1 "The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained."

'Nuff said.

2 NOODled the corgis.

3

Somebody exploded an H-bomb today
But it wasn't anybody I knew

4 Good evening good people.

5
*waves to cheering crowd*
*points to people in audience*

Good evening, Hordians.

6 1

7 The University Democrats, a student group at the University of Texas at Austin, unintentionally brought together political heavyweights from both sides of the aisle after announcing earlier this month an event featuring controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.

Gov. Greg [Bud] Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Henry Cuellar, to voice[d] their disapproval of the event and condemn[ed] Piker.

8 Yay ONT! Now for the content!

9 First perhaps?

10 “We can’t just use a thermometer to do that,” said Jasmina Wiemann, a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who had no role in the latest work.

Where would we be without scientists?

11 Cool opening picture

12 Nice pic, Doof! Now to enjoy the content.

Today was okay. Decent phone interview, won't hear back for 2-3 weeks on that of course. Nother interview tomorrow for another company.

Praying still for the path to be made clear, or at least some stronger hints.

13 Cool opening picture


Explanation?

Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

14 Good evening Horde! Thanks Disco!

Average warm blooded temperature > room temperature

15 More info about those conjoined twins: After completing the separation surgery, scans showed that one child had more brain that the other one.

The one with the bigger brain is registered as a Republican, and the one with very little brain is a Democrat

16 No Holiday Road for Mitch?

17 ***Palau de la Música Catalana (190 in Barcelona, Spain.
--

Hippies

18 Harrrumph!

19 Evenin'

20 Catalonians. That's Barthelona, right?

21 Most scientists agree that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, but pinning down the exact core temperature of an extinct creature is difficult.

“We can’t just use a thermometer to do that,” said Jasmina Wiemann, a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who had no role in the latest work.

Imagine the poor scientist who would have been the one to insert the rectal thermometer to take a T-Rex's temp.

22 Is that a Family Truckster I spy?

23 I dare anyone to find a BETTER before and after hair cut. This guy is an absolute WIZARD!
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Critically Thinking, it would be difficult to restrain one's self.

24 >>Cool opening picture


>>Explanation?

>>Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Fire wheel burning in the air

First one who gets it wins a cookie.

25
“We can’t just use a thermometer to do that,” said Jasmina Wiemann, a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who had no role in the latest work.


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Those who shove a thermometer up the ass of a T Rex are notable for their short lifespan.

26 Somebody exploded an H-bomb today
But it wasn't anybody I knew
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 17, 2026 09:59 PM (Cqx++)

More than 20 miles from my house. Don't care.

27 Hiyab and Wuhbto?

Next surgery will be the clitorectomy.

28 The only reason I remember “Better than Ezra” is Norm McDonald.

29 Cool opening picture


Explanation?

Thanks for the ONT, Doof.
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 17, 2026 10:03 PM (Jr+re)

Lena Dunham broke wind while riding in a zeppelin.

That's my guess.

30 my semi-crusade against Flock

Posted in the last thread:

Cop, married, with two kids, uses Flock and police databases to stalk a woman who had clearly rebuffed him, mentioned having a boyfriend. Cop says he saw a "shiny thing." Creep. (27:36) -Audit the Audit

https://youtu.be/kTI8Ez39LUY


Also, #191 in previous thread
Today's AI & robots news, five items
acecomments.mu.nu/?post=421418#c42787303

31 First one who gets it wins a cookie.

GD song, but what's the picture?

32 Thanks for the ONT.

33 Love that Mitch is finally taking some family break time from his busy Senate schedule!

34 Gov. Greg [Bud] Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Henry Cuellar, to voice[d] their disapproval of the event and condemn[ed] Piker.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 17, 2026 10:00

I guess Piker is getting even more attention w/ his latest babblings. So this attention whore makes money by being an "influencer"? Is that how the internet works today?

35 >>GD song, but what's the picture?

Hell if I know.

36 That's Rombley driving the Family Truckster, with the Turtle on the roof, right?

37 No Holiday Road for Mitch?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:05 PM (viF8m)

Missed opportunity. I denounce myself.

38 Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.

39 Sorry I'm late, Godzilla needed help getting a splinter out of his foot.

40 Hello All, I must be going.

41 Where would we be without scientists?
Posted by: mikeski at September 17, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

Shoving a thermometer up a TRex's ass is probably not a life-enhancing act.

42 Hello All, I must be going.
Posted by: Gmac

Groucho, izzat you?

43 Picture is from the game Halo.

44 The only reason I remember “Better than Ezra” is Norm McDonald.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2026 10:11 PM (sTKQb)

They had a hot song, didnt they... 90s? This is gonna bug me now.

45 The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

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Yeah? Well, he wasn't as hot as Sydney Sweeney.

46 I don't envy anyone trying to take the temp of a T-Rex the traditional way.

47 >>GD song, but what's the picture?

Hell if I know.
Posted by: JackStraw

No, that's what you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino.

48 Sorry I'm late, Godzilla needed help getting a splinter out of his foot.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 17, 2026 10:16 PM (2RJDy)
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Did you also have to take his temp?

49 Tomorrow is first Christmas and I'm playing hooky all afternoon. Going to see the Newport Boat Show with some friends, oogle boats, eat lobster and drink rum. 3 things I absolutely excel at.

50 38 Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.

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Someone needs to take a flamethrower to the entire Board of Trustees.

51 Where would we be without scientists?
Posted by: mikeski

Shoving a thermometer up a TRex's ass is probably not a life-enhancing act.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That too, but I was thinking more about how you'd apply a thermometer to a fossil, and get a result other than room temperature.

52 *** ***

A state appellate court ruled on 2 November 1970 that the 1965 approval could not stand and the plan would have to be lodged again from scratch. A lawyer for Gulf Oil called it silly to kill a multimillion-dollar development on a technicality. Praetzel’s answer, years later, was that the technicality in question was the law.
---
This is an insight into and maybe the genesis, of California's failure.
---

Another oilman, George Mitchell developed, in unrestrained TX,
The Woodlands, TX, a place where one will find the Exxon campus, Halliburton, Anadarko Petroleum, Woodforest National Bank, CBRE Group, The Howard Hughes Corporation, Baker Hughes, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Conoco Phillips, Hewlett Packard and Noble Energy There are many others but Wiki is limited.
_Need a job?

53 Good evening morons and

54 и спасибо, Дуф

55 was thinking more about how you'd apply a thermometer to a fossil, and get a result other than room temperature.


Go outdoors in NDak around January and you'd get a temp WELL below room temp.

56 Someone needs to take a flamethrower to the entire Board of Trustees.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 17, 2026 10:20 PM (wpRMV)

Just think of all the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth that would ensue if some patriot shot Hasan Piker in the neck with Grandpa's old sporterized Mauser.

57 Matthew Foldi
@MatthewFoldi
#ARSEN NEWS:
Arkansas Democrat Hallie Shoffner says on tape that she “would trade five Americans for one” illegal immigrant worker.

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Well, can I pick the five Americans and the illegal?

58
Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Who's opening for him?

59 Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.

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Professor Jacobson will be there.

60
The hotblooded dino video:
https://t.ly/_NnmQ

You're welcome.

61 I was down in Cleveland, attending an event this past weekend.

In the span of just one year the townships of Gates Mills, Hunting Valley, and Chagrin Falls have all gone full nazi, and have installed Flock cameras EVERYWHERE.

My friends say that basic traffic fines for speeding start at $250.00.

Do you have any idea of how hard it is to drive 35mph on boulevard type roads. The damn things are 2 1/2 lanes wide, and one way traffic on each side.

Hell, back in youth 60mph was going slow ...

Takes all the fun out of driving it does.

62 "Well, can I pick the five Americans and the illegal?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

How about The Squad for a Mexican weathergirl?

63 I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire

64 49 Tomorrow is first Christmas and I'm playing hooky all afternoon. Going to see the Newport Boat Show with some friends, oogle boats, eat lobster and drink rum. 3 things I absolutely excel at.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:19 PM (viF8m)

Enjoy, good sir ...

65 Mixed bag, alright. Kinda like the boxes and bags of garage stuff auctioned off late at an estate sale. Or a pile of 60s dress patterns. Good stuff, though.

66 Incredible surgery!

Twin sisters conjoined at the head underwent successful separation surgery
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This is what happens when you let them black folk go to college.
Gotta be careful.
_LBJ

67 Saw some pushback in the comments on Tuesday against my semi-crusade against Flock. We can respectfully disagree. But you might want to skip past this segment.
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On the contrary I am happy for you to shine a light on any threat to our constitutional freedoms.

68 63 I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire

Posted by: The Man in Black at September 17, 2026 10:28 PM
***
Ouch. Was someone trying to take your temperature?

69 How about The Squad for a Mexican weathergirl?

Posted by: Ripley

Now you're talking!

70 So we missed out another blue shithole in California, right??
=====

Fun fact: there is no freeway through San Francisco to the GG bridge. There is three miles of stop lights on every corner and a speed limit of 35.

71 That barber video- Goddamn, boy!

Also, I hate Califa, but don't fuck with the Marin. One of the few places I don't hate (but probably should).

72 Flock is hardly the beginning. As many others have noted, there have been cameras all the fck over public spaces for many many years, no doubt being used and misused by who knows but they have ZERO accountability.

Gosh, it would be terrible if some of those other cameras were to be mistaken for Flockers.

73 Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Who's opening for him?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 17, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

Mohammed the Prophet. I hear he's a hard act to follow.

74 >>Enjoy, good sir ...

Thank you my friend.

This really is something I look forward to every year.

75 Trying to do more animation but it isn't good for my heath. You can ask why but I don't know the answer.

76 At least Mitch got to ride on the roof. If he went with the Romney's, he'd be tied to the back bumper. Not sure about the wheelchair, though.

77
24 >>Cool opening picture


>>Explanation?

>>Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Fire wheel burning in the air

First one who gets it wins a cookie.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:08 PM

------

Estimated Prophet. The Dead.

78 In the span of just one year the townships of Gates Mills, Hunting Valley, and Chagrin Falls have all gone full nazi, and have installed Flock cameras EVERYWHERE
---------------
True

79 Tomorrow is first Christmas and I'm playing hooky all afternoon. Going to see the Newport Boat Show with some friends, oogle boats, eat lobster and drink rum. 3 things I absolutely excel at.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:19 PM (viF8m)

Sounds like a plan. I worked on some of these for a while as a yute: https://www.nauticapedia.ca/vessel.php?id=47509

80 Sorry I'm late, Godzilla needed help getting a splinter out of his foot.
Posted by: tankdemon

Splinter. Right. That was the Todaiji Temple.




Or Bambi.

81
10 “We can’t just use a thermometer to do that,” said Jasmina Wiemann, a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who had no role in the latest work.

Where would we be without scientists?
Posted by: mikeski at September 17, 2026 10:01 PM

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What's that smell? Oh yeah, DEI.

82 The Di-Noc panels on the Family Truckster were well done, I must say. And the full wheel covers and whitewalls are to die for.

83 >>Sounds like a plan. I worked on some of these for a while as a yute:

Sweet. I plan to carve out some time to go check out the new trawlers.

84 Hi.

85
Imagine the poor scientist who would have been the one to insert the rectal thermometer to take a T-Rex's temp.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 17, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)





That's why they made student interns. The hot coeds go to "professor's office hours", the young men receive exciting work opportunities in the live animal labs, IYKWIM.

86 True
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2026 10:36 PM (dM5CL)

I had to drive up SOM Center Rd from Solon to Gates Mills Blvd, I swear every intersection had a multiplicity of cameras ... and I aged about 10 years during that drive.

I can't drive that slowly on SOM ...

87 Or Bambi.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Favorite joke time -

Bambi's mom steps out of the woods into the clearing rubbing her behind and states:

"That's the last time I do THAT for two bucks!"

(HeyOhhhhhhhh!!)

88 >>Estimated Prophet. The Dead.

Not bad for a semi-literate thug. I owe you one cookie. One. This isn't a charity.

89 Only problem with the family truckster photo is there's no dog dragging behind on a leash . . . . . . .

90 Mitch’s “Family Vacation”

Could be worse, it could be raining.

91 >> Imagine the poor scientist who would have been the one to insert the rectal thermometer to take a T-Rex's temp.

Jim! Grab that thermometer, I've got a job for you.

92 Tomorrow is first Christmas and I'm playing hooky all afternoon. Going to see the Newport Boat Show with some friends, oogle boats, eat lobster and drink rum. 3 things I absolutely excel at.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:19 PM (viF8m)

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Watch for a Jenneau 42. I may be in the market.

93 57 Matthew Foldi
@MatthewFoldi
#ARSEN NEWS:
Arkansas Democrat Hallie Shoffner says on tape that she “would trade five Americans for one” illegal immigrant worker.

-
Well, can I pick the five Americans and the illegal?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Hmmm, five fat, tatted up with face rings, purple-green hair, broads for a smokin' hot curvy latina babe. Well, ok. Deal.

94 Of course T-Rex had a similar body temp. JEEZ!

95 Had a good shop day today. Moved the dune buggy into the big shop; setting it aside to do other stuff for a while. Got the cam bearings installed in the Lark Six I am overhauling, and with the help of the Lark's owner, we got two portable generators started.

96 If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Ben Carson, who had been in Trump's cabinet, was the first surgeon to separate twins conjoined at the head.

97 I saw video of Mitch McConnell today.

He was conscious but not alert nor oriented. He was not responsive. He did not speak. He did not move his legs. He gave one random thumbs up.

This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.

98 AOP
You never cease to amaze me😛!!

99 >>Watch for a Jenneau 42. I may be in the market.

Not sure the model(s) but they have both power and sail at the show. I'll check it out.

100 100

101 97 I saw video of Mitch McConnell today.

He was conscious but not alert nor oriented. He was not responsive. He did not speak. He did not move his legs. He gave one random thumbs up.

This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


beep

102
Tyrannosaurus Rex = Tyrant Lizard King.

103 Contractor has most of the flooring in, and some of the cabinets. Dude came to measure for the countertops today. I guess next week they do the door and window trim, maybe the base trim, and the electrician is coming out again to install the fixtures and finish the switching. Not sure when the dudes come with the propane tank, but it's getting cool out there at night. I don't think they will be done in two weeks, but I'm hopeful.

104 That's why they made student interns. The hot coeds go to "professor's office hours", the young men receive exciting work opportunities in the live animal labs, IYKWIM.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 17, 2026 10:39 PM (iqcvy)

Hm. Sounds like the making of a blue movie.

105 Of course T-Rex had a similar body temp. JEEZ!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 17, 2026 10:42 PM (jMB9H)

I am guessing that the temperature implied by the mineral makeup of the critter's teeth is a tad lower than the critter's core temperature, seeing as teeth are somewhat exposed to cooling outside air. But the delta between mouth temp and core temp is likely similar in modern-day large animals, so a core temp can be inferred.

106 He was conscious but not alert nor oriented. He was not responsive. He did not speak. He did not move his legs. He gave one random thumbs up.

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Did he say "beep" or "beeeeeep"? There's a difference.

107 This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

Biden shit my britches

108 The wheel is turning and you can't slow down
You can't let go and you can't hold on
You can't go back and you can't stand still
If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will

109 Yeah. Depeche Mode....nah...
Sorry Doof. Sometimes I wonder about you...but, then again, I'm an oldster....

110 CoMM

111 This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

What is it with these walking corpses in Congress?

Then again, Mad Maxine has never been able to communicate clearly, so I guess they don't have to be mostly dead to be useless.

112 MSN
China warns of space war after US confirms on-orbit weapons
China has warned of "war in outer space" after US officials confirmed for the first time that offensive, on-orbit space control weapons have been deployed.

USSF
♦ Intelligence suggests the PLA likely sees counterspace operations as means to deter and counter U.S. military intervention in a regional conflict. It is actively developing and fielding a wide range of counterspace capabilities.

China is the PACING CHALLENGE and is rapidly improving its space capabilities to TRACK & TARGET U.S. military forces. China & Russia are pursuing a wide range of counterspace capabilities to DISRUPT & DEGRADE U.S. space capabilities.

(Current as of July 2026)

https://tinyurl.com/yrd9rsaz

113 The level of power these bitches hold is so great that Solomon would bow down.
The Senate is dead after the 17th Amendment destroyed the State (that was the purpose).
Who respents the State.
No one

114 This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

He has better care than most elderly people around. He has a staff that tends to his every whim, security guards that keep him safe, and activities that keep him as mentally occupied as he's able (and would like) to be. That's why he didn't take the opportunity to retire early and try to stay in the Senate for what he knew would be his last semi-sentient term. If he retired six years ago, he would have been dead six days after he left the Senate chamber for the last time. Boxer and Feinstein were the same way. For them, home would never be as fun as the Senate.

115 110 Psycho! Yikes!

116 Cornell just announced Hassan Piker is bringing his act to Ithaca. Fun times ahead.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Ithaca put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie and doing her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact!

We're an American Democrat Socialist

117 Boat shows. Oh, to dream.

118 If Paramount leaves L.A.that city will become Thunderdome in 2 years.

119
Yep, that Chicom squawking confirms that's what all this is about. They're up to something.

120 For them, home would never be as fun as the Senate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 17, 2026 10:53 PM (0CU3H)

I can't imagine the Senate is "fun."

Not my fault they didn't cultivate a home life. With all that money and all that power, they couldn't figure out how to live. Really would suck to be them.

FFS, take up knitting, or bonsai, or doing crossword puzzles with your grandkids.

121 Thirteen of us got together for an early supper up today, ten of us having been in college together in the early seventies, plus a couple of outside spouses that have three or more decades with us. We do it two or three times a year.
And we are all barely 29+. It's odd.

122 110 Psycho! Yikes!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 17, 2026 10:53 PM (jMB9H)
====
Usually someone has offered you a drink and a seat by now and I felt badly.

123 AOP
You never cease to amaze me😛!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 17, 2026 10:46 PM (jMB9H)

I fixed my washing machine. Tomorrow I will figure out if I fixed it all the way, or just sort of all the way like last time.

Washing machines are interesting. It is like they were a spare moment doodle put together as a hobby by the techs fired by NASA before they found new work with SpaceX

124 Also, I hate Califa, but don't fuck with the Marin. One of the few places I don't hate (but probably should).

Probably. Because they sure as hell hate you.

125 Posted by: From about That Time at September 17, 2026 10:55 PM (sl73Y)
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*gingerly steps off lawn*

126 Being a Senator is early retirement

with a super pension and superior medical care

if they cared about us we would have the same medical policy as they do

127 Washing machines are interesting. It is like they were a spare moment doodle put together as a hobby by the techs fired by NASA before they found new work with SpaceX
Posted by: Kindltot at September 17, 2026 10:56 PM (rbvCR)

Top-loaders are pretty doggone simple. Motor-and-cam programming. Hard to have it go wrong.

128 Marin is hard to describe. You have to experience the smug self-righteousness that comes with incredible wealth. And it gets hot.

129 >> Boat shows. Oh, to dream.

Indeed.

And a great place to catch up with old friends and reminisce.

130 121 Thirteen of us got together for an early supper up today, ten of us having been in college together in the early seventies, plus a couple of outside spouses that have three or more decades with us. We do it two or three times a year.
And we are all barely 29+. It's odd.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 17, 2026 10:55 PM (sl73Y)

How fun!

We do Thanksgiving with a crowd that varies mightily by year. There is a core of folks who always attend, and then we collect strays. It's a blast.

We also do a fondue night for New Year's Eve. It's our wedding anniversary, and we do a late dinner (actually, we graze on it all evening) and then fireworks. There may also be shooting involved, and other forms of mayhem. Also a blast.

Folks we see often, and some only once a year. It's good for everyone.

131 Watch for a Jenneau 42. I may be in the market.

I aspire to someday own a Sunfish that has been tied to somebody's garage rafters since they won it on The Price is Right in 1977.

132 That fag?

133 Top-loaders are pretty doggone simple. Motor-and-cam programming. Hard to have it go wrong.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

As I recall, Red Green repurposed his as a kiddie ride. Not sure that worked out so well.

134 I can't drive that slowly on SOM ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 17, 2026 10:40 PM (oCio0)
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Pepper Pike cops ticket on SOM too

135 I aspire to someday own a Sunfish that has been tied to somebody's garage rafters since they won it on The Price is Right in 1977.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 17, 2026 11:01 PM (vTZFs)

Sailfish for me please ...

Who needs a foot cockpit anyway.

136 Bill Gertz posted to social media on Wednesday that wild "rumors are flying" about Chinese leader Xi Jinping's health and a possible plot to oust him from power.

137 I aspire to someday own a Sunfish that has been tied to somebody's garage rafters since they won it on The Price is Right in 1977.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 17, 2026 11:01 PM (vTZFs)

I am trying to remember the name of the class of sailing dinghy that was all the rage when I was a yute in West Vancouver. Sabot, maybe? They were all over, races, too.

138 “So the Chinese and the Russians have developed jammers and directed-energy weapons and cyber capabilities and ground-based anti-satellite missiles and satellites capable of maneuvering close to other satellites,” he continued. “And they’ve been practicing the ability to disrupt, disable, and destroy the space capabilities on which our military depends.”

“So let’s be real clear about what’s happening today,” Deptula (Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula ) added. “The United States isn’t starting an arms race in space. We’re responding to one that’s already been underway.”
_theHill

139 Pepper Pike cops ticket on SOM too
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 17, 2026 11:03 PM (q/gvN)

SOMs kinda like a free for all zone it seems ...

I would have lost my license just driving to school. Especially having to drive into Shaker for practices in the afternoon.

140 122 San Franpsycho

I usually find some sticky, wobbly table in the back. The barkeep kinda feels bad for me, and brings me some kinda mystery fizzy drink....I love it here...(except for that moose out front😐..

141 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning
Don't know where I'll be tomorrow...

142 I am trying to remember the name of the class of sailing dinghy that was all the rage when I was a yute in West Vancouver. Sabot, maybe? They were all over, races, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2026 11:04 PM (1z8ji)

Lightnings ?

143 Xi Jinping's health and a possible plot to oust him from power.
Posted by: Braenyard

Probably got stuck in a honey pot.

144 Hmmm. Could this tie together the top photo and a major topic tonight? Let's see.

https://youtu.be/e5MAg_yWsq8

145 Here's your fizzy drink, COMM!

Let me put a napkin down first, so it doesn't stick to the table. Poor girl...

146 OK youz guys...
Tonight’s mission: survive the journey from the couch to the bed.
Good night pals!

147 >>I aspire to someday own a Sunfish that has been tied to somebody's garage rafters since they won it on The Price is Right in 1977.

One of the guys I used to sail with is a multi time Sunfish world champion. He moved back to St Croix where he grew up. He invented a new way to rig a Sunfish that made him really fast. The Jen's rig.

You can find used Sunfishes around here for short money. Great boats. Easy to sail and never get old no matter how skilled you get.

148 O God, ease our suffering in this, our moment of great dispair. Yea, admit this good and decent senator into thine arms in the flock in thine heavenly area, up there. And Moab, he laid its down by the band of the Canaanites, and yea, though the Hindus speak of karma, I implore you: give him... give him a break.

149 My sister had a fast as shit little sailboat, a step up from a Sunfish.
A Zuma,.I think. Fun to sail. Kind of like a Laser size.

150 I am trying to remember the name of the class of sailing dinghy that was all the rage when I was a yute in West Vancouver. Sabot, maybe? They were all over, races, too

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Sabot

Laser

Lido

Sunfish (for those into the lateen rig)

151 Lightnings ?
Posted by: browndog says woof at September 17, 2026 11:08 PM (oCio0)

No, Sabot is it. Design has been around since 1946. Hard-chine pram, cat-rigged, with a leeboard or dagger-board.

152

143 Xi Jinping's health and a possible plot to oust him from power.
Posted by: Braenyard

Probably got stuck in a honey pot.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 17, 2026 11:08 PM

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Oh, bother...

153 As I recall, Red Green repurposed his as a kiddie ride. Not sure that worked out so well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 17, 2026 11:02 PM (Ntshk)

I saw one that was rebuilt to act as an apple grinder and a juice extractor under spin cycle. It did not look efficient and I suspect every ounce of juice it spun out tasted like old laundry detergent, but it was a clever idea.

154 I saw video of Mitch McConnell today.

He was conscious but not alert nor oriented. He was not responsive. He did not speak. He did not move his legs. He gave one random thumbs up.

This is not a well person. He most likely has suffered a series of ischemic accidents. He probably needs assistance with all activities of daily living including continuous medical supervision. I would say based on this his prognosis is poor.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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But man can he vote!

155 I had a good shop day too. Last week, power went out for 4 hours. Went out to start my generator-no dice. It's a ten year old inverter type. First time it failed me. Figured it was the carb, but ordered a new generator anyway. Also ordered a carb. Disassembly of the enclosed type is a pain, but I installed the new carb and it runs perfectly. Now I have 2.
The open frame generators are much easier to service, but are much louder. It's worth the hassle for the quietness.
Can't afford to be without a generator here on the NC Coast

156 145 JQ!
You are a true treasure!!

157 >>Lightnings ?

My folks had both a Blue Jay and a Lightning when they were first married.

Sparkman & Stephens designed some great boats.

158 Wow, JackStraw! The Sunfish looks so much like the little sailboat my dad built when I was a child! We all learned to sail it, long before we could drive.

Wish I had it-- it now belongs to my older bro, who likely will never use it and will never let any of us *other kids* have it. Sad.

159 But man can he vote!
Posted by: wth at September 17, 2026 11:16 PM (oq9dX)

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DING DING DING DING

160 Configuring my Proxmox Hypervisor and having some bourbon and sour patch gummies, I'm off tomorrow so I may be up all night.

161 Peter Navarro has a new book out called Why Fauci MUST Rot in Prison

It is a combination of Fauci's diaries, countering clinical facts against Fauci's press releases, and a discussion of the laws and what the charges against Fauci should look like in the Florida courts.

It publishes October 13, 2026

162 to carve out some time to go check out the new trawlers.
Posted by: JackStraw

That's not what we used to call them...

163 The Art Deco Movement had beautiful decoration, gold leaf, sculpture, etc. WWII killed it. No artist commissions during the war and what emerged after was the International Style with nearly no ornamentation. Think the relatively ugly UN Complex in NY. Boring, flat. When I see the ugly green marble of the General Assembly behind someone speaking, I know we're about to get hosed.

164 Happy Thursday Horde!

Stick around COMM, I'll have a drink with you, so long as JQ is still on the bar.

165 Scituate Yacht club had a fleet of Sabots when I was a kid . I'd be trying to row my skiff across their race course to the mud flats and they'd get all pissed off.

166 Hi, Debby!

*pours Chivas*

Set a spell...

167 Now do Maxine.

168 >>Wow, JackStraw! The Sunfish looks so much like the little sailboat my dad built when I was a child! We all learned to sail it, long before we could drive.

They're so much fun and were super popular when I was a kid. Not surprised your dad built one, the boat inspired lots of copies.

And used ones are often pretty cheap. I've been thinking of picking one up myself. A bad day sailing is still a pretty damn good day.

169 162 to carve out some time to go check out the new trawlers.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Trawlers are kind of stodgy, aren't they? Is Grand Banks still around?

170 Now do Maxine.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Not with Bill Clinton's dick.

171 164 {{{DDS}}}
I'll give it my best! Good to see you sweet girl!

172 Good gosh, working these customer care phones has been exhausting!

173 A bad day sailing is still a pretty damn good day.
Posted by: JackStraw

True. I miss those days. Even the day that one guy on a Hobie Cat was *literally* running circles around me! I was just having fun on the lake.

174
Good evening, all.

I drove by Paramount Studios today! That area of town is trash. Everything barred up, weedy sidewalks. But you can see that beautiful Art Deco style out front and some of the interior buildings, which are Historical Buildings in their own right. TMZ says the departure is happening. 65 acres comes available in a yucky area of town. With Bass's aptitude for development, it should be a kingdom for pests and vandals in no time.

175 Good gosh, working these customer care phones has been exhausting!
Posted by: Piper at September 17, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

You need a large dog to act as your supervisor, to bark back at the AWFLs.

176 we are saved. The danger AI poses is going to be solved.
It is being reported that Sean Penn, Ben Stiller are to join AI Oversight Advisory Committee.


The only way this could be more fake is if it were fake.
I did, however, get to watch Sean Penn at Hugo Chavez' funeral looking very sad, so who knows. Maybe this is not fake and is merely fake.

177 172 Piper

You're doing a fine job🤪!

178 I drove by Paramount Studios today! That area of town is trash. Everything barred up, weedy sidewalks. But you can see that beautiful Art Deco style out front and some of the interior buildings, which are Historical Buildings in their own right.

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How is the Hollywood Forever Cemetery? It's right down the street. It was always a great free date.

"Wanna see Joey Ramone's grave monument?"

179 And used ones are often pretty cheap. I've been thinking of picking one up myself. A bad day sailing is still a pretty damn good day.
Posted by: JackStraw at

Been over two years since I put my kayak in the water. Bought but never used a little hand sail for it. Figured if played the wind and tide right, I could paddle down Narragansett Bay a few miles, then take an easy ride back.
Still a plan.

180 MTV Unplugged has some of the best music out there.

Too bad MTV abandoned music. It was freaking amazing in the 80s and 90s and early 00s.

181 177 thank you COMM!

182 Abandoned plans for a city across from San Francisco.

_______________________

If they start from scratch and go through the process again, I'm tempted to be very spiteful and vindictive. I figure if a spend a couple hours in the approved area, I can find some inconsequential wildlife and build it up into some species that requires our protection.

"No no no....you can't build here. You'd be interfering iwth the mating season of the Gold Rose Tortricid Moth".

Call me petty, but that would be so damn satisfying to do, just for kicks and giggles.

183 >>Trawlers are kind of stodgy, aren't they? Is Grand Banks still around?

I'm kind of stodgy.

Grand Banks is absolutely still around and building gorgeous yachts. They'll have at least one yacht at the show.

We called that kind of powerboat trawlers, not as a slur, just cause that's what we called cruising powerboats. Just a habit. It's where old sailors go when they get too old to pull strings. That's why Hinckley and other started building power boats.

This is a great cruising area with the islands and other popular ports and there are tons of those boats around here.

184 "No no no....you can't build here. You'd be interfering iwth the mating season of the Gold Rose Tortricid Moth".

Call me petty, but that would be so damn satisfying to do, just for kicks and giggles.
Posted by: Orson at September 17, 2026 11:32 PM (dIske)

Breeding grounds of the Greater Invisible Stoat.

185 I thought a trawler yacht was a displacement-hull power yacht patterned after the fishing boats of the same name.

186 There is three miles of stop lights on every corner and a speed limit of 35.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Not during rush hour.

187 >>Been over two years since I put my kayak in the water. Bought but never used a little hand sail for it. Figured if played the wind and tide right, I could paddle down Narragansett Bay a few miles, then take an easy ride back.
Still a plan.

If you figure out how to get all the way down the bay, I'll take you and your kayak home. Buy you a beer before we go too.

188 My brother in law had a laser I got to sail around off Prudence Island. Fun boat. He took me out, capsized a few times and made me right the boat and sail on.

Then I got to go out by myself.

It was cathartic. Awesome. So very fun. Empowering.

189 If I was of a mind to have a power boat, I'd get one of those sleek Riviera express cruisers. A 63 footer would be nice.

190 When I first started learning about archeology and the past, I was amazed by these ruins of great cities that were now just fields of broken walls, hone only to the fixes and the scorpion. How could such thing happen, I wondered? Why would everyone just leave a place that so much work had gone into?

Now I am watching the process happen in real time, and I begin to understand.

191 188 My brother in law had a laser I got to sail around off Prudence Island. Fun boat. He took me out, capsized a few times and made me right the boat and sail on.

Then I got to go out by myself.

It was cathartic. Awesome. So very fun. Empowering.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 17, 2026 11:38 PM (yEz+x)

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Nothing is more fun than hiking out so far your hair is literally in the water.

192 Now I am watching the process happen in real time, and I begin to understand.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2026 11:41 PM (sTKQb)

You can leave, but you cannot take it with you.

193 That is a really cool top photo, Doof.

194 That is a really cool top photo, Doof.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 17, 2026 11:43 PM (2RJDy)

Amazingly, the neutron burst from the warhead did not fog the negative.

195 I'm a city slicker but my father took me to boat shows when I was a kid.

Never been sailing, though.

196 Watched a ewetoob series by a couple who sailed the seas in a trawler. Unless you really want to cross the ocean one can have just as much fun in a smaller boat.
They were always working on that thing.
But they loved it.
Talk about burning cash.
I should have learned to sail.

197 >>My brother in law had a laser I got to sail around off Prudence Island. Fun boat. He took me out, capsized a few times and made me right the boat and sail on.

Elvis and I watched some of the NYYC Women's International Championships today. Two more days of racing. They race Swan IC37s owned by the New York Yacht Club. Good sailors. For girls.

Just kidding. Don't shoot me.

198 >> Why would everyone just leave a place that so much work had gone into?

Climate change. How dare you.

199 Biden's Dog, I hope that you are feeling better.

Piper, it is way past your bedtime!

200 Not Swan IC37.

The IC37s replaced the Swans. Sheesh.

201 Biden's Dog, I hope that you are feeling better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 17, 2026 11:49 PM (ibDUx)
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Thanks. First day since Tuesday of a decent sleep and feeling semi-normal. Doc prescribed knock-out antibiotics yesterday morning. They always do the trick.

Planning to actually step outside today but nothing strenuous.

202 195 I'm a city slicker but my father took me to boat shows when I was a kid.

Never been sailing, though.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 17, 2026 11:46 PM (JyZwj)

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If it makes you feel any better, the Mycenaean Greeks pretty much rowed everywhere.

203 62 "Well, can I pick the five Americans and the illegal?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"

How about The Squad for a Mexican weathergirl?

Posted by: Ripley at September 17, 2026 10:27 PM (PTDkx

Reason 4386 to love this place.....

204 oogle boats, eat lobster and drink rum. 3 things I absolutely excel at.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:19

It's nice when one's talents and ambitions in life coincide so well.

205
How is the Hollywood Forever Cemetery? It's right down the street.

Posted by: Cicero

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Behind bars, like everything else in that area.

206
Behind bars, like everything else in that area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That's where Karen Bass should be.

207 This is a great cruising area with the islands and other popular ports and there are tons of those boats around here.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Your area and further north are probably the best areas in the Americas for what they call shanty boats. There are Utubes of couples with, they call them shanty boat but they are attractive, and comfortable, perfect for sailing those inlets which are gorgeous and everywhere.

208 Good evening, Horde. My dad built pleasure boats, F and C class racing boats and their motors. I could change a prop or whole lower unit by age 10.

209 You can leave, but you cannot take it with you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2026 11:43 PM (1z8ji)

Well I sympathize completely
But there's nothing I can do
I am just obeying orders
I'm a simple soul like you
Well you really are persuasive
But I've heard it all before
And the boatman's getting restless
As he stands upon the shore

And you can't take it with you
No matter what you do
No, you can't take it with you
Not the place you're going to

210
Behind bars, like everything else in that area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That's where Karen Bass should be.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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I hope Nithya Raman uses the Paramount exit against that horrid grinning demon Bass.
[droning schoolmarm voice] "Our city has to be capable of maintaining its most treasured native industries" as if Raman gives a carp.

If LA has to be afflicted with one of those two for mayor, we proles at least deserve a little blue-on-blue action. Double bonus because the combatants are both females of color.

211 Hi Debby. Hope you are doing well. Fair to middling here. Bed is calling me.

212 >>Your area and further north are probably the best areas in the Americas for what they call shanty boats. There are Utubes of couples with, they call them shanty boat but they are attractive, and comfortable, perfect for sailing those inlets which are gorgeous and everywhere.

The northeast has a well earned reputation for insane and thoroughly corrupt politics and nobody knows it better than me. But we also have the best sailing and cruising grounds in the country and 2nd place isn't very close.

No chance I will give it up to appease the communists cause fuck them.

213 Wandered off to watch the latest Zeducation. Then I saw Pitch Meeting for Odysseus in the sidebar, and decided to watch that. Then I hit the Like button for that. At which moment, the laptop decided to Restart. As it does, now and then.

Finally back up, caught up on comments. And now it's time to clock out.🕚 As happens.

Leaving the ONT is a matter of unfortunate necessity. Good to know that once ol' grampaw webworker is gone alla y'all really get your freak on. 😮

https://youtu.be/1MMGy778NTs

G'nite, y'all.💤

214 I've seen a lot of writing/reporting on the upsurge by the Houthis but haven't seen any that connects this action to our upcoming elections.

It would seem to me that the timing was set to increase gas prices and make the Iran war look worse so as to help the Democrats take control of Congress which would hamstring the Trump administration and make it possible for the Iranian regime to survive past the end of Trump's Presidency.

215 >>I've seen a lot of writing/reporting on the upsurge by the Houthis but haven't seen any that connects this action to our upcoming elections.

The Houthis are an Iranian proxy, completely funded by Iran. That's exactly what's happening.

216 >>>Saw some pushback in the comments on Tuesday against my semi-crusade against Flock. We can respectfully disagree. But you might want to skip past this segment.

It's only one dude, recent arrival, and he is suspiciously BiNOesque.

217 javems, really good to see you, it has been a while, get some good sleep.

JQ, I am going to have another and please pour one for Ben Had.

218 So.
I did sushi tonight. And Irish whiskey.
What have I missed?

219 Hi Debby. Hope you are doing well. Fair to middling here. Bed is calling me.
Posted by: javems at September 18, 2026 12:04 AM (T/sqw)

Night! Hope to see you next month.

220 Debby, Thank you but I'm about to get back to bed. The dog is taking an extra long pee call.

See you soon, darlin

221 We are find out finding out much more about Thomas Vrooks. Looks bad for the Secret Service and FBI

Matt Walsh forty five minute video
https://tinyurl.com/4c6uj4em

222 I am going to have another and please pour one for Ben Had.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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You got it!

*Chivas for Debby*
*Balvenie for Ben Had* (hope that's right!)

Cheers, ladies!

223 Sorry to see you go, Ben Had. Sleep well!

224 Somebody exploded an H-bomb today
But it wasn't anybody I knew
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 17, 2026 09:59 PM (Cqx++)

More than 20 miles from my house. Don't care.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 17, 2026 10:09 PM (vSvIl)

Even at 200 miles, better stock up on iodine.

225 When I first started learning about archeology and the past, I was amazed by these ruins of great cities that were now just fields of broken walls, hone only to the fixes and the scorpion. How could such thing happen, I wondered? Why would everyone just leave a place that so much work had gone into?

Now I am watching the process happen in real time, and I begin to understand.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2026 11:41 PM (sTKQb)

Ancient Egypt was good at that. A new dynasty comes in, yeah this god sucks, and now this god is cool, and this city sucks, and now this city is cool. Then that one ends and another dynasty starts and does that shit all over again. When dynasties ended it was always crap shoot. Sometimes within dynasties. Akhenaten was one example. He tossed out the old gods, brings in the cult of Aten, builds an entire new capital city and moves the seat of power there. His son, King Tut, was originally Tutankhaten- Living image of Aten, then tut comes to power and now Aten was no longer cool, because fuck dad, and Tut became Tutankhamun- Living image of Amun, because now Amun was cool again and. Thats just one example. Cities built, cities abandoned, fuck it.

226 37 No Holiday Road for Mitch?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 17, 2026 10:05 PM (viF8m)

Missed opportunity. I denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof at September 17, 2026 10:15 PM (NZw0l)

Oh, I've heard this before! From a movie. I think the Titanic scene where they're sinking.

Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
https://youtu.be/KsYqIJqlPNc

227 JQ, thank you. Same to you.

228 Matt Walsh forty five minute video
https://tinyurl.com/4c6uj4em
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 18, 2026 12:22 AM (8O9+I)

Is there an executive summary available?

229 If I lived to 200 years old I never would have guessed Berserker was an expert on ancient Egypt.

You people never cease to amaze me.

230 Hmm, drinking makers mark. I used to like it. Somehow tonight I'm not digging it.

231 Catamorans.

232 Better than Canned Cling Peach Crown Royal.

233 If I lived to 200 years old I never would have guessed Berserker was an expert on ancient Egypt.

You people never cease to amaze me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 18, 2026 12:29 AM (viF8m)

Well hold on to your ass, because I can read the Hieroglyphs too. Not like I used to, because after 9/11 I basically said fuck that whole area of the planet. I put the books down, stopped my reading. Still comes in handy in museums though.

234 229 If I lived to 200 years old I never would have guessed Berserker was an expert on ancient Egypt.

You people never cease to amaze me.
Posted by: JackStraw


Have you ever listened to Iron Maiden? The album cover of Powerslave? Most of the metal heads I knew growing up and in the military were nerds (in a good way).

235 *slides 3-finger glass of JD down the bar to Bers*

236 Carney Folk Booze Ban.

237
Is there an executive summary available?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2026 12:28 AM (1z8ji)l my

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I'll let you know if he makes a shorter follow up post. Two major ideas: a lot of evidence that the secret service let this happen and had the snipers around to eliminate/shut up the shooter afterwards. Second, FBI not responding to Congress's subpoenas for a year and a 1 looks like cover up

238 >>Well hold on to your ass, because I can read the Hieroglyphs too. Not like I used to, because after 9/11 I basically said fuck that whole area of the planet. I put the books down, stopped my reading. Still comes in handy in museums though.

Awesome. This place has to be a collection of the most eclectic people on the internet.

239 >>Have you ever listened to Iron Maiden? The album cover of Powerslave? Most of the metal heads I knew growing up and in the military were nerds (in a good way).

Some. Deadheads are exactly the same way. And very few of you have ever actually listened to them.

240 *slides 3-finger glass of JD down the bar to Bers*

Posted by: JQ at September 18, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)

Well thanky. I should have gotten a bottle of that, or woodford.

241
Fake childcare busts in San Diego yesterday. 12 perps, I'm trying to see a pattern...

Fosiya Mohamoud, Somalia
Abdulrahman Alawad, Syria
Zetun Abdi, Somalia
Ikramullah Mohmmand, Afghanistan
Khetam Haouash, Syria
Khatera Hashimi, Afghanistan
Mariam Khamis, Sudan
Mohamad Alawad, Syria
Mazin Alawad, Syria
Turkiya Alawad, Syria
Zaryab Daudzai, Afghanistan
Cezar Yaqoob, Iraq

242 Have you ever listened to Iron Maiden? The album cover of Powerslave? Most of the metal heads I knew growing up and in the military were nerds (in a good way).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 18, 2026 12:36 AM (v9vY1)

Well, thats because we have to know our history. Can't write lyrics without it, and since our music mostly revolves around history you have to know shit. lol

243 I was taught rudimentary Egyptian history in jr. high maybe, I don't remember much of it now. I need to read a whole book on ancient civilizations.

244 Well, thats because we have to know our history. Can't write lyrics without it, and since our music mostly revolves around history you have to know shit. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


And know the poetry of opium addled Samuel Taylor Colleridge.

Iron Maiden - Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Rush - Xanadu
Probably a bunch of other songs that I can't recall.

245 28 The only reason I remember “Better than Ezra” is Norm McDonald.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 17, 2026 10:11 PM (sTKQb)

That was one of the greatest jokes of all time

246 Yeah, It was 'Good' by Better than Ezra.

https://youtu.be/acK0KH2uJGc

247 Hmm, drinking makers mark. I used to like it. Somehow tonight I'm not digging it.
Posted by: Berserker

I've always found it kind of boring, myself. It's okay for an old-fashioned, or something, I guess.

A wheated bourbon with zero rye in the mashbill. I think it's for people who don't like whiskey.

248 Actually, the funniest damn thing that ever happened to me while reading hieroglyphs was at the crazy horse monument in S dakota during sturgis week. For some reason they had a king tut display. There was a replica of his chair, all decorated with hieroglyphs. I was down on one knee reading it somewhat under my breath. Something like Nebkheperure (his royal name) blah blah, lord of the 2 lands, blah blah, and when I get done I went to get up and I turned around and there was this big burly bearded biker dude behind me and looking down at me with this slight frown or maybe more like whats this asshole doing. I looked at him and said, well, thats what it says, and I kinda slid away. lol

249 LOL Bers!

250 I looked at him and said, well, thats what it says, and I kinda slid away. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


You should have said," THE DEAD WILL ARISE!!", and then stroll off like nothing happened.

251 15 more minutes of work. I can do this.

252 I was taught rudimentary Egyptian history in jr. high maybe, I don't remember much of it now. I need to read a whole book on ancient civilizations.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 18, 2026 12:53 AM (ibDUx)

Well, it went on for 3000 years, I'm pretty sure they didn't have enough time to teach much more than "this is a pyramid" "this is a mummy" "pharaohs had funny hats" etc , lol

253 >>Well, it went on for 3000 years, I'm pretty sure they didn't have enough time to teach much more than "this is a pyramid" "this is a mummy" "pharaohs had funny hats" etc , lol

Have you had a chance to visit Egypt?

254 Well hold on to your ass, because I can read the Hieroglyphs too. Not like I used to, because after 9/11 I basically said fuck that whole area of the planet. I put the books down, stopped my reading. Still comes in handy in museums though.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 18, 2026 12:35 AM (S41Gd)

Now that’s a real talent; impressive! I did get to where I kinda figured how cartouches worked, they’re fairly simple. Kinda embarrassed to admit that in high school, I was nerdy enough that a couple friends and I (and one GF) wrote notes to each other in Tolkiens dwarvish runes. The Elvish script looks cooler, but cursive is hard unless you can do calligraphy.

255 118 If Paramount leaves L.A.that city will become Thunderdome in 2 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2026 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

Aerospace companies with tens of thousands left L. A. en masse in the '90's. Nobody noticed. Barely made the back pages of the business sections of the local editions. One film-related company laid off 50 people it was front page news.

This will be a drop in the bucket.

256 Have you had a chance to visit Egypt?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 18, 2026 01:12 AM (viF8m)

No, I really wanted to. Then 9/11 happened and I just didn't give a shit anymore about that part of the world.

257 Dump I will destroy the Kennedy center if I can't have my name on it! I don't care if gas and diesel gors to 10 dollars a gallon! Iran has offered to open up the strait of hormuz and have houthi's stop attacking ships in the red sea in exchange for dump and netanyahu. Sounds like a fair trade to me!

258 Dear Lord-- if we must be heckled by trolls, could we please at least have coherent, if not intelligent ones? Amen.

259 Well, I am on the point of falling asleep here. Going to hit the sack. Cool beans about the hieroglyphics, Berserker.

Night, Horde.

260 Aerospace companies with tens of thousands left L. A. en masse in the '90's. Nobody noticed. Barely made the back pages of the business sections of the local editions. One film-related company laid off 50 people it was front page news.

This will be a drop in the bucket.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 18, 2026 01:14 AM (QGaXH

The reason California was able to do that is something we all know here, but that few in the wider public are aware of. As legitimate jobs left, California, with the state and city governments assistance, replaced them with massive federal fraud at every level. We don’t know the scope completely, but there’s a chance that 25% of SoCal’s economy is based on pure fraud of one flavor or another.

As the legitimate jobs leave, SoCal is increasingly in the position where any serious clampdown in the fraud will collapse their entire economic structure in a relatively short timeframe.

261 Night, AOP.

Seconded, on: *cool beans about the hieroglyphics*, Berserker.

262 Night AOP.

Amen, JQ, if they were intelligent they wouldn't be trolls. The level of stupidity displayed by today's youth is a fine illustration of the failure of their educators.

263 Fake childcare busts in San Diego yesterday. 12 perps, I'm trying to see a pattern...

Fosiya Mohamoud, Somalia
Abdulrahman Alawad, Syria
Zetun Abdi, Somalia
Ikramullah Mohmmand, Afghanistan
Khetam Haouash, Syria
Khatera Hashimi, Afghanistan
Mariam Khamis, Sudan
Mohamad Alawad, Syria
Mazin Alawad, Syria
Turkiya Alawad, Syria
Zaryab Daudzai, Afghanistan
Cezar Yaqoob, Iraq
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2026 12:48 AM (mmrXZ)

For the life of me I can’t see the common denominator.

[/sarc]

264 >>No, I really wanted to. Then 9/11 happened and I just didn't give a shit anymore about that part of the world.

One of the scarier places I used to visit on business post 9/11. Home of the Muslim Brotherhood. Pretty lawless on the western scale. White guys don't blend that well.

If it ever calms down I would recommend you visit the City of the Dead. Giza is amazing as well of course, but there are some great places to visit around Cairo as well if you want to get the vibe of the area.

265 Giza > Gaza

266 Now that’s a real talent; impressive! I did get to where I kinda figured how cartouches worked, they’re fairly simple.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 18, 2026 01:13 AM (sTKQb)

yeah the cartouches are where the royal names are. Whats not simple is that a pharaoh had 5 names and a 6th secret name. We know the pharaohs by their birth name, the name given to them by their parents, which is called the "son of Ra" name. Ramesses, Tutankhamun, Thutmose, etc, are their birth names. If on top of a cartouche you see what looks like a duck, and over the back of the duck there is a circle with a dot in the center, that is the Son of Ra name. Ramesses is easy because because the god Ra is the first part of his name. There is whats called honorific transposition, and the gods name always appears on top no matter where it appears on the name. In Tutankhamun the god Amun is spoken last but in the cartouche it would appear on top, so if you don't know that rule you'll never get the translation right. Ramesses II's royal name is User-maet-ra Setep-en-Ra, and that cartouch would not have the son of Ra symbols over it, but something different. There's a shit ton of rules in reading this stuff.

267 263 Fake childcare busts in San Diego yesterday. 12 perps, I'm trying to see a pattern...

Fosiya Mohamoud, Somalia
Abdulrahman Alawad, Syria
Zetun Abdi, Somalia
Ikramullah Mohmmand, Afghanistan
Khetam Haouash, Syria
Khatera Hashimi, Afghanistan
Mariam Khamis, Sudan
Mohamad Alawad, Syria
Mazin Alawad, Syria
Turkiya Alawad, Syria
Zaryab Daudzai, Afghanistan
Cezar Yaqoob, Iraq
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2026 12:48 AM (mmrXZ)

For the life of me I can’t see the common denominator.

[/sarc]
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


White MAGA Rethuglicans!! Duh!

/s

268 Fake childcare busts in San Diego yesterday. 12 perps, I'm trying to see a pattern...

Fosiya Mohamoud, Somalia
Abdulrahman Alawad, Syria
Zetun Abdi, Somalia
Ikramullah Mohmmand, Afghanistan
Khetam Haouash, Syria
Khatera Hashimi, Afghanistan
Mariam Khamis, Sudan
Mohamad Alawad, Syria
Mazin Alawad, Syria
Turkiya Alawad, Syria
Zaryab Daudzai, Afghanistan
Cezar Yaqoob, Iraq
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 18, 2026 12:48 AM (mmrXZ)

For the life of me I can’t see the common denominator.

[/sarc]
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit


I see it. They're all contestants for Air Pinochet rides

269 Grateful Dead playing in Giza with a Sphinx as the backdrop in 1978. I chose a mellow tune so you wouldn't freak out. The donated the money they made on the tour to various charities and had to cancel a show in the UK and it cost them a shitload of money.

https://shorturl.at/kwbUb

Later in '78 Jerry released a solo album called Cats Under the Stars. The cover art was a sphinx.

Goodnight morons.

270 "Why did we stop building stuff with so much detail?"

When we started mass producing everything via machines. Machines don't do details well, they just like straight lines or predictable curves.

271 Hopefully blueberry pancakes this morning

272 Moar blueberry pancakes?!

Breakfast at Skip's!!! Again!

273 Hmm, drinking makers mark. I used to like it. Somehow tonight I'm not digging it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Did you forget to stand on your head and shout, "FREEBIRD" beforehand?

274 226 Holiday Road!

Just stopped in for a moment and saw this video...Christmas Vacation! Now I'm looking forward to the holidays! Yay!
Steppin' back out...lurking....

275 >>Did you forget to stand on your head and shout, "FREEBIRD" beforehand?

LOL.

*flicks bic*

FREEBIRD!

276 re: Flock cameras
In 1997, I was tasked with setting up the company email server. While researching this "email" thing, I found stats showing that most admins would browse user mails; it was mostly harmless snoops but occasionally a stalker, creep, loser, etc. There were endless spam issues, and sometimes server exploits via the email ecosystem. Spoiler alert: It turned out that email solved a lot of problems, but steps had to be taken to curb abuse. It's kind of Flock-like.

Since we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that public cameras are here to stay, maybe we should fix the issues instead of trying to ban it, since banning new tech and new ideas has never worked.

(And apply the fixes to Ring cameras, traffic cams, security cams at homes and bussinesses, etc because they're the exact same thing, and there are currently about 60 million of them according to AI).

277 Sweet dreams Horde, I am off to sleep.

278 Night, Debby.

279 I had to buy a new microwave today. Old one kept shutting off & blanking display intermittently. Ugh. It was only ~5 years old!

Not many to choose from at local wallyworld-- it's all about "air fryers" now & shelves were FULL of those. Meh, not ready for one of those. Maybe later.

But really, wtf? My first micro lasted over 20 years, and even then still mostly worked-- just a few number buttons were wonky-- so no "1" or "4" but all others were OK. Another 5 or 6 years, and the "start" button gave out...

Now on number 4 since then! Cheap crap.

280 How about you need a warrant and probable cause to consult the Flock, et al. databases? That’s consistent with the 4th amendment.

281 TGIF

282 Night, all.

TGIF, Skip.

283 >>>I dare anyone to find a BETTER before and after hair cut. This guy is an absolute WIZARD!

Is this real?

284 I've made no secret of how much I love the video of Traffic "Live at Santa Monica" (1972) Well, this just popped up in my feed, and if you're curious if Steve still has it -- the body is older, but the musical chops are all there.

The recording is apparently just an iPhone, with all the flaws that implies. It's shaky, it doesn't start on time, the sound mix is a mixed bag. But if you want to compare his Wednesday night with whatever you were doing, here you go:

Steve Winwood - Dear Mr. Fantasy (Live), 9/16/2026, Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
https://youtu.be/X2oHYioZSE4

285 279 I had to buy a new microwave today. Old one kept shutting off & blanking display intermittently. Ugh. It was only ~5 years old!

Not many to choose from at local wallyworld-- it's all about "air fryers" now & shelves were FULL of those. Meh, not ready for one of those. Maybe later.

But really, wtf? My first micro lasted over 20 years, and even then still mostly worked-- just a few number buttons were wonky-- so no "1" or "4" but all others were OK. Another 5 or 6 years, and the "start" button gave out...

Now on number 4 since then! Cheap crap.
Posted by: JQ at September 18, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)

That is really, truly rotten.

286 Posted by: SciVo at September 18, 2026 04:16 AM (ke3zm)

You've been kinda scarce on the tech thead!

287 I am against the Flock cameras for the reason that what we are seeing now is just the first iteration. First came just the license readers now comes Flock. It is not hard to imagine where this type of surveillance will lead to next.

288 Pixy's up!

289 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

290 47 days till election day when voters will come up with the final solution to the dumpster question as dump says NO fema money for disaster relief in states that don't vote republican at N.C. rally.

291 Wow raimondo, you're really letting your neo-Nazi freak flag fly. Or you just don't know the history of that phrase. Or both, you don't know why your Islamofascist buddies keep on talking about a "final solution" to the "so-and-so question," you just think it sounds powerful.

292 291 Wow raimondo, you're really letting your neo-Nazi freak flag fly. Or you just don't know the history of that phrase. Or both, you don't know why your Islamofascist buddies keep on talking about a "final solution" to the "so-and-so question," you just think it sounds powerful.
Posted by: SciVo at September 18, 2026 05:34 AM (ke3zm)

Good call, SciVo.

293 Love that you have a video of dada!! Puzzle is one of my stranded island CDs!

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Hasan Piker re-affirms that he believes America is a bigger terror threat than Al Qaeda.

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker tells Axios he believes America conducts more terrorism in the world than al-Qaeda, the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks.

"Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes," Piker said in an exclusive interview for a new episode of "The Axios Show." Piker added: "We have caused tremendous terror all around the world."

He now says that while what he said was right, people with names like "Hasan" and "Abdul" (the Senate candidate who he's palling around with) aren't allowed to utter such truths.

AWFUL: Lindsay Clancy shouldn't be punished because she's already been punished enough for "losing her children." She didn't lose them, she strangled them to death. This is the apotheosis of the old joke, "Your honor, please have mercy for my murder of my parents. I'm an orphan, your honor."

By the way, when asked to endorse "justice for the children," this degenerate, twisted hag refuses.

Was Martin Udall right? He was definitely right about a large swathe of women, nearly the majority.

The women of Piddington have a possible savior. The UK is planning to cram 1,250 Muslim men into a base just next to the town of a mere 350, giving the "newcomers" a 3-to-1 majority over the actual citizens. Plans have been discovered showing the government actually plans to settle over 3,500 "newcomers" there, but they swearsies that that plan has been abandoned and they would never!

So, while the UK government does not care at all about the fact that the women of Piddington will become free-range rape prey for the almost uniformly military-age male "newcomers," they do care about a species of newt which may be endangered by the sudden influx of rapists.

Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat

🚨BREAKING: The illegal migrant camp planned for Piddington may be CANCELLED due to a protected species of NEWTS being found on the site

So let me get this straight...

The Government care more about the safety of NEWTS than Women and Girls?

The town recently voted to declare itself independent from the UK, but obviously the UK will not permit that. You are Tax Cattle to be farmed and slaughtered. And raped. You are chattel.

On the other hand: Andy Burnham has promised to let Scotland again vote to leave or stay part of the UK, and Wales and Northern Ireland want a vote too.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales leaders to meet tomorrow to plan breakup of UK: Report

The leaders of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will meet on Monday to discuss plans for the breakup of the United Kingdom, according to The Telegraph.

First Ministers John Swinney of Scotland, Rhun ap Iowerth of Wales, and Michelle O'Neill of Northern Ireland are expected to sign a joint declaration demanding the right to hold referendums on breaking away from the UK. For the first time, the three constituent nations of the UK are held by pro-separation parties.

The Telegraph reported sources as saying that the summit's purpose is to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham after he said in the parliament on Wednesday that he would back another Scottish independence referendum if public opinion backed one.

A source close to Swinney told the newspaper that Burnham "fucked up" by making the comment and unionists should be very worried.

The source further said: "Burnham has not read his brief and doesn't seem to know the basics of the UK Government's position on the Union. If I was a Unionist, I would be very worried."

Ahead of the summit, Swinney said that Burnham was "facing up to the idea that he will go down in history as the final prime minister of the United Kingdom".

Swinney said that that, for the first time, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are led by pro-independence parties, and "there could be no clearer sign that the status quo is not sustainable and that Westminster must prepare for a post-UK future".

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The separatist movements in the UK have picked up pace lately as US President Donald Trump has ramped up his anti-British campaign. After threatening to back Argentina in the campaign to wrest the Falkland Islands off the UK, he has now supported Northern Ireland's separation from the UK and merger with Ireland.

Meanwhile, EU leader and Bond villain Ursula Von Leyden has offered Canada an "associate membership" in the EU, which means that they get no advantages at all but get to be ruled over by Ursula and her 400 MEP besties, which is the same deal all actual EU members get.

The Bond villainous made this offer on her own "authority," without asking any member nation for approval.

And there is no such thing as an "associate member."

Brussels was hit with a furious backlash today after announcing unprecedented plans for Canada to become an 'associate member' of the bloc -- without asking EU capitals to sign off on the proposal.

EU diplomats told the Mail they were kept in the dark and first learnt of the proposal when Ursula von der Leyen, the EU Commission boss, unveiled it during a keynote speech.

During the top Eurocrat's annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament, she repeatedly love-bombed Canadian premier Mark Carney -- who was in the chamber -- saying Brussels wanted 'to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.'

But to the surprise of diplomats from the EU's 27 member nations, who would have to sign off the move, she gushed: 'Dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships. So, I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the EU.

'We share one ocean, one set of values, one way of seeing the world. And we will now build our shared future as well -- thank you for being here.'

But the attempt to flatter the former Governor of the Bank of England backfired, with diplomats saying they were never briefed about the proposal and that, in effect, 'associate membership' doesn't even exist.

EU diplomats accused Brussels of 'over-reach', an accusation often levelled against Eurocrats by UK Brexiteers before Britain left the bloc.

One EU diplomat told the Mail: 'This bombastic announcement is just not right.

'There will be a summit at the end of October, so logically they will talk about deepening the relations.

'But no one has ever seen an associate membership and no idea what it means in practice. Canada is a valuable partner for the EU, one of the few currently in the world where we share the values, so it is nothing against Canada.

'But first and foremost the member states should be the ones to express what kind of relationship the EU wants to have with any third country.'

Another added: 'She kept this bit of associate membership out of the text until the last moment. She also did not mention it up front to EU member states.

'It seems like she is a bit too far out in floating this. Everyone is positive about Canada, and wants to strengthen the relationship.

'But there is a lot of uncertainty about what von der Leyen envisages by coining this label.'

Trump has reasserted the old Monroe Doctrine, stating that the western hemisphere is the US's sphere of influence, and rejected Europe's attempt to colonize the west.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

21h

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Donald Trump just said if Canada becomes an associate member of the European Union, he might consider it a "HOSTILE ACT" and could enact tariffs or stop trading OUTRIGHT with Europe

TRUMP: "Canada has been a TERRIBLE partner." 🔥

This DOES sound like a hostile act: why else would Canada do this other than to think joining the EU gives them leverage in a trade war over America?

It's EXACTLY why Trump is right to be slapping Canada with tariffs until they stop treating Americans unfairly

The EU isn't saving Canada from an invasion by Russia or China, yet they treat the US the worst!

The chancellor of Germany says free speech is just a kooky American idea that he doesn't share:

“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… https://t.co/xETjMt6RMB

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 15, 2026

Democrat House candidate cries and whines that she'd like to go home after being arrested for driving drunk and crashing into other cars.

Washington state Democrat Krista Perez, who is running for a state House seat, was seen on police video admitting to drinking wine, declining field sobriety tests and begging to go home before praying and crying in the back of a patrol car after her DUI arrest.

Perez finished first in last month's primary in the 29th Legislative District, Position 1, and will face incumbent state Rep. Melanie Morgan, also a Democrat, in November, as the top two candidates advance to the general election.

Tacoma Police said Perez's 2019 Chevrolet Silverado allegedly struck a parked car on South G Street shortly after midnight on August 11, setting off a chain reaction that damaged five vehicles, according to The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red.

Prosecutors charged her with DUI, with a refusal enhancement in connection with the collision and a later encounter with police.

Body camera footage shows police questioning Perez after the crash and her subsequent arrest, while footage from the backseat of the patrol car shows her praying and sobbing, according to video obtained by The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red.

After police arrived at the scene, Perez told an officer she did not understand what was going on and claimed she was not involved in an accident, the footage shows.

"Did you get into an accident here?" the officer asks.

"I did not," Perez responded.

The officer then asked what happened.

"I don't know. I've never been in an accident before," she replied.

She also said she switched insurers just weeks before the incident when asked for her documents. She was able to tell the officer the name of the insurance company.

Perez told the officer she was driving from a friend's business on Tacoma Avenue South when the collision happened.

"Did you have anything to drink tonight?" the officer asked.

"I just had some wine while I was there," Perez replied.

Asked how much wine she had, Perez said she had one glass.

When the officer asked how big the glass was, she told him, "I think you might need to contact the business."

The officer then asked her to rate her sobriety on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being completely sober.

She first told the officer that she wanted to go home. But when asked a second time, she rated herself a four.

The officer then asked her to take standardized field sobriety tests but stated multiple times that the tests are optional.

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Perez declined the tests, kept saying she wanted to go home and repeatedly said that she was "confused."

"Not right now. I'd like to go home first," she said.

"You're not going to go home first. I'm going to tell you that right now, okay? So your options between the test, yes or no, that's going to be determined tonight, right now, not when you go home. So would you like to take these tests or no?" the officer asked.

Perez responded by asking if she was allowed to decline the tests.

"You do have a choice. You can either say yes, or you can say no. They're totally voluntary tests," the officer answered.

"Yeah, I would like to go home first," she replied.

The officer asked whether her answer meant she was declining the tests, and she said yes.

She was then told she was under arrest for DUI and to put her hands behind her back.

"Hold on. Hold on. One second. Hold on," she said.

Perez repeatedly told the officer that she did "not know what any of this means." He told her it means she is under arrest for DUI.

Washington state Democratic House candidate Krista Perez was seen crying, praying and sobbing in the back of a patrol car after her DUI arrest.

Police body camera also shows Perez admitting she'd been drinking wine and refusing field sobriety tests after officers say she crashed… pic.twitter.com/gBSGTzOe8z

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 17, 2026

They're all criminals:

This week, the Ohio state rep for the Somali neighborhood of Columbus, a Medicaid fraud hotspot, was served a lawsuit alleging he lied about living in his district–and police found him, indeed, at a residence outside his district. https://t.co/5b0VuQd5Ol

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) September 17, 2026