streeting in England has a domestic partner named Joe. I'm not surprised. They'll be flying off roofs soon enough.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM (WyJlA)

23 Re: group projects

What I Learned in grad school is that somebody in the group has the greatest fear of a bad grade, and can be exposed, and stuck with the work, if you just procrastinate long enough.

Thank you, University of Michigan

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM (4HoLg)

24
I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.

We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (/QHx4)

25 10 Testing new tablet
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 28, 2026 06:24 PM (DK5Sh)

Tablet, what is the air speed of an unladen swallow?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (XE5AP)

26 Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.

I still get waaaay too many. Well, some could be scams, but there's little difference between spam, scams, and political fundraising texts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (l3cgK)

27 " "Well this completely surprises me!" said a baby who was born seven seconds ago."

thx, Ace, LOL.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (VyBeY)

28 That last bit is some sort of homosexual variant of Munchausen by proxy.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (jBygX)

29 24
I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.

We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (/QHx4)

It is unAmerican to treat people as individuals. Everyone in America must be pigeonholed by something.

Posted by: Americans at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (ezlON)

30 When the invaders arrive at the border, open fire on them until the guns melt white hot on their mounts as soon as they cross the border.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM

Glad I'm not involved this time. I can't afford to lose my mind a second time.

Posted by: The Gator of The Battle of New Orleans at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

31 29 24
I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.

We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (/QHx4)

It is unAmerican to treat people as individuals. Everyone in America must be pigeonholed by something.

Posted by: Americans at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (ezlON)

I was worried for a second you would say pegged instead of pigeonholed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

32 One way to look at the 1619 Project was as a kind of gentrification of Black Nationalist cod history...

Trying to figure out if that's a typo or some real term that I don't understand. The rest of the sentence doesn't help.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 06:31 PM (vTZFs)

33 Manheim's gay son speech is in front of a "Human Rights Campaign" banner.

I used to see some links to their stuff, and think they were just another Lefty NGO.

Then I found out they are the largest LGBTQ political lobbying group in the U.S.

Now when I observe any more "content" from them through that lens, it makes more sense from the perspective of "supporting their mission".

Of course, that means it typically makes less sense to normal people that have been observing human behavior for their entire lives.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:32 PM (HlyYF)

34 $117 million.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 06:32 PM (fheZL)

35 23 Re: group projects

What I Learned in grad school is that somebody in the group has the greatest fear of a bad grade, and can be exposed, and stuck with the work, if you just procrastinate long enough.

Thank you, University of Michigan
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM (4HoLg)

I hated group projects so much I fought hard against assigning them in school.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:32 PM (ezlON)

36 While she was an undergraduate, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a letter to her college newspaper that included a reference to a completely fabricated claim that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus and helped the Aztecs build their pyramids.

Because Africa was already full of pyramids.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:32 PM (guGkK)

37 What a weird coincidence. Every midterm and presidential election cycle in recent history there is a convenient caravan of migrants making a rush for the US border. This has to be coordinated by MAGA.

The billionaires fund them just to scare voters to vote republican. Works every time.

BINGO! "Migrant caravan before elections" gives me a BINGO. I have that, ignores court rulings, fills his diaper(that was the free square), insults a female reporter, and violates the press' 1st amendment.

it’s true this time. Joe Biden sent a caravan of transgenders to steal your pets and your DOGE checks. The only way to stop them is with a golden ballroom!

600 whole people!!!’ You’ve got to be kidding me! How can we expect to live with not even a medium sized high school class sized group of people walking here? Seriously though, if 600 people who are walking here can’t be stopped, our border patrol sucks ass

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 06:33 PM (PkrKm)

38 "21 When the invaders arrive at the border, open fire on them until the guns melt white hot on their mounts as soon as they cross the border.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:28 PM (ezlON) "

this!

back in the days when a republican congress was refusing to fund a border wall (on grounds of fiscal responsibility, lol)
I was advocating that every panel of the wall have a tube welded at the top that would accept the pintle of a Ma Deuce.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:33 PM (VyBeY)

39 32 One way to look at the 1619 Project was as a kind of gentrification of Black Nationalist cod history...

Trying to figure out if that's a typo or some real term that I don't understand. The rest of the sentence doesn't help.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 06:31 PM (vTZFs)

Call of Duty?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)

40 I'm sure the new invader caravan thinks that the Dems are gonna win the House and Senate and they will be waved in..... I don't think so... At least the waved in part

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:34 PM (+gK6I)

41 That last bit is some sort of homosexual variant of Munchausen by proxy.

Yes. A buddy's wife is like that. She managed to screw up one kid but one managed to turn out fairly normal.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 06:34 PM (vTZFs)

42 Josepha, if the tablet doesn't workout, try the capsules.

Posted by: Time-Release Contac at September 28, 2026 06:34 PM (Fn+3X)

43 One way to look at the 1619 Project was as a kind of gentrification of Black Nationalist cod history...

Trying to figure out if that's a typo or some real term that I don't understand. The rest of the sentence doesn't help.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 06:31 PM (vTZFs)

Seems fishy to me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (guGkK)

44 What a weird coincidence. Every midterm and presidential election cycle in recent history there is a convenient caravan of migrants making a rush for the US border. This has to be coordinated by MAGA.

Wut!?
Somebody's been smoking the wrong sh*t.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (l3cgK)

45 While she was an undergraduate, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a letter to her college newspaper that included a reference to a completely fabricated claim that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus and helped the Aztecs build their pyramids.

Because Africa was already full of pyramids.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:32 PM

I wonder what her reaction would be if she was told that black african people had nothing to do with the pyramids and it was white people who built them?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (I43vL)

46 It's true. The more tan I get the more smarterer I get.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (viF8m)

47 "it’s true this time. Joe Biden sent a caravan of transgenders to steal your pets and your DOGE checks. The only way to stop them is with a golden ballroom! "

unusually perceptive for a dirt-stupid dickless commie! +1 !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (VyBeY)

48 Does Marcia Gay Harden’s son go by her maiden name?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

49 Forcing their way into the US. Bull shit. This isn't the border of 2020.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (QwZKw)

50 46 It's true. The more tan I get the more smarterer I get.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (viF8m)

::: Starts to make comment about anal tanning, decides better not to :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

51 44 What a weird coincidence. Every midterm and presidential election cycle in recent history there is a convenient caravan of migrants making a rush for the US border. This has to be coordinated by MAGA.

Wut!?
Somebody's been smoking the wrong sh*t.
Posted by: jim

There were MANY similar comments. I had no idea it was a common belief. It inadvertently is an admission that unlimited migration into the US is deeply unpopular with voters.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (PkrKm)

52 Sub-Saharan Africans never managed much more than a dugout canoe, which is good because they can't swim.

Posted by: Boatload of Sinkers at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (Fn+3X)

53 What a weird coincidence. Every midterm and presidential election cycle in recent history there is a convenient caravan of migrants making a rush for the US border. This has to be coordinated by MAGA.

Wut!?
Somebody's been smoking the wrong sh*t.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM (l3cgK)

To be fair, when your own side subsidizes the KKK and buys khakis for white supremacists, it does kind of make sense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (guGkK)

54 You can use 37mm anti-tank guns loaded with canister shot, turning the weapon into a giant shotgun. It worked on Guadalcanal to stop banzai charges; it could work at the border too.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (fheZL)

55 MattY is a hack fraud Democrat whore.
Always has been. Always will be.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (s1VwS)

Sees cause and effect...draws no conclusion.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)

56 I am never surprised by the stupid things actors and actorettes say. I am surprised when they say something intelligent. It happens so rarely.

Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (2Xqig)

57 46 It's true. The more tan I get the more smarterer I get.
Posted by: JackStraw

The secret to my success!

Posted by: President Trump at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (PkrKm)

58 The secret to my success!
Posted by: President Trump at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (PkrKm)

Orange is the new black

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:38 PM (+gK6I)

59 this!

back in the days when a republican congress was refusing to fund a border wall (on grounds of fiscal responsibility, lol)
I was advocating that every panel of the wall have a tube welded at the top that would accept the pintle of a Ma Deuce.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:33 PM (VyBeY)

Back before the barriers were put up at the border in El Paso - say, about 30 years ago - USBP patrol cars were placed at about 100 yard intervals from each other.

Open fire in them. You want due process? Go see CBP at a PoE, who can and will turn you back if you are suspect. If you can’t do that, you are an invader and should be treated accordingly. Especially in a caravan as such.(I don’t care if they are “military aged men” or not. Breaking fundamental laws is breaking fundamental laws no matter who you are.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:38 PM (ezlON)

60 52 Sub-Saharan Africans never managed much more than a dugout canoe, which is good because they can't swim.
Posted by: Boatload of Sinkers

That's super racist!!!!

Posted by: Benjamin Crump at September 28, 2026 06:38 PM (PkrKm)

61 Mat Yglesias is a known communist sympathizer

It is documented that he is on the take from the CCP.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Pee1E)

62 Wut!?
Somebody's been smoking the wrong sh*t.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM

Avoid the brown stuff.

Posted by: J. Random Stoner at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (0sNs1)

63
Give them a choice at the border crossing. Go back or be shot.

It is long past time to be hardnosed.

Fucking leeches. They don't to assimilate they want to steal our tax money.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (/QHx4)

64 Hey, on that nirahmamandh commie person in LA. --

Anyone notice that the commie strategy seems to be
1. Identify terribly corrupt and dysfunctional Democrat city.
2. Run on "free stuff" and "new broom" to clean up

(And this is the big one right here --)
3. Actually implement good government. Not difficult since these cities are so corrupt. madmani is filling potholes. So doing 5% of the job is such an improvement over the DEI folks that were running things that is seems like a godsend.

4. Then leverage this to gain national power. They are not getting greedy like the black DEI mayors, they are saving their greed for the national level. They plan to take over and destroy us all, not just one or two cities.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (ESbQX)

65 I wouldn't doubt a cover up by the UK government. They are in bed with the Muslims

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

66 Mat Yglesias is a known communist sympathizer

It is documented that he is on the take from the CCP.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Pee1E)

I'm sure they toss him the odd pigs head every so often.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:40 PM (uhVAy)

67 Angle of the sun is starting to preclude decent tanning. My perineum cries out in agony.

Posted by: Anal Bleaching Continues Apace, Though at September 28, 2026 06:40 PM (Fn+3X)

68 Forcing their way into the US. Bull shit. This isn't the border of 2020.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (QwZKw)

First, you get a good running start...

Posted by: The Asylum-Seeker's Handbook at September 28, 2026 06:40 PM (guGkK)

69 >>>Something doesn't add up.
---

Hope she stays safe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:40 PM (Pee1E)

70 In response to the caravan, DHS put out a short tweet that said something like

Our Time Has Come

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:40 PM (viF8m)

71 I wouldn't doubt a cover up by the UK government. They are in bed with the Muslims
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

I just wouldn't rule out being incompetent idiots facing electoral disaster.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:41 PM (uhVAy)

72 71 I wouldn't doubt a cover up by the UK government. They are in bed with the Muslims
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)

I just wouldn't rule out being incompetent idiots facing electoral disaster.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:41 PM (uhVAy)

Power of AND...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:41 PM (l3cgK)

73 Grannies these days... they are mostly just fucked up or attention seeking.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

Well you cannot blame them. Their Vjayjays are dusty and they have a lot of time and money on their hands and no one really cares what they get up to.

I had a 70 something dinosaur show me all her hip and knee replacement scars at the bar the other day while her old man grinned and babbled about his time with her. She had a nice T-rex tattoo over one hip scar. Sexy!

They might as well enjoy themselves as they will be tango uniform soon.

Posted by: Smoke Em If You Got Em at September 28, 2026 06:41 PM (cCXR+)

74 I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

We could invite them onto airplanes and buses, make them think they're getting in, then take them right back from whence they came.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (zYpTz)

75 4. Then leverage this to gain national power. They are not getting greedy like the black DEI mayors, they are saving their greed for the national level. They plan to take over and destroy us all, not just one or two cities.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:39 PM (ESbQX)

Where do most of the idiots populating Congress get their start regardless of party?

The lowest level. School boards, city government, county government. Few go straight into Congress. Some do but not a lot.

Always remember this.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (ezlON)

76 I wonder what her reaction would be if she was told that black african people had nothing to do with the pyramids and it was white people who built them?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM

I think Kevin Hart is pretty funny.

However, I have seen him say that the pyramids prove that, "We wuz kings!!!"

He was not happy at all to be informed that those Egyptians were not black.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (HlyYF)

77 Bouncing Bettys would work well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (PfKV4)

78 I am never surprised by the stupid things actors and actorettes say. I am surprised when they say something intelligent. It happens so rarely.
Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (2Xqig)

The real smart ones don't say anything

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (uhVAy)

79 When they have a running start be sure to lead them by a little.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (QwZKw)

80 The quote about CVS locks being removed being a huge quality of life upgrade reminds me of a recent Asmongold observation that has gained some traction. When the Left says the top 2% of society oppresses you, they're dead wrong. Most of the problems in your life are caused by the bottom 2%, and the Lefties that refuse to remove them from society.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (PkrKm)

81 46 It's true. The more tan I get the more smarterer I get.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:35 PM

Vitamin D for the win!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:43 PM (HlyYF)

82 I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

Gas up the Warthogs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:43 PM (guGkK)

83 Yeah, well, my shampoo is still behind bars. What about my quality of life Matt?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 06:43 PM (RIvkX)

84
Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

Can I buy it from Amazon??

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:43 PM (/QHx4)

85 80 The quote about CVS locks being removed being a huge quality of life upgrade reminds me of a recent Asmongold observation that has gained some traction. When the Left says the top 2% of society oppresses you, they're dead wrong. Most of the problems in your life are caused by the bottom 2%, and the Lefties that refuse to remove them from society.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM (PkrKm)

TBF, those lefties make up part of the top 2%...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (l3cgK)

86 >>>And the university should anticipate that students will have moments of serious self-doubt, such as when they receive a bad grade in an important course, and "intentionally teach how to respond to negative feedback."

One word.

Participation trophies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (dK+Kv)

87 I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

Racist white border patrol agents on horses with whips!!!

Posted by: Another Leftwing Race hoax those retards still believe at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (PkrKm)

88 >>I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

See me at 70.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (viF8m)

89 56 I am never surprised by the stupid things actors and actorettes say. I am surprised when they say something intelligent. It happens so rarely.
Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (2Xqig)

The Critical Drinker came out with a good video a short time ago on this after Tatiana Maslany opened her pie hole.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (ezlON)

90 I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

Racist white border patrol agents on horses with whips!!!
Posted by: Another Leftwing Race hoax those retards still believe at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (PkrKm)

Just a quick call to the Mexican Govt should suffice.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

91 Oh and Matty Yglesias is a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:45 PM (dK+Kv)

92 “Most of the problems in your life are caused by the bottom 2%, and the Lefties that refuse to remove them from society.”

If you think about it, that bottom 2% is why we have to spend a lot of money on a police force, prisons, etc.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (ezlON)

93 >>I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

See me at 70.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (viF8m)

Bounties.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (dK+Kv)

94
Most actors are stupid. They parrot what their PR assholes tell them to say.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (/QHx4)

95 Was 84 a sock?
I know people are on it.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (Sco7b)

96 When they have a running start be sure to lead them by a little.
Posted by: Ben Had

Less for the women and kids. FMJ taught me this as a yute.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (PfKV4)

97 The Critical Drinker came out with a good video a short time ago on this after Tatiana Maslany opened her pie hole.

How's the Community Theater circuit working out for her?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (guGkK)

98 56 I am never surprised by the stupid things actors and actorettes say. I am surprised when they say something intelligent. It happens so rarely.
Posted by: huerfano at September 28, 2026 06:37 PM (2Xqig)

The Critical Drinker came out with a good video a short time ago on this after Tatiana Maslany opened her pie hole.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (ezlON)

Always a bad idea to resurrect the memory of 'She Hulk' to anyone.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (uhVAy)

99 I assume the President is aware of this buildup and is planning an overwhelming force of Border Pattol, NG, and whatever else it takes to turn the caravan away.

Racist white border patrol agents on horses with whips!!!

Posted by: Another Leftwing Race hoax those retards still believe at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM

Psst.....those ICE agents in that famous photo "whipping" haitians were hispanics, not white.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (I43vL)

100 Just a quick call to the Mexican Govt should suffice.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

To Sheinbaum?

She’ll give each of them a hug because applying force to them is SO MEAN.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (ezlON)

101 I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.

We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (/QHx4)

My fault: 'Trannies' - not 'Grannies'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

102
Sub-Saharan Africans never managed much more than a dugout canoe, which is good because they can't swim.
Posted by: Boatload of Sinkers at September 28, 2026 06:36 PM (Fn+3X)

And the pre-Colombian injuns couldn't figure out the wheel, until the arrival of Europeans.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (y9nCu)

103 Just a quick call to the Mexican Govt should suffice.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

They can stop them at the Guatemala border if they want to. Trump had them doing it during his first term when these caravans were all the rage.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (6ydKt)

104 Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

GE model V-1050

Posted by: DanMan at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (8uzBS)

105 Have horse and whip. Will Travel.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (QwZKw)

106 Whoever posts on the DHS X account is brilliant:

https://tinyurl.com/8ncv4c5

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (kX27y)

107 Actress Camryn Manheim: I always wanted a gay son. I have photos of my son in high heels, in full drag. But no! He's the only straight guy in his musical theatre company.

When Marcia Gay Harden told me her son had come out to her, I said, "Oh my god, you are so f**king lucky!"
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What a *vile* human being. Her son should throat punch her.

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (TN0g+)

108 Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

GE model V-1050
Posted by: DanMan at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (8uzBS)
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You need Dyson vortex technology.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

109
Stateless,

I don't hide behind socks.

Owww, I just got bit by a spider in my vag.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (/QHx4)

110 Just a quick call to the Mexican Govt should suffice.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:45 PM (uhVAy)

To Sheinbaum?

She’ll give each of them a hug because applying force to them is SO MEAN.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (ezlON)

tell her that her trade deal is kaput if she can't stop a mob of NGOs from invading her country.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (uhVAy)

111 77 Bouncing Bettys would work well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:42 PM

I bet some Bouncing Salma Hayeks travelling the other way would divert a large portion of the young male contingent.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (HlyYF)

112 The caravan is coming towards Texas ? Can't the Governor and the President do something to stop them? It's an invasion and somebody's paying for it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (JrHfD)

113 I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.
We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29 PM (/QHx4)

I figure all of us who spend much time commenting on a blog are probably a little bit fucked up and attention seeking.

Even on a blog as great as this!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (zYpTz)

114 When the Left says the top 2% of society oppresses you, they're dead wrong. Most of the problems in your life are caused by the bottom 2%, and the Lefties that refuse to remove them from society.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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Who stops us from lynching those bottom 2%

The top 2%, that's who.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (ESbQX)

115 What? I make a spelling mistake (autocucumber) and people start agreeing- with the mistake?

What a world. Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

116 Perhaps we'd win the mid-terms easier if the Honduran army invasion were shot if they tried to cross our border. I'm for this, altho voting GOP anyway. It's obviously being done to disrupt mid-terms and give a nasty whiff of the Ceuta invasion.

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This is the kind of thing that sent millions to the polls to vote against the Democrats and for Donald Trump. A huge backfire may be the result of this obvious stunt. If people are seeing these waves of 1000s of people starting up the illegal caravans to crush the border, perhaps it may not send the message they think they're going to make.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (qBdHI)

117 What a *vile* human being. Her son should throat punch her.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (TN0g+)

He listens to her long enough to get her to pay his rent every month and then its back to the grind at the musical theater company.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

118 They can stop them at the Guatemala border if they want to. Trump had them doing it during his first term when these caravans were all the rage.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (6ydKt)
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I'm going to take a guess that images of people violently attacking the US frontier are not going to play out the way the Dems think.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

119 Real Men don't use shampoo. Gojo will clean everything just fine.

Posted by: Or Acetone! at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (Fn+3X)

120 112 The caravan is coming towards Texas ? Can't the Governor and the President do something to stop them? It's an invasion and somebody's paying for it .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (JrHfD)

Governor Abbott is heading over to Fox News right now. That’s his cure for everything.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (ezlON)

121 I got thinking last night about Nikola Hannah -Jones and her daughter. Her daughter was in danger at dangerous schools. If her daughter had been physically harmed or killed would mommy have written about it. If so she most likely have blamed it on whitey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 06:51 PM (WyJlA)

122 We could invite them onto airplanes and buses, make them think they're getting in, then take them right back from whence they came.
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Or helicopter rides...

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 06:51 PM (TN0g+)

123 94 Most actors are stupid. They parrot what their PR assholes tell them to say.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM

Actually, they are even stupider when the DON'T parrot what their PR assholes tell them.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:51 PM (HlyYF)

124 Orange is the new black
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:38 PM (+gK6I)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 06:51 PM (zYpTz)

125 If you think about it, that bottom 2% is why we have to spend a lot of money on a police force, prisons, etc.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:46 PM (ezlON)

A little over half of a tenth percent of the United States is incarcerated. I'd bet that 2% number is closer to 0.01%

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (F9nWj)

126 The caravan is supposed to make the Democrats look good?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (Cqx++)

127 Those damn vag spiders.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (PfKV4)

128 ***Pro America Politics
This is a national security threat that we are watching approach in real time.***
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Nice, but you are not the people who should be watching this.
The people who should be watching this are the same people
who should have been watching the RAF base.
They are very busy jiggering their thumbs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (Pee1E)

129 "Welco.e to your holdi g cell. If you don't have ID, we will assume you are Ugandan, and repatriate you accordingly. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (4HoLg)

130 108 Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

GE model V-1050
Posted by: DanMan at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (8uzBS)
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You need Dyson vortex technology.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

Flowbee?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (l3cgK)

131 I'm going to take a guess that images of people violently attacking the US frontier are not going to play out the way the Dems think.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

They 'could' be intending to have them hit just before the midterms. Sprinkle some weapons in. Fire on border patrol. Patrol fires back. Hoping to touch off a massacre and then have headlines for the election.

Sure, it's evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

132 Even on a blog as great as this!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (zYpTz)

I for one would never make tacky jokes referencing, say, Gal Gadot's acting talent...

Posted by: 88C+u's mouth doubles as a fridge for butter at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (88C+u)

133
Actress Camryn Manheim: I always wanted a gay son. I have photos of my son in high heels, in full drag. But no! He's the only straight guy in his musical theatre company.

When Marcia Gay Harden told me her son had come out to her, I said, "Oh my god, you are so f**king lucky!"

--

These women do not deserve to be mothers. They're not mothers. They're using their precious children as political pawns in their sick world of degeneracy. They care not one bit about their children's welfare. They make me sick.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (qBdHI)

134 126 The caravan is supposed to make the Democrats look good?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (Cqx++)

They believe the polls ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (+gK6I)

135 Real Men don't use shampoo. Gojo will clean everything just fine.
Posted by: Or Acetone! at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (Fn+3X)
======

Adam Carolla, is that you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

136 Suggest a Shop Vac with 3 inch hose

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)

137 Actress Camryn Manheim wants her son to be dorked up the squeak hole.

She is not a mother. She is a pimp.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (dK+Kv)

138 It's interesting that the Left thinks the caravan is good for Republican turnout (presumably) and that it is an op from the right.

Maybe they are right, but surely no one on the Right is organizing this crap -- the infrastructure is all Lefty NGOs.

So who is doing it and why? I think it is fro the Left, and they are disorganized and decentralized and a large portion think that the US is already conquered and it is theirs for the taking as soon as they get Trump and MAGA out of the way.

Same with the muzzies actively stating that the US is muzzie territory and Christians better back off and convert. They all think they have already won.

So why? Well, it is necessary to sell you ideology to the troops to tell them that victory is inevitable.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (ESbQX)

139 80, there it is

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (VyBeY)

140 Camryn Manheim "I'm disappointed my son doesn't suck c*ck and take it in the butt" . Reminded me of a Norm MacDonald joke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (WyJlA)

141 The caravan is supposed to make the Democrats look good?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (Cqx++)
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Yeah, this seems like an insane self-own, especially if Trump threatens to close the Mexican border completely and halt all trade - and Mexico crumbles, which it must.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

142 That British farmer better shut up or the police will arrest HER. The UK police have an unbridled hatred towards the people of the UK. That is, native born UK citizens.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (ezlON)

143 Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.

I have zero evidence, but it would not surprise me if the EU told Google and Microsoft that they would get the Apple and Meta billion Euro lawsuit treatment unless they did this one simple trick.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (xE0sV)

144 The caravan is coming towards Texas ? Can't the Governor and the President do something to stop them? It's an invasion and somebody's paying for it .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM

Pretty sure the "invasion" is fake and something the left made up to get democrats out to vote for talerico here in Texas. I expect he will fly down to mexico and do some fake photo ops with the caravan.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (I43vL)

145 This caravan isn't going to disrupt anything. Crikey, it is just more throwing shit against the wall.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (QwZKw)

146 Yea, that's the one.

For all of you asking if the feds are watching and getting ready to respond, this is your answer.

>>Whoever posts on the DHS X account is brilliant:

>>https://tinyurl.com/8ncv4c5

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (viF8m)

147 Give them a choice at the border crossing. Go back or be shot.

It is long past time to be hardnosed.
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Any confrontation needs to happen a good 20 miles inside Mexican territory. If the government of Mexico allows an army to waltz across their land to invade ours, I don't give a rip about Mexican "sovereignty".

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (TN0g+)

148 They 'could' be intending to have them hit just before the midterms. Sprinkle some weapons in. Fire on border patrol. Patrol fires back. Hoping to touch off a massacre and then have headlines for the election.

Sure, it's evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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First thoughts.
Yep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:56 PM (Pee1E)

149 112 The caravan is coming towards Texas ? Can't the Governor and the President do something to stop them? It's an invasion and somebody's paying for it .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 06:49 PM (JrHfD)

Some might propose land mines and carpet bombers but others seem to think that a bit harsh.

I’m not opposed to water cannons, tears gas, smoke bombs, pinātas, and Menudo on loudspeakers 24/7 just to make it a little more of a fiesta.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:56 PM (6ydKt)

150 Pretty sure the "invasion" is fake and something the left made up to get democrats out to vote for talerico here in Texas. I expect he will fly down to mexico and do some fake photo ops with the caravan.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 06:55 PM (I43vL)

Why ? Isn't he like 1000 points ahead ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:56 PM (+gK6I)

151 They believe the polls ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (+gK6I)
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That's actually a very good point. If you believe that Talerico has a strong lead in Texas, you would push this because you think a majority of Texans have now turned on Trump and this will finish Paxton off.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

152 140 Camryn Manheim "I'm disappointed my son doesn't suck c*ck and take it in the butt" . Reminded me of a Norm MacDonald joke
Posted by: Smell the Glove

This is more likely to turn her son into a groyper.

Posted by: which ironically in thuper dooper ghey at September 28, 2026 06:56 PM (88C+u)

153 These women do not deserve to be mothers. They're not mothers. They're using their precious children as political pawns in their sick world of degeneracy. They care not one bit about their children's welfare. They make me sick.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM

I once saw a clip of Cynthia Nixon talking about her trans child. She mentioned that every single mother she knew had at least one trans child.

I can (barely) understand a social contagion afflicting young, uneducated children.

If you are that susceptible to it as a grown-ass adult, you are very, very dumb person.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (HlyYF)

154 gojo is for people working on cars all day.

Kirks Coco Castile is the One True Faith!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (VyBeY)

155 ----

Any confrontation needs to happen a good 20 miles inside Mexican territory. If the government of Mexico allows an army to waltz across their land to invade ours, I don't give a rip about Mexican "sovereignty".

Posted by: Crusader
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Stopping the march before it's close to the border would be a diplomatic win for Mexico.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (Pee1E)

156 That British farmer better shut up or the police will arrest HER. The UK police have an unbridled hatred towards the people of the UK. That is, native born UK citizens.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 06:54 PM (ezlON)

her cops might be an exception, because they responded to her report and went out to the location.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)

157 I’m not opposed to water cannons, tears gas, smoke bombs, pinātas, and Menudo on loudspeakers 24/7 just to make it a little more of a fiesta.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Macarena over and over again.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (E4rtv)

158 Those damn vag spiders.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 06:52 PM (PfKV4)

Deloris the Spider.

Creepy. Crawly.
Creepy. Creepy.
Crawly. Crawly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (dK+Kv)

159 127 Those damn vag spiders.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

---------
I saw Vag Spiders open for The Fugs at the Fillmore back in '71

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (ESbQX)

160 115 What? I make a spelling mistake (autocucumber) and people start agreeing- with the mistake?

What a world. Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

It just keeps getting funnier!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (zYpTz)

161 ---------
I saw Vag Spiders open for The Fugs at the Fillmore back in '71
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (ESbQX)

You were there too ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 06:58 PM (+gK6I)

162 Has an image of the caravan been published?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:59 PM (Pee1E)

163
There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."

Khakis and sunglasses?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 06:59 PM (Cqx++)

164
Maybe they are right, but surely no one on the Right is organizing this crap -- the infrastructure is all Lefty NGOs.

So who is doing it and why? I think it is fro the Left, and they are disorganized and decentralized and a large portion think that the US is already conquered and it is theirs for the taking as soon as they get Trump and MAGA out of the way.

Same with the muzzies actively stating that the US is muzzie territory and Christians better back off and convert. They all think they have already won.

So why? Well, it is necessary to sell you ideology to the troops to tell them that victory is inevitable.
Posted by: bob
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7th Day Adventist NGO that was a former recipient of AID money and two widows running foundations from the money that their dead husbands left them. Came out earlier this morning.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 06:59 PM (E4rtv)

165 I once saw a clip of Cynthia Nixon talking about her trans child. She mentioned that every single mother she knew had at least one trans child.

I can (barely) understand a social contagion afflicting young, uneducated children.

If you are that susceptible to it as a grown-ass adult, you are very, very dumb person.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (HlyYF)

there was a comic that protested against a producer who had three such trans toddlers. He lost his agent, his career as well. He's kinda a Tucker like guy now last I saw.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:59 PM (uhVAy)

166 Aetius, typos have been known to kill people around here.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (QwZKw)

167
her cops might be an exception, because they responded to her report and went out to the location.
Posted by: Oldcat

=====

At some level up the chain of command, this has to be causing great embarrassment.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (4HoLg)

168 162 Has an image of the caravan been published?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 06:59 PM (Pee1E)

Uh.... Psst.. Read above... Ace put it up

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (+gK6I)

169 Hehe, noice.

"Glad I'm not involved this time. I can't afford to lose my mind a second time.
Posted by: The Gator of The Battle of New Orleans at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (0sNs1)"

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (U/7CP)

170 163
There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."

Khakis and sunglasses?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
==========
Eh, the others were their MI-5 handlers.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (E4rtv)

171 "black and tan, he's very small"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (VyBeY)

172 Who the fu*k is Camryn Manheim?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (2WIwB)

173 Braenyard, right here in the post.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (QwZKw)

174 I saw Vag Spiders open for The Fugs at the Fillmore back in '71
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

Yes, that was our Kill For Peace Tour!

Posted by: Tuli Kupferberg at September 28, 2026 07:00 PM (Fn+3X)

175 Caravanquistadors

Fly drones over them with fake cell tower tech and make their lives miserable.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 07:01 PM (nEUC6)

176 The left has been calling us fascist monsters for years. They want ICE defunded and disbanded. Senators fly to South America to meet with wife beaters and human traffickers. They file endless lawsuits to try and stop illegals from being deported.

Yes, they think video of those big meanies at DHS who will enforce the laws Congress passed to keep illegals out of the country will excite their base. Because their base is a bunch of psychos.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)

177 130 108 Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

GE model V-1050
Posted by: DanMan at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (8uzBS)
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Vacuums are useless for sucking out dust -- you need to blow it out with an air nozzle or power washer. Or send in a pipe pig with rooter attachment.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:01 PM (ESbQX)

178 They 'could' be intending to have them hit just before the midterms. Sprinkle some weapons in. Fire on border patrol. Patrol fires back. Hoping to touch off a massacre and then have headlines for the election.

Sure, it's evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
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The people behind this caravan will use women and children as human shields.

They WANT women and children to be massacred.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM (FZ29D)

179 150 Pretty sure the "invasion" is fake and something the left made up to get democrats out to vote for talerico here in Texas. I expect he will fly down to mexico and do some fake photo ops with the caravan.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Usually this sort of crap is used to provoke a response and then the ads roll about how awful ICE, Border Patrol, etc. are. Just vile people doing this using human trafficking as a campaign stunt.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM (E4rtv)

180 I use generic liquid laundry detergent to clean my greasy hands and lots of other things. It works better than gojo or anything else. You just need to work it for a minute for the demulsifyn' to start.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM (MWfyi)

181 One word.

Participation trophies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM

To be precise, that's two words.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 28, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

182 It's really kind of funny.

Democrats rig polls.
They then start to believe polls.
They then begin adapting their strategy to the polls they fake.
They lose and wonder how the polls were so wrong.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:03 PM (ZOv7s)

183 I am shocked that men who promote cutting off kids' balls are into having sex with boys who don't have balls.

Really.

Shocked.

I mean it.

Fucking filthy perverts who need a serious beat down by somebody's father.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 07:03 PM (GYqb1)

184 Usually this sort of crap is used to provoke a response and then the ads roll about how awful ICE, Border Patrol, etc. are. Just vile people doing this using human trafficking as a campaign stunt.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM (E4rtv)

At the same time we see ads in various places decrying human trafficking that tell you what to do if you suspect human trafficking is taking place.

Easiest thing to do is to stop it at the border.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (ezlON)

185 143 Report: Google and Microsoft used politically-biased algorithms to block GOP fundraising messages, blocking an estimated $117 in funding for Republican candidates.

I have zero evidence, but it would not surprise me if the EU told Google and Microsoft that they would get the Apple and Meta billion Euro lawsuit treatment unless they did this one simple trick.
Posted by: Community Notes
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Both Google and Microsoft are run by dot Indians nowadays and they are mightily displeased about the H1B, OPT, etc. crackdowns on their cheap labor force.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)

186
It disgusts me that the government gives our tax money to churches.

Most of the "churches" are responsible for bringing the leeches into our country.

Separation of church and state? Ain't happening.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (/QHx4)

187 "Vacuums are useless for sucking out dust -- you need to blow it out with an air nozzle or power washer"

Cylinder hone. Puts a nice finish on it too.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (MWfyi)

188 >>@EricLDaugh
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>>🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Markwayne Mullin announces DHS is surging to BLOCK the migrant caravan currently storming through Latin America toward the US — and the PENTAGON is also preparing to get involved

>>The Trump admin even has MEXICO stepping in to break up the caravan 🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)

189 Which vacuum is recommended to suck out the cobwebs from my vagina?

GE model V-1050
Posted by: DanMan at September 28, 2026 06:47 PM (8uzBS)
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Vacuums are useless for sucking out dust -- you need to blow it out with an air nozzle or power washer. Or send in a pipe pig with rooter attachment.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:01 PM (ESbQX)

I don't want to know how you determined this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (dK+Kv)

190 To be precise, that's two words.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 28, 2026 07:03 PM (0sNs1)

Lori Petty as Tank Girl: I have two words for you! Brush your teeth!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (GYqb1)

191 180, this.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (VyBeY)

192 It's really kind of funny.

Democrats rig polls.
They then start to believe polls.
They then begin adapting their strategy to the polls they fake.
They lose and wonder how the polls were so wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:03 PM (ZOv7s)

***

They really can be a self-licking ice cream cone.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (2WIwB)

193 Speaking of the macarena..

https://youtu.be/bjOePNFRFRU

Hellooooooo Nurse!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

194 At the same time we see ads in various places decrying human trafficking that tell you what to do if you suspect human trafficking is taking place.

Easiest thing to do is to stop it at the border.
Posted by: Cow Demon a

I would put the organizers in the US including those two widows and the ngo employees in jail for facilitating illegal immigration. Time for the donors and organizations to be shut down and imprisoned. They are conspiring to violate US immigration laws with foreigners. Frankly, I consider them traitors deserving of the gallows.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (E4rtv)

195 Separation of church and state? Ain't happening.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (/QHx4)

There is no separation of church and state. There is a prohibition of the state messing with the church. The opposite is not a law.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (GYqb1)

196 Pretty sure the "invasion" is fake and something the left made up to get democrats out to vote for talerico here in Texas. I expect he will fly down to mexico and do some fake photo ops with the caravan.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Usually this sort of crap is used to provoke a response and then the ads roll about how awful ICE, Border Patrol, etc. are. Just vile people doing this using human trafficking as a campaign stunt.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM

And that is the point, talerico is up a couple of points in the fake polling going on right now but he needs a huge hook to get the democrats out to vote in force to put him over the top.

Hence the illegal caravan, it's literally made to order.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (I43vL)

197 Surging is a little over the top. I put it ambling at best.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (QwZKw)

198 Looks like no more than 200 probably 100 people in that caravan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (Pee1E)

199 Migrants= Bums. We are already full up. You go away now.

Posted by: Case at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (LMnda)

200 180 I use generic liquid laundry detergent to clean my greasy hands and lots of other things. It works better than gojo or anything else. You just need to work it for a minute for the demulsifyn' to start.
Posted by: fd

^^^^^^^^
This is true.
Use powder for abrasive action. The cheaper the better.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (ESbQX)

201 See me at 70.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 06:44 PM (viF8m)

I love it!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (zYpTz)

202 The people behind this caravan will use women and children as human shields.

They WANT women and children to be massacred.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 07:02 PM (FZ29D)
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Yes, but they don't understand how conflict management works. Their little brains think that ICE is a bunch of trigger-happy killbots when in fact they are well aware of non-confrontational ways to do this.

The first trivial obstacle is breaking the fence. That's going to be an act of violence. If they make a breach and send women and children running through it, you just establish a cordon and pick them up five miles away. Oh, and sweep the sky of drones (which they can do now).

Since they were apprehended at the border, they can be instantly flown to Guatamala.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (ZOv7s)

203 192 It's really kind of funny.

Democrats rig polls.
They then start to believe polls.
They then begin adapting their strategy to the polls they fake.
They lose and wonder how the polls were so wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The numbers of mail in ballots are simply not coming in like in previous elections. Something is up this year as Dems depend on the margin from mail in ballots and early voting to build a huge cushion to offset election day votes.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (E4rtv)

204 Cylinder hone. Puts a nice finish on it too.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM

The crosshatching helps the piston rings for her pleasure to seat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)

205 195 Separation of church and state? Ain't happening.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:04 PM (/QHx4)

There is no separation of church and state. There is a prohibition of the state messing with the church. The opposite is not a law.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 07:06 PM (GYqb1)

There is a prohibition on the State adopting a State Religion...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (l3cgK)

206 A few years ago Bill Maher said there was no such thing as a migrant caravan. I wonder if he still believes this?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (Cqx++)

207 I would put the organizers in the US including those two widows and the ngo employees in jail for facilitating illegal immigration. Time for the donors and organizations to be shut down and imprisoned. They are conspiring to violate US immigration laws with foreigners. Frankly, I consider them traitors deserving of the gallows.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (E4rtv)

A nice fine at the level of what their bank accounts have would be appropriate. Let them join the poor they love so much.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (uhVAy)

208 And that is the point, talerico is up a couple of points in the fake polling going on right now but he needs a huge hook to get the democrats out to vote in force to put him over the top.

Hence the illegal caravan, it's literally made to order.

Posted by: Mister Scott
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Talarico will definitely receive more Democrat votes than Republican.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 07:08 PM (Pee1E)

209
Shopping on Amazon. Thanks for the advice on cobweb removal.

You all rock. Well, some of you, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:08 PM (/QHx4)

210 Gojo and all those are just synthetic detergents.

Laundry detergent is the most concentrated form available. It cleans grease much better than gojo, as the hand stuff include lanolin and other oils to be less harsh.

Use the POWDER laundry detergent, and then apply hand creme if you want that.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:09 PM (ESbQX)

211 Not one fucking illegal has ever been shot by any US agency for crossing the border and never will be.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:09 PM (QwZKw)

212 And that is the point, talerico is up a couple of points in the fake polling going on right now but he needs a huge hook to get the democrats out to vote in force to put him over the top.

Hence the illegal caravan, it's literally made to order.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I don't think it will work. Overton window has shifted to the right on immigration and the acting out of illegals has not helped their case with the normal americans.

And it is only an Anglo Democrat organizer that would think that Cubans and Mexicans would make common cause with illegal Hondurans. A lot of the Central Americans despise Mexicans and vice versa. And Guatemalans dislike Hondurans, etc. etc.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)

213 The numbers of mail in ballots are simply not coming in like in previous elections. Something is up this year as Dems depend on the margin from mail in ballots and early voting to build a huge cushion to offset election day votes.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (E4rtv)

Gonna be a lot of toilets flooding all over America, but mostly in swing districts.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (2WIwB)

214 her cops might be an exception, because they responded to her report and went out to the location.

Apparently as first responding clean-up crew. The terrorists weren't supposed to get caught.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (a3CJ+)

215 Do not be surprised if Paxton beats Talafreako by 3%.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (ezlON)

216 A nice fine at the level of what their bank accounts have would be appropriate. Let them join the poor they love so much.
Posted by: Oldcat
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If we took houses, cars, bank accounts for drug trafficking, why not human trafficking. Asset forfeiture.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

217 If you wash your hands in gasoline first it helps too.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:11 PM (MWfyi)

218 There is a prohibition on the State adopting a State Religion...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (l3cgK)
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Separation of church and state is a liberal construct based on a distortion of something Thomas Jefferson said. It was about walling off religion French-style and creating a purely secular state. It is grotesquely unconstitutional.

The Constitution barred the establishment of a confessional state, like England had. Many colonies required affirmations of faith to vote and hold public office. That was what was banned.

It also banned the state acting against religion, such as banning public prayers, but of course somehow that got twisted into "prayers are illegal in government buildings, employees need to check their faith at the door," etc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

219 Cow Demon, I'm going with 20%

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:12 PM (QwZKw)

220 Gonna be a lot of toilets flooding all over America, but mostly in swing districts.
Posted by: Diogenes

I don't think most of the street level people are willing to go to PMITA prison for the Democrat leaders. The low level types do it for the money, not so much ideology.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)

221 her cops might be an exception, because they responded to her report and went out to the location.

Apparently as first responding clean-up crew. The terrorists weren't supposed to get caught.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (a3CJ+)

They were clearly fit and well fed, but probably not too bright.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 07:13 PM (2WIwB)

222 Do not be surprised if Paxton beats Talafreako by 3%.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (ezlON)
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Is Paxton that hated? I mean Talerico seems custom-designed to lose the race by 20 points. He does not hold a single opinion shared by the majority of Texans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

223 A B-52 armed with cluster munitions would break up the convoy real quickly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 07:14 PM (WyJlA)

224 24
I am a Grannie and I am not fucked up and attention seeking.

We need to stop painting people with a broad brush.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:29

Sorry. I was a little surprised.
I hope everything is alright today.
To me, things seemed different.
But I'm having 2 bad weeks myself.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Sco7b)

225 A B-52 armed with cluster munitions would break up the convoy real quickly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 07:14 PM (WyJlA)

Millimeter wave or sonic area denial would be appropriate, too.

Of course, plain ol' interlocking fields of fire would work.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 07:15 PM (dK+Kv)

226 A.H. Lloyd, right there with you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (QwZKw)

227 218 There is a prohibition on the State adopting a State Religion...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (l3cgK)
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Separation of church and state is a liberal construct based on a distortion of something Thomas Jefferson said. It was about walling off religion French-style and creating a purely secular state. It is grotesquely unconstitutional.

Nope, the First was designed to prevent a national church such as what caused Europe to convulse in religious wars for over one hundred years. State Established churches continued to exist until the 1840's. Mass (Congregationalist) and Virginia (Anglican) were two examples.

Jefferson's private letter to the Baptists while president in 1807 was to commiserate with them about Virginia's State Church (Baptists were taxed, etc. to support the Anglican churches), but in effect Jefferson did nothing himself because it was legal under the Constitution. The First bound Congress but not the states on the establishment clause among other things.

Madison and Jefferson combined talents to try to get Virginia to approve a Freedom of Conscience amendment to the state constitution; they failed.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)

228 The Brown Note would break up that caravan in 10 seconds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (RIvkX)

229 Not one fucking illegal has ever been shot by any US agency for crossing the border and never will be.

Correction:

In 2005, Osvaldo Aldrete-Dávila, a Mexican national drug smuggler was shot by Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean while the drug smuggler was driving a van loaded with hundreds of pounds of marijuana. He was shot while fleeing.

Aldrete-Dávila sued (how he got standing remains a mystery), both Ramos and Compean were convicted on multiple federal charges by the George W Bush administration. Though they were sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively, it was Trump in 2020 who granted both men full pardons.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM (/TiS1)

230 And it is only an Anglo Democrat organizer that would think that Cubans and Mexicans would make common cause with illegal Hondurans. A lot of the Central Americans despise Mexicans and vice versa. And Guatemalans dislike Hondurans, etc. etc.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)
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"Hispanic" is an artificial construct designed to lower the amount of White Americans in the census. Latin Americans have zero solidarity between them, and there are intense arguments over who speaks the best Spanish.

Some of the most vile invective I have ever heard happened after a guy in the dorms called a Columbian "Hispanic."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

231 Is Paxton that hated? I mean Talerico seems custom-designed to lose the race by 20 points. He does not hold a single opinion shared by the majority of Texans.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)

No. But bear in mind two things:

1) Cruz beat Beto Pancho by about that IIRC.
2) establishment GOP is pissed that their man Cornyn is coming home for good after this and want revenge. Paxton is HATED by the establishment GOP. They tried to impeach him in a sham trial if you recall.

In a perfect world Talafreako would get all the votes in TX HD 50 and none anywhere else. But for the reasons above I say Paxton by 3%.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM (ezlON)

232 215 Do not be surprised if Paxton beats Talafreako by 3%.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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My guess 6-10. About the same as Bo French who is still polling ahead of his competition.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM (E4rtv)

233 "Hispanic" is an artificial construct designed to lower the amount of White Americans in the census. Latin Americans have zero solidarity between them, and there are intense arguments over who speaks the best Spanish.

Some of the most vile invective I have ever heard happened after a guy in the dorms called a Columbian "Hispanic."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Yep.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:18 PM (E4rtv)

234
Eli Coleman, a former WPATH president who oversaw and influenced the Standards of Care for transgender medical protocols for decades, has professional ties to multiple academics who either defended or advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relations, and had himself previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders.

-----

An old wrinkly pervert.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 28, 2026 07:18 PM (VWtfl)

235 I have an old Dodge Caravan. Am I the enemy too?

Posted by: Here Legally, I Swear! at September 28, 2026 07:19 PM (Fn+3X)

236 Do not be surprised if Paxton beats Talafreako by 3%.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:10 PM (ezlON)
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Is Paxton that hated? I mean Talerico seems custom-designed to lose the race by 20 points. He does not hold a single opinion shared by the majority of Texans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:13 PM

There are a bunch of pi$$ed off rino's that will not vote because paxton beat their patron corynyn. It's gonna be close probably closer than when cruz won over beto orrouke.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:19 PM (I43vL)

237 Nope, the First was designed to prevent a national church such as what caused Europe to convulse in religious wars for over one hundred years. State Established churches continued to exist until the 1840's. Mass (Congregationalist) and Virginia (Anglican) were two examples.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)
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I think we are talking past each other. The Constitution limited the federal state, not all government everywhere, as was later enforced.

Catholics therefore received emancipation in the US before the UK. Now they might not vote or hold *state* office, but they could vote in federal elections and hold federal office. Michigan's territorial delegate was a Catholic priest.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

238
The numbers of mail in ballots are simply not coming in like in previous elections. Something is up this year as Dems depend on the margin from mail in ballots and early voting to build a huge cushion to offset election day votes.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:07 PM (E4rtv)

********
Very good news! Thank you!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 07:20 PM (hzuYO)

239 The bad news is that you only have $500 in your savings account.

The good news is that if you live in Iran, you would be a millionaire.....

Democrat Message: Let's Make America Iran so we can solve the "Affordability Crisis" .....

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 28, 2026 07:20 PM (WRN1+)

240 207 I would put the organizers in the US including those two widows and the ngo employees in jail for facilitating illegal immigration. Time for the donors and organizations to be shut down and imprisoned. They are conspiring to violate US immigration laws with foreigners. Frankly, I consider them traitors deserving of the gallows.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:05 PM (E4rtv)

A nice fine at the level of what their bank accounts have would be appropriate. Let them join the poor they love so much.

Posted by: Oldcat
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Hanging would be a better example to future aspirants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 07:20 PM (Pee1E)

241 232 215 Do not be surprised if Paxton beats Talafreako by 3%.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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My guess 6-10. About the same as Bo French who is still polling ahead of his competition.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM (E4rtv

Election 2026. Measuring America's Rot.
And trying to guess voter fraud.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Sco7b)

242 Illegal invaders should be able to reside in Minnesota, any New England State, New York and California.

As long as they stay there, they will not be deported or held to any criminal law whatsoever and will pay no taxes.

You know, like now.

Posted by: Mexican Joe at September 28, 2026 07:21 PM (cCXR+)

243 There are a bunch of pi$$ed off rino's that will not vote because paxton beat their patron corynyn. It's gonna be close probably closer than when cruz won over beto orrouke.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:19 PM (I43vL)
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I'm guessing they are not numerically large. Cornyn benefitted from incumbency and name ID and still got trounced. Only the obsessives are going to be willing to put up with Talerico for six long years.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:22 PM (ZOv7s)

244 Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)

This place.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 07:22 PM (dK+Kv)

245 >>The numbers of mail in ballots are simply not coming in like in previous elections. Something is up this year as Dems depend on the margin from mail in ballots and early voting to build a huge cushion to offset election day votes.

I think one of the things that's up is Harmeet Dhillion. Her team has been going after election integrity issues she the day she was sworn in. And she's winning a lot.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)

246 Bushies going to get the vapors again.

From X.
Brandon Waltens
@bwaltens
·
7h
Inbox: @KenPaxtonTX has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas over allegations it denied or delayed urgent, medically necessary care

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:22 PM (E4rtv)

247 gojo is for people working on cars all day.

Kirks Coco Castile is the One True Faith!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:57 PM (VyBeY)

Lava soap when the nitty gets gritty!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 07:23 PM (fheZL)

248 Dhillon

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

249 No. But bear in mind two things:

1) Cruz beat Beto Pancho by about that IIRC.
2) establishment GOP is pissed that their man Cornyn is coming home for good after this and want revenge. Paxton is HATED by the establishment GOP. They tried to impeach him in a sham trial if you recall.

In a perfect world Talafreako would get all the votes in TX HD 50 and none anywhere else. But for the reasons above I say Paxton by 3%.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:17 PM

Currently talerico is leading in every single published "poll". Granted they are all mostly within the margin of error so when he loses they can claim they were still accurate, but he is leading by about 2 points state wide.

At this time in the cruz beto campaign in 2018 cruz lead almost every poll within the margin of error. I suspect we are being gaslight by the hundreds of millions of $$$$$ coming in from out of state. talerico is getting even more out of state money that robert francis orrouke did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (I43vL)

250 211 Not one fucking illegal has ever been shot by any US agency for crossing the border and never will be.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:09 PM (QwZKw)

********
There's always a first time? I can hope as I want to fire on them when I see videos. Feeling a bit violent over illegals.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (hzuYO)

251 I think one of the things that's up is Harmeet Dhillion. Her team has been going after election integrity issues she the day she was sworn in. And she's winning a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw

I think that is a chill on the vote harvesting ops along with the Administration sending a shot across the bow about counting illegal votes and personal responsibility for the Sec. of States and local election people enabling it.

Democrat response is that they will get these voters to early vote. We should start seeing any of that in the next couple of weeks if that is true.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (E4rtv)

252 Bo French will find being TX RR Commissioner to be deeply traumatizing.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (ezlON)

253 JackStraw, Yep.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:25 PM (QwZKw)

254 Their plan is to overwhelm border patrol and force their way into the interior of the United States

The Germans had the same plan with Russia and a lot more people and it still didn't work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:25 PM (guGkK)

255 I think one of the things that's up is Harmeet Dhillion. Her team has been going after election integrity issues she the day she was sworn in. And she's winning a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)
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The Post Office has been mobilized. Even with the EOs suspended, the Postal Inspectors have the inherent authority to track mail, and investigate suspicious patterns.

I'm sure internal directives have gone out prioritizing fake addresses and since all mail is now scanned, known locations (sports arenas, libraries, parking lots) can be flagged and referred to DoJ.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)

256 Is anyone watching the Ron Johnson roundtable hearing on Covid? OMG, so many lives were destroyed. I'm mad all over again.

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 07:25 PM (kX27y)

257 The Germans had the same plan with Russia and a lot more people and it still didn't work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:25 PM (guGkK)
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It did the first time, not so much for the second.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

258 They are doing it again because you didn’t hang them last time!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 07:26 PM (fheZL)

259 At this time in the cruz beto campaign in 2018 cruz lead almost every poll within the margin of error. I suspect we are being gaslight by the hundreds of millions of $$$$$ coming in from out of state. talerico is getting even more out of state money that robert francis orrouke did.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (I43vL)

I doubt it, but regardless that money isn't being spent in Texas, but in paying off DNC loans.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:26 PM (uhVAy)

260 Christy Blinky, The days of head on confrontation are gone. Think small kinetic actions and be sated.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:27 PM (QwZKw)

261 "Their plan is to overwhelm border patrol and force their way into the interior of the United States"

That seems like a very poor plan while we have PDT. It's probably just bullshit propaganda.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)

262
>>The numbers of mail in ballots are simply not coming in like in previous elections. Something is up this year as Dems depend on the margin from mail in ballots and early voting to build a huge cushion to offset election day votes.

It will be like the end of Miracle on 34th St as the mail men march in with bag after bag of votes for Santa.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 07:27 PM (Cqx++)

263 At this time in the cruz beto campaign in 2018 cruz lead almost every poll within the margin of error. I suspect we are being gaslight by the hundreds of millions of $$$$$ coming in from out of state. talerico is getting even more out of state money that robert francis orrouke did.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM (I43vL)
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Yes, but 2018 was a lifetime ago. Pre-pandemic. Pre-lockdown. The Dems have pulled out all the stops, and are going for broke. So they are pressuring pollsters to shape the election environment directly.

Plus you have many pollsters who went full-on insane with TDS.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)

264
Inform Mexico that a border closing at all road and rail crossings for security reasons will take place before this paid for demonstration gets anywhere close to the U S.

Let's find out how you say elbows up in Spanish.

Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2026 07:28 PM (Y8DZL)

265 I think we are talking past each other. The Constitution limited the federal state, not all government everywhere, as was later enforced.

Catholics therefore received emancipation in the US before the UK. Now they might not vote or hold *state* office, but they could vote in federal elections and hold federal office. Michigan's territorial delegate was a Catholic priest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Replying to both folks is a pain sometimes on clarity. But Madison and Jefferson represented the minority opinion on state churches and a more secular separation of church and state. Scotus ignored this purposefully when they did Everson v. Board of Education. Hugo Black wrote an ahistoric opinion using Jefferson to peg his argument around when Jefferson had lost that argument. Sort of like citing a dissent rather than precedent.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:29 PM (E4rtv)

266 Democrat response is that they will get these voters to early vote. We should start seeing any of that in the next couple of weeks if that is true.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:24 PM

Early voting has already started in some states already. Early voting starts her in Texas Oct 19.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 07:29 PM (I43vL)

267 They are doing it again because you didn’t hang them last time!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 07:26 PM (fheZL)
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This guy gets it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 07:30 PM (RIvkX)

268 Inbox: @KenPaxtonTX has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas over allegations it denied or delayed urgent, medically necessary care

I've been revisiting this issue, particularly in light of the massive amounts of medical billing fraud that has been institutionalized by algorithms that are designed to over-bill the insurance companies by including all kinds of sketchy codes into the billing invoice.

Many if not all hospitals are either deep into this scam or are learning it since it adds tremendously to the bottom line. Given current day medical "ethics" this is on brand.

So naturally, the best move that the insurance company can do is reject all but the most obviously honest claims. The con men will just bump and go, but those with true claims will fight.

The system has devoloved into a low trust proposition where legitimate claims need to be simple and understated or vigorously fought just to filter out rampant fraud.

Its not a perfect system, but we have devolved into detestable liars and thieves.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 07:30 PM (nAS9C)

269 It will be like the end of Miracle on 34th St as the mail men march in with bag after bag of votes for Santa.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Yeah, they are not going to get away with mail in ballots that no one requested this year. If they try to cheat, it will be some other way.

Those states that use cheat by mail as the regular voting system, dunno. Might make a difference in AZ perhaps.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:31 PM (E4rtv)

270
CAFE

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

271
It was established years ago that these wetback caravans that head north through Mexico to the US border are organized and funded by NGOs. The invaders are not walking up here, videos of them marching up the road are staged brief photo opportunities. They are being bused up here and provided with food and shelter along the way.

I thought the Mexicans had it explained to them already that they were not to allow these fake caravans to move up here through their territory. Maybe they need it explained again, only louder.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 28, 2026 07:33 PM (biznJ)

272 Some of the most vile invective I have ever heard happened after a guy in the dorms called a Columbian "Hispanic."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Did he prefer, Southern European?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 07:33 PM (Pee1E)

273 252 Bo French will find being TX RR Commissioner to be deeply traumatizing.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Possibly but lower races are pretty much generic GOP v. Dem. And all the other statewide GOP candidates are in the lead. And Bo French stirred up a frenzy with his UT Austin comments on par with Paxton's existence to Bushie GOPe types.

I think the polling is bullshit this year and a lot of the polls are not even Random Digit Dialing anymore but where they send out texts and a self selected group responds back to be surveyed either online or via a subsequent phone call. Shitty methodology.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)

274 244 Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:16 PM (E4rtv)

This place.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I can be no other than what I am. A curmudgeon. Genetics gave me a resting son of a bitch face.

Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)

275 What a weird coincidence. Every midterm and presidential election cycle in recent history there is a convenient caravan of migrants making a rush for the US border. This has to be coordinated by MAGA.

LOL, that was actually my first thought. I mean both sides can play this game.

Posted by: Max Power at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (TO3+g)

276 what AH Lloyd said.
Massachusetts had an established Church (Puritan-Congregationalist) until 1833. Maryland was quietly Catholic, but allowed into the Continental Congress because they weren't like those Catholics up in Quebec.
Utah wanted into the Union under the same deal as Massachusetts had before 1833: recognize that the LDS was going to be the established Church of Utah. This became a yuuuge sticking-point in admission, despite its strategic location and its relative (for the West) high population.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (88C+u)

277 >>I think the polling is bullshit this year and a lot of the polls are not even Random Digit Dialing anymore but where they send out texts and a self selected group responds back to be surveyed either online or via a subsequent phone call. Shitty methodology.

Posted by: whig
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They bought a mailing list of those who voted in the primary of each Party.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 07:46 PM (Pee1E)

278 Think small kinetic actions and be sated.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:27 PM (QwZKw)

Define, please. I can travel.

Posted by: RI Red at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Edxq2)

279 Folx? Isn't that an alphabet people term?

Posted by: Rick C at September 28, 2026 08:05 PM (1zWbY)

280 The sprawling, 238-page report -- the latest in a series of self-interrogations by elite universities -- lays out a plan to once again instill essential skills by the time students walk across the commencement stage.
The report recommends a series of pedagogical "principles" that Cornell should implement or re-implement. "Sound judgment develops through practice, not transmission," the report says. That is, it's not just important what discipline-specific knowledge students learn, but how they learn it. For the report's authors, the road to "essential capacities needed to thrive in the professional, adult world" runs through the liberal arts.

They will literally have to somehow fire 80% of their tenured staff to pull this off.

Posted by: toby928(c) at September 28, 2026 08:43 PM (4NO2D)

Claim: Candace Owens is a Lesbian Who Cheated on Her "Husband" with a Woman, Keeps Multiple Gay Dating Profiles

Is any of this true? Well, rumors of Candace Owens' preference for ladies have swirled for years.

I guess we can say, like Candace Owens says of ever batty claim she invents, "We don't know-know, but we know."

"Esoteric Shaggyism:"

Esoteric Shaggyism
@EsoShaggy
Candace Owens is a lesbian who cheated on her husband George Farmer in 2022 with a woman.
4 data leaks from 2007/2008 gay dating profiles connect to her emails, including a University of Rhode Island one.
The "Christian tradwife" lied to her audience about everything. The data leaks are from 2011 & 2016, respectively, before her rise to fame.
The accounts themselves date back nearly 20 years. This was before Candace was known, let alone before her birthday, location, and emails were public. Multiple have not been logged into for over 10-15 years and they were utilized for years.
One account was logged into on January 12th, 2022, while she was married and had kids.
"Candamo" is short for "Candace Amber Owens". The 429 in her usernames and emails stands for her birthday, April 29th.
Candamo429 is incredibly specific. The only instance of it being used is for Candace Owens' 2008 YouTube channel, which features a video with her face, voice, and name in the credits for a URI video.
Only 1 Candace Amber Owens attended the University of Rhode Island from 2007-2010. One dating profile is named "Cdot429", which matches Candace's mid 2015 Cdotamber Flickr page and her email Cdotamber429. Cdotamber, Cdot429 and Cdotamber429 are specific.
Every single one of the profiles is solely oriented towards women, with multiple identifying as lesbian and even the bi ones only expressing an interest in women. The way these websites work is if you select "interested in women," only women show up, listing as bi wouldn't make men appear.
Getting into the profiles, 3 were on one site. One, Fling, was on another but is only visible via a 2011 data leak.
Profile 1 - LickyouinRI: Candace Owens describes her sexuality as bi, but only lists an interest in seeking out women. Candace's bio has a savant-like tone.
This account details Candace's desire and passion for the female anatomy. She considers herself an expert at this.
The email attached to this account is an EDU email for the University of Rhode Island and links to her MySpace page. That MySpace page has her name and features a previously unknown photo of Candace in Young Steff's music video.
Profile 2 - collegefuck5: Candace states her intentions in her name. Candace exclusively shows interest in women and licking them.
It also requests a group session with a female couple! No men allowed by the author of "Make Him a Sandwich". That's despite listing herself as bi.
This profile is important because it was last logged into on January 12th, 2022, years after her marriage and first child.
There's no reason to log in again and not delete your gay dating account as a married woman with children. That is, unless you're cheating on your husband with a woman.
I tested it, and it takes about 4 clicks to delete your account on this site. You don't even need access to your email. Even if Candace lost access to her email, she could delete her account easily. Yet she logged in and didn't!
Candace hilariously lists her race as "East Indian" because her grandfather who came from St. Thomas.
This dating profile mentions being a college student from Kingston, Rhode Island, where the University of Rhode Island has its main campus.
Profile 3 - cdot429: Candace Owens lists herself as "lesbian" and states her location is Stamford, Connecticut, her hometown. This profile solicits a discreet encounter with "no strings attached." Candace last used this profile in 2013, confirming she identifies as a lesbian.
The height matches Candace Owens. The email is linked to a Candace Owens from Stamford, CT, who goes by "Candamo429".
Profile 4 - letmelickyou13. This profile is accessible via leaks. All that is shown is that it's exclusively interested in women.
This profile continues the licking theme.

More at the link, including further arguments about the obviously-dishonest woman lying about everything at the link.

He emphasizes that Candace Owens is one of the many pseudoright grifters pretending to be super-religious and "trad," despite being nothing of the sort.

He wrote up these findings at his blog.

Some screenshots of the suspected "Candace Amber Owens" dating profiles below.

Candace Owens is a lesbian who cheated on her husband George Farmer in 2022 with a woman.

4 data leaks from 2007/2008 gay dating profiles connect to her emails, including a University of Rhode Island one.

The "Christian tradwife" lied to her audience about everything. The� pic.twitter.com/AmWCNLxxAb
— Esoteric Shaggyism (@EsoShaggy) September 28, 2026

Full proof this is Candace: Candace Owens' original 2008 YouTube channel is named "Candamo429", featuring a video with her. This matches multiple emails registered to her gay dating profiles. The video is at URI and she later wrote about it on Degree 180.

The one different email� pic.twitter.com/PttKL1CMgO
— Esoteric Shaggyism (@EsoShaggy) September 28, 2026

Here is his evidence that these are Candace Owens' accounts:

Esoteric Shaggyism
@EsoShaggy
Full proof this is Candace: Candace Owens' original 2008 YouTube channel is named "Candamo429", featuring a video with her. This matches multiple emails registered to her gay dating profiles. The video is at URI and she later wrote about it on Degree 180.
The one different email matches her Flickr, Cdotamber. It has her birthday too, April 29th.
The URI email is linked to Candace Owens' MySpace page that features her full name. The account and the dating profile are nearly 2 decades old.
Candace's original twitter was @Candace_Amber

All locations match where Candace was at that exact time. Stamford, CT. Kington, RI. Narragansett, RI. Stamford has 139k people. Kingston has about 7k people. Narragansett
There is only 1 Candace Owens born April 29th (429) from Stamford, Connecticut who later attended the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. That is an exact duplicate of the dating profiles, along with the time frame Candace attended URI.
There is one other Candace A Owens from Connecticut who is over 20 years older, but not from Stamford. There's a Candace Danielle Owens who lived in Stamford at a point that's roughly her age, but born 7 months later and has lived elsewhere since the 90s. Candace lived in Stamford (after New York) until she moved to university.
Candace Owens uses the same passwords everywhere.
Additionally, Candace Owens used the same phone number on her Explore Talent profile as she used on her on her Degree180 website. That Explore Talent profile is linked to a candamo429 email.
The Candamo429 email was first posted on Kiwi Farms in 2016 on the third page of Candace Owens' thread when she was originally identified.
The 2014 date is only because the AFF leak was in 2016, so later dates didn't register. However going to the profile itself shows it was last used 2022.
The only alternative explanation is that a timetraveler went back to 2008 when nobody knew who Candace Owens was, hacked all her accounts, spoofed her IP 4 times, somehow linked multiple social medias, her own website and all her data to compromised emails. Also Candace was never notified of this.
And then this timetraveler logged into just one profile in 2022. As a 18+ year consistent psyop.

He has what he says are pictures and videos of Candace Owens showing she's a lesbian here. One video features Candace Owens -- or her spitting double -- being kissed by a woman embracing her from behind.

And there's this one, which I call "Candace Canoodling."

Could these be fakes? Sure. This could all be a Zionist Lie.

But Canoodling Candace, who responds to most negative mentions of her, hasn't said anything about this claim yet.

Not sure when this happened, but the account that was supposedly Candace Owens' first twitter account is protected:

She deserves whatever she gets.

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
There isn't a Department of War propaganda campaign from the gates of hell that can undo what I am reading.
It's over for Turning Point USA. The most damning part? They refused to participate in the independent review while publicly lying about what took place. They lied repeatedly and publicly.
I am thoroughly disgusted with Erika Kirk.
All of this information was at her fingertips and she attempted to be a helpless widow while allowing her employees to publicly lie.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM

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1 As I said earlier, this is a woman who lacks impulse control.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

2 But her husband is gay, so I am thinking he is not up in arms over this.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

3 >>>2 But her husband is gay, so I am thinking he is not up in arms over this.

this is all very odd.

Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:23 PM (1wjle)

4 Seriously. Does anyone really care?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (3Ope8)

5 >>>4 Seriously. Does anyone really care?

I do.

Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (1wjle)

6 I have to go with "do not care" on this one.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (U/7CP)

7 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

8 Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

9 A Sapphic Anti-Semite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:25 PM (zZu0s)

10 3 >>>2 But her husband is gay, so I am thinking he is not up in arms over this.

this is all very odd.
Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026

Well it’s not like she acts like a normal human to start.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 As I said earlier, this is a woman who lacks impulse control.
Posted by: Piper

A stack of personality disorders that looks like a telephone book.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (nEUC6)

12 >> I am thoroughly disgusted with Erika Kirk but oddly, I find her sexually attractive and want to munch that carpet like a fat kid on a piece of cake.

Posted by: Candaces Elbows at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (zy41W)

13 Pics or it didn't happen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

Well-filmed explicit video or it didn't happen.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (wBRco)

14 Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (1wjle)

Why? FWIW, I'm not bustin' on you, I just don't understand the fascination with this. She's crazy like a shithouse mouse.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (3Ope8)

15 Seriously. Does anyone really care?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (3Ope

If Jonah or Karl Rove had these allegations, there would be flaming skulls.

ace always has a special knife reserved for the traitor, in my experience.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (zZu0s)

16 I am bored with both she and Tucker Carlson ( and I don't listen to either of them) , but thanks for letting your readers know about her, Ace. Given the weirdness of the internet it's hard to know what's real about these folks .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (JrHfD)

17 Well-filmed explicit video or it didn't happen.
Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (wBRco)

Think one of the scenes from Caligula, but one is black.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (zZu0s)

18
Seriously. Does anyone really care?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Do you know what time it is?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (Cqx++)

19 Really. Who cares? Not me.

Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (lJ0H4)

20 13 Pics or it didn't happen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)

Well-filmed explicit video or it didn't happen.
Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (wBRco)

I thought nobody wanted to see those bits.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (F9nWj)

21 Candace really deserves this.
I believe a good portion of her audience are females who consider themselves to be Christian, Carrie Prejean for instance (got kicked off that commission defending Candace & Tucker).

This one might actually hit her bottom line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

22
Don't give a shit.

Naptime.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 05:28 PM (/QHx4)

23 Well it’s not like she acts like a normal human to start.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Wait... is that a requirement?

And for what?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:28 PM (zZu0s)

24 This account details Candace's desire and passion for the female anatomy. She considers herself an expert at this.

Appreciative of a well-formed undercarriage, I'll bet.

Posted by: Edward Andrews at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (guGkK)

25 If I never heard the name "Candace Owens" ever again, it would still be too soon.

Seriously Ace, stop covering Candace Owens. Nobody cares.

Posted by: Pooklord at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (9MAOs)

26 This is trash, obviously.

But sometimes I gotta take out the trash.

Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

27 Now if she was in a gay love affair with Nick Fuentes, you all would be intrigued.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

28 I find this credible but would like video proof. Ideally of fit, attractive females who wear party dresses.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (s1VwS)

29 I thought nobody wanted to see those bits.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (F9nWj)

I'm no Candace fan but she probably looked pretty good in college.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (6ydKt)

30 Every time someone here mentions CandyO I get excited for a brief second and think Elliott Easton is finally going to get some respect...and then I remember that its far more likely we're fixing to discuss that ugly anti-semitic oaf Candace Ovens.

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

31 Appreciative of a well-formed undercarriage, I'll bet.
Posted by: Edward Andrews at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (guGkK)

She's picking up the gauntlet thrown by Piper in the prior thread, probably.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

32 I honestly don't care to know about Candace's predilections.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (l3cgK)

33 "Christian tradwife" ?
O rly?
LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (VyBeY)

34 I mean, I'll make plenty of fun about it and her, but I really don't care to know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

35 Seriously Ace, stop covering Candace Owens. Nobody cares.
Posted by: Pooklord at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (9MAOs)

Distracing us from the epstien files is what it's doing.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (F9nWj)

36 33 "Christian tradwife" ?
O rly?
LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 05:30 PM (VyBeY)

Does Talarico have one?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

37 But sometimes I gotta take out the trash.
Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

You're a giver, ace.

Contrary to what garrett says.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

38 I demand that this blog be returned to its regularly-scheduled smart milblog content!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (guGkK)

39 Candy Ovens may well be a clamdigger, but I very highly doubt she was trolling on perv sites like AFF (which is not a dating app, btw).

Why? Because ladies of even moderate attractiveness don’t need to troll sex sites. They can get whatever they want on demand.

I also think if she was a lesbian, there would certainly be ladies from her college days who could vouch for her clit skills.

48 Hour Rule on this. Always be skeptical of bizzarely bad reporting on ppl you despise.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (v00bN)

40 Watch her eccentricities and how she speaks. I’ve spent a long time studying human mannerisms and body language. Candace has always been fundamentally dishonest and I never embraced her as someone who should be listen to. The cadence of her speech, body language, eye movements etc. all point to someone who is not just lying, but using her speech to cover up a deeper psychosis.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (TylIK)

41 Does Talarico have one?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

She lives in canada- you wouldnt know her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

42 37 But sometimes I gotta take out the trash.
Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

You're a giver, ace.

Contrary to what garrett says.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

I thought the terminology was pitcher and catcher...
Maybe I'm just thinking about baseball...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (l3cgK)

43 I don't care either but the wicked irony and karma slap here is a beauty to behold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

44 Look at the dude in the background. Even blurred out you can tell he's happy watching what he is watching.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 05:33 PM (F9nWj)

45 Candy is a toxic cretin who deserves a light shined on her.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 28, 2026 05:33 PM (S8Vnl)

46 Attention seeking whore. Holy crap. How much do you want to bet she goes troon next week.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 05:33 PM (W2Pud)

47 41 Does Talarico have one?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

She lives in canada- you wouldnt know her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

He drove her to suicide?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

48 Well, Candace and me finally have something in common.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 05:33 PM (jBygX)

49 Is she pregnant in that picture?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

50 Touché. People deserve to get as good as they give. This chick has been a grifting asshole for a long time. Run with the story.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 05:34 PM (TylIK)

51 39 Candy Ovens may well be a clamdigger, but I very highly doubt she was trolling on perv sites like AFF (which is not a dating app, btw).

Why? Because ladies of even moderate attractiveness don’t need to troll sex sites. They can get whatever they want on demand.

I also think if she was a lesbian, there would certainly be ladies from her college days who could vouch for her clit skills.

48 Hour Rule on this. Always be skeptical of bizzarely bad reporting on ppl you despise.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 28, 2026 05:32 PM (v00bN)

awww...that's no fun

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 05:34 PM (s1VwS)

52 I'm all for anything that ruins this miserable slag's empire. She traded on a widow's grief. Let her downfall be very public, and spectacular, especially as an instruction to any upstart thinking about following her hoofprints...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 28, 2026 05:34 PM (08OqX)

53 I thought the preferred term was slash slobberer?

Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 05:35 PM (TylIK)

54 Candace Owens who?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 05:36 PM (fheZL)

55 She prefers annoying the fuck out of us.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 05:36 PM (axIQJ)

56 But was she she wearing a plum-colored polo?

It's important! I'll explain next episode...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)

57 1 As I said earlier, this is a woman who lacks impulse control.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:21 PM (ZdaMQ)
------

Exactly this.

Also she's friggin' cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:38 PM (oqH4h)

58 Candace Owens who?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 05:36 PM

Agree, her 15 minutes of fame are expired and we need to move on and push the ignore button on her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 05:38 PM (I43vL)

59 If you go into the @EroticShaggyism posts he/she links to this Substack (same owner) with the entire story:

Candace Owens: The Cheating Lesbian Funded By A Zionist—The Deconstruction of Candace
Candace Owens' hidden homosexuality, the federal agent promoting RealCandaceO to become president so he can blackmail her with a sex tape, and the Zionist who secretly owns her anti-Zionist business

https://tinyurl.com/yf9us6pu
(Mystery Machine News)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

60 I'll tell you one thing that is a lead-pipe, guaranteed lock of the week:
David French does not have a gay dating profile.

David French of El Paso, Texas, that is.

The other faggot that calls himself a conservative writer, I don't know about.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 05:39 PM (3cUTc)

61 >>> I am thoroughly disgusted with Erika Kirk but oddly, I find her sexually attractive and want to munch that carpet like a fat kid on a piece of cake

The rumors were that she wanted to marry Charlie and hated Erika for swooping in and jabbing him. Interesting plot twist if she was really into Erika the whole time!

I would love to see this all turned on her and weaponized the way she weaponized her own rumor mill. Because her brand of "I'm just asking questions" grift is vile.

Also, you allegedly used easily trackable personal info markers on gay dating apps? With your real birthday? Really?

Posted by: LizLem at September 28, 2026 05:39 PM (xve9Q)

62 "...data leaks from 2007/2008 gay dating profiles connect to her emails, including a University of Rhode Island one."
+++

That was 18 years ago.

Posted by: Person with a calendar at September 28, 2026 05:39 PM (2Ez/1)

63 Shame she has gone bat shit crazy, but really could care less who she is having sex with.

Look at Leftists, they are banging everyone everywhere

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

64 What's up with the lawsuit against Ovens?

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 05:40 PM (TN0g+)

65 Candy is dandy, but lick her is quicker...

Posted by: Taj Mahal at September 28, 2026 05:40 PM (Fn+3X)

66 Not gonna lie that is kinda hawt.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 28, 2026 05:40 PM (ATp9+)

67 Ya know guys, I'm guessing Candace is going to blame this on a Zionist plot.

Just a hunch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

68 It wasn't me.

Posted by: Shaggy Owens at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (88C+u)

69 Like I said earlier, and Ace also noted, these rumors aren’t new. I guess the actual dating site postings would be new, but the rumors about her being bi aren’t new.

Her relationship with her husband is more interesting to me, but only because I can’t figure out how she managed to make that happen as she is just not bright. Pretty privilege does make sense for a lot of it, but if he is gay, that falls apart. Guess they are both bi? Does it still count as a lavender marriage?

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 Also she's friggin' cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:38 PM

Hey now, that phrase had been copyrighted.

Posted by: Sonny the Cuckoo Bird at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (I43vL)

71 I guess Netanyahu finally gave the subtle "go" signal for The Jews to drop this.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)

72 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 28, 2026 05:42 PM (I43vL)

73 Control - F "nostrils"

Nothing.

Posted by: What changed? at September 28, 2026 05:42 PM (2Ez/1)

74 Ya know guys, I'm guessing Candace is going to blame this on a Zionist plot.

Just a hunch.
-----

I don't know--that seems a stretch...

Posted by: Tucker C. at September 28, 2026 05:42 PM (TN0g+)

75 It wasn't me.

Posted by: Shaggy Owens at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (88C+u)

Hardwood Owens >>> Shaggy Owens

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 05:43 PM (axIQJ)

76 I was gonna borrow Sarah’s shocked face, but…

Posted by: epador at September 28, 2026 05:43 PM (TRnzq)

77 >>> Her relationship with her husband is more interesting to me, but only because I can’t figure out how she managed to make that happen as she is just not bright.

Oi, don't talk about my wife that way!

Posted by: Prince Harry, another dumb Brit taken in by an American viper at September 28, 2026 05:43 PM (xve9Q)

78 Being homo explains a lot. Being crazy is more the rule than the exception.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 05:44 PM (KC5Lt)

79 I guess Netanyahu finally gave the subtle "go" signal for The Jews to drop this.
Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
=====

I guess Imissed that part of the call.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 05:44 PM (RIvkX)

80 65. made me laugh instead

Posted by: epador at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (TRnzq)

81 Why? Because ladies of even moderate attractiveness don’t need to troll sex sites. They can get whatever they want on demand.
—

These sites are more efficient though. No need for the bullshit. It’s meet up and fuck.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (ATp9+)

82 There are a lot of reports that Candace Owen's british husband is very gay, and it's just a marriage of convenience.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (iOLNQ)

83 You know who has the full tea on this? Milo. And we went and deported his crazy tail back to the UK. Ace, shoot him an email. I am sure he is willing to talk. If you could stand it.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

84 I only care about candamo because she managed to stir up a bunch of copnspiracyies about Kirk's assassination, diverting attention from the real issue that the commicrats and their FNM buddies groomed skulls full of mush to believe they should kill assassinate persuasive conservatives like Charlie Kirk.

Turnabout is fair play, let her have to deal with the kind of shit she routinely pushes; but I wish I lived in a world where most people would use some logic to reject stupid conspiracies and also a world going "Canxxx who? Who cares about what this non-entity says or her sex life".

Posted by: PaleRider at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (xT7WA)

85 The evidence seems very compelling, but I'm invoking the 24-hour rule on this.

Posted by: Delurker at September 28, 2026 05:46 PM (2Drhq)

86 Like I said earlier, and Ace also noted, these rumors aren’t new. I guess the actual dating site postings would be new, but the rumors about her being bi aren’t new.

Her relationship with her husband is more interesting to me, but only because I can’t figure out how she managed to make that happen as she is just not bright. Pretty privilege does make sense for a lot of it, but if he is gay, that falls apart. Guess they are both bi? Does it still count as a lavender marriage?
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)

She's a 'celebrity' he's a rich English dude.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:46 PM (uhVAy)

87 The mind that alters, alters all.

Posted by: Michael Savage 1998 at September 28, 2026 05:46 PM (Fn+3X)

88 I remember reading some Candace posts (that others had linked), and they actually seemed like something our 'ettes would have written. Very AOS "vibe" to the posts (that I saw).

Based on her current stuff, I cannot reconcile that at all with the past stuff I read.

Was it an op on her part to capture right-wing eyeballs and then corrupt them? Did she have a stroke? Did she go from sober, to an alcoholic or serious drug user?

I am not being snarky. I cannot grasp the change.

(Will go back and read comments now in case someone has answered this.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 05:46 PM (HlyYF)

89 So . . .

Candace is not mad because Charlie chose Erika over her.

Candace is mad because Erika chose Charlie over her and further enraged because Erika did not rush to her comforting arms after Charlie was out of the picture.

Posted by: Sam at September 28, 2026 05:47 PM (7jMef)

90 Husband gay, wife batshit crazy lesbian.
Par for the course these days

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 05:48 PM (WyJlA)

91 The mind that alters, alters all.
Posted by: Michael Savage 1998 at September 28, 2026 05:46 PM (Fn+3X)
=====

Listening to his show in those years saved me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

92 She’s a fake anyway.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 05:48 PM (ezlON)

93 There are a lot of reports that Candace Owen's british husband is very gay, and it's just a marriage of convenience.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2026 05:45 PM (iOLNQ)

I know a British couple who are just that. She’s bi and he’s a flamer.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 05:48 PM (KC5Lt)

94 Is she busty?

Asking for a blog host.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 28, 2026 05:49 PM (YcOeP)

95 She’s a fake anyway.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 28, 2026 05:48 PM (ezlON)

She's not a real conservative without a flannel plaid shirt.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:49 PM (uhVAy)

96 All of this data on Cadnace in the Substack article; it seems like the work of somebody like DataRepublican.

Whoever it is dug long and hard to find these profiles and knew how to find things and present them with some strong accusations about her financing, etc.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

97 am not being snarky. I cannot grasp the change.

(Will go back and read comments now in case someone has answered this.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026

She is a grifter and has been from the get go. Read her history in how she started from start to finish. I wish she was the real thing, too, but she never has been. She has a nose (giggle) for where the next dollar can come from, though, and she knows how to be a chameleon. I will give her that. I mean even her husband called her a grifter to her face.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 he's not a real conservative without a flannel plaid shirt.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:49 PM (uhVAy)

This guy gets it.
- Mike Pence

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 28, 2026 05:51 PM (ATp9+)

99 She's not a real conservative without a flannel plaid shirt.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:49 PM (uhVAy)

Or a rebel yell ice chest and a penchant for young boys.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 05:51 PM (axIQJ)

100 She had a mental flip like Tucker only years before.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 05:52 PM (KC5Lt)

101 I guess Netanyahu finally gave the subtle "go" signal for The Jews to drop this.
Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:41 PM (oqH4h)
---
It was in the subtext of his recent UN speech.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 05:52 PM (FZ29D)

102 She's a lesbian?

I'm going to have to remove her photo taped to the top of my wheat brown sex torso.

Screw it. Lesbianism will just make it hotter.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

103 That’s why I believe Tucker is also homo.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 05:53 PM (KC5Lt)

104 I haven't quite yet figured out how it's the Jews' fault that I'm a mendacious lesbo, but trust me -- I'll find some Hebraic shenanigans behind it soon enough. Stay tuned!

Posted by: Candy "O"-wens at September 28, 2026 05:55 PM (Av6i5)

105 That’s why I believe Tucker is also homo.
Posted by: polynikes

A man from Nantucket?? I shan't believe it!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:55 PM (nEUC6)

106 The "Candace Canoodling" pic has been out, as it were, for awhile. I don't know who thinks that's anything other than a sexual dominance pose (and the girl she's with is into it).
If some married woman found a pic with her husband doing that to some other chick? Near-immediate divorce. That dude is FUCKED.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 05:55 PM (88C+u)

107 She is a grifter and has been from the get go. Read her history in how she started from start to finish. I wish she was the real thing, too, but she never has been. She has a nose (giggle) for where the next dollar can come from, though, and she knows how to be a chameleon. I will give her that. I mean even her husband called her a grifter to her face.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:50 PM

Thanks, Piper.

I am used to the grifters like French and Kristol. I could see the mark being set up in almost every single post they made.

I did NOT see that in Candace's posts from many years ago.

I am always slightly dismayed when I discover my BS detector was not functioning properly. Therefore, I agree with Ace that Candace should be discussed, so we can more finely calibrate our BS detectors.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 05:55 PM (HlyYF)

108 Owens deserves whatever bad shit comes her way. Anyone who would spread crazy conspiracy theories about the death of a guy who she claims was her friend while his wife is grieving and figuring out how to deal with everything including 2 young children is the lowest form of life.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 05:56 PM (viF8m)

109 The guy who Ace got the X post from is also claiming that Milo Y is blackmailing Candace with her lesbian videos. Those wacky LGBT folk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 05:56 PM (WyJlA)

110 Gives a new angle to "Queers for Palestine."

Posted by: zombie at September 28, 2026 05:57 PM (Av6i5)

111 Not surprised. People like Owens constantly invent hysterical claims about others, in part, to keep the spotlight off themselves, as they have not closets but entire warehouses bursting with bones. Or carpets, well munched.

She's a disgusting POS. Like Carlson.

Posted by: Sloucho at September 28, 2026 05:57 PM (cX7ix)

112 It was in the subtext of his recent UN speech.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 05:52 PM (FZ29D)

The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?!

Posted by: Ed Harris at September 28, 2026 05:58 PM (zZu0s)

113 Somewhere in the past, she made a run at Gal Gadot, got laughed at, and it's been "Joos!" ever since

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 05:58 PM (4HoLg)

114 I don't think she is lesbian for the simple reason of her obsession with Charlie Kirk and monumental animosity to Erika Kirk.

Posted by: Decaf at September 28, 2026 05:59 PM (5BOLF)

115 Are we really going to let the Eggo Waffle thing slide by unremarked upon?

Posted by: Zombie Georgia O'keeffe at September 28, 2026 05:59 PM (vTZFs)

116 Wow.

I believe it as she's protected both by her skin color and whoever is paying her anti-semitic $.

The photo of her above messing with the blonde chick in a wet tee...Candynoodle looks preggers.

If her husband is indeed ghey one would have to ass-ume she misses an aspect of sex he can't give her. I won't go into this now, children. However, real men know what they are doing.

No one deserves this "out" more than her. Especially after the evil spews towards Erika Kirk.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 05:59 PM (hzuYO)

117
Screw it. Lesbianism will just make it hotter.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

Y’all are so weird. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 06:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

118 I love and adore my wife! Handcuffed to a chair, wearing a ball gag, while watching my wife have a threesome with 2 hot Jewish chicks is pure and holy! Love is Love H8rs!!

Posted by: Candace's totally normal husband at September 28, 2026 06:00 PM (sAmhv)

119 Somewhere in the past, she made a run at Gal Gadot, got laughed at, and it's been "Joos!" ever since
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 05:58 PM (4HoLg)

You miss 100% of the shots you DON'T take.

Posted by: Candace Owens at September 28, 2026 06:00 PM (zZu0s)

120 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 06:00 PM (vTZFs)

121 On the good news front, the NHL season starts tomorrow!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 06:01 PM (3Ope8)

122 the best thing about sex with Gal Gadot is because you know she can't fake it

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 06:01 PM (88C+u)

123 This is weird.
The EsotericShaggyism nick found Candace's onld YouTube and saved some of the videos.

In 2008 Candace did a type of satirical journalistic investigation into Adderall abuse at her college.

About 6:22 in she comes in dressed as a cop and arrests some guys hopped up on Adderall.

https://tinyurl.com/344htjy4
(preservetube.com)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

124 She is a grifter and has been from the get go. "

This.

Everyone in the greater DC political orbit is there for power or money.
Nothing more. To expect better is a foolish thing.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:02 PM (pfXMo)

125 the best thing about sex with Gal Gadot is because you know she can't fake it
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 06:01 PM (88C+u)

Damn. *golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s)

126 Anyway, maybe this is just what she and ole George are in to. In all of it, it’s the least interesting thing. The fact she is dumb and mean should be her downfall, in a just world.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

127 Bride of PI agrees that Gal is fairly attractive.

Therefore, if I did make a run, my wife would probably only shoot me once ... in the leg ... with a .22.

That right there is a sign of true love!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 06:06 PM (HlyYF)

128 Ok. So the lesbian masking thing is a new solidarity signal out here.

So many more masks. All butch lesbians.

People are sheep.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 06:06 PM (W2Pud)

129 Anyway, maybe this is just what she and ole George are in to. In all of it, it’s the least interesting thing. The fact she is dumb and mean should be her downfall, in a just world.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

She chose for her home base to be in London. That's an L these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:06 PM (uhVAy)

130 Candy-O is still a great album by The Cars.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 06:07 PM (3cUTc)

131 I mean even her husband called her a grifter to her face.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

----------------

And yet he still married her. A marriage of convenience?

Posted by: Decaf at September 28, 2026 06:07 PM (5BOLF)

132 Owens deserves whatever bad shit comes her way. Anyone who would spread crazy conspiracy theories about the death of a guy who she claims was her friend while his wife is grieving and figuring out how to deal with everything including 2 young children is the lowest form of life.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 05:56 PM (viF8m)

---------------

Lower than a snake's belly.

Posted by: Decaf at September 28, 2026 06:08 PM (5BOLF)

133 You know who else was gay?

Posted by: Zombie Barney Fag at September 28, 2026 06:09 PM (cCXR+)

134 Candy-O is still a great album by The Cars.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 06:07 PM (3cUTc)

In my top five best albums.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2026 06:10 PM (KC5Lt)

135 59 If you go into the @EroticShaggyism posts he/she links to this Substack (same owner) with the entire story:

Candace Owens: The Cheating Lesbian Funded By A Zionist—The Deconstruction of Candace
Candace Owens' hidden homosexuality, the federal agent promoting RealCandaceO to become president so he can blackmail her with a sex tape, and the Zionist who secretly owns her anti-Zionist business

https://tinyurl.com/yf9us6pu
(Mystery Machine News)
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Jews get blamed for all the cool stuff.

(kicks dirt, sadly walks away)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 06:10 PM (sAmhv)

136 "Everyone in the greater DC political orbit is there for power or money.
Nothing more. To expect better is a foolish thing.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:02 PM (pfXMo) "

everyone but PDT

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:11 PM (VyBeY)

137 Jews get blamed for all the cool stuff.

(kicks dirt, sadly walks away)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 06:10 PM (sAmhv)

You can always be a Zionist....

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

138 I still like the Cars

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 06:11 PM (Ia/+0)

139 everyone but PDT"

He is most definitely an outsider...

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:12 PM (pfXMo)

140 the best thing about sex with Gal Gadot is because you know she can't fake it
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 06:01 PM (88C+u)

Damn. *golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:03 PM (zZu0s)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:13 PM (dK+Kv)

141 I read that as "it takes four licks".

Posted by: torabora at September 28, 2026 06:13 PM (Wt1Rs)

142 what JS said @ 108

and what Piper said @ 126

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:14 PM (VyBeY)

143 103 That’s why I believe Tucker is also homo.
Posted by: polynikes

When he converts to islam, that may be a problem.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 06:14 PM (sAmhv)

144 Next: Carlson and Candace in torrid affair...Harlequin romance style.

Both in an embrace shedding clothing on the cover of Ebony and Ivory (one can only imagine the horror of his legs).

I could put that on my fridge to lose some weight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:14 PM (hzuYO)

145 *yawn*
Don't care if she prefers tacos over Vienna sausage.

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 06:14 PM (UjdFS)

146 So the lesbian masking thing is a new solidarity signal out here"

What about us?

/Fuji Heavy Industries (well, before the name change)

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:15 PM (pfXMo)

147
The same sex stuff is sick.

Oh, it makes you hot to watch women with women?

You are as sick as the same sex people.

Yeah, put your sexual preferences on a public forum.

I don't get it.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:18 PM (/QHx4)

148 Well, I'm pretty sure her husband is gay, so they probably both wanted kids. Their business. I hate what she is politically, but her bedroom preferences are no concern of mine.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2026 06:18 PM (Vvh2V)

149 I read that as "it takes four licks"

Three licks and a bite?

/

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:18 PM (pfXMo)

150 This thread needs a Candace Ovens two buttons meme with the Jews "Shower" in one panel and little Ben Shapiro's Sister's Luscious Jew Hooters in the other panel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 06:18 PM (dK+Kv)

151 146 So the lesbian masking thing is a new solidarity signal out here"

What about us?

/Fuji Heavy Industries (well, before the name change)
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 06:15 PM (pfXMo)

Does this mean my G-string mask is okay now

Posted by: John Macavee at September 28, 2026 06:19 PM (F9nWj)

152 I can't be the only one who thinks we should just ignore her instead of highlighting her insanity. There's a total whack job that hangs out in front of a gas station I use frequently, but I can't tell his name because it's unimportant.

Same with Candace Owens.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 06:19 PM (dIske)

153 'Lucious Jew Hooters'.

Fair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

154 I did not know about lesbians til I was in college. My mother had to tell me because we thought the dorm PA's (all PE majors) were witches.

This was because we were basically in a convent of suites and in our rooms by 1030pm. Peered under the PA's dorm door to see about four of them sitting around a candle in bras and panties. We were going to sneak to the other wing to play cards.

Fled back to our room in fear as insane roommate was reading a book about witches. I discussed this with my mother the following weekend.

I did not really understand the whole homo deal til AIDS as my mind remains pure with butterflies.

Candy probably considered herself a closet lesbo like Oprah til the door banged open for the reveal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:20 PM (hzuYO)

155 Nood. Quick hits.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 28, 2026 06:20 PM (/C5Rl)

156 Well, at least we know Tucker Bow Tie Carlson isn't gay, right? RIGHT??

Posted by: Gay Dems All Around Us at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (Ovx+P)

157 Same with Candace Owens.
Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 06:19 PM (dIske)

I tend to want ignore the attention seeker, but in this case she is like a rabid jack Russell terrier on meth who spreads the disease online.

Mockery is the prescription.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

158
Keep your sexual preferences to yourself.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (/QHx4)

159 for my 0.02 masking has been a signal of party solidarity since 2021
certainly today it is nothing but.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (VyBeY)

160 Ace hasn’t brought up C&T in the past few weeks as much, or at all.

I don’t mind this kind of update.

I can go back to forgetting Candace exists until I hear how she blames the Joos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 06:22 PM (6ydKt)

161 Claim: Candace Owens is a Lesbian Who Cheated on Her "Husband" with a Woman, Keeps Multiple Gay Dating Profiles

Does it not behoöve us, as credentialed AoSHQ Commenters, before leaping tp any premature conclusions, to ascertain the answers to the two most concerning questions of the Commentariat concerning this matter?

1. Does she wear Crocs?

2, Are her partners "busty"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 06:24 PM (0sNs1)

162 Her poor kids.

Posted by: LASue at September 28, 2026 06:26 PM (lCppi)

163
53 I thought the preferred term was slash slobberer?
Posted by: Vengeance at September 28, 2026 05:35 PM (TylIK)

I'm partial to Gap Lapper.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 28, 2026 06:27 PM (y9nCu)

164 On the good news front, the NHL season starts tomorrow!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 28, 2026 06:01 PM (3Ope

~~~~~

Only good news if you're not a Rangers fan.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (3ImbR)

165 This explains a lot. Including getting engaged and then married within a few weeks of meeting her rumored-to-be-gay husband. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: LASue at September 28, 2026 06:30 PM (lCppi)

166 Sometimes rumors just seem ...wrong.

Like that Biden was functionally cognizant.
Or Hillary Clinton was compassionate.
Or Obama was American.
Or that Kamalalal was at least average intelligence.

But sometimes the rumor just seems so right that you wonder how you didn't figure it out before.

Like this Candace Owens, lickety-split rumor.

Posted by: LASue at September 28, 2026 06:34 PM (lCppi)

167 Has anyone actually seen her with her kids?

The backs of their heads,like Hawwy and Meagain's kidlets? Which may or may not be their kids.

Candy has 4-50 kids. I haven't kept up with her personal Pez Dispenser.

As much as she lies they could be lies as well. Therefore I shan't feel sorry for them or the homo husband. I also don't care as whatever. Karma and all that, Candy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 06:38 PM (hzuYO)

168 Candace is gonna be all over this very obvious fake story lickety split.

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Posted by: website at September 29, 2026 03:34 AM (7Mxwi)

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

Netflix appointed feminist DEI director Greta Gerwig to direct its new Narnia series -- based, of course, on the very clear Christian allegory book by C.S. Lewis. An allegory so obvious that even fellow Christian J.R.R. Tolkien thought it was a bit much.

The feminist did exactly what you'd guess she would do -- she has gender-flipped Aslan, the clear Christ figure in the story.

Meryl Streep is officially Aslan in Barbie Director Greta Gerwig's Netflix adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.
After more than a year of reports and speculation surrounding Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, Streep has now been confirmed as the voice of C.S. Lewis' Great Lion -- one of the most explicitly Christian figures in modern fantasy literature.
But that's only the beginning.
Gerwig has also revealed that her interpretation of Narnia draws heavily from 1960s and 1970s British rock, that she approached the movie with the idea of making a "rock opera," and that her new version of Aslan has been visually inspired by David Bowie.
For longtime Narnia readers -- and particularly the generations of Christians for whom Lewis' books carry enormous spiritual significance -- there's a lot to unpack here.
...
The available material continues to describe Aslan as male, so this doesn't appear to be a straightforward gender swap in which Aslan has been rewritten as a lioness or female deity. Rather, Gerwig has cast a woman to provide the voice of the male Aslan.

I think they're just calling him a "he" for the moment, to tamp down on backlash.

They only have three tricks -- deconstruct; rewrite to propagandize about Current Day Isssues; race- and gender-flip -- and they just do these same three tricks over and over, and then demand praise.

Groomer Network Disney will enable ads on its channel -- even for subscribers who are paying extra to not see ads at all.

Disney has updated its subscriber agreement in parts of Europe to expressly permit advertising before or after content across every Disney+ plan, including tiers marketed as ad-free.
Disney's U.S. agreement already allows limited promotions, sponsorship messages, product integrations, and certain other exceptions on ad-free plans. However, the newly reported European language more explicitly permits "advertisements before/after playback" on all tiers.

Sony's new Gay Wolverine game -- which features a homosexual yearning between Wolverine and his nemesis, and half-brother, Sabertooth -- is being censored in Middle East countries do to its "Pride" content.

Players in parts of the Middle East say regional copies of Marvel's Wolverine have been altered so that Mystique's marriage to Tyger is hard to see and, in some scenes, hard to hear. The reports began circulating days after the PlayStation 5 launch and have since been repeated across gaming sites, including coverage that collected player screenshots, a letter with the text blocked out, and a compilation clip from Reddit.
Insomniac Games' story treats Mystique and Tyger as wives. In versions players describe as Middle East copies, that framing does not survive intact. A framed wedding photograph can still be picked up, but the image itself is blank or fully blurred. A letter tied to the couple is likewise unreadable. Spoken lines that mention "wife" drop out while the rest of the scene's audio keeps going. Subtitles in those moments replace the word with asterisks. One player wrote that the cuts first looked like a glitch, then repeated often enough that they no longer did. Another post aimed at Insomniac asked why Mystique's relationship had been removed in Lebanon.
...
The pattern is not new for this studio's Marvel games. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was previously changed for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including pride flags and a side quest built around a same-sex couple.

The game, by the way, is bad. Skill Up says it's one of the worst Triple A releases he's played. In addition to being repetitive, it's also low-skill to a fault. The game's levels are the typical single-path linear tracks, but the game assumes you are stupid and points out the way to go, using Wolverine's "scent" ability to draw a glowing bright blue trail for you to follow, and won't let you lose Quick Time Events.

This itself seems to be a political choice. If you're not a gamer, you probably don't know that there's an argument in the gaming world about whether games should require skill and should be difficult to beat, or if they should be "for everyone" and hand you a win just for pushing the top arrow button. I'm a very casual gamer myself so I appreciate games having an easy or moderate mode, but this game seems to take that to extremes, and doesn't offer a harder difficulty for those who want to actually beat a game using skill.

Skill is racist and discriminatory.

It's going to bomb, terribly. And it cost over $300 million. (Yes, Triple A titles cost as much to produce as big spectacular blockbuster movies.)

This guy says his estimates show that while the game sold okay for its first three days, word of mouth has collapsed sales since then:

JayViper
@JayViperTV

🚨 WOLVERINE SALES HAVE PLUMMETED.
According to Alinea Analytics, Wolverine made $130 million from Tuesday to early Friday morning, last week. That was a reported 1.9 million copies.
Since that time, it has only made approximately $18 million. This includes the weekend! This represents about 2.3 million copies, so 400K have moved since Friday morning until today, Tuesday.
Wolverine's falloff has been historic, if these numbers are correct, so I checked my own which were close to Alinea's.
My data shows that when I had it at ~1.4M units on Thursday, that now accounts for about 66% of all sales, so my estimate puts total sales at 2.1 million (as of YESTERDAY; my data lags by 1 day).
So yes, it does look like the Wolverine sales have stalled, hard.

Zach Snyder is in director jail -- where they put directors who've had a run of poor-performing films -- after the very divisive results with the DC movies and then the much-mocked Rebel Moon Star Wars copy-pastes he did for Netflix.

So, to get himself out of director jail, he's refuting his rumored conservative leanings and telling everyone he loves The Gays.

Despite having a loyal fanbase and several blockbusters under his belt, Zack Snyder may be finding that Hollywood's doors no longer open as quickly as they once did.
During a lengthy interview with Variety promoting his new film, The Last Photograph, at the Toronto International Film Festival, the director addressed several assumptions frequently made by his critics. He also attempted to distance himself from the perception that he is somehow "right wing."
His comments come as Snyder searches for a distributor for his latest effort, which appears far more grounded than his action epics. During the same interview, Snyder called himself "pro-gay" and described 300 as "the gayest movie ever made." There is no indication that these remarks represent a coordinated effort to make The Last Photograph more appealing to a left-leaning industry, but the timing is difficult to ignore.
During the interview, Snyder argued that his films are frequently dismissed simply because he made them.
"With me, it's more clickable to say, 'I hate Zack Snyder! He's a fascist!' than it is to say, 'I saw the movie and it was cool,'" Snyder said. "Nobody gives a f-- about that. And obviously, I'm not a fascist."
The Last Photograph, an independently produced film from Snyder, is already receiving harsh reviews. Major outlets have described it as "pretentious," "superficial," "miserable," and "undercooked." Until general audiences can see the film for themselves, however, it remains unclear whether those criticisms will reflect the broader reception.
Still, Snyder appears optimistic and is already looking ahead to future projects. That is where the conversation becomes particularly interesting.
The Variety interviewer asked Snyder whether there were any other films he was "just dying to make."
The director admitted that he still wants to make a Rick and Morty movie.
"It would be fun," Snyder said. He then added, "For the longest time, I've been trying to make The Fountainhead into a movie or into TV show because it's too long. I've written it.
When Variety pointed out that adapting the famous Ayn Rand novel was unlikely to "help with the right-wing allegations," Snyder quickly agreed.
"I was going to say! That's not going to help," Snyder said. "But it's an undeniably great book. What people don't realize is that The Fountainhead in the 1950s was like Harry Potter now in terms of popularity. It was off the charts. Even just the why of that is worth it. And The Fountainhead is an insane melodrama. That'll probably be my magnum opus. I'll probably die on that one."

He's also pitching himself as the right director for a Dark Knight Returns live action production, though he stole much of the plot of that for his poorly-received Batman v. Superman movie.

I don't hate the guy for trying to ingratiate himself to his Leftist Masters. He's in steep career decline and can't afford the industry being against him just because his politics are slightly right of center (maybe?).

But I don't think this is going to work. SJWs never forgive. They don't even forgive imaginary sins.

Mark Ruffalo actually wind up helping Paramount/Skydance win in its effort to buy Warner/Discovery? Maybe -- the communist imbecile was a loud and angry agitator against the merger, but he may have blown up his side by attempting his own merger, merging the fake "anti-trust" concerns with open antisemtism.

Mark Ruffalo spent months fighting to stop Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, in a remarkable twist, a new report claims the actor's crusade may have actually helped Paramount get the deal across the finish line.
The New York Post reports that California Attorney General Rob Bonta faced mounting political pressure to settle his antitrust lawsuit against Paramount, with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and others pushing toward a resolution as concerns grew about the potential economic consequences of continuing the fight.
But according to people cited by the Post, Ruffalo's increasingly vocal involvement became another problem for Bonta.
The report describes Ruffalo as a "constant opponent" of a settlement and says the actor made what sources characterized as a damaging mistake when he connected his opposition to the Ellison family with Oracle's contracts involving Israel.
One person familiar with the situation told the Post that Ruffalo's comments "hurt Bonta's effort" and created political problems for the attorney general among fellow Democrats.
Ruffalo had become one of Hollywood's most visible opponents of David Ellison's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The actor helped spearhead an opposition campaign that collected signatures from thousands of entertainment industry workers. Earlier in the fight, Bonta even publicly acknowledged Ruffalo's concerns, writing in February, "Mark, I hear you," while saying he was speaking with fellow attorneys general about the transaction.
But Ruffalo's campaign eventually expanded beyond traditional antitrust concerns.
In August, Paramount accused Ruffalo of employing antisemitic tropes after he criticized the Ellisons and Oracle's business relationship with Israel.
...

The controversy nevertheless became entangled with the merger fight, with National Jewish Advocacy Center head Mark Goldfeder publicly questioning Bonta about Ruffalo's influence on the case.
The Post now reports that the episode proved politically damaging to Bonta's efforts.

Tasty.

What's even tastier is that the Ellisons are seeking Elon Musk's investment in the company.

Paramount executives reportedly have discussed asking billionaire Elon Musk to take an equity stake in its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery -- a move that could fuel the burgeoning panic among CNN staffers.
Hollywood mogul David Ellison is looking to build up his media empire's finances ahead of the mega merger, and has been mulling over several wealthy individuals who could back the deal, according to a Semafor report. The size of the investment that Paramount is seeking is unclear.
His father, Oracle founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison, is currently on the hook for more than $40 billion of the equity financing supporting the acquisition, and a contribution from Musk -- a close friend -- could help reduce the burden, the report said.
An investment from Musk could incite uproar at left-leaning CNN, where staffers are already in a panic about potential layoffs and who will be in charge of the network once David Ellison takes over, sources told The Post.
..
Layoffs weren't addressed in detail by the California settlement -- and employees at both companies fear a bloodbath in the months ahead.
"When it rains...[it pours]," one CNN source said of the Musk news. "It's really scary given what he did at X and DOGE."

Love it.

Male Karen and former comedian Bill Burr says that CEOs shouldn't have rushed to condemn Luigi Mangione but instead asked, "Why do they hate us?" That's a favorite take of the pro-terrorism party that we've been hearing since literally 12 hours after 9/11.

This fat ginger also has a role as a Male Karen in the upcoming anti-Zuckerberg hit-piece movie. Now, you may say Zuckerberg deserves to be hit, but this movie thinks he should be castigated not for his rampant censorship but for slightly resisting Biden's demands for censorship, and then later rolling it back when the political winds changed.

First clip for Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in �THE SOCIAL RECKONING�.

In theaters on October 9. pic.twitter.com/la0PbLUlJm
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 23, 2026

Zuckerberg's censorship was heroic, his retreat back from it is villainous. Got it. We'll keep Hollywood's acceptance of censorship in mind for when we accumulate more power and can act with a freer hand.

You may have heard of the coming Elizabeth Holmes documentary -- you know, the weird hoaxster who conned the entire stupid liberal elite into vouching for her fake "Theranos" company and swindling the wealthy (including Rupert Murdoch) out of billions for tech that not only didn't work but which could not even work in principle.

Graphic� nudity? https://t.co/9QM8J43OoZ
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 23, 2026

NY Post reviewer Kyle Smith said the nudity would be "Peen." I don't know if he knows that or is just guessing, based on Hollywood's embrace of the New Rule that boobs are exploitative but naked floppy wangs all over the place are Empowering.

Possibly worth a look:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:10 PM

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1 !

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (UjdFS)

2 See? Jesus is underlining how inappropriate this is.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

3 I don't mean to hijack this thread but I had to ask how long the British cops kept the woman who was silently praying outside the abortion clinic? Probably longer than the "London men" trying to blow up the airbase I'd figure.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (k550y)

4 Hollywood is a flaming brown bag of dog feces...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (l3cgK)

5 Shit or Garbage?

I think it's both.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (2Ez/1)

6 BOTH!!

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ne7zz)

7 New Rule that boobs are exploitative but naked floppy wangs all over the place are Empowering.

———-

May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

8 Been awhile since I read "The Last Battle", but I remember one of the events kicking it off was when some jackass got hold of a lion's pelt and started posing as Aslan.
Meryl Streep can wear the pelt all she wants, but she's still a donkey.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 04:15 PM (88C+u)

9 7 New Rule that boobs are exploitative but naked floppy wangs all over the place are Empowering.

———-

May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

What if they're transgendered?...
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:15 PM (l3cgK)

10 Shitty garbage?

I have story for another day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:15 PM (axIQJ)

11 Landfill full of shit

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 04:16 PM (oqH4h)

12 11 Landfill full of shit
Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 04:16 PM (oqH4h)

And garbage.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (ne7zz)

13 Nudity!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (jrgJz)

14 There is nothing wrong with a little pride.

Posted by: Aslan at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (ZJQBk)

15 An article from the Federalist ( waves to MZH ) about Glam-Rock Aslan:

https://tinyurl.com/2dmsyr2p

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (brIJB)

16 the guy interviewing Holmes ... makes Holmes look kinda sane

I cannot wait to watch that insanity

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (j+aD2)

17 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

Its so sexist that the Feminists don't have penis hats to wear.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (uhVAy)

18 It's bad enough that Gerda "Wingding" cast Meryl
Street as the voice of Aslan, but she had visions of it being a kind of rock opera à la David Bowie?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (JrHfD)

19 Alsan is a male lion correct?

He has a MANE

so MALE

did Greta really not know that about lions?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (j+aD2)

20 13 Nudity!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (jrgJz)

You want to see hot sexy women
You'd be satisfied with regular women
You'll get a trangendered Triggly Puff with man-bits...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (l3cgK)

21 For longtime Narnia readers -- and particularly the generations of Christians for whom Lewis' books carry enormous spiritual significance -- there's a lot to unpack here.

"Unpack" is a synonym for "lefty crap they'll shove down our throats until we puke"...you know, if we actually were stupid enough to pay to watch this drek.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

22 Greta is a self-obsessed midwit

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (j+aD2)

23 ****Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?****
---

You keep asking that question. The answer will always be the same.
Yes, it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (WY+aP)

24 Willowed:

the Banker said, "Fluctuation".
The Chinese man replied, "Well, Fluck you English!".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Except the Chinese would not say "Well", "Fluck" or "English". It would come out "Werr, Fruck you, Engrish". Remember, "no, not The Craw, The Craw."

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (Fv808)

25 "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Answer: "Yes, and it has always been thus. Fuck Hollywood."

Posted by: Sharkman at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (BRvvM)

26 up in canada I saw a black bear find a diaper in the landfill

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (jrgJz)

27 Alsan is a male lion correct?

He has a MANE

so MALE

did Greta really not know that about lions?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (j+aD2)

if you castrate a lion the mane goes away.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

28 Peachy Keenan has a director friend who hated Digger and said it was the worst film he's ever seen:
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A very good friend of mine who is a longtime director and writer went to a screening of Tom Cruise’s new movie, Digger, at the Director’s Guild headquarters in Hollywood yesterday.

When you’re a director and belong to the DGA, you get to see every movie for free at their plush on-site movie theater. My friend is a lifelong cinephile with an encyclopedic knowledge of movies, actors, and director techniques. He makes dramas and thrillers; he has excellent taste in movies and has a knack for predicting trends.

And like me, he absolutely loves Tom Cruise. We are kids of the 1980s, so of course we do.

But he walked out of Digger half way through it!

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (kX27y)

29 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

You could be right. I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (88C+u)

30 Ray Gunn looks good here's hoping

btw am loving The Pendragon Cycle

it's amazing! on par with Vikings for me, but I love Arthurian legend A LOT so

might be biased

the Merlin guy is neat. he should do more films? he's cool.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (j+aD2)

31 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

I hate to split hairs here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:20 PM (axIQJ)

32 Hollywood is very much shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 04:20 PM (vzuC7)

33 if you castrate a lion the mane goes away.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

And you gain balls of steel and hair like a lions mane.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:21 PM (ne7zz)

34 > Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?
---------
Shitty garbage. Bad stuff. Needs to be buried. Deep.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 04:21 PM (RORbl)

35 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

Boobs are safe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2026 04:21 PM (vzuC7)

36 finally saw Hokum and I can recommend

loved it! this was a good horror year and I think it was the best one

if you like Jung .. and I do! .. well. it's something.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:21 PM (j+aD2)

37 I finally watched the original "Carrie" this past week.

I'll admit horror isn't really my thing, but that was astonishingly bad. The only explanation I can think of is that Brian De Palma just wanted to film young ladies in a locker room, and really didn't give a shit about the rest of the shoot. Well, and he was saddle with a stupid story too.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (WbWbV)

38 You Can See Everything

I can't wait to see this trainwreck.

She's so crazy she should be a senator.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (jBygX)

39 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

You could be right. I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson.

Uh-oh.

Posted by: Porn purveyors at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

40 It's all garbage bagged shite.

Hollywood or any tv might as well roll over and accept that Taylor Sheridan is the only person creating new stuff at this point.

Altho most of it eventually involves boobs and/or blondes and he appears on some shows like Lioness.

We watch his stuff for reasons unknown. Lots of cussing, violence, blood and gore. We sometimes note if any star can get through a few sentences without the f word. Yet we watch.

Creative writers all seemed to have done too much dope or died before and during covid.

And now, even with Sheridan, you get maybe 9 shows per season vs 20 or 22.

I miss the old days of shows starting in the fall and ending in May like school. This would now be beyond the brain power and endurance of "actors" and directors. So much work and hardship to be paid a ton of money for each show.

I suppose we could resort to parcheesi (I don't know the rules and would make them up).

There's always football for my dude. I find something on Amazon or read.

Meryl Streep, eh? The Weinstein Oscar who never said a bad word against him. As she had "no knowlege of his crimes." Sure, Meryl. I am uncertain which accent is best for those words.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (hzuYO)

41 The Elizabeth Holmes story is fascinating in it's own way. I mean she hoodwinked George Schultz for goodness sake. And his grandson was key to revealing the hoax and he took a big risk for doing so. Can't believe she's out of jail already. Sounds like the actress was able to imitate the creepy voice, which is another subplot unto itself.
I'll prolly go see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (2Ez/1)

42 They only have three tricks -- deconstruct; rewrite to propagandize about Current Day Isssues; race- and gender-flip -- and they just do these same three tricks over and over, and then demand praise.

They also love to do the 'self-insert' because they all have main character syndrome.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (6ydKt)

43 I wouldn't piss on Disney if he she they them xer were on fire.

Posted by: torabora at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (Wt1Rs)

44 It's a shit pit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (mkk/2)

45 I finally watched the original "Carrie" this past week.

I'll admit horror isn't really my thing, but that was astonishingly bad. The only explanation I can think of is that Brian De Palma just wanted to film young ladies in a locker room, and really didn't give a shit about the rest of the shoot. Well, and he was saddle with a stupid story too.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (WbWbV)

Now I have to see Carrie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (axIQJ)

46 You Can See Everything

I can't wait to see this trainwreck.

She's so crazy she should be a senator.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (jBygX)

That muppet is supposed to be Elizabeth Holmes? Amazing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

47 I think we all know the answer

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (Ia/+0)

48 24 Willowed:

the Banker said, "Fluctuation".
The Chinese man replied, "Well, Fluck you English!".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Except the Chinese would not say "Well", "Fluck" or "English". It would come out "Werr, Fruck you, Engrish". Remember, "no, not The Craw, The Craw."

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (Fv80

Ah, but I said Cantonese man in the beginning. Cantonese has "L"s, Mandarin has "R"s...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (l3cgK)

49 You could be right. I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (88C+u)

And I appreciate the male form and all its capabilities. But when you think of a shape that is destined to be upfront and center as art, this isn’t it.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

50 Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (kX27y)

My son wants to see it. What were your friend's complaints about it ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:24 PM (JrHfD)

51 You could be right. I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson.

Uh-oh.
Posted by: Porn purveyors at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

I've heard the practical explanation for all the oral sex in porn...

"Legs aren't transparent"

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)

52 It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (MWfyi)

53 Zach Snyder is in director jail -- where they put directors who've had a run of poor-performing films -- after the very divisive results with the DC movies and then the much-mocked "Rogue Moon"

Not that it matters, but it was "Rebel Moon"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (nEUC6)

54 The only explanation I can think of is that Brian De Palma just wanted to film young ladies in a locker room, and really didn't give a shit about the rest of the shoot. Well, and he was saddle with a stupid story too.
Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 04:22 PM (WbWbV)

Legitimate horror movie business model. Boobs are a cheap draw to your expensive blood and gore scenes.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (F9nWj)

55 However, the newly reported European language more explicitly permits "advertisements before/after playback" on all tiers.

I doubt this is going to fly for long in the EU.

They probably already have a team of 750 experts working on it in Brussels as we speak.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

56 "I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson."
++++

I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The man in the boat at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (2Ez/1)

57 your son wants to see Digger? well that's cool. huh!

I think it's a love-or-hate type situation. I can see it actually being good?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (j+aD2)

58 You may have heard of the coming Elizabeth Holmes documentary -- you know, the weird hoaxster who conned the entire stupid liberal elite into vouching for her fake "Theranos" company and swindling the wealthy (including Rupert Murdoch) out of billions for tech that not only didn't work but which could not even work in principle.

I actually used to work in this area, and if I'd participated in some of her meetings/sales pitches, I've wondered how long it would have taken before I stood up and said "this is just a colossal load of crap and here's why". I MIGHT have sold the stock short first.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

59 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper
......

Oh, I don't know, a little plastic surgery, some grooming and a little makeup?

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (UjdFS)

60 >>>You could be right. I do appreciate the female form but not when it becomes a gynecology lesson.

I don't want a gynecology lesson. But nothing's wrong with camping out and admiring the scenery.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (axIQJ)

61 Carried over:

211 Why did she had five kids with her husband if Candace Owen's is gay?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD)

A meta question: why might people say that Candace Owens is gay, whether or not she is? Considering how she will freely say the most wild and offensive things about other people, maybe they just think it's fair.

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (ke3zm)

62 After more than a year of reports and speculation surrounding Greta Gerwig's upcoming adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, Streep has now been confirmed as the voice of C.S. Lewis' Great Lion -- one of the most explicitly Christian figures in modern fantasy literature.
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Shouldn't they call it "The Magician's Niece"?

We all know the female character (Polly) will be the girlboss of the show and the real hero.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (FZ29D)

63 but she had visions of it being a kind of rock opera à la David Bowie?!!"

So... "A Knight's Tale"?

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (pfXMo)

64 Its like "The Lion King" except the king is Nala, maybe Aslan transitioned...haters.

Posted by: pahound at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (/nGzD)

65 ing, but that was astonishingly bad. The only explanation I can think of is that Brian De Palma just wanted to film young ladies in a locker room, and really didn't give a shit about the rest of the shoot

You do realize that on the HQ that constitutes a strong endorsement?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (2ocoG)

66 My son wants to see it. What were your friend's complaints about it ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:24 PM (JrHfD)

Said it was a woke piece of garbage and Tom Cruise wearing prosthetics was ridiculous.

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (kX27y)

67 I mean DePalma didn't WRITE that story

weirdo King did

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:26 PM (j+aD2)

68 >>>Not that it matters, but it was "Rebel Moon"

I knew Rogue Moon didn't sound right but I didn't care enough to check. Thanks.

Posted by: ace at September 28, 2026 04:27 PM (1wjle)

69 I knew Rogue Moon didn't sound right but I didn't care enough to check. Thanks.

lol

I like yours better

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (j+aD2)

70 Now I have to see Carrie.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:23 PM (axIQJ)

The good thing is you can turn it off after five minutes and not miss anything.

I guess the curly-haired girl was pretty cute. Brunette with blue eyes ... it's like a cheat code.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (WbWbV)

71 I'm excited to watch the crazy chick doc and I found the trailer unsettling and I can't tell you why. Probably the music and Elizabeth Holmes f-ing crazy eyes.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (rwcDN)

72 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqx++)

73 I actually used to work in this area, and if I'd participated in some of her meetings/sales pitches, I've wondered how long it would have taken before I stood up and said "this is just a colossal load of crap and here's why". I MIGHT have sold the stock short first.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

I know what atoms are. So about 10 seconds, which was what I did say when I first heard about Theranos. You can't get infinite tests out of no blood, which is what she was selling.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (uhVAy)

74 I saw Bare Naked Ladies open for Naked Floppy Wangs at the Cow Palace. The headliners folded.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 28, 2026 04:29 PM (TezPK)

75 Not that it matters, but it was "Rebel Moon"

That wasn't....good.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:29 PM (pfXMo)

76 Eh, John Wayne played a Asian, not well I might add

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (Ia/+0)

77 On a happier note, the wife and I watched "Forgotten Island" on Saturday. It was quite good, and she especially liked it as a Filipino, since it uses Filipino folklore. Dreamworks has been having some good hits recently. On larger ideas, it reinforces the problems of diversity, since it works well by being coherently Filipino. The setting is the Philippines, the characters are Filipino, the folklore is Filipino. It all come together nicely with a solid emotional conflict between the two main characters.

Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (LTL2+)

78 74 I saw Bare Naked Ladies open for Naked Floppy Wangs at the Cow Palace. The headliners folded.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 28, 2026 04:29 PM (TezPK)

That was NOT the Wang Chung they hoped to see...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (l3cgK)

79 The good thing is you can turn it off after five minutes and not miss anything.

I guess the curly-haired girl was pretty cute. Brunette with blue eyes ... it's like a cheat code.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (WbWbV)

I've been on an old school movie kick. Just finished Altered States last night. I'll suffer through it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (axIQJ)

80 Possibly worth a look:

Not if it's from Netflix.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (vJrRc)

81
she had visions of it being a kind of rock opera à la David Bowie?!!"

Sure plays a mean peen ball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (Cqx++)

82 Not that it matters, but it was "Rebel Moon"

That wasn't....good.
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:29 PM (pfXMo)

I watched it through the vehicle of YTers ripping it up. As God intended.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (uhVAy)

83 r/Narnia

Greta Gerwig thinks the idea of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is "creepy."

Jesus can take the form of a lion, but not of a lion voiced by a woman?

Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence and doesn’t answer to a far off emperor either. The theology in Narnia is a little bit twisted.

As a non-believer fan I am extremely put off by the attitude here. It’s fucking toxic and depressing and I want nothing to do with it. I loved these books as a kid and I’m excited they’re getting screen time. TMN is the most interesting Narnia book by and deserves a creative telling of it.

as a non-Evangelical Christian, I’m put off by this sub too. It’s giving MAGA vibes. Even down to the token “non-Christians” who are weirdly defensive about how offensive a woman voicing a lion is to Christians and how perturbed they are over this severe religious persecution.

This sub is starting to sound like Fox News segments on the war on Christmas, aka Starbucks Happy Holidays cups. She didn't say Jesus is creepy. She was talking about a certain kind of religious expression. It's pretty obvious if you read for comprehension instead of outrage.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (PkrKm)

84 If you're not a gamer, you probably don't know that there's an argument in the gaming world about whether games should require skill and should be difficult to beat, or if they should be "for everyone" and hand you a win just for pushing the top arrow button.
___________

I still play shooters and am sick of getting killed/teabagged by 13 year olds with better reflexes than me. They should have geezer-only servers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (JzUSu)

85 I'm a very casual gamer myself so I appreciate games having an easy or moderate mode, but this game seems to take that to extremes, and doesn't offer a harder difficulty for those who want to actually beat a game using skill.

There's a video, well, probably several by now, of a guy streaming while he's playing Wolverine.

There's a section where Wolverine has to catch up to some bad guys in tractor trailer trucks carrying weapons on a highway in the mountains.

The dude playing went through the entire mission just pressing up occasionally. Even when he let go Wolverine would keep riding and bump into cars and walls and trees, say "Arrgghh!", and then it would right itself and keep on going.

You had to literally try and crash to crash.
The only way the guy got stopped is when he ran off the road and got stuck on a boulder in some kind of glitch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

86 72 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqx++)

If it does, it won't be an original score by him...he's been dead more than 30 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:31 PM (l3cgK)

87 I've been on an old school movie kick. Just finished Altered States last night. I'll suffer through it.

I'm planning an old-school halloween kick for October with the kids!

I have about 20 films from the 70s and early 80s on my list already. am excited! some I've seen but it was soooooo long ago

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)

88 According to AI, "Theranos claimed its technology required only a single drop of blood (about 25 to 50 microliters)".

That's not outside the realm of possibility using microfluidics, and possibly some amplification techniques, but the devil, as they say, is in the details.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

89 The dude playing went through the entire mission just pressing up occasionally. Even when he let go Wolverine would keep riding and bump into cars and walls and trees, say "Arrgghh!", and then it would right itself and keep on going.

You had to literally try and crash to crash.
The only way the guy got stopped is when he ran off the road and got stuck on a boulder in some kind of glitch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

There have been many where they literally press nothing on the controller the entire time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (uhVAy)

90 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?"

Maybe in 5/4 time?

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (pfXMo)

91 Having skimmed the Comments and ignored the Thread...

I gotta say I am disappointed to see the words Ray Gun and not get to see any bad Break Dancing.

Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (vNne8)

92 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper
......

Oh, I don't know, a little plastic surgery, some grooming and a little makeup?
Posted by: wth

Makeup sounds like an excellent way to get rashes in uncomfortable places.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (vJrRc)

93 I watched The Rivals of Amziah King this past weekend. The first half, excepting the gnarly scalping scene, was amazing. I loved it. The second half, without Matthew McConaughey and focusing on the "native" girl's revenge story, was wretched. It was two different movies, and I only wanted the first. So watch the first half and ignore the rest of it, if you absolutely must see. But do search out the potluck scene on utube if you can find it. It's gold.

Posted by: moki at September 28, 2026 04:33 PM (wLjpr)

94 One of Bruce Cambell's throwaway lines in, I think They Call Me Bruce is something along the lines of 'Yeah, a million for effects $20,000 to each of the 16 boobs. Slap a D-list celebritie's name on it and shoot for a 6 mill box office. Be happy with 3.'

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:33 PM (F9nWj)

95 If you're not a gamer, you probably don't know that there's an argument in the gaming world about whether games should require skill and should be difficult to beat, or if they should be "for everyone" and hand you a win just for pushing the top arrow button.

Isn't that the whole point of selecting your skill level? If I want to coast, that's my business, because I bought the f***ing game. Sheesh, why can't people just mind their own business.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

96 I don't want to see any floppy weiners!

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (PSEDc)

97 >Skill is racist and discriminatory.

I recently stumbled on a book about video games by an author that argues, essentially, because video games "reward speed, efficiency, control, and meritocratic mastery" they push gamers towards a "technolibertarian" mindset that is "skeptical of collective forms of governance." He also critiques educational technology, probably for the same reason.

He's probably the kind of guy who gets upset that some students do better than others

Posted by: fb at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (JVEmw)

98 Zach Snyder has given an update to the long-awaited (who? who wants it?) 3 installment of Rebel Moon:

"I don't know. I think that, like, you know, I think that, like you know, because I was saying recently, like you know, I made those--the director's cuts of the movies, and I just think it's like, one of those things where--and I do feel it, you know, is that as those maybe, like, get a little bit more popular and sort of, like, get discovered, then there's a little bit more groundswell about maybe making another one."

What a tard.
You made crap.
You took a good idea, mostly stolen from other plots, and shit it out, ate that shit and shit it out again.
It's not going to get more popular--shit stinks in the sun.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (3cUTc)

99 I'm planning an old-school halloween kick for October with the kids!

I have about 20 films from the 70s and early 80s on my list already. am excited! some I've seen but it was soooooo long ago

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 28, 2026 04:31 PM (j+aD2)

Nice. Kids are a bit too young for all the tits in 70s to 80s horror. Maybe in a few years.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (axIQJ)

100 You had to literally try and crash to crash.
The only way the guy got stopped is when he ran off the road and got stuck on a boulder in some kind of glitch.

Just to clarify, you can turn off all of the assist options in Wolverine. It absolutely has an unusual number of them and you can get to full "game journalist mode" like that video clip did, but with them off you do play and die as normal. The automatic QTEs are also a choice, not on by default.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (2ocoG)

101 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper

Have you tried Fur Oil? It was a real game changer for me.

Posted by: Emma Watson at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (PkrKm)

102 An investment from Musk could incite uproar at left-leaning CNN, where staffers are already in a panic about potential layoffs and who will be in charge of the network once David Ellison takes over, sources told The Post.

and I could give two shits what the propagandists think.

and I doubt Elon does either.

Learn to prompt AI to code like the rest of us, journalisms.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (6ydKt)

103 As a non-believer fan I am extremely put off by the attitude here. It’s fucking toxic and depressing and I want nothing to do with it. I loved these books as a kid and I’m excited they’re getting screen time. TMN is the most interesting Narnia book by and deserves a creative telling of it.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (PkrKm)

"I loved the original, so I need to have someone turn it into something different and stupid"

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (uhVAy)

104 There is no reason to have a woman voice Aslan except as a big F' you to Christians

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (fEiRB)

105 97 >Skill is racist and discriminatory.

I recently stumbled on a book about video games by an author that argues, essentially, because video games "reward speed, efficiency, control, and meritocratic mastery" they push gamers towards a "technolibertarian" mindset that is "skeptical of collective forms of governance." He also critiques educational technology, probably for the same reason.

He's probably the kind of guy who gets upset that some students do better than others

Posted by: fb at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (JVEmw)

If they want a communist version, everybody loses.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (l3cgK)

106 Eh, John Wayne played a Asian, not well I might add"

Mongol... so east Asian.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:36 PM (pfXMo)

107 An investment from Musk could incite uproar at left-leaning CNN, where staffers are already in a panic about potential layoffs and who will be in charge of the network once David Ellison takes over, sources told The Post.

and I could give two shits what the propagandists think.

and I doubt Elon does either.

Learn to prompt AI to code like the rest of us, journalisms.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (6ydKt)

Quitting just saves him the trouble of firing you. You are the least respected and worst rated network by far, you idiots.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:36 PM (uhVAy)

108 Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence and doesn’t answer to a far off emperor either. The theology in Narnia is a little bit twisted.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (PkrKm)
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Oh, you mean C.S. Lewis didn't just plagiarize the entire Bible, and instead wrote in allegory? Gee willickers!

My stars these people are fucking retards.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 04:36 PM (oqH4h)

109 You took a good idea, mostly stolen from other plots, and s*** it out, ate that s*** and s*** it out again.

Graphic but accurate.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

110 Elizabeth Holmes' face should be in the dictionary under 'Crazy Eyes'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:37 PM (6ydKt)

111 Leftwing journalists: Insurance people need to examine why everyone hates them and be open to the possibility they deserve it.
Also leftwing journalists: The only reason people could possibly hate us is because we're so good at or jobs.

Posted by: Wally at September 28, 2026 04:37 PM (TIEGo)

112 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 04:30 PM (PkrKm)

Huh. Maybe being offensive just for the sake of being offensive is almost finished running its course. There is nothing creative about this.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

113 Nothing said the modern era than that nudity in movies is 'peen.'

Fucking hell. We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:37 PM (zZu0s)

114 They already made The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper.

Posted by: MikeN at September 28, 2026 04:37 PM (Uh/vE)

115 There is no reason to have a woman voice Aslan except as a big F' you to Christians
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 04:35 PM (fEiRB)

I swear if we had agents planted to destroy the Hollywood cancer we could not have done a better job than they are.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:38 PM (uhVAy)

116 I gotta admit, that Elizabeth Holmes actress, about 40 years ago, she would have fit the bill. Crazy eyes and all.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 04:38 PM (LHPAg)

117 71 I'm excited to watch the crazy chick doc and I found the trailer unsettling and I can't tell you why. Probably the music and Elizabeth Holmes f-ing crazy eyes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (rwcDN)

There's a level of intimacy in that exchange that is all wrong. She's giving him "you can have me" eyes the whole time. Way too much eye contact.

And her tone of voice is bad. She's practically purring. It all feels like: "I'm not gonna stab you. I love you," says the lady with a bloody knife to the guy she's already stabbed once.

She's something else.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:38 PM (jBygX)

118 Asians cover from Japan to Afghanistan, its a big wide area of peoples

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

119 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

Someone should tell him that Hollywood today makes crap like what is being done to the Narnia movie.

My thought is I'll hold the door while Hollywood leaves. Maybe they should try making their crap in any variety of countries in the lower tier of the third world.

This business of tax breaks for movie making is out of control as the different states are competing to attract the most movies. In every case it's a money losing proposition according to the same news story.

Posted by: George V at September 28, 2026 04:39 PM (g6ahB)

120 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqx++)

If it does, it won't be an original score by him...he's been dead more than 30 years.
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So instead of writing he's...decomposing.

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 04:39 PM (TN0g+)

121 Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence

I kind of like Tolkien's idea of the Music of the Ainur.
Tolkien (Catholic) grew up when services were mostly cantillated.

Posted by: 88C+u also noted the piyyutim this morning at September 28, 2026 04:39 PM (88C+u)

122 I was working on the drainage in the gravel driveway Saturday with the oldest grand. I reached Ultimate Papahood when I produced a pick axe.
They have become some weird worshipful ancient relic now with Minecraft.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (F9nWj)

123 graphic nudity

It's going to be that dude interviewing Elizabeth Holmes, isn't it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

124 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper

I strenuously object. I am just trying to figure out how to phrase it tactfully.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

125 Kids are a bit too young for all the tits in 70s to 80s horror"

Not just in horror flix...

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (pfXMo)

126 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?"

Maybe in 5/4 time?
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (pfXMo)
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"Living in the Past" by Ian Anderson.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (amcLV)

127 120 Does Ray Gunn have a cool theme by Henry Mancini?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqx++)

If it does, it won't be an original score by him...he's been dead more than 30 years.
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So instead of writing he's...decomposing.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 04:39 PM (TN0g+)

You know, if we took over Hollywood, things would be funny.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

128 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

The other country is Canada, and humiliating Carney is always worthwhile.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

129 They have become some weird worshipful ancient relic now with Minecraft.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (F9nWj)

lol

IRL Minecraft.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (axIQJ)

130 Man, ace is on fire. Tons of content.

Hollywood, also lazy.Maybe dying too.

10 episodes a season? Star Trek TNG managed 26 shows a year and a lot were good and visually impressive.

Even kids comedies on Disney. 16 episodes or so and cancelled after 2 seasons so they don't have to pay everyone more.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (Sco7b)

131 96 I don't want to see any floppy weiners!
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (PSEDc)

Yeah, we only want to see the most turgid erections imaginable. Almost painfully so.

But not in gay way.
Of course.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (jBygX)

132
Oh, you mean C.S. Lewis didn't just plagiarize the entire Bible, and instead wrote in allegory? Gee willickers!

My stars these people are fucking retards.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 04:36 PM (oqH4h)

I'm guessing these poor fools have not cracked a Bible open in years if not ever, and certainly haven't studied it exegetically with commentaries from solid, God-fearing scholars. Bless their hearts, they are going to have a rude awakening before the King.

Posted by: moki at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (wLjpr)

133 121 Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence

I kind of like Tolkien's idea of the Music of the Ainur.
Tolkien (Catholic) grew up when services were mostly cantillated.

Posted by: 88C+u also noted the piyyutim this morning at September 28, 2026 04:39 PM (88C+u)

Shabbat services have lots of cantillation too.

I asked the Cantor once if he sang during service. He replied, "I cant."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

134 What a tard.
You made crap.
You took a good idea, mostly stolen from other plots, and shit it out, ate that shit and shit it out again.
It's not going to get more popular--shit stinks in the sun.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (3cUTc)

We already had this script with Game of Thrones final book.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (uhVAy)

135 But not in gay way.
Of course.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:41 PM (jBygX)

Like a Viking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

136 I strenuously object. I am just trying to figure out how to phrase it tactfully.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

Women's squishy bits are a work of art?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:42 PM (axIQJ)

137 125 Kids are a bit too young for all the tits in 70s to 80s horror"

Not just in horror flix...
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Yeah, like in my high school. Out to here!

Posted by: Nerd Ferguson at September 28, 2026 04:42 PM (Ovx+P)

138 Snyder did get a weird hate.

I thought his DC version of the Avengers was perfectly acceptable for what it was. I like "Man of Steel".

I never really saw any conservative message in any of his movies, I just heard he liked Ayn Rand

Posted by: Leupold at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (eIzlH)

139 There have been many where they literally press nothing on the controller the entire time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (uhVAy)

I forgot to mention Wolverine is riding a motorcycle.

It's pretty famous.

"New Wolverine Game Motorcycle Level" went viral.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

140 124 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper

I strenuously object. I am just trying to figure out how to phrase it tactfully.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

I tried (types ... deletes) and gave up.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (jBygX)

141 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

The other country is Canada, and humiliating Carney is always worthwhile.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (2ocoG)

Only Hollywood would think swapping SoCal for the Tundra is gonna work out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (uhVAy)

142 Women's squishy bits are a work of art?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:42 PM (axIQJ)

Tits, yes. A vagina... no keep not finding a good way to put it on a family blog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

143 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper

I strenuously object. I am just trying to figure out how to phrase it tactfully.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
________

Andrew Dice Clay did a very tactful bit on this issue.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (JzUSu)

144 Can we vote for something worse than shit and garbage, like festering demonic ichor stool?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (G4zM/)

145 As with most guys: My dick, I am ok with. Anyone else's? Do not want to ever see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

146 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

Someone should tell him that Hollywood today makes crap like what is being done to the Narnia movie.

My thought is I'll hold the door while Hollywood leaves. Maybe they should try making their crap in any variety of countries in the lower tier of the third world.

This business of tax breaks for movie making is out of control as the different states are competing to attract the most movies. In every case it's a money losing proposition according to the same news story.

The problem is the precedent. He who provides the money, calls the shots as to what gets made. When the Dems eventually reclaim power, they'll tell HWood "no more money unless you tell the story we want told, the way we want it told". Hollywood will have no problem with taxpayer leftist propaganda.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

147 Living in the Past" by Ian Anderson"

"Take Five"...

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (pfXMo)

148 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

==

It is weird that Trump seems to fight hard for American Tech companies that all hate him and Hollywood.

Posted by: Leupold at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (eIzlH)

149 Can we vote for something worse than shit and garbage, like festering demonic ichor stool?
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (G4zM/)

Ace needs to crack open his H. P. Lovecraft thesaurus.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (uhVAy)

150 May I be so bold as to note there is nothing attractive about the undercarriage parts of males or females.
Posted by: Piper

So, that excludes boobs, right? Because boobs are awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

151 Tits, yes. A vagina... no keep not finding a good way to put it on a family blog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 04:43 PM (zZu0s)

We can agree to disagree.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (axIQJ)

152 Saw on the news today that Trump wants to give tax breaks to Hollywood because there are other countries trying to attract the industry with low costs.

==

It is weird that Trump seems to fight hard for American Tech companies that all hate him and Hollywood.
Posted by: Leupold at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (eIzlH)

they will flee from his help in horror. That's the comedy.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (uhVAy)

153 I think at some point, either Western culture will be defended in the Muslim manner -- you know, by *types* *deletes* -- or it will be erased.

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (ke3zm)

154 I found the Ryan Long skit I've been discussing where he talks about why the left's efforts against the manosphere isn't working.

Note if you don't know Ryan Long he is a very, uh, non-woke comedian. https://tinyurl.com/4mhacdbn

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

155 Ace needs to crack open his H. P. Lovecraft thesaurus.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yo!

Posted by: H.R. Giger at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (88C+u)

156 Andrew Dice Clay did a very tactful bit on this issue.
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I'm not aware of Andrew Dice Clay ever doing a *tactful* bit on any issue.

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

157 Hollywood is so disconnected from regular American people that they are almost pathologically incapable of making four quadrant movies. Snyder wasn’t interested in Superman or Batman as audiences like them, so he gave us his execrable “Batman v Superman”. Gerwig is just the latest refrain of the same tired verse. Marvel is probably the last gasp of movie making for Middle America and that’s on shaky ground.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (gYnrv)

158 So I got into a long argument with an AI about 300 being the gayest film ever, I gently explained to it that the main themes of 300 are courage, honor, duty and sacrifice, and that what the director thinks and what he puts on the screen are two seperate things.

Just because you have Spartan Warriors in essentially beach wear is not homoerotic to the vast majority of men who watched that film and regard it as the manliest film that ever manned.

Schneider is a deachebag and should never be allowed to direct again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (XV/Pl)

159 The Insomniac leaks from a few years back mentioned that if Wolverine does not sell 6 million copies within its first year on the market, Sony loses the Wolverine license and has to pay a $9 million cancellation fee to Marvel.

Posted by: Surfperch at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (deNAM)

160 So, that excludes boobs, right? Because boobs are awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

If boobs are part of the undercarriage, then our subject is older than methuselah.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

161 Finished the last episode of Fauda last night. Excellent.

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (kX27y)

162 The problem is the precedent. He who provides the money, calls the shots as to what gets made. When the Dems eventually reclaim power, they'll tell HWood "no more money unless you tell the story we want told, the way we want it told". Hollywood will have no problem with taxpayer leftist propaganda.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t)

Welcome 25 years ago or so.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (uhVAy)

163 The only purpose these re-writes are serving is to try and destroy the original work.

They tear down statues to destroy history, they tear down the family to replace it with government, and they tear down culture in order to replace it with slavery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (0U5gm)

164 Man, ace is on fire. "

No "en fuego" dude anymore?

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (pfXMo)

165 Paramount Plus is doing TREASURE ISLAND, Long John Silver is now Black and Jim Hawkin's Mother goes along as well for some reason?? She in no way will be a Girlboss and tell everybody what to do.

I am waiting for the R rated Godzilla movie

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ubCxQ)

166 160 So, that excludes boobs, right? Because boobs are awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

If boobs are part of the undercarriage, then our subject is older than methuselah.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

LOL, or Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)

167 If boobs are part of the undercarriage, then our subject is older than methuselah.
Posted by: Piper

Ah, so we're back to Meryl Streep

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (88C+u)

168 165 Paramount Plus is doing TREASURE ISLAND, Long John Silver is now Black and Jim Hawkin's Mother goes along as well for some reason?? She in no way will be a Girlboss and tell everybody what to do.

I am waiting for the R rated Godzilla movie

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ubCxQ)

I don't want to see his naughty bits either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)

169 Destruction is much easier than creation.

Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (ZJQBk)

170 The Insomniac leaks from a few years back mentioned that if Wolverine does not sell 6 million copies within its first year on the market, Sony loses the Wolverine license and has to pay a $9 million cancellation fee to Marvel.
Posted by: Surfperch at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (deNAM)

Check for a dumpster near you for 'purchased' copies right next to the Hillary biography books.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (uhVAy)

171 Tits, yes. A vagina... no keep not finding a good way to put it on a family blog.

One of the other takes on Judith and Holofernes I ran across this morning, by one Franz von Stuck had Judith buck nekkid and apparently Brazilian. I didn't post a link to it here...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

172 Women's squishy bits are a work of art?
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Tits, yes. A vagina... no keep not finding a good way to put it on a family blog.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Zombie Georgia O'keeffe at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (vTZFs)

173 So helicopters around the bedroom is... um... wrong?

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (F9nWj)

174 So I got into a long argument with an AI about 300 being the gayest film ever,
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There's also the small matter that Leonidas dismissively refers to the Athenians as "those boy-lovers."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (amcLV)

175 65 Paramount Plus is doing TREASURE ISLAND, Long John Silver is now Black and Jim Hawkin's Mother goes along as well for some reason?? She in no way will be a Girlboss and tell everybody what to do.

I am waiting for the R rated Godzilla movie

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ubCxQ)

I don't want to see his naughty bits either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:47 PM (l3cgK)

They made the bad guy BLACK? The horror!!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

176 123 graphic nudity

It's going to be that dude interviewing Elizabeth Holmes, isn't it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

The guy who made the film lived with Homes and her husband and their baby for a month or so before she went to jail.

I read an article about it and it mentions they gave the him so much access that the husband would take showers, glass-door, with the door open.

Now, I assume that means it's actually in the film if they reported on it, so it might be the husband naked.
But who knows, maybe he got Holmes in the shower, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

177 They made the bad guy BLACK? The horror!!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

I'm sure in this he is just misunderstood...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (fEiRB)

178 I watched The Rivals of Amziah King this past weekend. The first half, excepting the gnarly scalping scene, was amazing. I loved it. The second half, without Matthew McConaughey and focusing on the "native" girl's revenge story, was wretched. It was two different movies, and I only wanted the first. So watch the first half and ignore the rest of it, if you absolutely must see. But do search out the potluck scene on utube if you can find it. It's gold.
Posted by: moki

I saw it in the theater and I agree with you on the first half of the movie. It was terrific. I had no idea the honey business was so cut throat. I'm not quite as down on the second half as you. It did suffer from McConaughey's absence though. He put his all into that role.

Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (lJ0H4)

179 Greta Gerwig thinks the idea of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is "creepy."
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Yeah. Go with that.

Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (ZJQBk)

180 healing power of "and"?

though 149 makes a couple of valid points, too

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 04:50 PM (VyBeY)

181 Check for a dumpster near you for 'purchased' copies "

There's this place in New Mexico..

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:50 PM (pfXMo)

182 154 I found the Ryan Long skit I've been discussing where he talks about why the left's efforts against the manosphere isn't working.

Note if you don't know Ryan Long he is a very, uh, non-woke comedian. https://tinyurl.com/4mhacdbn
Posted by: 18-1

Heh! Look up on YT, Ryan Long Brian Seltzer. The resulting video will change your life! 😁

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 04:51 PM (sAmhv)

183 They made the bad guy BLACK? The horror!!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

I'm sure in this he is just misunderstood...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (fEiRB)

Post partum depression...

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:51 PM (uhVAy)

184 There's also the small matter that Leonidas dismissively refers to the Athenians as "those boy-lovers."

It was apparently a thing for the various Greek city states of Classical Greece to accuse each other as even though it was practiced in a number of them it was uh, frowned upon. A virtuous man wasn't supposed to roger his protege though of course to quote Maura Healy "These things happen"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:51 PM (sKqQm)

185 Photos from the SF Folsom Street Fair this past weekend. Wonder if Zombie's in the house?

https://tinyurl.com/38vtnrsj

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 04:52 PM (kX27y)

186 Elizabeth Holmes scissoring a 300lb lesbian convict is the nudity. Enjoy!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 04:52 PM (WyJlA)

187 I'm old enough to remember when Hollywood directors tried to destroy a Mormon outfit that accepted your DVDs and sanitized them, returning a family friendly version of the movie.

The lie Hollywood told was that the Artist who created the work still owned it, no matter how much a person paid for a copy. the Artist had a right to prevent The Art from being altered in any way.

Apparently DEI can make void any deeply held conviction and any sacred social contract.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 04:52 PM (pUU4E)

188 We have BOTH kinds of Hollywood Movies!

Shit and Garbage!

Posted by: Bob's Movie Bunker at September 28, 2026 04:52 PM (mP0Kj)

189 95 "If you're not a gamer, you probably don't know that there's an argument in the gaming world about whether games should require skill and should be difficult to beat, or if they should be "for everyone" and hand you a win just for pushing the top arrow button."

Isn't that the whole point of selecting your skill level? If I want to coast, that's my business, because I bought the f***ing game. Sheesh, why can't people just mind their own business.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

Apparently, there is no "requires skill" option. It's a crypto-movie.

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 04:53 PM (ke3zm)

190 Trump's big announcement, today, is about the steel deal, a biggie, with Mesabi Metallics.

He had a 10 P.M. meeting with the Amodei siblings after a day at the golf tournament. Speculation was that today's announcement would relate to that meeting.
Not a word.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:53 PM (WY+aP)

191 160 So, that excludes boobs, right? Because boobs are awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

If boobs are part of the undercarriage, then our subject is older than methuselah.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (ZdaMQ

It was on the other thread how all of us can be less than delicate here.

And all of you 'Ettes probably scroll through a lot of comments, ignore, forgive us, forget, get on with your days.

Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 04:53 PM (Sco7b)

192 Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (ZJQBk

I think she is , or was, a Unitarian Universalist and she would also fit in quite well with the folks at Talarico's "church" ....umm progressive political social organization. I don't think you absolutely need to be a Christian to appreciate Narnia but you need to understand and take the work on its own terms.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:54 PM (JrHfD)

193 They made the bad guy BLACK? The horror!!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

194 if you castrate a lion the mane goes away.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

Interesting, but who even has time to be out there cutting the balls off lions?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (guGkK)

195 They made the bad guy BLACK? The horror!!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:48 PM (uhVAy)

I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

it's the fish and chips.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

196 If boobs are part of the undercarriage, then our subject is older than methuselah.
Posted by: Piper

No. Boobs are part of the supercargo.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

197 I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.

Lovable?

/Shakes wang around

You know it!

Posted by: Long Dong Silver at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

198 I saw it in the theater and I agree with you on the first half of the movie. It was terrific. I had no idea the honey business was so cut throat. I'm not quite as down on the second half as you. It did suffer from McConaughey's absence though. He put his all into that role.
Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 04:49 PM (lJ0H4)

The way they get around putting in Chinese Honey is that they Mix it with local Honey and they don't have to disclose where the Honey came from.

Wait till you find out about the Olive Oil business, it's plagued by fake oil and Chinese Olive Oil that's just vegetable oil, or who knows what they mix in.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (ubCxQ)

199 if you castrate a lion the mane goes away.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:19 PM (uhVAy)

Interesting, but who even has time to be out there cutting the balls off lions?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (guGkK)

Some of those reservations where they don't want a bunch of cubs or fighting over females.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:56 PM (uhVAy)

200 I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)
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Book!Jim didn't think so. It's interesting that film treatments treat Jim as seeing the story as a big adventure, while in the book, in the last paragraph he says he is still having nightmares about it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 04:56 PM (amcLV)

201 Elizabeth Holmes scissoring a 300lb lesbian convict is the nudity. Enjoy!
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But remember: masks are required!

Posted by: The Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue at September 28, 2026 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

202 "164 Man, ace is on fire. "

No "en fuego" dude anymore?

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 04:46 PM (pfXMo) "

cancelled for cultural appropriation.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 04:56 PM (VyBeY)

203 I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Long John Silver will always be Robert Newton to me. He made that role his own.

Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (lJ0H4)

204
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t

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No. The distribution of pathogens in diseases such as bacterimia or blood tumors is so low that you can't detect it with a therano-sized sample. Also , some of those tests entail significant alteration of the sample, so you can't do the claimed 200+ tests on a single finger stick of blood. Some of the preparations are mutually incompatible.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (mmrXZ)

205 Meh Elizabeth Holmes is a techbro-ette 6.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)

206 Totally unmotivated by Ray Gunn. The Incredibles guy trying to make a grown-up, animated Blade Runner-ish flick with Star Wars-redux aliens? I love Sam Rockwell, but there's nothing special about just his voice. This just looks boring.

Feeling motivated for I Play Rocky though. And maybe Street Fighter...

Posted by: bearski at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (Bhsk7)

207 Totally unmotivated by Ray Gunn. The Incredibles guy trying to make a grown-up, animated Blade Runner-ish flick with Star Wars-redux aliens? I love Sam Rockwell, but there's nothing special about just his voice. This just looks boring.

Feeling motivated for I Play Rocky though. And maybe Street Fighter...
Posted by: bearski at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (Bhsk7)

Just boring would be a high water mark for Hollywood these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)

208 Wow Anthony Ippolito does look kind of like a younger Stallone

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

209 100

Just to clarify, you can turn off all of the assist options in Wolverine. It absolutely has an unusual number of them and you can get to full "game journalist mode" like that video clip did, but with them off you do play and die as normal. The automatic QTEs are also a choice, not on by default.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (2ocoG)

Oh, I stand corrected.

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 04:59 PM (ke3zm)

210 I always thought of Long John Silver as more of a lovable rogue anti-hero.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

it's the fish and chips.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

heh.
They're all Captian Ds around here.

I think mainly of the Long John Silver character in Black Sails. He was the most interesting character on that show to me.

Unfortunately that show went off the rails and turned Captain Flint into a bisexual whackjob in a love triangle.

And then they had the gay

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

211 No. The distribution of pathogens in diseases such as bacterimia or blood tumors is so low that you can't detect it with a therano-sized sample. Also , some of those tests entail significant alteration of the sample, so you can't do the claimed 200+ tests on a single finger stick of blood. Some of the preparations are mutually incompatible.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (mmrXZ)

I got drained of so much blood at some of those 'health checks' it makes me ill for days. I had to ration the doctor the last few times. Yeah, one drop for 300 tests my ass.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:00 PM (uhVAy)

212 Meh Elizabeth Holmes is a techbro-ette 6.
----

Her eyes in that photo above (the eyes of the actress playing her) remind me of Dan DeLaney.

Posted by: The Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue at September 28, 2026 05:01 PM (TN0g+)

213 Ace, Snyder has always been a woke d-bag. A few years ago he appeared on a Geeks + Gamers livestream after they raised thousands for his suicide-prevention charity (his daughter killed herself) and campaigned hard for his shitty five-hour Justice League cut to be released, only to completely denounce them to their faces.

Posted by: Jim at September 28, 2026 05:01 PM (ALhAh)

214 it's the fish and chips."

Sigh

/ Arthur Treacher

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (pfXMo)

215
I kind of like Tolkien's idea of the Music of the Ainur.
Tolkien (Catholic) grew up when services were mostly cantillated.

Expose it to Netflix and rather than cantillated, it will be in the form of throat singing.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (9Hs2w)

216 Meh Elizabeth Holmes is a techbro-ette 6.
----

Her eyes in that photo above (the eyes of the actress playing her) remind me of Dan DeLaney.
-----

Er...DANA DeLaney.

Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

217 Just to clarify, you can turn off all of the assist options in Wolverine. It absolutely has an unusual number of them and you can get to full "game journalist mode" like that video clip did, but with them off you do play and die as normal. The automatic QTEs are also a choice, not on by default.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 04:34 PM (2ocoG)

Oh, I stand corrected.
Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 04:59 PM (ke3zm)

the fact that they have a game journalist mode at all is a mortal sin. What is the use of a game journalist if he can't play the actual game? Give it to the experts, the journalists will just lie about the scores like usual.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (uhVAy)

218
Saw Heart of a Beast today.

Excellent movie in the Jack London "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild" man and dog in the wilderness tradition.

Plot involves an ex-soldier and his retired war-dog stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash.

Good direction and acting in a minimal story with realistic stakes. Kudos to Brad Pitt.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 28, 2026 05:03 PM (YSUhf)

219 Long John Silver will always be Robert Newton to me. He made that role his own.

Posted by: Tuna at September 28, 2026 04:57 PM (lJ0H4)

I really liked the Disney film, too, as a kid.
Didn't get to see it much.

Watched it once on Disney+ years ago, and enjoyed it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

220 I've been watching AI shorts on YouTube, entries in a $100k contest.

yeah, H-wood is going to die faster than they think.

Also, the AI thots selling on Instagram are very realistic.
So the real life OnlyFans are gonna be out of a job soon too.
Which, if you know, is also going to kill half of China's economy that is:
Cam girl orders food delivery --> incel delivers --> incel pays for subscription to cam girl.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 05:03 PM (3cUTc)

221 I kind of like Tolkien's idea of the Music of the Ainur.
Tolkien (Catholic) grew up when services were mostly cantillated.

Expose it to Netflix and rather than cantillated, it will be in the form of throat singing.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (9Hs2w)

order out of the chaos of random sound, and beauty.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:03 PM (uhVAy)

222 / Arthur Treacher
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (pfXMo)

it's still around, it's on life support but you can still go to one in Cleveland

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 28, 2026 05:04 PM (ubCxQ)

223
Her eyes in that photo above (the eyes of the actress playing her) remind me of Dan DeLaney.
-----

Er...DANA DeLaney.
Posted by: Crusader at September 28, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)
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That's Holmes herself, not an actress.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 05:04 PM (amcLV)

224 Netflix will have Melkor try a rap freestyle to the tune of the melody.

Posted by: tbh, that's probably what happened at September 28, 2026 05:04 PM (88C+u)

225 Back to the immigration stuff from earlier, if I may - our illiterati are terrified of the Japanese. They're making a go of declining population and extremely limited immigration... brits especially are aghast...

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (pfXMo)

226 Netflix will have Melkor try a rap freestyle to the tune of the melody.
Posted by: tbh, that's probably what happened at September 28, 2026 05:04 PM (88C+u)

He's not THAT evil.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (uhVAy)

227 I really liked the Disney film, too, as a kid.
Didn't get to see it much.

Watched it once on Disney+ years ago, and enjoyed it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)
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It sticks impressively close to the original novel.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (amcLV)

228
I gotta admit, that Elizabeth Holmes actress, about 40 years ago, she would have fit the bill. Crazy eyes and all.
Posted by: Eromero

==============

What are you watching? Ace linked a documentary with the actual Elizabeth Holmes

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (mmrXZ)

229 What are the odd???

@LeadingReport 15m
The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (nEUC6)

230 Also, the AI thots selling on Instagram are very realistic.
So the real life OnlyFans are gonna be out of a job soon too.
...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
--

They'll have to go back to tried and true, personal performances.
Actually work for a living.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 05:06 PM (WY+aP)

231 Ah, but I said Cantonese man in the beginning. Cantonese has "L"s, Mandarin has "R"s...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Then Cantonese man would know "fuck" vs "fluck". You gave it your best, Jim.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 05:06 PM (Fv808)

232 It sounds like she's going to do Jesus Christ Superstar mixed with Narnia and David Bowie music.

I don't know what exact audience that targets but we'll see how it does beyond preteen girls and cat ladies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

233 Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence

And the Angels didn't sing "Hark! Glory to the new born King" cuz Angels don't sing.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (+4Cf6)

234 @LeadingReport 15m
The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (nEUC6)
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The merest coincidence!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (amcLV)

235 And you thought I was dead? 🤣

Posted by: Woke at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (ATp9+)

236 The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.

I wonder if that is also true for home mortgage foreclosures.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:08 PM (+4Cf6)

237 What are the odd???

@LeadingReport 15m
The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

==
I bet grocery prices also go down in those areas.

First thing people need when they come here is food and shelter. Of course those things will spike in price when a million people suddenly show up.

Posted by: Leupold at September 28, 2026 05:08 PM (eIzlH)

238 What are the odd???

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (nEUC6)

1

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 05:08 PM (axIQJ)

239 They'll have to go back to tried and true, personal performances.
Actually work for a living.
--
"prior experience?"
"mattress actress."
"anything else?"
"My abortion punch card is one away from getting a free abortion."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 05:09 PM (3cUTc)

240 Expose it to Netflix and rather than cantillated, it will be in the form of throat singing.
Posted by: Community Notes

... what's wrong with throat singing?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 05:09 PM (vJrRc)

241 235 And you thought I was dead? 🤣

Posted by: Woke at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (ATp9+)

It's going to take near bankruptcy for Netflix to change its ways. It's been too Los Angelized and its too late unless they move to Texas.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

242 The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.

I guess some people really don't want to live like a refugee.

Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at September 28, 2026 05:10 PM (guGkK)

243 So I guess Netflix made a movie about Chris Hansen where he is the bad guy and the audience is supposed to empathize with pedophiles. I am not making this shit up.

https://youtu.be/Y_eVojM5ez0

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 28, 2026 05:10 PM (XAEN3)

244 Only thing I know about Gerwig is "Frances Ha," an inoffensive little comedy.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

245 The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.

I guess some people really don't want to live like a refugee.
Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty

------

Our version was better.

Posted by: Alvin & The Chipmunks at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (TN0g+)

246 Expose it to Netflix and rather than cantillated, it will be in the form of throat singing.
Posted by: Community Notes

... what's wrong with throat singing?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 05:09 PM (vJrRc)

Now I'm curious. Where else can you sing from?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (guGkK)

247 What are the odd???

@LeadingReport 15m
The sharpest rent declines in the U.S. are occurring in areas with the most cooperation with ICE deportation efforts, per DHS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:05 PM (nEUC6)

It's a novel phenomena! Totally Unexpected! Black Swan, even!!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Not Understanding at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)

248 Good only if it continues through all of the courts of the land

@EWess92
Can a white man sue Seattle over its racially hostile wacky DEI programs? Yes, per Chief Judge Murguia. Big loss for DEI in Seattle--by an all-Democrat appointed Ninth Circuit panel. These racially discriminatory "Race and Social Justice Initiative" policies create liability

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (nEUC6)

249 Boycotting Netflix clearly is not enough.
They must be set on fire.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (s1VwS)

250 And the Angels didn't sing "Hark! Glory to the new born King" cuz Angels don't sing.
Posted by: Community Notes

They sure do sing. Both themselves and through those of us with good voices.

My singing voice is my gift from God.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

251 244 Only thing I know about Gerwig is "Frances Ha," an inoffensive little comedy.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

She directed Barbie, which I've never seen but seemed tolerable to most people and did well at the box office.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

252 Good only if it continues through all of the courts of the land

@EWess92
Can a white man sue Seattle over its racially hostile wacky DEI programs? Yes, per Chief Judge Murguia. Big loss for DEI in Seattle--by an all-Democrat appointed Ninth Circuit panel. These racially discriminatory "Race and Social Justice Initiative" policies create liability

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 05:11 PM (nEUC6)

Local law also specifies political ideology as a protected class.

It's a class action gold mine.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 05:13 PM (axIQJ)

253 Lower rents ironically helps the very people who oppose ICE. Young leftists in blue shitholes are typically those who rent apartments.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 28, 2026 05:13 PM (ATp9+)

254 231 Ah, but I said Cantonese man in the beginning. Cantonese has "L"s, Mandarin has "R"s...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Then Cantonese man would know "fuck" vs "fluck". You gave it your best, Jim.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 28, 2026 05:06 PM (Fv80

Fluctuation...fluck you Asian. -> Fluck you English
Not everybody foreigner knows the language exactly.
Geesh...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:13 PM (l3cgK)

255
Totally unmotivated by Ray Gunn. The Incredibles guy trying to make a grown-up, animated Blade Runner-ish flick with Star Wars-redux aliens?

Posted by: bearski

================

Sad to say, I'm not seeing anything new in that trailer. Have fun with old tropes, sure, but there better be something real behind it instead of just a string of old tropes for old times' sake.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 05:13 PM (mmrXZ)

256 ... what's wrong with throat singing?

Netflix alters things irrespective of the culture from which the original was made.

Throat singing is not traditionally a part of RC worship.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (+4Cf6)

257 What do homosexuals push feces into? Everything. I heard that somewhere else.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (wxsGM)

258 Is there a bigger bored faggot on earth than this Mark Ruffalo toolshed?

Get a fuckin' hobby you mincing queer.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (oqH4h)

259 "Fag incest". That's a new one. You can't hate these people enough.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (0Htd1)

260 Expose it to Netflix and rather than cantillated, it will be in the form of throat singing.
Posted by: Community Notes

Not this again!

Posted by: Zombie Linda Lovelace at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (wVcYX)

261 Today, Trump announced the largest steel plant in the US. In Iowa, using MN steel.

Posted by: Bulg at September 28, 2026 05:15 PM (77rzZ)

262 256 ... what's wrong with throat singing?

Netflix alters things irrespective of the culture from which the original was made.

Throat singing is not traditionally a part of RC worship.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:14 PM (+4Cf6)

Is that what Kumala Whoris does? Throat Singing?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 05:15 PM (l3cgK)

263 Young leftists in blue shitholes are typically those who rent apartments.

I thought they lived in hostels and their mother's basement once the college tuition money pipeline stopped.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:15 PM (+4Cf6)

264 She not here. She got married. She at the church. She getting married to oily bohunk.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

265
So I guess Netflix made a movie about Chris Hansen where he is the bad guy and the audience is supposed to empathize with pedophiles. I am not making this shit up.

https://youtu.be/Y_eVojM5ez0
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

===============

Revisionism seems to be the big thing these days (or decades, actually). I think it happens when you're too lazy to discover something new or create something, so you just go back to the bookshelf and start revising things other people discovered or created.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 05:17 PM (mmrXZ)

266 She not here. She got married. She at the church. She getting married to oily bohunk.

Dong, what happened to my car?

Posted by: Edward Andrews at September 28, 2026 05:17 PM (guGkK)

267 > And the Angels didn't sing "Hark! Glory to the new born King" cuz Angels don't sing.

I'm probably getting whooshed here, but strictly speaking you're right. The Bible doesn't say Angels sing. Typically in the Bible the Angels are described as "calling" or "crying" praise or holy declarations. Traditions says they were singing.

Job 38:7 refers to the "morning stars" singing and the "sons of God" shouting.

But I still like to think of the liturgical praise of Angels being sung.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 28, 2026 05:18 PM (mkw2N)

268 it happens when you're too lazy to discover something new or create something, so you just go back to the bookshelf and start revising things other people discovered or created.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

What an idea.

Posted by: JRR Tolkien at September 28, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)

269 233 Jesus doesn’t sing the world into existence

And the Angels didn't sing "Hark! Glory to the new born King" cuz Angels don't sing.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:07 PM (+4Cf6)

Show your source

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 28, 2026 05:19 PM (s1VwS)

270 The only kind of creativity that Hollywood recognizes is subversion or deconstruction.

Posted by: Open Channel D at September 28, 2026 05:19 PM (S8Vnl)

271 Your Automobile?

Posted by: Dong at September 28, 2026 05:20 PM (F9nWj)

272 Ray Gun seems like a retro-futuristic, film noir, cross between Maltese Falcon, the Fifth Element, and Star Wars Part II - Attack of The Clones.

That's a lot to unpack.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

273 Nood. Candy O is annoying no matter what her preference

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 05:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

274
They sure do sing. Both themselves and through those of us with good voices.

My singing voice is my gift from God.

No where in Scripture does it say that angels sing.
If you think about it, it makes sense.

Singing, like Art is a feature of being Imago Dei.

Furthermore, music is very cultural, and for it to be good, the singer should be trained and skilled. Also singing, technically is not a fruit of the Spirit or numbered among the Gifts of God, so when saying "gift from God" its gratuitous.

Where two or more are gathered, there is an argument of what music should be played.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 28, 2026 05:22 PM (NzX/y)

275 That's a lot to unpack.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

If by that you mean props. Yeah. We got a lot to unpack.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 05:23 PM (F9nWj)

276 I despise the hack twat Mark Buffalo, but I suspect he’s getting blame mostly because Bonta and his mongrel mass of DEI losers were unable to stop the merger. So it’s the nitwit actor’s fault!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 28, 2026 05:26 PM (v00bN)

277 ‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ has been rated R for language and some graphic nudity.

He's surprised? I mean, it's right there in the title: "You can see everything."

Posted by: GWB at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (kU0PQ)

278 why shit or garbage? Embrace the power of And.

Posted by: vivi at September 28, 2026 05:27 PM (7esJd)

279 We're going for ice cream.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 05:31 PM (LHPAg)

280 Elizabeth Holmes adopted the affectation of a deep voice, to give herself distinction, individuality, and authenticity.
And James Talarico imitates it.

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at September 28, 2026 05:53 PM (fPL4c)

281 Photos from the SF Folsom Street Fair this past weekend. Wonder if Zombie's in the house?

https://tinyurl.com/38vtnrsj
Posted by: beckster
.......

I can smell those pictures.

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 06:10 PM (UjdFS)

282 One to add to the list, the new Netflix unabomber movie who genderflips one of the detectives so a strong woman can Crack the case. Significant because it is supposed to be based on real events.

Posted by: bskb at September 28, 2026 06:21 PM (k3tYL)

283 Just watched the Netflix castration of the Unabomber saga. They created a fictitious female agent and had her solve the crime and single-handedly locate the bomber's remote Montana cabin. She supposedly did this while on leave from the investigation after she got in a screaming argument with her mentally inferior white male partner over her superior motivation.

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Three Years After a Gang of Immigrants Stabbed Innocent People While Declaring "We Are Here to Stab White People," French Judges Finally Charge the Killers with Murder -- and Anti-White Racism

The attack occurred three years ago.

I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime.

Nine members of a gang that descended upon a small French village to "stab white people" have been arrested after leaving one dead and 16 injured.

During a village winter ball in Crépol on Saturday evening, a gang of "outsiders" descended on the French village and went on a rampage that left a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas dead and 16 others aged between 16 and 65 injured. The dance had seen around 300 of the 532 members of the village attend.
On Tuesday, the government announced per Le Figaro that it had arrested nine individuals in connection to the horrific attack on the. Reports have claimed that the band of young male attackers came from the La Monnaie neighborhood of Romans-sur-Crépol. The area has been associated with rampant issues involving drug trafficking and was the site of widespread unrest during the racially-inspired riots across France in July following the police shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager.
While police have yet to disclose any information about the backgrounds of the alleged attackers, Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper reported that a young local man who was stabbed during the spree claimed that the knifemen pronounced their intent to specifically kill white people.
"We were having fun, we were among friends, having a good time together and a little towards the end, some people arrived. I heard that there was commotion outside, there was a crowd, I went out, I was stabbed in the shoulder and back, I saw my friend Thomas being stabbed, I was scared, I went back into the room," he said.
"I saw another friend of mine get stuck in the back, I compressed his wound to make a tourniquet, he was hit in the kidney. It was horror. For me, it was clearly an attack. The attackers said: 'We are here to stab white people'."

Now, three years later,
judges have finally charged them not just with murder but with anti-white, anti-France murders.

This is France, so judges actually bring the charges. I don't understand this whole system.

Nearly three years after the mob stabbings allegedly carried out by a group of youths at a dance party in the small French village of Crépol, judges have determined to charge 12 defendants with murder and attempted murder with the aggravating circumstance of "racism against white people and the French nation".

"Indeed, both the analysis of certain cell phones and wiretaps demonstrated that some of them possessed information about the events or the perpetrators, information they took care to conceal."
The decision by the judges to charge the defendants with crimes aggravated by anti-white racism came despite the local Valence public prosecutor's office saying that while there were "racist insults" made by both parties during the incident, they could not determine a racial motive behind the attack.

This desire to cover-up, yet again, for violent foreign terrorists could be what has caused the three year delay.

Le Figaro reported that the ruling came after the judges were presented with evidence from the General Alliance Against Racism and for Respect for French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), which has become a civil party involved in the case and is representing two young men who were present at the Crépol dance on the night of the attack.
However, three defence lawyers involved in the case have appealed the aggravating circumstance of racism and filed a motion calling for the recusal of the investigating judges who made the ruling.
Commenting on the decision to include charges of anti-white racism, the Mayor of Romans-sur-Is�re, Marie-Hél�ne Thoraval, said that she welcomed the news.
...
Due to French privacy laws, the defendants have not been publicly named. Contemporaneous reports claimed that at least one of the alleged attackers was "of North African origin" while another was said to have had "a historically French first and last name".

Update to Fairfield Terror Bombing story:

If you're worried the UK government is being too hard on these future doctors and engineers and space wizards, don't worry, they've already released the flight-risk terrorists on bail.

British Counter Terrorism Police officials said on Monday that the suspects in the alleged terror plot on the Royal Air Force base at Fairford on Sunday have been released on bail, while only being identified publicly as "British nationals".
Amid a growing chorus for more information, UK authorities released a limited description of the five men alleged to have attempted to use explosives to attack RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, which is a defacto U.S. Air Force base, including during Operation Epic Fury against the Islamist regime in Iran earlier this year.
According to the BBC, citing counter-terror officials, all five suspects are "British nationals", meaning that they have British citizenship. It is currently unclear whether all men were born in Britain, migrated to the country and were later granted passports, or have British ancestry.
The disclosure, which also omitted the suspects' names, stated only that they were London residents, including a 24-year-old from Camden, a 24-year-old from Willesden, and three men aged 23, 24, and 25 from Westminster. Due to recent demographic changes as a result of mass migration, all three areas of the British capital are now multicultural hubs, where the white British population has been relegated to minorities.
Speaking outside of Scotland Yard on Monday, the head of Counterterrorism Police, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said that the five suspects have been released on bail after "extensive interviews". He cautioned that their release does not mean the investigation is over.

Yes it is. It's over.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:12 PM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 03:12 PM (kmiHN)

2 STOP!!
Don't stab me there
vital organs are
my NO NO square!

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 28, 2026 03:13 PM (Iwv3U)

3 The goal of all western European governments is to replace their current populace with one easier to control.

The problem is these refugees/engineers/doctors don't want to wait to acquire power working their way through they existing technocracy they want it now.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

4
One motive for all crime.

Posted by: Auspex at September 28, 2026 03:14 PM (Y8DZL)

5 Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 28, 2026 03:13 PM (Iwv3U)

#2 and I'm already to quit this thread with a full laugh quota.

Posted by: weew at September 28, 2026 03:14 PM (ZXfgE)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:14 PM (ccf/V)

7 No word yet on whether British authorities have arrested the farmer who noticed the not very British men.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 28, 2026 03:14 PM (0U5gm)

8 > If you're worried the UK government is being too hard on these future doctors and engineers and space wizards, don't worry, they've already released the flight-risk terrorists on bail.

It's a cover up, screw up, weak laws, weak judges, or weak prosecution, or some combination of the above. Whatever the real answer is, it's maddening.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 28, 2026 03:15 PM (mkw2N)

9 I recall a few years ago a couple of refugees murdered some British soldier and covered themselves in his blood.

The government told people to stop being rayciss and just acknowledge sometimes you really do have to just go an stab whitey

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:15 PM (sKqQm)

10 I love Kipling's poem.

At some point we decide ENOUGH.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:15 PM (Sco7b)

11 The decision by the judges to charge the defendants with crimes aggravated by anti-white racism came despite the local Valence public prosecutor's office saying that while there were "racist insults" made by both parties during the incident, they could not determine a racial motive behind the attack.
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I thought only the US had a subset of people who become irrational and violent when hearing a magical word.

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 03:15 PM (oqH4h)

12 Yikes.

And you’re not allowed to defend yourself if you’re a white person.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 03:15 PM (W2Pud)

13 It must really suck to have people like that living in your country, kind of like here even.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Q/FnY)

14 "This is France, so judges actually bring the charges. I don't understand this whole system."
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A name.

Marine Le Pen.

Posted by: mrp at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (rj6Yv)

15 At some point we decide ENOUGH.

The problem is most Euro-niks are only now coming to the understanding their supposed right leaning opposition parties are controlled by the same people bringing all these invaders in and are afraid to vote for the actual opposition because they are rayciss.

I mean hell, Germans will tell you AfD is a far right wing racist org even when their leader is gay married to a Sri Lankan

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

16 "the five suspects have been released on bail after "extensive interviews""

No water or boards were harmed during the interviews.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (Jr5Lq)

17 "While police have yet to disclose any information about the backgrounds of the alleged attackers..."

I'm guessing they were French nationals.

Posted by: Ripley at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (GUOwU)

18 despite the local Valence public prosecutor's office saying that while there were "racist insults" made by both parties during the incident

Probably the victims were shouting things like the French equivalent of "Stop, you Algerian bastards".

I'm sure that accurately identifying a criminal's nationality is considered racist.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (vJrRc)

19 finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime."

Good croissants take time!

And the Brit thing? It's over, Johnny.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (pfXMo)

20 "While police have yet to disclose any information about the backgrounds of the alleged attackers..."

I beat between those 5 guys they have mohammed in their names at least 6 times.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

21 Hey look, the UK government is super-busy right now, what with feeding their women and children to hungry new muslim citizens and all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (z8t9l)

22 I wonder how soon the French court system and government will allow as a "Human Right" these 'refugees' to move into the town a Waffen SS division cleansed of all life just after D-Day?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (nK5/c)

23 The person that reported the terrorists originally called the base police and there was no answer. They then called the Brit version of 911 to report the incident.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 03:17 PM (QwZKw)

24 "The disclosure, which also omitted the suspects' names, stated only that they were London residents, including a 24-year-old from Camden, a 24-year-old from Willesden, and three men aged 23, 24, and 25 from Westminster."

That damn Tommy Robinson and his white supremacist friends ... always causing problems.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 03:18 PM (vbXSk)

25 >>>While police have yet to disclose any information about the backgrounds of the alleged attackers, Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper reported that a young local man who was stabbed during the spree claimed that the knifemen pronounced their intent to specifically kill white people.

What doesn't kill you only diversifies you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 03:18 PM (dK+Kv)

26 I bet the guy that damaged one of those boats with a knife will spend more time in jail.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

27
Who would have thought 10 years ago that the Limeys would be the big surrender monkeys over the Frogs?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 28, 2026 03:19 PM (y9nCu)

28 the five suspects have been released on bail after "extensive interviews"

"Whats your favorite halal butcher?
Which do you hate worse, Israel or the US?
Why did Trump make you do this? "

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (pfXMo)

29 Now, three years later, judges have finally charged them not just with murder but with anti-white, anti-France murders.
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And only because it was going to become a major campaign issue in the Presidential campaign if they did not.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (z8t9l)

30 If the current illegal immigrant invasion of the UK was happening circa 1950, would the British and Irish vets from WWII overthrow the existing governments after watching them side with the invaders at every opportunity?

I kind of think they would have. Those guys certainly understood totalitarianism better than the current generation of toff wankers.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (HlyYF)

31 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

32 Let me see if I have this right. A swarthy cultural enricher stabs me because I am white. If I then - post-stabbing - hurl a racial epithet at him, that justifies his attack.

Posted by: Butch at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (98xTj)

33 Trump should order the CIA to just extradite these bastards to Guantanamo.

Posted by: The Dog at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (XodLO)

34 The goal of all western European governments is to replace their current populace with one easier to control.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
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Which is dumb, as anyone with half a functioning brain cell knows by now.

The imported population has no intention of being controlled.

As you point out, they want POWER and they want it NOW. And they are quite willing to kill anyone they want to get their way.

Even the "elite" are not quite that ruthless (yet).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (FZ29D)

35 What great Allies we have in Europe.

Sorry fucks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (kmiHN)

36 including a 24-year-old from Camden"

Probably never heard of Springsteen....

/oh

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (pfXMo)

37 Speaking outside of Scotland Yard on Monday, the head of Counterterrorism Police, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said that the five suspects have been released on bail after "extensive interviews". He cautioned that their release does not mean the investigation is over.

Yes it is. It's over.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:12 PM

Yeah, you released them. They will not be seen again until the explosion.

Well done, Britain. You're on top of it, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (ccf/V)

38 Why are western countries importing people that want to murder and rape their citizens while contributing nothing to their new society?

It must pay well.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (kg+tO)

39 They must be Muslim, since the UK cops brought in Tommy Robinson on reflex.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (uhVAy)

40 In the past I would find it difficult to watch the UK and EU commit suicide but I'm getting used to it now.

Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson are the UK's only hope...and it may be too bloody late.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (hzuYO)

41 Nuclear powered industrial grade wood-chipper por favor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (nK5/c)

42 STOP!!
Don't stab me there
vital organs are
my NO NO square!
--
We put out a pamphlet and a song!
What more do you want us to do?!

/s/ the globalists, arresting civilians over mean Facebook posts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (3cUTc)

43 The five suspects names are Mohammad, Mohammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Mohammud

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (WyJlA)

44 Let me see if I have this right."

You do

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:22 PM (pfXMo)

45 You know, if I were a Muslim fanatic bent on conquest, I believe I would almost disdain the idea of conquering the UK. It's like taking over a petting zoo. No glory in that.

Posted by: Paco at September 28, 2026 03:22 PM (2L+MU)

46 J'Accuse!

Posted by: Zola at September 28, 2026 03:22 PM (XeU6L)

47 'Even the "elite" are not quite that ruthless (yet).'

"Heaven forfend!"
- AI-amplified bat virologists.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (Jr5Lq)

48 Why are western countries importing people that want to murder and rape their citizens while contributing nothing to their new society?"

It's been a flaw in western thought for 2,000 years.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (pfXMo)

49 The common denominator here is destruction. These barbarians don’t want to create. They want to take, set on fire, piss on the ashes and move to the next target, leaving a trail of blood and chaos behind.

Sounds satanic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (W2Pud)

50
/s/ the globalists, arresting civilians over mean Facebook posts.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (3cUTc)

If only the Americans would stop producing MEAN MEMES!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (ccf/V)

51 Nuclear powered industrial grade wood-chipper por favor.
Posted by: Anna Puma

We're gonna need more than one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (kmiHN)

52 The Brit’s have been beaten so far into submission over the slightest fear of being considered racist, it’s astounding. No one normal wants to be considered a racist, and I would hazard a guess few people truly are such. It is hardly racist to not want to be stabbed. Or raped. Or beheaded. I don’t care what you look like, I don’t want you doing that to me. That seems more like a survivalist.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

53 I hope everyone understands that Britain is now multicultural and, in many cultures, it is customary to park explosives outside airbases.

We have instructed the police to prosecute vigorously any one who exhibits hateful speech to other cultures, for example, by criticizing the Five Mohammeds (as we call them in government).

Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:24 PM (z8t9l)

54 43 The five suspects names are Mohammad, Mohammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Mohammud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (WyJlA)

Pleased to meet you fellas. I'm Larry and this my brother Darryl and my other brother Darryl.

Posted by: Larry at September 28, 2026 03:24 PM (DFChe)

55 The common denominator here is destruction. These barbarians don’t want to create. They want to take, set on fire, piss on the ashes and move to the next target, leaving a trail of blood and chaos behind.

Sounds satanic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (W2Pud)

Best summation of islham ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

56 The goal of all western European governments is to replace their current populace with one easier to control.

The problem is these refugees/engineers/doctors don't want to wait to acquire power working their way through they existing technocracy they want it now.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

LOL. Like there is any group of people easier to control than modern Euros.

I'd say you were wrong, but given that the leaders of the Globalists and Euro nations are all idiots, this fits right in with their thinking. After all, they still want War with Russia even though they don't have armies or air forces.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)

57 Rapproachment! It's the only way.

Posted by: ValJar at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (XeU6L)

58 "From the Thames River to the sea, Muslim terrorist will be free" Said the five innocent English youths (just doing the will of Muhammad)

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (vbXSk)

59 The Brit’s have been beaten so far into submission over the slightest fear of being considered racist, it’s astounding"

It's the "upper crust" across the west. Sad, really.

Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (pfXMo)

60 *types* *deletes*

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 03:26 PM (ke3zm)

61 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

In French class in Grade 12, as their submission for the required "French culture" project, two guys built and brought to class a functional guillotine.

I wonder if they'd get sent to prison nowadays.

Posted by: far cry at September 28, 2026 03:26 PM (wBRco)

62 Britain is at the weak men create hard times portion of the program.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2026 03:26 PM (u73oe)

63 Maybe this explains the fire under their collective asses.

Far right scores historic victory in French Senate election
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally can form a group in the French parliament’s upper house for the first time.

https://shorturl.at/qFUzd
Politico

Posted by: No Name Today at September 28, 2026 03:26 PM (8mulE)

64 43 The five suspects names are Mohammad, Mohammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Mohammud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 28, 2026 03:21 PM (WyJlA)

So Sidney and Jugdesh weren't invited?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (88C+u)

65 They caught five “Middle-Eastern” looking guys (according to the witness that saw them and called the police) in three vans with fake business signs on the side, and filled with explosives.

But they are going to release them on bail while they continue investigating?

WTF else do you need to “keep investigating” that you can’t hold these guys for, if nothing else, “attempted terrorism”?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (6ydKt)

66 What's an "anti-France" murder?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (JzUSu)

67 I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime.

Because Marine Le Pen just won an election bigly, and they're finally realizing the consequences of their refusal to recognize Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (Riz8t)

68
But they are going to release them on bail while they continue investigating?

WTF else do you need to “keep investigating” that you can’t hold these guys for, if nothing else, “attempted terrorism”?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (6ydKt)

It's not over until they decide it is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (ccf/V)

69 Why are western countries importing people that want to murder and rape their citizens while contributing nothing to their new society?"
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Rapproachment! It's the only way.
Posted by: ValJar
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Bosh. Appeasement is the key.

Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

70 Related article on Islam-which I thought was very good on Islam- from Canadian " Rebel News" conservative site:

https://tinyurl.com/3xdmjvd7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 03:28 PM (JrHfD)

71 What's an "anti-France" murder?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (JzUSu)
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Any murder involving cheese.

Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:28 PM (5T19r)

72
>>widespread unrest during the racially-inspired riots across France in July following the police shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager.

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When they're criminals they're "French citizens." So quit blaming migrants. Nothing to see here.

When they're victims, they've got "Algerian heritage." Blame le supremacie blanche! Everything to see here!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:28 PM (mmrXZ)

73 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

Style guide recommends "whips out" instead of "pulls out"

Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (ZV+zn)

74 "From the Thames River to the sea, Muslim terrorist will be free" Said the five innocent English youths (just doing the will of Muhammad)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (vbXSk)

I find it amusing that the most feckless and cowardly of NATO nations opposing the operation in Iran have suffered invasion (Spain) and terrorist (UK). Yet the big Satans are unscathed. Such always to the appeasers of evil.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)

75 Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

But they're still getting tired of all this.
At some point.

Also economically, when the debt finally comes due and there are REAL hard times...

There will be a lot of house cleaning.

Related to this tangentially, Canada's Montreal Massacre where 'Marc LePine' went into an engineering class and killed 14 women.

Late 80s. No pictures in the media. I know why now.

Muslim guy

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)

76 52 The Brit’s have been beaten so far into submission over the slightest fear of being considered racist, it’s astounding. No one normal wants to be considered a racist, and I would hazard a guess few people truly are such. It is hardly racist to not want to be stabbed. Or raped. Or beheaded. I don’t care what you look like, I don’t want you doing that to me. That seems more like a survivalist.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
I don't want ANYBODY, including moslems stabbed, raped,
beheaded, or enslaved.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (LHPAg)

77
It's going to continue to happen, until the victims form a vigilante party and extract some justice.

Oh. Fwance? EU even?

Never mind. Nothing of note will happen to make it stop.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (QVmho)

78 It's cool. They guy has another kidney, right?

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 03:30 PM (UjdFS)

79 What's an "anti-France" murder?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (JzUSu)

Twenty Francs - same as in la ville

Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 03:30 PM (ZV+zn)

80 What's an "anti-France" murder?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Marcel Marceau, attacked by jihadists.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2026 03:30 PM (XeU6L)

81 "islham does not go to a country to be A religion. It goes there to be THE dominating religion."

Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 28, 2026 03:30 PM (ccf/V)

82 I do not know why the decision to finally charge them with murder comes three years after the crime.

Because Marine Le Pen just won an election bigly, and they're finally realizing the consequences of their refusal to recognize Islamic terrorism.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (Riz8t)

Yup. France went for an Obama clone to grab power from the adults in the room, Macron.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:31 PM (uhVAy)

83 In response to the Five Mohammeds attempting to bomb our air base, the UK today announced a fine to be levied against Google of one billion pounds.

Let this be a lesson to you.

Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:31 PM (5T19r)

84 It's going to continue to happen, until the victims form a vigilante party and extract some justice.
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The only way to be safe is to eliminate the threat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2026 03:31 PM (XeU6L)

85 In French class in Grade 12, as their submission for the required "French culture" project, two guys built and brought to class a functional guillotine

Hate to see what the Spanish class did

Posted by: let's begin at September 28, 2026 03:32 PM (88C+u)

86 France has a system whereby the accused is guilty until proven innocent.

It has its advantages.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 28, 2026 03:32 PM (36x1j)

87 59 It's the "upper crust" across the west. Sad, really.
Posted by: man at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (pfXMo)

I wish we could ask why - except I think we know the answer is not more complicated than that cool guy over there said it was hip to behave like this and I must be viewed as one of the hippest and social superiors. It’s not like *I* am at risk of being beheaded or anything. Right?

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

88 Errr wasn't "Sarah" the one promising earnings of 3168 an hour? Were people really mourning the loss of an "ette" there?

Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (ZJQBk)

89 In response to the Five Mohammeds attempting to bomb our air base, the UK today announced a fine to be levied against Google of one billion pounds.

Let this be a lesson to you.
Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:31 PM (5T19r)

Google should just cut service to anyone in the UK government.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (uhVAy)

90 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes
........

Almost as much a crowd pleaser as the woodchipper.

Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

91 Pretty much every commenter for a UK blogger video about this thinks it was a false flag.

Posted by: steevy at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

92 In French class in Grade 12, as their submission for the required "French culture" project, two guys built and brought to class a functional guillotine

Hate to see what the Spanish class did

Pretty easy A. Bring in a bunch of sticks and set them on fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (Riz8t)

93 Terrorists can kill lots of people, yelling how much they hate the infidels and are engaging in Jihad against the West...and the UK will just let them out on parole?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)

94 73 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

Style guide recommends "whips out" instead of "pulls out"
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (ZV+zn)

Only at the "plans" phase?

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (F9nWj)

95
>>He cautioned that their release does not mean the investigation is over.

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Nudge, wink

Posted by: Cambridge Anthropology Department at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (mmrXZ)

96 We can't say we are any better, other than a few low level street thugs, Antifa operates with impunity in the USA despite them being declared a domestic terrorist organization a year ago.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (DbmIv)

97 92 In French class in Grade 12, as their submission for the required "French culture" project, two guys built and brought to class a functional guillotine

Hate to see what the Spanish class did

Pretty easy A. Bring in a bunch of sticks and set them on fire.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (Riz8t)

No one expected the Spanish Inquisition...okay, maybe Spanish class did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (l3cgK)

98 Errr wasn't "Sarah" the one promising earnings of 3168 an hour? Were people really mourning the loss of an "ette" there?
Posted by: ... at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (ZJQBk)

Sounds thoughtful and kind to me.

Piper just offers kale. Well and diet exercise advice.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (uhVAy)

99 Why are they being charged? Because Marine LePen is surging in the polls, that's why.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (peOdB)

100 UK: "Once we realized they were moslems, we apologized profusely and gave them all the bombs they could carry."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (CHHv1)

101 Though I am surprised there wasn't a series of terror raids like that one across the EU since then.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (nEUC6)

102
Pretty much every commenter for a UK blogger video about this thinks it was a false flag.
Posted by: steevy

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Like, there were no explosives? Vans full of flour and sugar for the Great British Baking Show?

Posted by: Cambridge Anthropology Department at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (mmrXZ)

103 I think their plan was to roll two of those vans onto the base to try and destroy some planes, or at least to the base entrance, blow those vans up there and then all five would escape in the third van. Since they had an odd man out that was in a van by himself, my guess is his entire job was getaway for the other four.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (6ydKt)

104 We can't say we are any better, other than a few low level street thugs, Antifa operates with impunity in the USA despite them being declared a domestic terrorist organization a year ago.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (DbmIv)

Texas just sentenced a passel of them to up to 100 year terms in prison.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (uhVAy)

105 Piper just offers kale. Well and diet exercise advice.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (uhVAy)

And really funny typos! Don’t forget that!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

106 DGSE should be going house to house and shooting Islamist bastards as they sleep.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 28, 2026 03:36 PM (rJ48h)

107
sock

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:36 PM (mmrXZ)

108 As part of our investigation into the Five Mohammeds we will also investigate how the UK could have better supported these young citizens, whether they felt welcome into society, and if our Midnight Mosque Basketball League provided sufficient exercise.

Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:36 PM (5T19r)

109 CNN reported, "the victims had no comment"...

Posted by: pahound at September 28, 2026 03:37 PM (/nGzD)

110 Though I am surprised there wasn't a series of terror raids like that one across the EU since then.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (nEUC6)

Iran's checks started bouncing, that's why.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:37 PM (uhVAy)

111 Five British men from London arrested over RAF 'terror bomb plot' are all released on bail - as Iran 'categorically rejects' involvement

Stealing gasoline/diesel from farms. The barrels in the vans looked like explosives. Obviously would all run away when caught by a farmer. Then Trump gets caught lieing about national security. Again.

I don't understand the idea that Iran would be involved with this. What do they gain from provoking a country that has largely stayed uninvolved?

there is a right of resistance to people doing military attacks against you and Fairford is being used by the Americans for attacks on Iran. They're targeting American military then it's not really attacks against the UK.

Isn't the fact that they got released on Bail means there is no bomb? They aren’t terrorists, just stupid, and in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Trump talking about them as if he had the intel of them planning a "big damage" attack is going to be seriously weird if that is the case.

How great would it be if this was a Slow Horses type plot where the security services just wanted to make a tit out of Trump and Streeting.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 03:37 PM (PkrKm)

112 Since they had an odd man out that was in a van by himself, my guess is his entire job was getaway for the other four.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (6ydKt)

They're doing it wrong. Supposed to blow up with everything and get virgins.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:38 PM (F9nWj)

113 100 UK: "Once we realized they were moslems, we apologized profusely and gave them all the bombs they could carry."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2026 03:35 PM (CHHv1)

https://youtu.be/meFJCeUWDyY
https://youtu.be/Kf3bw8KEZ44

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)

114 Weren't there some teenagers who attacked a mosque a couple of months ago whose names were in the very first article about the incident?

Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (2ap+5)

115 Five British men from London arrested over RAF 'terror bomb plot' are all released on bail - as Iran 'categorically rejects' involvement

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 03:37 PM (PkrKm)

Iran denying complicity? Trump really HAS crushed them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (uhVAy)

116 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?

Probably a memorial or vigil for his victims?

Or is a whisky and cigar appropriate?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (GD2xa)

117 Piper just offers kale. Well and diet exercise advice.

Sounds like work. I like my odds with the get-rich-quick scheme better.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (vTZFs)

118 came from the La Monnaie neighborhood

I'm La Monnaie.

Posted by: Vesper Lynd at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (LSV6F)

119 according to Grok, no "viable explosives" were found.

"Some early media reports referred to suspected explosives, chemicals, or devices being present or seized.
By Monday 28 September, reports stated it was understood that the material found “was not viable explosives,” while police stressed the investigation was continuing. The five men were released on police bail under strict conditions and remain under investigation (with lines of inquiry including possible foreign-state involvement).

gloucestershirelive.co.uk

Police have not publicly detailed exactly what was recovered beyond the arrests under explosives legislation and the ongoing forensic examination of the vehicles. The situation was described as contained."

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (vbXSk)

120
>>During a village winter ball in Crépol on Saturday evening, a gang of "outsiders" descended on the French village and went on a rampage that left a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas dead and 16 others aged between 16 and 65 injured.

===================

Sheesh, the resemblance to the October 7 massacre.

I'm trying to imagine something similar happening where I live, and the thought of people going back to politics as usual afterward is mind-blowing -- and yet it would happen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (mmrXZ)

121
Hate to see what the Spanish class did...
----
Ah. The Pear of Anquish:

https://shorturl.at/HGIga

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (XeU6L)

122 Someone needs to drop a nuke on that big black cube thing in Saudi Arabia.

Then we get this party started.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (W2Pud)

123 BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

Millions of people in the educational bureaucracy are involved in the production of useless degrees (all of them hard-core Leftists, of course), and They Are Not Happy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (aD4fx)

124 105 Piper just offers kale. Well and diet exercise advice.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (uhVAy)

And really funny typos! Don’t forget that!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

My mom wrote a note, and as she was having problems with the pen, wanted to indicate the pen was responsible, so ended up writing, "The penis bad."..."pen" and "is" were written as if one word...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (l3cgK)

125 103 I think their plan was to roll two of those vans onto the base to try and destroy some planes, or at least to the base entrance, blow those vans up there and then all five would escape in the third van. Since they had an odd man out that was in a van by himself, my guess is his entire job was getaway for the other four.

Posted by: SpeakingOf
----

Woman called the base and warned them, they blew it off.
Frustrated she called the locals 999 then the Brit cops came and nabbed them. Brit fucking cops doing their job.
Yeah, we had the villains on our radar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (WY+aP)

126 Pretty much every commenter for a UK blogger video about this thinks it was a false flag.
Posted by: steevy at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (YwEeS)

And what was the purpose of the false flag operation and by whom?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (JrHfD)

127 "The situation was described as contained."

Bail == containment.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

128 Stealing gasoline/diesel from farms. The barrels in the vans looked like explosives. Obviously would all run away when caught by a farmer. Then Trump gets caught lieing about national security. Again.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 03:37 PM (PkrKm)

The smartest way to avoid being caught by farmers after stealing gas (?) is to charge into a nearby military base or two.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (uhVAy)

129 If the current illegal immigrant invasion of the UK was happening circa 1950, would the British and Irish vets from WWII overthrow the existing governments after watching them side with the invaders at every opportunity?

I've seen interviews with a couple of British WWII vets where they argued they wouldn't have signed up to fight then if they knew where their country would end up now.

They stopped the Germans and now they are getting conquered by the Jihadis instead, and it will go about the same for Britain's Jewish population...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

130
Mr. AsaJew shilling for Palestine and his fellow Jew Haters:

Kosher
@koshercockney
·
34m
Hamas quite literally thanked you.
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Sky News
@SkyNews
·
9h
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right'

Posted by: beckster at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (kX27y)

131 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?
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Over the sights of a Garand.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (XeU6L)

132 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?

You can't execute someone for a "workplace accident"!

Posted by: Barky Obama! at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (aD4fx)

133 Britain is cooked. No Immigration from there, please.

Stew in the mess you made, Limey.

Posted by: Joe Mama at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (TezPK)

134 Weren't there some teenagers who attacked a mosque a couple of months ago whose names were in the very first article about the incident?
Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (2ap+5)

The gay lovers who also hated gays? And Jews?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

135
Police have not publicly detailed exactly what was recovered

Posted by: illiniwek

=================

Well c'mon! Detail it, you bloody limeys.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (mmrXZ)

136 BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

Millions of people in the educational bureaucracy are involved in the production of useless degrees (all of them hard-core Leftists, of course), and They Are Not Happy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (aD4fx)
====================
And, thanks to Trump, their back-up employer is out of business!

Posted by: USAID gone caput! (along with all their NGO's) at September 28, 2026 03:42 PM (TPmOL)

137 Sheesh, the resemblance to the October 7 massacre.

I'm trying to imagine something similar happening where I live, and the thought of people going back to politics as usual afterward is mind-blowing -- and yet it would happen.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (mmrXZ)

No SEC football games in your area?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

138 and "is" were written as if one word...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026

Exactly.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

139 71 What's an "anti-France" murder?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 03:27 PM (JzUSu)
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Any murder involving cheese.
Posted by: PM Andy Burnham at September 28, 2026 03:28 PM (5T19r)
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*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Wallace at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (brIJB)

140 ***According to the BBC, citing counter-terror officials, all five suspects are "British nationals", meaning that they have British citizenship.***
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Britain does not have citizens it has subjects.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (WY+aP)

141 Whatever they were doing it's pretty telling that everyone in the world, including the UK anti terrorist force, assumed 5 muslims were planning so horrific attack as soon as their identities were known.

And then the UK just turned them lose and opened their borders wider.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (viF8m)

142 122 Someone needs to drop a nuke on that big black cube thing in Saudi Arabia.

Then we get this party started.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (W2Pud)

I've always wanted Isreal to bulldoze the top of the second temple and start construction on a third.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (ne7zz)

143 My mom wrote a note, and as she was having problems with the pen, wanted to indicate the pen was responsible, so ended up writing, "The penis bad."..."pen" and "is" were written as if one word...

Shtay in your lane, mom.

Posted by: Sean Connery at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (vTZFs)

144 BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

Imagine a 18 year old with no assets going to a bank and asking for a $250K loan to started a $40k/year business in 4 years.

No one would approve that. And banks that did would be called predatory.

Now then why is this different if the $40k/year business is instead the average pay for a women studies/sociology/etc major?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

145 I don't understand the idea that Iran would be involved with this. What do they gain from provoking a country that has largely stayed uninvolved?

Sadly, I find it all too believable that you don't understand.

there is a right of resistance to people doing military attacks against you and Fairford is being used by the Americans for attacks on Iran. They're targeting American military then it's not really attacks against the UK.

Well, since Iran has been attacking American servicemen for the last 50 years or so, I guess that means we're well within out rights to attack them. You said it, I didn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

146 Woman called the base and warned them, they blew it off.

She is also certain that there were 8-10 people involved.

The Brits caught five, and called it good.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:44 PM (aD4fx)

147 Another point in all this, if we have fewer baristas with a 6 year degrees with hundreds of thousands of dollars in college loans we will probably also have fewer leftwing voters...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

148 No SEC football games in your area?
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:43 PM (uhVAy)

Not what you meant, but I just imagined a parachute style attack on a southern football stadium.

FUCKING LOL. They'd die in a hail of gunfire just for interrupting the game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (zZu0s)

149 I've seen interviews with a couple of British WWII vets where they argued they wouldn't have signed up to fight then if they knew where their country would end up now.

They stopped the Germans and now they are getting conquered by the Jihadis instead, and it will go about the same for Britain's Jewish population...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

They were conquered by the Socialists in the 50s and 60s first.

They could have settled in as a midweight responsible nation like Japan. But they drank poison instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

150 121
Hate to see what the Spanish class did...
----
Ah. The Pear of Anquish:

https://shorturl.at/HGIga

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (XeU6L)

The had a medieval torture devices show at one of the local museums many years ago...all sorts of devices, from iron maidens to racks to pears. Outside was a guillotine that gave me the heebie-jeebies...
All were actual period devices, some used.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

151 We were busy.

Posted by: MI-5 at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (J4Dwc)

152 "BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings."

Howsabout we get the Fed govt completely the hell out of the student loan biz? Works for me.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (Jr5Lq)

153 Macdala Monfiston, a Haitian woman living in Canada, had her four-year prison sentence reduced to two years less a day to be served in the community after she was convicted of brutally beating and biting a stranger's face. The reason it was reduced to two years less a day was because that's the threshold for automatic deportation. The Judge even noted this in the change of sentencing.

https://tinyurl.com/thz377af

And:

In September 2026, a 36-year-old woman named Diana Gonzalez was permanently disfigured after a stranger bit off a chunk of her forehead during a random, unprovoked attack in downtown Seattle, Washington. The assailant was later identified by prosecutors as 36-year-old Chameleia Chudley. Only, that was merely a misinterpretation of the woman's name. It was actually, Kamilia Chadli.

https://tinyurl.com/2z83n68h

I notice a trend. Pro tip: is a Nutzo woman comes after you and initiates violence, I suggest knocking her teeth out. Haitians and North Africans, especially.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (dIske)

154
What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?

================

Through the bottom of a half-empty vodka bottle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:45 PM (mmrXZ)

155 136 BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

Millions of people in the educational bureaucracy are involved in the production of useless degrees (all of them hard-core Leftists, of course), and They Are Not Happy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:40 PM (aD4fx)
====================
And, thanks to Trump, their back-up employer is out of business!

Posted by: USAID gone caput!
---

The government should not be in the loan business.
That's banks and pawn shops purview.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (WY+aP)

156 I don't understand the idea that Iran would be involved with this. What do they gain from provoking a country that has largely stayed uninvolved?

Meanwhile the same people are arguing that Trump is deporting right leaning citizens...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

157 LOL. Like there is any group of people easier to control than modern Euros.

I'd say you were wrong, but given that the leaders of the Globalists and Euro nations are all idiots, this fits right in with their thinking. After all, they still want War with Russia even though they don't have armies or air forces.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:25 PM (uhVAy)

It's like... they know if they were as rich (ha) and incorrupt (haha) as Mississippi, they could easily afford a decent military. And they can either face the reality that their national economies and public administration are objectively inferior to our poorest state, or pretend they're ready to go toe-to-toe with the most battle-hardened, drone-proficient, arms-manufacturing nuclear power on Earth.

The psychological kicker, I think, is that the real suck is probably losing >85% (my guesstimate) of public expenditures to waste, grift, graft, fraud, and outright theft. And the people they most need to be realist about it are the grifters themselves, who would be the most threatened by serious questions.

Posted by: SciVo at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (ke3zm)

158 Muslim guy
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)

Name at birth: Gamil Gharbi

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (peOdB)

159 "We are here to stab white people"...authorities "lets not jump to conclusions, we may never know their intent"

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (4zDyG)

160 "The Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting on May 18, 2026, was a deadly attack where two teenage gunmen opened fire at the largest mosque in San Diego County, California.Overview of the AttackThe Incident: Two teenagers, identified as 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Liam Vazquez, carried out the shooting..."

We also know 17-year old North Carolinian Sarah Lindsey Santiago was also arrested as an accessory.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (2ap+5)

161
I used to think the leadership in the UK didn't crack down because they were frightened by the blowback from the Musloid community. Now I realize that the leadership in the UK is riddled with second-generation Musloids and their sympathizers and apologists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)

162 127 "The situation was described as contained."

Bail == containment.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 03:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

LOL, only in Newspeak.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (l3cgK)

163 >Canada's Montreal Massacre where 'Marc LePine' went into an engineering class and killed 14 women

You mean Gamil Gharbi?

Sometimes when there's a WTF release like this, it's because the security forces are going to surveil the hell out of them so they can trace them back to their handlers and suppliers.

I wish that was what was going on here.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (LgYtf)

164 Blond Morticia wrote--
'I'm trying to imagine something similar happening where I live,'
I do this kind of thing most every day, only I consider it situational awareness.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 03:47 PM (LHPAg)

165 I don't understand the idea that Iran would be involved with this. What do they gain from provoking a country that has largely stayed uninvolved?

Sadly, I find it all too believable that you don't understand.

there is a right of resistance to people doing military attacks against you and Fairford is being used by the Americans for attacks on Iran. They're targeting American military then it's not really attacks against the UK.

Well, since Iran has been attacking American servicemen for the last 50 years or so, I guess that means we're well within out rights to attack them. You said it, I didn't.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

If you were a pizzle nation like Iran's sympathizers, do you attack a strong nation or a weak, unprepared one who will let you out on bail if you fail?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:47 PM (uhVAy)

166 94 73 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

Style guide recommends "whips out" instead of "pulls out"
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (ZV+zn)

Only at the "plans" phase?
Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:34 PM (F9nWj)

I was corrected on this once. And I'm french canadian.

Woodchippers.
All their beloved go first.
And my idea, cameras as they go slowly in so as warnings to future generations retards.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:47 PM (Sco7b)

167 The had a medieval torture devices show at one of the local museums many years ago...all sorts of devices, from iron maidens to racks to pears. Outside was a guillotine that gave me the heebie-jeebies...
All were actual period devices, some used.

The iron maiden was never an actual torture/murder device.

The guillotine was invented as a more humane way to execute people - unlike a man with an axe it almost always but cleanly.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

168 Another point in all this, if we have fewer baristas with a 6 year degrees with hundreds of thousands of dollars in college loans we will probably also have fewer leftwing voters...

It's a two-fer - the Leftist educational bureaucrat loses xir job, and the Leftist barista without six figures of student loan debt is less inclined to call for the overthrow of capitalism.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (aD4fx)

169
The situation was described as contained.

Meaning anyone mentioning this situation is now in custody.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (eRlcH)

170 Blond Morticia wrote--
'I'm trying to imagine something similar happening where I live,'
I do this kind of thing most every day, only I consider it situational awareness.
Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 03:47 PM (LHPAg)

I remember the strategy sessions as a kid about how to fight civil war against the next suburban block when it broke out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

171 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?

After Mass at Sophia Logia.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (2ap+5)

172 Almost as much a crowd pleaser as the woodchipper.
Posted by: wth at September 28, 2026 03:33 PM (UjdFS)

Woodchipper has better audio.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (peOdB)

173 I used to think the leadership in the UK didn't crack down because they were frightened by the blowback from the Musloid community. Now I realize that the leadership in the UK is riddled with second-generation Musloids and their sympathizers and apologists.

Looking here in the US at people like Bombdaddy or Mayor Wu in Boston their electorate is mostly foreigners.

This is more advanced in Britain...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

174 146 Woman called the base and warned them, they blew it off.

She is also certain that there were 8-10 people involved.

The Brits caught five, and called it good.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 28, 2026 03:44 PM (aD4fx)

or good enough

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (l3cgK)

175 Iran denying complicity? Trump really HAS crushed them.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (uhVAy)
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I dunno. Makes a certain amount of sense. Use "plausible deniability" if they don't succeed.

But if they had succeeded (especially if they were suicide bombers who can't be questioned afterwards), then Iran can claim a great victory over the Great Satan.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (FZ29D)

176
I believe the mosques built here in our country are full of weapons. I bet there was no oversight from the government when they were built, unlike if we were building something. We might offend them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (/QHx4)

177 I used to think the leadership in the UK didn't crack down because they were frightened by the blowback from the Musloid community. Now I realize that the leadership in the UK is riddled with second-generation Musloids and their sympathizers and apologists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)

The UK has been dipshits on the near east since Lawrence of Arabia.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:50 PM (uhVAy)

178 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?
===================
On TV, from Alexandra Daddario's bed?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 28, 2026 03:50 PM (TPmOL)

179 They're doing it wrong. Supposed to blow up with everything and get virgins.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:38 PM (F9nWj)

I'd agree, but if they were a sleeper cell, big if, they might have wanted to get away to cause more damage.

The fake business signs on the van, "Fuel 2You" (a legitimate UK business goes by "Fuel2U"), were magnetic. Easy to switch that out or take it off.

I don't think these guys wanted to die.
I think they were paid and wanted to live to spend the money.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

180 The guillotine was invented as a more humane way to execute people - unlike a man with an axe it almost always but cleanly.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)
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It certainly put me out of a job.

Posted by: "Three Chop" Nick at September 28, 2026 03:50 PM (FZ29D)

181 I think King Charles is a crypto Muslim.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (rJ48h)

182 So we know Whitney Whitehead, age 9, was arrested for dressing up as Haji for Halloween, but we will never know who drove a car through his 4th grade picnic.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (2ap+5)

183 158 Muslim guy
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)

Name at birth: Gamil Gharbi

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 03:46 PM (peOdB

I was young and naive.
But I kept wondering why no pictures of the guy.
Not one. That's when questioning started.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

184
I have gotten an unsolicited expression of interest in making me Director of AI Scientific & Patent Intelligence for a start-up. If it's not a scam, I'm the last person they'd want.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (eRlcH)

185 "Police have not publicly detailed exactly what was recovered -----
Well c'mon! Detail it, you bloody limeys."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Probably just a couple vans full of fertilizer ... nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (vbXSk)

186 I think King Charles is a crypto Muslim.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (rJ48h)

Nah, he's just a dipshit inbred hack.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

187 Hey, what's got everyone worked up? It's not like some people did something.

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (TPmOL)

188 >>I don't think these guys wanted to die.
I think they were paid and wanted to live to spend the money.

Somebody bought or rented those vans. If these are poor migrant boat people where did they get the money for the vans?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

189 The UK has been dipshits on the near east since Lawrence of Arabia.

Yeah well you didn't get ridden hard by handsome manly sheik in the same place that Mohammed got Al-Zutt so you don't know about the love that dare not speak its name!

Posted by: Lawrence of Arabia at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

190 What's the best way to observe Maj. Nidal Hasan's execution?

Probably a memorial or vigil for his victims?

Or is a whisky and cigar appropriate?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 28, 2026 03:39 PM (GD2xa)

The best way to observe it would be to set a date for it. Like tomorrow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 03:53 PM (peOdB)

191
I believe the mosques built here in our country are full of weapons. I bet there was no oversight from the government when they were built, unlike if we were building something. We might offend them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (/QHx4)

Before the US entered WWI, the Kaiser told the American Ambassador that if the Americans came in to the Entente, 500,000 German-Americans would rise up in support of the Fatherland. The ambassador replied that there were 500,001 lamp posts in the US.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:54 PM (eRlcH)

192 By human nature it's difficult to disrupt entrenched power.

Look at red America's political map.
Look at our difficulty with the blues.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 03:54 PM (WY+aP)

193 I remember the strategy sessions as a kid about how to fight civil war against the next suburban block when it broke out.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (uhVAy)

We had hinged boards in all the backyard fences nobody knew about. We used leather. The wife and I were looking at one to buy a few months ago and I went hmmm. To the back yard I go. Yep, still there. Didn't work as the leather was rotten and dirt was piles up at the bottom but over almost 50 years nobody ever put any nails back into it. I'd bet at least half of those secret boards are still there.

Posted by: Reforger at September 28, 2026 03:55 PM (ne7zz)

194
the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

===============

I like the sentiment, but it seems hard to define the rules. English majors can become lawyers -- or beggars. The tech industry has wild ups and downs, so new Engineering grads might walk into good jobs or an employment desert.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2026 03:55 PM (mmrXZ)

195 Rightfully, the British government will announce in 2031 what happened in this case

Posted by: Terry Moran at September 28, 2026 03:55 PM (TPmOL)

196 186 I think King Charles is a crypto Muslim.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (rJ48h)

Nah, he's just a dipshit inbred hack.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (uhVAy)

When I think of Charles, I think of the comedian that was making fun of what you call people from various cities...
and describes a man from Tampa, as he puts out his hand to shake, "Hi, I'm a Tampan". ::: pronounced like tampon :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)

197 Somebody bought or rented those vans. If these are poor migrant boat people where did they get the money for the vans?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

Yup, somebody had to pay up front for the vans, signs, and whatever they had in the barrels.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

198 BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings.

The hits just keep coming.

A Huron Consulting Group report projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges—approximately 25%—face a high risk of closing or merging within the next decade. This "shakeout" is driven by a severe oversupply of seats relative to declining student demand, which stems from a falling birth rate and a decrease in the percentage of high school graduates attending college.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (PkrKm)

199 *pulls out plans for the guillotine*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:20 PM (2WIwB)

Style guide recommends "whips out" instead of "pulls out"
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2026 03:29 PM (ZV+zn)

***

Dang!
*pulls out Pee-Chee holding style notes*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (2WIwB)

200 Breaking news on X: Candace Owens is a lesbian.

No, I don’t really want to think about that either.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)

201 200 Breaking news on X: Candace Owens is a lesbian.

No, I don’t really want to think about that either.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)

She's got a wide nose for things like that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK)

202 > "BTW, the Left is losing their sh*t over a new Trump rule that you can't borrow Federal money for majors that don't increase your expected future earnings."
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What if it was left up to the lending institutions to decide whether a degree in "African folk art and it's effect on white supremacy" is worthy of a $150K student loan.

I doubt many banks, even the woke ones, would sit for losing millions on this sort of shit.

Yes, get the federal, state and local governments out of the entire lending apparatus. Let the banks fail if they buy into this crap. Too bad the depositors will loose everything, but then again, don't put your money into woke.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 03:57 PM (RORbl)

203 Before the US entered WWI, the Kaiser told the American Ambassador that if the Americans came in to the Entente, 500,000 German-Americans would rise up in support of the Fatherland. The ambassador replied that there were 500,001 lamp posts in the US.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:54 PM (eRlcH)

Some did. I read a biography of the commander of my great great Grandfather's civil war battery, and one of his descendants did sabotage operations in WWI in the US.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:58 PM (uhVAy)

204
Somebody bought or rented those vans. If these are poor migrant boat people where did they get the money for the vans?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

OK, let's say 20,000 migrants (it's just a number). That's the equivalent of an Army division. What logistical support does a division require? That should tell you if there's someone behind this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 03:58 PM (eRlcH)

205 Candace Owens is a lesbian.

She has a husband and a few kids.

Maybe she just had 3 margaritas and a night out with the girls?

Posted by: Obligatory at September 28, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

206 200 Breaking news on X: Candace Owens is a lesbian.

No, I don’t really want to think about that either.
Posted by: Ian S. at September

That is not breaking news! That has been suspected or spoken about or seen forever. Her husband is also gay. Seems a healthy environment all around.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 03:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

207 Yes, get the federal, state and local governments out of the entire lending apparatus. Let the banks fail if they buy into this crap. Too bad the depositors will loose everything, but then again, don't put your money into woke.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 03:57 PM (RORbl)

Let the unis use those huge endowments for this cause. In fact, force them to. Make them give the loans and allow graduates to stiff them if they want to.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 03:59 PM (uhVAy)

208 Has a date been set for Nidal Hassan's execution?
He's been incarcerated for a long time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 03:59 PM (JrHfD)

209 When I think of Charles, I think of the comedian that was making fun of what you call people from various cities...
and describes a man from Tampa, as he puts out his hand to shake, "Hi, I'm a Tampan". ::: pronounced like tampon :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:55 PM (l3cgK)

Fugging, Upper Austria.

Used to be named F*cking (correctly), but they changed it for obvious reasons and the amount of tourists who rode through town just to get a picture next to the sign.

I guess they just call the residents 'Fuggers'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

210 167 The had a medieval torture devices show at one of the local museums many years ago...all sorts of devices, from iron maidens to racks to pears. Outside was a guillotine that gave me the heebie-jeebies...
All were actual period devices, some used.

The iron maiden was never an actual torture/murder device.

The guillotine was invented as a more humane way to execute people - unlike a man with an axe it almost always but cleanly.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

___________________________

There's a touristy town in Germany called Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It's a town that caters to Chirstmas year round. Gifts, decorations, music...a really lovely place. BUT, right in the center of town is a Medieval Torture and Crime Museum that is open for tourists. It has an authentic Iron Maiden (where they guide actually explains its actual use)....then they have just about every digusting torture device that you could imagine. It was surreal going in there, and exiting out into Christmas Land. Very German, I guess.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

211 Why did she had five kids with her husband if Candace Owen's is gay?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD)

212
I guess they just call the residents 'Fuggers'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

No, those are the bankers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (eRlcH)

213 A Huron Consulting Group report projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges—approximately 25%—face a high risk of closing or merging within the next decade. This "shakeout" is driven by a severe oversupply of seats relative to declining student demand, which stems from a falling birth rate and a decrease in the percentage of high school graduates attending college.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (PkrKm)

Non profit university my ass. They squeezed the shit out of me for housing, food, and the classes.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (uhVAy)

214 Anyone listen to Trump today?

Mesabi Metallics is investing a bazillion dollars to mine the Iron Range in MN.
They are going to float that iron down the Mississippi to Iowa where they are investing $2 bazillion dollars in a foundry to make steel. American Steel.

This cuts Brazil and China out of the loop.
Feast on it, Indian haters

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (WY+aP)

215 Somebody bought or rented those vans. If these are poor migrant boat people where did they get the money for the vans?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

_______________________

One of the detailed articles said at least one had the name of a business on the side. It was used for plumbing. I forget the name.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (dIske)

216 Why did she had five kids with her husband if Candace Owen's is gay?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD)

I figured her for a Charlie Kirk alpha widow.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (uhVAy)

217 176
I believe the mosques built here in our country are full of weapons. I bet there was no oversight from the government when they were built, unlike if we were building something. We might offend them.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 03:49 PM (/QHx4)
They should be so offended as to leave America ad go someplace else.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (LHPAg)

218 200 Breaking news on X: Candace Owens is a lesbian.

No, I don’t really want to think about that either.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)
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At least she'll have no trouble breathing while she's, er...snorkeling

Posted by: ballistic at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (oqH4h)

219 I was young and naive.
But I kept wondering why no pictures of the guy.
Not one. That's when questioning started.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 28, 2026 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

Half Algerian, and half Quebecois nun. He was pretty darned white to look at.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (peOdB)

220 Did you know that intentionally bringing in a foreign population to weaken or displace a native population is considered a human rights violation and a war crime?

Those are the shitlibs own rules.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (8T+WD)

221 There's a touristy town in Germany called Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It's a town that caters to Chirstmas year round. Gifts, decorations, music...a really lovely place. BUT, right in the center of town is a Medieval Torture and Crime Museum that is open for tourists. It has an authentic Iron Maiden (where they guide actually explains its actual use)

From their webpage:

Quick fact: The Iron Maiden plays a major role in the crime museum. The exhibition clears up one idea: unlike Bram Stoker's literary depiction, it was not used as an instrument of torture or murder, but was subject to honorary punishments. The dangerous nails were added later.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

222 There's a touristy town in Germany called Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It's a town that caters to Chirstmas year round. Gifts, decorations, music...a really lovely place. BUT, right in the center of town is a Medieval Torture and Crime Museum that is open for tourists. It has an authentic Iron Maiden (where they guide actually explains its actual use)....then they have just about every digusting torture device that you could imagine. It was surreal going in there, and exiting out into Christmas Land. Very German, I guess.
Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

***

I know that town well and have many wonderful memories of my visits there. And that museum in a Must Visit for anyone going to Germany.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (2WIwB)

223 There's a touristy town in Germany called Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It's a town that caters to Chirstmas year round.
Posted by: Orson
__________

Is that what Frankenmuth in Michigan is modeled on? And that town in northeastern Georgia (forgot the name).

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (JzUSu)

224 >>OK, let's say 20,000 migrants (it's just a number). That's the equivalent of an Army division. What logistical support does a division require? That should tell you if there's someone behind this.

I don't think every muslim living in the west is being funded or even requires it. Many believe it is their duty to invade and kill or enslave. And many just get handouts, generous ones, from western governments including ours or the start Leering Centers and rob us.

But operational groups get funding. It took less than 20 of them to kill 3000 Americans and they were funded.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)

225 Anyone listen to Trump today?

Mesabi Metallics is investing a bazillion dollars to mine the Iron Range in MN.
They are going to float that iron down the Mississippi to Iowa where they are investing $2 bazillion dollars in a foundry to make steel. American Steel.

This cuts Brazil and China out of the loop.
Feast on it, Indian haters

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (WY+aP)

absolutely required for national security. We can get some from Brazil and China too as we build our Doom Flotillas.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:04 PM (uhVAy)

226 She's got a wide nose for things like that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 03:57 PM (l3cgK)

She follows her nose. It always knows.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:04 PM (axIQJ)

227 No, those are the bankers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (eRlcH)

Damn Swiss bastards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

228 Is that what Frankenmuth in Michigan is modeled on? And that town in northeastern Georgia (forgot the name).
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (JzUSu)
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Helen.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (brIJB)

229 211 Why did she had five kids with her husband if Candace Owen's is gay?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (JrHfD)

Those aren't her children, they're crisis actors.

Probably not even children. Just Peter Dinklage and friends.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (jBygX)

230 Seven minutes of Wayne Shorter:
youtube.com/watch?v=k0q8mGUHJVQ

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (Jr5Lq)

231 Loans are for banks and pawnshops? What are we, baked ziti?

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (bX16E)

232 Non profit university my ass. They squeezed the shit out of me for housing, food, and the classes.

Posted by: Oldcat
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The one system that may be more inefficient and corrupt than the federal government.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (WY+aP)

233 Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM

I don't think she's gay. I think she's just an opportunistic oddball offering click bait, ( I don't listen to her ) but if she wanted to be married to Charlie Kirk, wouldn't that also mean she was not gay?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (JrHfD)

234
Huron Consulting Group report projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges—approximately 25%—face a high risk of closing or merging within the next decade.

Quick! Hire more administrators!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (eRlcH)

235
One of the detailed articles said at least one had the name of a business on the side. It was used for plumbing. I forget the name.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM (dIske)

"Fuel 2 You" fuel delivery.
Similar to the legitimate "Fuel2U" UK business.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt)

236 212
I guess they just call the residents 'Fuggers'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

No, those are the bankers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:01 PM (eRlcH)

Joke told be friend:

Cantonese man working in England would go to the bank to exchange pounds into RMB and send it home. One week what he was going to send converted to 5000 RMB. The following week, the same amount only converted to 4500 RMB.
When he asked the banker why it was 5000 RMB one week and 4500 the next week, the Banker said, "Fluctuation".
The Chinese man replied, "Well, Fluck you English!".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:06 PM (l3cgK)

237 Used to be named F*cking (correctly), but they changed it for obvious reasons and the amount of tourists who rode through town just to get a picture next to the sign.

I guess they just call the residents 'Fuggers'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

Dumbasses. They should have just charged for the pictures, or gave a credit toward local businesses in exchange.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)

238 Huron Consulting Group report projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges—approximately 25%—face a high risk of closing or merging within the next decade.

Quick! Hire more administrators!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (eRlcH)

Funny and tragic.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:07 PM (axIQJ)

239 ..
absolutely required for national security. We can get some from Brazil and China too as we build our Doom Flotillas.

Posted by: Oldcat
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Are you talking of the about to be Christened, USS Ted Stevens (DDG 12

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (WY+aP)

240 Dumbasses. They should have just charged for the pictures, or gave a credit toward local businesses in exchange.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)

It's a small village, only about 100 people.
They were probably being overwhelmed in the summer, especially after smartphones came out.

They changed the name in 2021.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

241 Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:02 PM

I don't think she's gay. I think she's just an opportunistic oddball offering click bait, ( I don't listen to her ) but if she wanted to be married to Charlie Kirk, wouldn't that also mean she was not gay?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (JrHfD)

Yeah, I don't think she's lesbian unless its an op, or a way to get even with Charlie Kirk. This gal ain't right.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

242 237 Used to be named F*cking (correctly), but they changed it for obvious reasons and the amount of tourists who rode through town just to get a picture next to the sign.

I guess they just call the residents 'Fuggers'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:00 PM (6ydKt)

Dumbasses. They should have just charged for the pictures, or gave a credit toward local businesses in exchange.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)

Sell the signs...make up creative ones with the town's name: "I came to Germany and all I got was this F**king sign."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (l3cgK)

243
Damn Swiss bastards.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

German, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (eRlcH)

244 It's a small village, only about 100 people.
They were probably being overwhelmed in the summer, especially after smartphones came out.

They changed the name in 2021.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

You aren't gonna hit 200 citizens with THAT attitude.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (uhVAy)

245 I know that town well and have many wonderful memories of my visits there. And that museum in a Must Visit for anyone going to Germany.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 04:03 PM (2WIwB)
_____________________

Drive about an hour and half north of there gets you to Kloster Kreuzberg which is an active monastary that has a beer hall....and a recipe for their own brew that they have been making since the 1500's . That was quite the day trip for me. Walking down the steep incline (courtesy of the Rhone Mountains) to the car was significantly more difficult that entering.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (dIske)

246 Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (uhVAy)

That's the oddest way to get even with someone...
I don't like your widow, so I'm going gay...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (l3cgK)

247 I don't think she's gay. I think she's just an opportunistic oddball offering click bait, ( I don't listen to her ) but if she wanted to be married to Charlie Kirk, wouldn't that also mean she was not gay?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 04:05 PM (JrHfD)

Don't know. Don't care. But it is definitely clickbait distraction.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (axIQJ)

248 Are you talking of the about to be Christened, USS Ted Stevens (DDG 12?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (WY+aP)

No, Trumps new idea for battleships!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (uhVAy)

249 > I believe the mosques built here in our country are full of weapons. I bet there was no oversight from the government when they were built, unlike if we were building something. We might offend them.
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Bet on it. We (wrongly) treat mosques as "places of worship" when, in fact, they're armed HQ's for the jihad they'll spring on us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 04:10 PM (RORbl)

250 I think Candace Owens has limited impulse control in about every single thing she does.

But she did hit the jackpot with her gay husband.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 04:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

251 Not enamored with McCoy Tyner. He's too busy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (WY+aP)

252 I believe the mosques built here in our country are full of weapons. I bet there was no oversight from the government when they were built, unlike if we were building something. We might offend them.
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Bet on it. We (wrongly) treat mosques as "places of worship" when, in fact, they're armed HQ's for the jihad they'll spring on us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 28, 2026 04:10 PM (RORbl)

Us? Don't you mean blue states and blue areas?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (uhVAy)

253 I don't think she's gay. I think she's just an opportunistic oddball offering click bait, ( I don't listen to her ) but if she wanted to be married to Charlie Kirk, wouldn't that also mean she was not gay? well he's dead; so yeah...

Posted by: pahound at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (/nGzD)

254 Three Years After a Gang of Immigrants Stabbed Innocent People While Declaring "We Are Here to Stab White People," French Judges Finally Charge the Killers with Murder -- and Anti-White Racism

Their motives may never be known, they promised.

Posted by: We don't have to live like this at September 28, 2026 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

255 208 Has a date been set for Nidal Hassan's execution?
He's been incarcerated for a long time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 28, 2026 03:59 PM (JrHfD)\
Fen, he'll never be executed.

Posted by: Eromero at September 28, 2026 04:12 PM (LHPAg)

256 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (brIJB)

257
No, Trumps new idea for battleships!

Posted by: Oldcat
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As long as they are as elegant as the Iowa Class.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:13 PM (WY+aP)

258 This "shakeout" is driven by a severe oversupply of seats relative to declining student demand, which stems from a falling birth rate and a decrease in the percentage of high school graduates attending college.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

And the "solution" that universities are proposing is to allow in students who couldn't pass their high school classes and waive any kind of competence or readiness testing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 04:14 PM (vJrRc)

259 >>Not enamored with McCoy Tyner. He's too busy.

He did some stuff in the 90s that is infinitely better than the overbearing and modal stuff people claim to like him for.
I was lucky enough to see him about half a dozen times from the late 80s to around 94 or so.
Actually, took my Prom date to see him with the Joshua Redmond Trio instead of going to the prom.

Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2026 04:14 PM (vNne8)

260 253 I don't think she's gay. I think she's just an opportunistic oddball offering click bait, ( I don't listen to her ) but if she wanted to be married to Charlie Kirk, wouldn't that also mean she was not gay? well he's dead; so yeah...

Posted by: pahound
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She's an opportunist; if muff diving provides the desired outcome, so be it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2026 04:15 PM (WY+aP)

261 Drive about an hour and half north of there gets you to Kloster Kreuzberg which is an active monastary that has a beer hall....and a recipe for their own brew that they have been making since the 1500's . That was quite the day trip for me. Walking down the steep incline (courtesy of the Rhone Mountains) to the car was significantly more difficult that entering.
Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 04:09 PM (dIske)

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About an hours drive east is Herzogenaurch, where I was stationed as a young LT. Great Fest there. Herzo is home to both Adidas and Puma and the rivalry goes back to before the war. At the Fest the different companies were always trying to out so each other. We "Amis" stayed out of the way.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (2WIwB)

262 3 The goal of all western European governments is to replace their current populace with one easier to control.

The problem is these refugees/engineers/doctors don't want to wait to acquire power working their way through they existing technocracy they want it now.
Posted by: 18-1

Western European Leaders never heard that old saying of 'the crocodile will eat them last'.

Maybe they should just read 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings' or is that to white.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2026 04:17 PM (sAmhv)

263 Breaking news on X: Candace Owens is a lesbian.

No, I don’t really want to think about that either.
Posted by: Ian S.

Anything for a headline!

Posted by: Candace "Lickety" Split at September 28, 2026 04:18 PM (TezPK)

264 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 04:08 PM (eRlcH)

haha.

It fits.
Had no idea.

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