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TXMoMe Schedule & Other Updates - 9/13/26 Updates! We have Updates! Update 1:
For our amazing volunteers, I sent out an email last week asking whether or not you will be attending this year and when you plan to arrive (day and approximate time). If you haven't received this email, please send me a note at gunthread at protonmail dot com. It is important to have this information for scheduling and to make certain we have the proper coverage making the shooting activities safe and enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you in advance. Update 2:
Here is an outline of the schedule of events. Times are tentative and subject to modification/change. This schedule will be included in the Gun Thread with any changes incorporated going forward until the event, so please check back weekly.
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Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
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Noon: Light lunch provided (carport)
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11am - 4:00pm: Static live fire (pistol range)
Rifle Program
9am - 10am: Combined Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (rifle range) Handgun Program
9am - 10am: Range and Safety Briefing - Mandatory for Saturday arrivals! (carport)
10am - 1pm: Live fire (pistol range)
You will note there are combined rifle and handgun range safety briefings both days and attendance is mandatory if you want to shoot. We take your safety seriously and ask everyone who wants to shoot plan on attending this important briefing. Again, we are conducting one combined safety brief each day. No exceptions. Immediately following each day's safety briefing you will be asked to sign a general liability waiver, and only then will you receive a color-coded wrist band. The color is different each day, and it is your ticket onto the range(s) for the day. No wrist band, no shooting that day. Don't want to sign the waiver? No problem, just do not expect to shoot. If you miss the mandatory range safety briefing which is mandatory and must be attended, you are welcome to watch the live fire activities from designated observation areas. All shooters are asked to check in with an RSO (sporting an Orange Cap of Dorkiness for easy identification) upon your arrival at either of the ranges who will answer questions and direct you to an open firing position. The RSOs wield unspeakable power so it is in your best interest to be nice to them. Want to do things your way? I suggest that your own personal range on your own personal property is a good place for expressing your individuality, not as a guest on the ranch. IMPORTANT: I would hope this goes without saying, but anyone failing to immediately and politely follow RSO instructions will be removed from the range(s). Period. No exceptions. I will probably think of more things to yell about in the coming weeks so please stay tuned.
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I've probably covered this cigar before but this is a good time for a relook. This is a very nice cigar. From the Dominican Republic, it hosts an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper using a Nicaragua Habano binder and filler also from Nicaragua. It is a cigar built to sit back and just enjoy it for a bit. In fact, it even looks like the kind of cigar you want to try. The wrapper is golden in color and flawless in appearance. It is firm, well rolled and offers a slight aroma while unlit. The first third has no introduction time and it sets up a pleasant smoke right from the start. The aroma is an honest tobacco and the taste is equally so plus hints of wheat and nuts. Some say there is a touch of cedar in it but I suspect that is from the humidor I use. I didn't catch it. Moving into the second third, and for that matter, the rest of the cigar, the tobacco just goes deeper in richness and flavor. The draw is light, the ash is even, and the burn consistent. The Returno is becoming one of my favorite go-to cigars, and it will be a standard for me on the golf course. Yesterday, right after lighting this one up, I shot a par, birdie, and then an eagle. All this after a particularly bad start so yeah, Returno's for golf!!! P.S. Note my cool head cover!Excellent, Diogenes! Thank you!
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:00 PM (P6lWH)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (I43vL)
Posted by: RI Red at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (ttrGW)
Food Thread: Social Media Recipes And Blending Bourbon...The End Of Our Civilization?
Social Media is in many ways a tremendously corrosive influence on our culture, in particular its ability to magnify trivial, tiny trends into seemingly massive movements. And don't get me started on its destruction of our attention spans! One thing I am unsure about though, is the explosion in cooking reels and videos. On one hand, it sure is fun to see other people's culinary creations. On the other hand, a lot of those people are shitty cooks but better videographers, so their crap food looks halfway appetizing. The younger brat saw a recipe for potatoes on her social media feed, and demanded that we (she) make it for Rosh Hashanah. And I will freely admit that it was good! Not great, and it definitely needs work, but it's a good start. But they looked spectacular in the video!
I like Bourbon! And it is a broad category of spirit, so there are styles for pretty much everyone in every price category. But $100 for a bottle is a lot of money, and it had better be something damned special. This New $100 Bourbon Blends 3 of Kentucky's Most Coveted Whiskeys in One Bottle This makes me suspicious that it is a marketing ploy rather than an honest attempt at making something special. Why tempt fate with three popular whiskeys in one bottle? That sounds like it could turn out to be a muddy mess without any character.
And speaking of booze marketing!
Here's a serious question. Why would anyone pay a premium for vodka? Any flavor is distilled out of it by design. That's why you can make it with just about any vegetation that can be fermented. It's essentially an alcoholic additive for juices and liqueurs. It's a commodity. Grey Goose? It's for suckers and poseurs. CHANGE MY MIND-- Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 06, 2026 04:36 PM (vRDYl) I think this is a very good point, and one that we have discussed in the past. I do think that there are minor differences between the various starches that different companies use to make their vodka, and someone with a good palate can probably detect the difference. But I agree that it doesn't translate into quality differences!
Here's a dish from my youth, and one that I am immensely pleased I no longer have to eat! Classic Stuffed Peppers just doesn't make any sense. The texture of the cooked pepper isn't particularly pleasant when left whole, and it doesn't add anything to the dish other than a sturdy vessel in which to put some boring filling. Why? Now...get off my lawn!
Don't show these to CBD. Deep Fried Cat Food NyQuil Chicken Okay, you can show them to CBD but make sure any weapons are out of reach.-- Posted by: Robert at September 06, 2026 06:02 PM (ERsao)
The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:05 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:05 PM (qEb4U)
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I think I used too much bread and not enough egg, and I laid the sour cream on top a bit too thick. I also might sneak some bacon into the recipe, because...well...BACON!
Far be it from me to play food police, but that doesn't sound particularly kosher...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (anFBA)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 04:07 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 04:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 04:08 PM (CjHsb)
NyQuil Chicken
the former I can almost understand - it's at least half likely to have meat of some sort in it. A pound of hamburger would still be cheaper.
The latter must be a troll. You cannot taste nyquil and think it would be a good marinade (or whatever) for anything.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 04:08 PM (anFBA)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 04:10 PM (aJQbY)
I have a huge crop of the most delicious bell peppers in my garden, starting to turn red.
Perfect timing.
My mom used to make them when I was a child. I could not stomach the smell. Now?
I'm ready for them now... my taste buds changed somehow. Mystery.
Posted by: Derak at September 13, 2026 04:10 PM (xVvka)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:11 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:12 PM (rbvCR)
That's our Christmas morning breakfast, along with Christmas tree cinnamon rolls.
I wonder if Stephen Three Name Cookbook Person has a copy?
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 04:12 PM (WBjaU)
It happens. Barrells for one reason or another age poorly. I'd assume the distillery would rather do something creative with them, than lose money.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:14 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:14 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 13, 2026 04:15 PM (VCgbV)
5 I make stuffed bell peppers all the time.. The key is to pre cook the peppers until they are somewhat soft.... If you don't when the dish is done the peppers will be too crisp..
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM
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I make stuffed peppers, and pre-cook the peppers. Everybody loves them.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 04:15 PM (mS8PE)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (lJ0H4)
There was a ton of cheese in this thing!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Lemmy at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (kyjmO)
They're yummy! Like Mom made!
And stuffed tomatoes, too!
Mom basically stuffed them both with creole rice. Stretttccchhh that food budget.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:18 PM (odBC9)
Cheesy Breakfast thing looks like it would be good as game day munching as well.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 04:20 PM (qQfd5)
https://youtu.be/0nmPEUsGNyk
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:22 PM (nbLIj)
But, first, Bourbon. Not that silly mash up Kentucky Boy shit either.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:24 PM (2Cry5)
Rules, people! Go by the rules! What do you mean you don't have any sage? Were you not told to stock up on the last food thread?! It's like I'm talking to myself........
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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[tries to imagine the flavor of bourbon aged in the AOSHQ barrel]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (rzEIv)
I also have leftover Korean crockpot beef (gochujang, baby!) and a pint of mulligatawny soup I made. Good eats all week.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:28 PM (kpS4V)
But not even necessarily lower quality, maybe just more production than they want to put out in the market under their premium brand name. Too much availability and you risk hurting your snob appeal. I'm sure they all have MBAs who spend countless hours sweating over spreadsheets to find the precise market volume to maximize profits.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (rzEIv)
Mom always made a breakfast casserole on Christmas morning. Bread. Milk, eggs, Swiss cheese, sausage and some dried mustard. I know I have the recipe somewhere but I'll be darned if I can find it.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:30 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 13, 2026 04:31 PM (H8nu1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:26 PM (XeU6L)
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Some hipster would detect notes of hobo, Sterno, and the shame of unclosed italics.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:31 PM (kpS4V)
Concur, concur, concur.
Three concurrences? This CBD fellow is turning out to be an even finer fellow that I had previously supposed. If only we could ameliorate this unfortunate peccadillo of dissing maple syrup on French Toast, he might possibly graduate into being a sterling chap!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Well it looks and sounds delish!
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2026 04:33 PM (D7w1V)
Yeah, vodka's made from rye or potatoes or whatever will give you a different taste if you drink it plain.
But, if you mix it with something or make cocktails, well..don't buy headache inducing garbage. Something like Tito
's is just fine.
Although...
I saw some "premium" vodka that was distilled 5X.
So, it truly probably tasted like nothing but ethanol.
I suspect you could make vodka from cat poop that would taste just fine if you distilled it 5X.
Just beware of the garnish used in your Cat Poop Vodka Martini!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:34 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Speaking of maple syrup, Chick-Fil-A has a new sandwich. Their filet topped with bacon between two maple flavored waffles. Served with maple syrup. I do need to try it before it goes away.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (lJ0H4)
But I do have eggs, bacon and with that half potato, home fries. I see where I'm heading, breakfast for supper.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Last night, I whipped up some BBQ'd Brisket Enchiliadas for the game.
They were excellent and stupidly easy make..
I recommend that everyone make them from their BBQ'd brisket leftovers.
You're welcome!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM (lJ0H4)
I see NyQuil Chicken as being like Chicken and Waffles with the NyQuil acting as the maple syrup.
I think I read that's on Chik-Fil-A's Secret Menu.
Give it a whirl with their Peach Shake!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:43 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: From about That Time
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A tradition at Ft. Hammer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:43 PM (XeU6L)
Most basic stratas call for milk or cream, or a combination of the two. Maybe you can get away with plain yogurt, if you're into that kind of thing. Usually ten slices of bread with six or seven eggs, (jumbo vs extra large). The most memorable strata I ever had included smoked salmon...I'm getting a little verklempt just thinking about it. Talk amongst yourselves...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 04:44 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 04:25 PM (xJpuh)
I thought we were supposed to stock up on Ammo and practice our cooking fundamentals. Did I do that backwards?
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (qQfd5)
Posted by: From about That Time
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A tradition at Ft. Hammer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
My son's favorite school cafeteria lunch. Breakfast for lunch.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 04:45 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 04:46 PM (yEz+x)
I have had excellent luck with the smallest size fig trees from Logees, specifically Chicago Hardy. They fruited the first season I had them, which is way fun. They are grafted so they stay smaller and fruit earlier. But I'm learning that figs do not like overhead watering and they eventually died on me. (My current Beer's Black was heavily discounted at Lowe's due to overhead watering damage, but it's looking much better now so I think it will be okay.)
Also, I have heard that Brown Turkey is disappointing even though it is among the hardiest figs. I guess it doesn't taste as good as other varieties.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 13, 2026 04:46 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Skip
The rice were the splines.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (NnhvP)
****
Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)
Dropped on his head as a child and his face landed in some maple syrup on the floor, obviously.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 04:50 PM (rzEIv)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:50 PM (6ydKt)
I have 5 HUGE bowls of salads - Chinese Cabbage, green peppers, onions and tomatoes. I finished off the 25lbs of Roma tomatoes but my friends are away and told me to collect stuff from their garden and I have a ton more tomatoes, which is great. Raw, nothing fancy.
I just cut up a HUGE 18 pound watermelon so I'll be having that over the next three days or so. It's nearing the end of the season so what the heck.
And I cut up some of the carrots - 10 pounds and some of the 20 pounds of beets I have in the basement. Those are my snacks for the next several weeks.
I'm actually going to be cooking bacon later today. Kind of the first time. Mom handled cooking. But I never needed much. I'm fine with fruits, veggies, nuts, yogurt, canned sardines, boiled chicken, cereal etc.
I'm apparently pretty easy to feed. Which is fine.
I'm happy with it.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 04:52 PM (Sco7b)
ABV: 50%
Maturation: Kentucky Boy is a bespoke bourbon blend developed by Elizabeth McCall and Caleb Trigo. It marries Woodford Reserve Double Oaked, Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, and King of Kentucky. It’s a non-age-stated whiskey, and the exact proportions of the blend remain undisclosed.
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Brand tasting notes for Kentucky Boy highlight a nose rich in chocolate, toasted hazelnut, Luxardo cherry, nutmeg, and fresh-baked apple pie. The palate opens with “crisp ginger snap cookie and stewed apples,” then moves to sweet charred oak and baking spices. A long, sweet finish ends with dark cherries, golden raisins, and hickory smoke.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)
Occasionally all of the above.
Morning shits are epic.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (2Cry5)
My sister makes a similar one. It's delicious.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 04:57 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 04:57 PM (uozx9)
And I used to precook my peppers for stuffed peppers, but then I realized it was the dirty rice I really wanted, and stopped bothering with the peppers.
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at September 13, 2026 04:58 PM (C1NyB)
Anyone who writes like that is getting paid for it one way or another. Which is not necessarily a slam, just something to keep in mind.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:59 PM (vTZFs)
Ham and eggs, omelettes and hash browns, eggs, sausage and Belgian waffles, French toast, English Muffins.
American breakfast has a a lot to offer.
Especially if you don't like vegetables.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
But I'm with you on the current sad state of collar stays.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:00 PM (84gkw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 05:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM (y687V)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 13, 2026 05:02 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:01 PM
Stuffed zucchini is also a thing. Eggplants, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:03 PM (84gkw)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (MWfyi)
When my folks had their farm in Vermont they had an agreement with a local farmer to allow him to tap their maples in exchange for some of his final product.
Fall Sunday mornings my dad would make waffles with sausage from a local farmer and of course maple syrup everywhere. I've already been to heaven.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)
Keep it neat, keep it safe.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:05 PM (xcxpd)
I've had some hat were pretty smooth that I could slow down with but generally it's a down the hatch kinda thing for me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
Food adjacent-
I saw a guy yesterday eating a hamburger as his Tesla Y L(?) drove him (I assume) on the tollway yesterday.
Kinda neat.
I more or less assume all cars/trucks will have that ability in 5 years or less.
You'll even be able to eat your French Toast with Maple Syrup with knife and fork as you speed along the highways and byways of America.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (MWfyi)
Heh, yeah, except for those obvious trailer trash "recipes" where they get out a big aluminum pan and make a casserole by layering things like chicken nuggets, Velveeta, onion rings, salsa, and then corn flakes + 2 sticks of butter!
*I made that up, but you know those ghastly reels. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:08 PM (y687V)
A really good vodka has a subtle flavor and a viscosity to it, not to say oiliness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:08 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (MWfyi)
Hey! I resemble that remark....
I just shoot 9mm faster. If I have to run a Dicken drill, my .45 groups and times are way worse than with any of my 9mm hole punchers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:10 PM (xcxpd)
Cut them like french fries and fry them up in a skillet.
They'd were rather good, if you like the taste of eggplant, that is.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:10 PM (6ydKt)
Personality, I'm a Mary Ann man. But for messing up some sheets, Ginger any day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (xcxpd)
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Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)
I use Tito's for spaghetti alla vodka for just that reason.
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (y687V)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (viF8m)
Fresh is always better, isn't it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards"
Nyet. Some of best wodka come from aircraft.
Posted by: A Russian Airman at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (RIvkX)
....
Maybe that's more appropriate for the gun thread, not the food Thread.....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards"
Nyet. Some of best wodka come from aircraft.
Posted by: A Russian Airman at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (MWfyi)
lol
I almost feel bad for Russians...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (xcxpd)
. . . or dinner for breakfast!
With a lot of family in town for the funeral, we had 'em all over one night for dinner. I got some prepared quiches and greek salads at Wholefoods, baked/sliced chicken breasts, and an assortment of pies. This worked well as leftovers for the next few days - quiche and/or pie for breakfast! Greek salad w/chicken for dinner.
Breakfast pie is usually only a Thanksgiving leftover treat, but it really worked for this sad time as well.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (Ot/FD)
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That might not be too bad, actually. Saturate the corn flakes with the butter, along with garlic/salt/onion/etc, and brown at the very end under the boiler, for a little cruncy garlicky goodness on top.
Making this now....
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (aJQbY
I'm in a farming community and it's August, September and I love fruits and veggies and a good deal.
I did go to Costco in my part of Canada and didn't notice any price increases but my diets pretty standard. So I don't know how the trade war is affecting us yet.
By the way, you're all in a trade war with Canada.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:12 PM (RIvkX)
When my mom got on a waffle kick about twenty years ago and wanted to make them once a week that's the brand she used.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Deshaun Watson at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (FBc7c)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:15 PM (rOKnE)
Indescribably better.
Honestly, it helps to eat maple syrup when you are sitting in the mountains.
Also great, baked brie with maple syrup and pecans.
I'm gonna need a moment. I feel a Homer coming on.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (viF8m)
Millions of gallons of aging Bourbon flowed into a nearby stream. It was considered a hazmat scene.
But there are rumors of some bootleg Bourbon that was "harvested" from that spill.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (2Cry5)
And i used to drive stick, too
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:16 PM (Ot/FD)
I've never had any bourbon that tasted like chocolate. Possibly because I never expected it to taste like chocolate, much less golden raisins.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:04 PM (MWfyi)
If you'd like to try a whiskey with definite chocolate/cocao tones in its taste.
Try Balcones Texas Rye Cask Strength.
You can also use it to make a sort of dessert manhattan with a shake of Cherry Bitters.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:13 PM (rOKnE)
I like a good quiche, especially the savory, meaty, cheesesy kind.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)
We have forfeited any claim to be a serious nation and will deserve whatever we eventually get.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)
It marries Woodford Reserve Double Oaked, Old Forester Birthday Bourbon, and King of Kentucky. It’s a non-age-stated whiskey, and the exact proportions of the blend remain undisclosed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
WRDO: $50/bottle
OFBB: several hundred/bottle
KoK: more than OFBB
So I'd say the "exact proportions" will line up with a Churchill martini; pour the gin (Woodford) while looking longingly at the vermouth (OFBB & KoK).
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 05:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:17 PM (vTZFs)
And let's not even get into TikTok.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
The rick house, just letting it all hang out.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)
Total marketing gimmick, as sadly much of modern whisky marketing is. A lot of whisky is blended, so this might be pretty good, but blending is for the lower market and generally dulls the flavor.
I shudder to think of what my 3 fav single-malts all mixed together would taste like. No way would he be better than any one of the three by itself.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (FBc7c)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)
She mighty mighty.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:21 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:22 PM (+gK6I)
And i used to drive stick, too
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Left out smoking a joint and cradling a beer between your legs.
Not that I'd know anything about that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)
Cocaine Bear vs. Bourbon Bobcat?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:07 PM (iJfKG)
I see you've never tried Burger King's French Toast Sticks which come with a handy dandy container of maple syrup you just dip the sticks in and you just roll along, no muss, no fuss.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (6ydKt)
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Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)
I buy the cheapest bottom-shelf vodka I can find. Since my main use for is to mix Caesars, the flavor of the vodka is lost in the mix. Maybe a vodka tonic, or vodka and Coke if the rum has gone dry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:24 PM (1z8ji)
Not that I'd know anything about that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)
Coming home from a long shift with a J and a road soda...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:25 PM (Ot/FD)
Not that I'd know anything about that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)
They made pipes and one-hitters for a reason, guys.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
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Tito's is harsh and will come through if you're making something light flavored.
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 04:47 PM (zRghv)
I use Tito's for spaghetti alla vodka for just that reason.
Posted by: jix at September 13, 2026 05:11 PM (y687V)
Well, that's the thing. Most vodka drinkers don't like the taste of alcohol. If they could, they would drink distilled water.
As a general rule I mix cocktails and one thing I like is a base alcohol that can stand up to the cocktails making process and make it's presence known.
That's why I have no use for "smooth" tequilas, and would rather have a full-flavor "harsh" tequila that won't wilt in a margarita.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:26 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (MWfyi)
Yea, it was a thing at the multi-flavor fountains.
Fill it up with everything on tap.
The drink is called a 'Suicide'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)
How about Herkimer diamonds?
Launched in 2008, our original Crystal Head Vodka is crafted from locally sourced Canadian corn. It is distilled four times into a neutral grain spirit and blended with pristine water from Newfoundland, Canada. The vodka is filtered seven times, of which three are through layers of semi-precious crystals known as Herkimer diamonds. . .
*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 05:03 PM (84gkw)
My mother used to make stuffed vegetable marrow. That is a long, pale bland-tasting squash that takes on the flavor of whatever it is stuffed with. It was great. I can't remember having ever seen it in stores lately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (FBc7c)
/said while expelling zero breath
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:29 PM (RIvkX)
I had their cask strength single malt and it was too hot for me. I had to add so much water that it hurt the taste. I'll go back to Texas 1 for my next Balcones.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:29 PM (vTZFs)
Vodka is an ingredient, not a drink.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)
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The Russians just wanna get drunk. They’d drink battery acid if that got them hammered faster than vodka.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (FBc7c)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:23 PM (vTZFs)
I remember that episode. If I recall correctly it will improve the lower quality brands but it will never turn it into a top shelf brand.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Ot/FD)
Ok. Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one that remembers.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 05:32 PM (MWfyi)
We make vanilla extracts and limoncello, and often use vodka as the base. We like the Smirnoff brand. It’s decent quality, readily available in a variety of sizes, and reasonably priced. It also makes a decent Russian cocktail of various types. I like the nutty Russian. It’s a White Russian with a couple ounces of a nut liqueur, like Frangelico or Amaretto.
Posted by: Advo at September 13, 2026 05:32 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)
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Much like social contagion among youth. The bad ones do not become better. The good ones go bad instead.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (FBc7c)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (Ot/FD)
*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.
Again, not a vodka drinker but that rings all my BS alarms. Perhaps AOP can inform us on the porosity of quartz but my hunch is "just about nil."
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (vTZFs)
*Herkimer Quartz Diamond is a type of Quartz found in Herkimer, New York.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 05:27 PM (rOKnE)
So, a sand filter. As found in many water treatment plants.
Hype.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (1z8ji)
/said while expelling zero breath
Posted by: San Franpsycho
__________
A buddy got out of a DUI by volunteering for a blood test, but then refusing to sign the hospital's consent form for the blood draw (which was not a refusal to take the test). All of that took considerable time (transport to the hospital/wrangling over the consent terms), and by the time they then got a breath test, he passed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)
I wonder who will flinch first? The Canadians, the Iranians, the US or the French? Including the French keeps it on topic for the food thread.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (qQfd5)
Ok. Pepperidge Farm isn't the only one that remembers.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:31 PM (viF8m)
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Counting on short-term memory loss.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (aJQbY)
It is easy to make and everybody in my family loves it.
Posted by: Eric at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (6VHHP)
Hype.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (1z8ji)
Triple filtering through the same media doesn't buy you a whole heck of a lot except the ability to say "it's triple filtered!"
Especially after it's already been distilled.
(Wash yo tanks, bro.)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:36 PM (Ot/FD)
I do have a confession. I have come to prefer rye to bourbon. Pikesville 110 proof is my favorite and worth the fifty dollar price. Wild Turkey 101 rye and Sazarac 6 year rye are tasty and almost half the price.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (yTvNw)
Seriously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)
Kraft vodka is just cheesy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)
You're welcome!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 04:40 PM
This assumes those exist. Brisket, moar brisket, brisket sandwiches, brisket, brisket sandwiches.
What are these leftovers of which you speak?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:33 PM (FBc7c)
Yes, yes, yes. On the Red Breast 18
But, IMHO the Red Breast Cask Strength 12 is even better.
Also Blue Spot is pure delight.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:38 PM (iJfKG)
Seriously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:34 PM (2Cry5)
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Marketing gimmick. But so is so much of everything today. I’m 100% convinced that one of the top ‘influencer’ clowns could promote a new brand of vodka from fermented human urine and idiots would line up to buy it.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM (FBc7c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM (FBc7c)
Didn't Isaac Newton do that or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
What, Valu-Rite's too good for you ?????
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (0sNs1)
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Not allowed to have Bisquick the Krusteaz was a big scene.
Maybe polenta on the bottom.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (RIvkX)
Home from teaching and my own work out. I am making birria chicken enchiladas this evening.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
That sounds good.
Recipe, por favor!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)
Don't sand filters (and I'm relying on some limited aquarium hobby experience here) work by exposing nitrogenous compounds to the bacteria living on the sand's high surface area? Nothing in that process sounds remotely applicable to alcoholic beverage production.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:40 PM (1z8ji)
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So its a time machine?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:39 PM
Make it cow urine, I'm down for a bottle.
Posted by: zombie Mahatma G. at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM
All the best bloggers have them.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (0sNs1)
You gotta post some pics. A good buddy of mine in high school had a dune buggy. I loved that thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)
I wonder who will flinch first? The Canadians, the Iranians, the US or the French? Including the French keeps it on topic for the food thread.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 05:35 PM (qQfd5)
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Canadians want back to the good ol' grifting days, which they aren't going to get again. Ever. First, they picked the PRC Devil, allowing PRC police monitoring stations on Canadian soil. It was recently discovered that Chy-na gave the Persians satellite targeting data for the ballistic missile strike in Jordan that killed three Americans. So, Canada's status? Speed bump.
The Iranians are launching their pre-midterm elections doom and gloom offensive. Like a Billy Mays commercial - everything must go! No gas left in the tank when the elections are over. Bigger speed bump.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Piper
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Birria tacos rule. Just sayin'.
You can do more shots of Tequila with them. (takes more time between batches)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (zRghv)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:37 PM (yTvNw)
Same. Wild Turkey 101 rye is my standard.
Seems my kidneys aren't functioning as well as they used to, so I've quit drinking, though. This thread is really making me want a little glass.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)
I hate tequila.. Husband is a fan.. Only the "good" ones which to me in tequila doesn't exist
Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:49 PM (+gK6I)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 05:51 PM (Ia/+0)
And the inaudible moaning.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 05:50 PM
The Paolo, he has, how you say, seen this many times. He tries to slip out quietly.
Posted by: Paolo at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (0sNs1)
The peppers are perfectly tender but not at all mushy. And it's a hearty meal.
Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (ek8iC)
They came out beautifully thin and chocolatey with the consistency of one of the round rubber sink stoppers. Fail. I'll let them get stale and use them for clay pigeons.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:43 PM (Ot/FD)
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Since you already have the oven going, just roast it! Make it easy on yourself.
Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ek8iC)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (CjHsb)
Greg @mrrockywater
5h
The Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5 to 1 to suspend the investigation into Ilhan Omar's financial discloser's stating her net value had increased by $6 to $30 million dollars.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 05:54 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 05:45 PM (Ot/FD)
Several of my friends tomatoes that I have here are like that. I've been eating them anyways. Cut them up, salt and they've been fine.
But apparently my friends freezes the tomatoes and turns them into paste or something. I forget what. Something edible for her family.
It's just me so I'm MUCH less picky...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 05:55 PM (Sco7b)
The peppers are perfectly tender but not at all mushy. And it's a hearty meal.
Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM (ek8iC)
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That’s old school. This exact recipe was on every Italian restaurant menu when I was a kid. My g-mom used to make it too, albeit with rice. I’ve not seen it on a menu in decades.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (FBc7c)
They came out beautifully thin and chocolatey with the consistency of one of the round rubber sink stoppers. Fail. I'll let them get stale and use them for clay pigeons.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:52 PM
Not enough gluten in the flour. Touch the all-purpose flour, and say "You're it!"
Gluten tag!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 05:56 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 13, 2026 05:49 PM (+gK6I)
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"Man, we were doing shots for a mezcal tasting, and the next thing I know, everybody was laid out on the back lawn with empty cups on their chests."
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 05:28 PM (1z8ji)
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I always wondered what vegetable marrows were, because that's what Hercule Poirot said he would grow when he finally retired to the country.
I looked it up and never quite figured it out I assumed it was a limey word for pumpkin.
Posted by: bluebell at September 13, 2026 05:58 PM (ek8iC)
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM
Except me. My cups are not empty.
Posted by: Sydney S. at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (0sNs1)
Seems my kidneys aren't functioning as well as they used to, so I've quit drinking, though. This thread is really making me want a little glass."
DMLW,
I have some kidney troubles as well. Since my typical amount of booze is less than an ounce, usually sipped neat over a few hours, it hasn't been a problem. I just enjoy the taste.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (yTvNw)
it's impossible to pee on your own shoes with style
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (jrgJz)
Recipe, por favor!
Posted by: naturalfake at September
I make the filling following her recipe pretty closely:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzhy8n7
I use corn tortillas, put the filling in, roll them up, put them in an oiled baking dish seam side down, cover with some of the sauce from cooking the chicken, cover the dish with foil, bake about 15-20 minutes, and then sprinkle cotija. I serve it with lime and avocado. You can also use Oaxaca if you want it a little cheesier.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 05:57 PM
Except me. My cups are not empty.
Posted by: Sydney S. at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (0sNs1)
They're overflowing!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:00 PM (iJfKG)
1 tequila
2 tequila
3 tequila
floor
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (viF8m)
Sounds yummy. I'll have to try it the next time my wife is out of. She would hate it.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (vTZFs)
I make the filling following her recipe pretty closely:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzhy8n7
I use corn tortillas, put the filling in, roll them up, put them in an oiled baking dish seam side down, cover with some of the sauce from cooking the chicken, cover the dish with foil, bake about 15-20 minutes, and then sprinkle cotija. I serve it with lime and avocado. You can also use Oaxaca if you want it a little cheesier.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Muchas gracias, señorita!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:01 PM (iJfKG)
½ cup butter
¾ tsp prepared mustard
4 slices bacon
In small mixer bowl, cream together butter and mustard. Cook bacon in Radarange Oven on paper plate and between paper towels until crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Crumble bacon and blend with butter.
Note that it turns solid as a rock in the fridge, but I’m not sure it needs to be refrigerated. Probably depends on how chunky your crumbled bacon is.
Recommended for English muffins, but it is pretty good on toast as well as on bagel chips. Probably good on popcorn.
Also, you might want to let the bacon cool before crumbling it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2026 06:02 PM (olroh)
If it please you, Caesar. Roast peacock from the Land of Egypt. Wild boar from Caesar's preserves in Dalmatia. Succulent dormice, saturated with poppy juice. Oysters, surrounded by Damson plums, sprinkled with cumin and benzoin root. Sausage, stuffed with golden plover's eggs and the breast of pheasant. Aged grasshoppers, fried in honey to a light golden brown. Eggs, made of crushed pearls colored to a golden hue and filled with yolks - in which we've nestled fat little ortolans roasted to a turn.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:02 PM (Cqx++)
it's impossible to pee on your own shoes with style
Posted by: what the cat drug in
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Ditto...
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:03 PM (zRghv)
Meanwhile, Korean soju. A bitter. But it gets the job done cheaply. About $3 a bottle and 2 bottles will do you.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)
Muchas gracias, señorita!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13,
De nada! Not as cheesy as birria tacos, which are very good. But they are still yummy this way!
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
The frozen ones cook down nicely to sauce.
I have not had wonderful luck with saving seeds, but I do tend to keep a volunteer plant or two in the garden -- I started in 2020 when i couldn't get garden starts. They make small cherry tomatoes mostly, but they are tough and have a lot of them. Some can be tasty too.
Best thing with split tomatoes is to fry up some sliced onions, then add crushed garlic, tomatoes and red peppers to cook down, and then poach an egg or two in it, and serve it over toast or fried potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)
I have had it recently in San Diego and in off-Vegas, at Koreanish sushi places. Good stuff. But being the in thing, not necessarily cheap.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2026 06:06 PM (olroh)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:06 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (viF8m)
Meanwhile, Korean soju. A bitter. But it gets the job done cheaply. About $3 a bottle and 2 bottles will do you.
****
So, you like waking up face down with snot coming out of your nose and feeling like you swallowed something out of a trash can?
My brother!!!
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (zRghv)
Jeepers, what a hangover.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 06:09 PM (rj6Yv)
Not sure when this was, especially since she does not drink
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:10 PM (Cqx++)
This alone would legitimize WWII.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 06:11 PM (2Cry5)
Years ago I had a business dinner in China. It seemed like ever 5 seconds one of my hosts would propose toast with Chinese rice wine.
I felt like a vampire the next morning when the sun came up. I think I hissed at the sun a couple times.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:15 PM (viF8m)
This alone would legitimize WWII.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Sake: rice wine
Saki: peninsula
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 06:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)
My brother!!!
Posted by: clarence at September 13, 2026 06:08 PM (zRghv)
My co-worker was a hard-drinking 30 year old Florida girl. I could hold my own, but damn. First paycheck, she got a stock of liquor.
Soju kicked our asses.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:18 PM (Sco7b)
Love Soju when eating Korean BBQ, it cuts the grease, and just plain tastes good.
Also like Japanese Shochu which can be made from barley, sweet potatoes and just about anything else.
I once drank carrot shochu that was super delicious.
Sake, too, is great stuff.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026
At least light a candle or 2!
(Congratulations. That is truly awesome!)
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2026 06:22 PM (ZdaMQ)
Congratulations.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (3ImbR)
I've kind of gotten tired of ordering pizza, but I like making it and Grandma Pie.
I wonder if I can convince the lovely and thrifty to let me get one of those nice pizza ovens to go with my outdoor grills.
Hmmm.
Maybe Christmas???
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:24 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 06:24 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 06:23 PM (Cqx++)
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They get to pick one of the toppings! Usually sausage.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (62ILr)
Gonna go finish that salad.
Bacon can wait until tomorrow.
Good night all.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tTRUo)
Posted by: Happy at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (743lG)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)
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Thanks! I passed along your message and WW says "howdy"
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)
Hey! There’s room for two at the sink.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 13, 2026 06:28 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)
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Probably not. I need to keep expectations low.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:28 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM"
Can't hide money.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 06:04 PM (rbvCR)
Sort of a Shakshuka!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (k5CNB)
Are you able to walk to the door yet? Those theee toppings may be a bit heavy for you to manage with your broken toe. I think you may still need to take it easy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (7Lfjw)
Mike wasn't happy when he put on his boots
nobody warned him although most everyone knew
the army
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)
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I wouldn't share the sink with just anyone!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (E0Et6)
Hey! There’s room for two at the sink.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:27 PM (tTRUo)
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Back in the day, we'd bring out the empty Chianti bottle with candle pushed innit for those extra-special moments.
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Weasel!
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 06:31 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:29 PM (7Lfjw)
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True. It's a burden I struggle with.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:31 PM (62ILr)
Saki:
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 06:16 PM (VHUov)
FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:32 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 06:32 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vTZFs)
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WW picked up a whole brand new chocolate cake in a fancy clear plastic bubble dome from the store today!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:35 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM
Congrats, Weasel! Many more!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:36 PM (P6lWH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM
Spam, spam, and pineapple. That one's only got a little spam.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:39 PM (P6lWH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (RIvkX)
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Sausage, mushrooms and green peppers is our go-to.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:40 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:41 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2026 06:25 PM (tTRUo)
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I keep forgetting a number of you fine folks have met her!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:41 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:40 PM (62ILr)
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Perfection
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 06:42 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:44 PM (E0Et6)
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Anniversary menu update. Meatball pizza for WW and an Italian sub for me. FSJ and Gertie love a good meatball!
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Advo at September 13, 2026 06:48 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)
Nice!
Napkins or dish towels?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:50 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 06:49 PM (k5CNB)
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1/4 paper towel. I'm on a fixed income.
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:51 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:46 PM (62ILr)
Nice!
Napkins or dish towels?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Shirt sleeves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:20 PM
You're not going wobbly on us, are you?
Congratulations!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (62ILr)
Shirt sleeves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)
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Is that wrong?
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (62ILr)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 06:52 PM (yEz+x)
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Is that wrong?
Posted by: Weasel at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM
Why dirty a shirt sleeve when you have the back of your hand?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:55 PM (P6lWH)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM
The Way of the Weasel does tend toward minimalism.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 06:57 PM (P6lWH)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 06:59 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2026 07:01 PM (P6lWH)
First World Problems...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Phew.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: biteme at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (xWS9V)
Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:01 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 02:01 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:04 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: The Age of Jive at September 13, 2026 02:06 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Maybe back in the day when shoulder pads were a thing.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 02:09 PM (Dkeic)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Maybe back in the day when shoulder pads were a thing.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Are there things women used to make their breasts look bigger that would deflate over time?
Or is that a million dollar idea.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (qEb4U)
web search 'leathernecks'
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (5rh/l)
Or is that a million dollar idea.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart
Uh..no. They were to square up your shoulders. Think 1980's ladies. Big hair and big shoulders.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: man at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (pfXMo)
Then I think wait a minute, didn't they do that already?
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:16 PM (sl73Y)
Why do people let other people push them around? Tell them to f*** off.
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:17 PM (xJpuh)
Big fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)
You do need to remove them for washing and ironing, they do deform in heat. Eventually I realized I didn't care, and if I did I should buy Oxfords.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 13, 2026 02:25 PM (Jvw8+)
Or is that a million dollar idea.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (Sco7b)
Knew a lady who called the silicon versions of those her "chicken cutlets"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)
I'm glad you found them and they were o.k. You will have officially reached old age when you put sunglasses or regular glasses hanging over your front shirt and you don't recall where they are😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (JrHfD)
Call some company. Get through to a person unexpectedly fast.
After talking with the "person" for 30s you realize it is an AI pretending to be a human.
One local place the AI bot told me several times it was a real person until I demanded to speak with an actual human...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 02:28 PM (sKqQm)
Extra point for filagree or massy sterling silver with turquoise accents
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:29 PM (rbvCR)
I never understood high heels, that looks like torture
Women think it makes them look sexy. But the looks on their faces cancel that out. However if that is what they want to do that is their business. And it's kinda funny when they fall off those things.
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:30 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 13, 2026 02:30 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)
Most of mine are Oxfords, but I like a bit of variety, and Oxfords aren't particularly good for more formal dress.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Under wire!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (NnhvP)
It’s like a game you can play while you wait.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Under wire!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Yes!
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Paperclips!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (qEb4U)
>>@JacquiHeinrich
·
1h
>>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Insensitive Clod at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (gCg+u)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:37 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rbvCR
Never crossed my mind to cut worn-out collars off shirts. Bonus! That would give them an ole-timey look, and I’m all about old-timey.
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 02:39 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Insensitive Clod
Move to Flagstaff it's high enough to be cool, merely 7000ft.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:40 PM (NnhvP)
They don’t move much.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)
Kindle tablet "keyboard" stopped working and I just wanted to see if hitting restart could solve the problem. Apparently so.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (sl73Y)
you didn't put on your seat belt as a passenger. Almost Everytime I get in when spouse is driving he says, "Put on the seat belt belt before the car blows up!! As if it's a 007 Bond film. Did I
Mention that my dear husband likes repetitive "bits". Some he has used for decades. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:42 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:42 PM (lJ0H4)
'Da barbarians are at the gates!' -- Snake-Eye McFoul
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
An aircraft carrier turned on all its radar while in port in Alameda CA. People couldn't figure out why all their garage doors were open. Doh!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 02:43 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)
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Pea coats and pea jackets?
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:44 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JackStraw at
I did that this spring, having reached fifteen years out. Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: From about That Time
Oh wise one!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Case
Underwire bras are the most uncomfortable things in the world. Unfortunately, some of us over 29s need them. Gravity is a bitch.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (lJ0H4)
The underwire of a bra works great for support. Then manufacturers start to skimp on the fabric at the seams, so the wires would poke through and start sliding out at the most inconvenient times. That meant I'd be fixing bras (mine, my roommate's, my co-workers etc) with hand sewing.
Then manufacturers got the bright idea of using plastic instead of wire. Plastic snaps and pokes you (if you're an 'Ette) in the breast.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (ao+in)
Maybe Collar thingees?
Collar supports?
Collar stiffener?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 02:48 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:48 PM (ao+in)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 02:49 PM (JrHfD)
Uhhh.... trying to think of an equivalent in ladies' fashions. Piper? Help?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Under wire!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Yes!
Posted by: Tuna
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lol I was thinking of that, but it's been a long time since I switched to stretchies.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:50 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:46 PM (kpS4V)
Exactly!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (k5CNB)
Had one made a few years for just that reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (viF8m)
You can buy a metric shitload of them for a few bucks on Amazon.
Next question please.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (wpRMV)
So I have to go in today.
Love the kids; hate the checklist.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (ao+in)
Ditto the suit purge. Ties were ceremoniously burned.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: free tibet at September 13, 2026 02:54 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
My nail salon is closed on Monday so Tuesday it is.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 02:54 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 02:35 PM (rj6Yv)
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The Eighties just called and wants its fashions back.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 02:47 PM (ao+in)
When I had to go in and out of the courthouse a lot, I was part of a group getting training and the instructor mentioned that for the ladies with underwires that the magnetometer would pick them up and suggested that "crossing your arms under your breasts often hides the signature"
I of course almost earned a strip search because I forgot my cell phone in my shirt pocket triggered the sensor as much as the keys in my pocket and belt buckle.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM (rbvCR)
Please Santa.
>>@JacquiHeinrich
·
1h
>>Border Czar Tom Homan says Dem Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under criminal investigation by HSI for possible immigration/naturalization fraud. In his answer, he also implies that it could become a denaturalization case.
Posted by: JackStraw
===============
Markwayne Mullin has been making some noises about her, too. Not getting my hopes up regardless.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (mmrXZ)
I have a bunch of Jerry Garcia designed ties, because of course I do.
It was my little way of sticking it to the man when I had to wear the monkey suit.
F you, man.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)
There's a reason the Walmartians wear jammies to shop.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (kpS4V)
I keep telling you, get one of those posts that is covered with jute matting.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Y8DZL)
I have about 75 ties, and I have no idea why.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:58 PM (k5CNB)
Man I miss those days.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)
So do I! They are nice ties!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Kindltot at September
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Ha!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 03:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:00 PM (viF8m)
Everything; slacks, shirts, ties and shoes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:01 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 02:59 PM (wpRMV)
Were you a pimp?
Although your wife has good taste, so I am puzzled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo, but call me Ishmael at September 13, 2026 03:01 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:02 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (wpRMV)
That's my plan.
Cause we boomers are fucking evil.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)
The educational capture was the masterpiece.
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.
Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."
There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)
==
This is starting to be reversed, and the left will be fighting it to the death.
Posted by: Black JEM at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (UQRAm)
I know, it is to laugh. Who would hire me?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)
Most of mine are Oxfords, but I like a bit of variety, and Oxfords aren't particularly good for more formal dress.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 02:32 PM (k5CNB)
I wear neither Oxfords (actually, I have only one of them) nor blue jeans. All my shirts (and I don't need a lot of them in this casual era) are regular collars which need collar stays - Charles Tyrwhitt are the best, as mentioned by #75. Used to love Oxfords, but I found that the positioning of the buttons and the size of the collars vary widely by maker, and they don't look as great on me as I usually imagine they would.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 13, 2026 03:03 PM (0CU3H)
That's my plan.
Cause we boomers are fucking evil.
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fist bump
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:06 PM (2Cry5)
This is what I voted for.
Now, assuming they do have the goods on her, do they bring this during the election season or right after? Does it drive more R leaning voters to know the Dems are bro-f*cking liars and cheats or more D leaning voters because "muh democracy!"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:10 PM (GquHV)
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 03:10 PM (LHPAg)
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AI, and "Chat" with companies is worthless, generally.
If you try to call someone, to talk to a human being or representative to accomplish a task that can't be done online, they will regale you whilst on hold, that they have a website, and you should do that. MFers. If I could get it done online without going through this bullshit, I would have. That's why I'm calling you.
Chat, even if manned by human beings, can never seem to do anything constructive or substantial. Spend 15 minutes, waiting, verifying identity, explaining your problem, and "I Can't Do That". Thanks!
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:11 PM (uozx9)
You answered your own question. Politics ain't all that complicated. Do what you said you were going to do.
>>This is what I voted for.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:12 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 03:13 PM (ZOMyU)
I'm still better dressed than 99% of the engineers -- who look like a bunch of hobos.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 13, 2026 03:14 PM (ksbjf)
Omar can continue to represent her district.
... from Mogadishu.
Not optimal, but preferable to the present situation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:16 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: A Bunch of Hobos, But Fashion Forward at September 13, 2026 03:16 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2026 03:17 PM (D7w1V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:12 PM (2Cry5)
It is an 80-20 issue, that no one wants to touch
but. . .
"Design your action so that your target is forced to make a decision, and all their available options play to you advantage"
and
"When taking on a big and well-known target, it is often the target's reaction to your action that is the key to success. Therefore, anticipate your target's reaction and write that into your script"
Exempting Omar is a losing play. Scotching immigration enforcement is a losing play. Making a law just about Omar will get the Supremes in play and they DO NOT WANT TO PLAY
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Eromero
Grandpa Aspirin Factory had some nice hats. It finished his suit and it was classy.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:18 PM (GquHV)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Do not take rythjabnarty if you are allergic to rythjabnarty or any of its ingredients. Side effects include headache, blurred vision, spastic typing fingers, and a fanatical devotion to being first.
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:19 PM (VHUov)
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Any halfway sane country the congress would have expelled her, if not preventing her from being seated in the first place. Clown World
As somebody observed the other day, the left figured out the constitution really is a suicide pact, and they've been making the most of it for decades now
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:19 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:20 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)
Radically different dress codes. I was... unprepared. And ridiculed for years.
I was honestly disappointed shorts and flip flops were frowned upon after wearing them for over a decade.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 03:20 PM (VHUov)
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That's nothing compared to what a commercial laundry does to them if you forget to take them out.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: JackStraw at
I did that this spring, having reached fifteen years out. Kept one lighter suit for weddings (guest), and one darker suit for funerals, including mine.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)
I don't even need to wear a suit to be buried. I am authorized to wear the white habit and scapular of the Dominican religious order (I'm a lay brother).
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 13, 2026 03:23 PM (ksbjf)
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I just need something fireproof.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:25 PM (wpRMV)
Speaking of, I need to go clothes shopping again. It's one of my most hated chores, but I'm down to about 3 serviceable ties and maybe 5 pair of appropriate pants.
Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2026 03:26 PM (aHN1Y)
Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (/Chlc)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:28 PM (2WIwB)
This is what I voted for.
Now, assuming they do have the goods on her, do they bring this during the election season or right after? Does it drive more R leaning voters to know the Dems are bro-f*cking liars and cheats or more D leaning voters because "muh democracy!"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
Omar is in the umpteen victimhood category. Rather than trying to deport her and having to fight it all the way to SCOTUS, Trump should play it this way. He loudly proclaims in an Oval Office press event he's going to show mercy to her, not deport her. Only because she is a Member of Congress. From then on, he and every Republican can call Omar the Dem congressman who owes Trump for letting her stay in the country. Despite her being deportable for lying on an immigration form about her second husband's ID because he is actually her brother. A clear-cut deportable offense. I'm sure Trump can can come up with a wicked nickname for her.
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 03:29 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 03:29 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:55 PM
Wow! I never thought about that.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (ao+in)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (aJQbY)
If that were ever true, nobody would have cooked at home in the first place. When I was a little kid we went out to a regular restaurant maybe a half dozen times a year. Probably not even that. It was a big deal, because we had to get dressed up, I probably had to take a bath.
McDonald's was a treat, because it involved relaxed grooming standards, just hop in the car with Dad and go pick it up. We did that about a half dozen times a year, maybe.
Parents in those days might have went out a bit more often, but generally feeding the family was not done at Burger King or McDonalds. Not even close. If it were cheaper - they would have done that, LOL.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (WBjaU)
Yeah, like when we get our pocket knife out and cut back our toenails when they get a bit too long. Can you believe some people PAY to have this done? First world indeed.
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 03:31 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: Paul...who likes the flavor of his dog's excrement at September 13, 2026 03:31 PM (qIJYa)
No one will notice.
Posted by: Overdressed at September 13, 2026 03:32 PM (cCXR+)
Worked through the paisley, the stripes, the floral, the solid, the knits, the thin, the wide.... all those.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:33 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:34 PM (aJQbY)
I usually hate when some "artist" sings the national anthem or America the Beautiful but I thought he did a great job. If I could sing like that I would never have had to wear a suit.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 03:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2026 03:35 PM (GquHV)
Posted by: BenMSYS at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (vR93T)
Later gators.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 03:36 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wenda
Agreed! The man can sing, doesn't mess with the pacing too much, and sings the 2nd verse! (Would love to hear him do *all* the verses)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 03:37 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:30 PM (uozx9)
I do not recall anyone making the claim that it was cheaper than eating at home. I do recall the claim being that it was cheaper than eating at the diners and restaurants, which was (and for the most part still is) true.
Posted by: goozer at September 13, 2026 03:38 PM (eTh1u)
I have two types of ties. There are the ones for church and there are ones for dog shows, which are patterned with dog motifs. They are frequently the occasion for compliments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:39 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 03:41 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Some of the wider ones from the seventies were almost wide enough to be used as a tablecloth. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 03:43 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Jackson Brownie at September 13, 2026 03:45 PM (Fn+3X)
4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.
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I am amazed at the number of posts I see saying that a 40-hour-week office job is like Auschwitz.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)
Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hesh and Heidi at September 13, 2026 03:47 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Hong Chinee Hand Laundry at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (qEb4U)
Full Windsor knot or half Windsor?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)
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Full. Half Windsor is fundamentally unserious.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 03:49 PM (eRlcH)
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That might be part of it for sure. But I've read three different claims from people in widely different forums that it used to be cheaper to eat out at restaurants than cook at home. I can't see how that would ever be the case on any sort of extended basis. Again, if it were, then nobody would have cooked at home, ever.
The big draw, as I recall, if I didn't realize it at the time was giving dear old Mom a break once in a while, too.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:50 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: Speaker Emerita at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (Fn+3X)
Low end was a Howdy's and Ho Jo's, high end was McDonalds and Bergsons.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 03:51 PM (sl73Y)
In recent years suit styles have trended towards the "hand me down" look, where they appear to be a couple sizes too small. That looks unnecessarily weird to me as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:52 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)
If you could sing like that you'd be wearing very formal suits to sing at the White House.
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (WBjaU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Spoiled they are.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 03:53 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: The Vulgar Boatman.. at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:22 PM (6ydKt)
Gold Bond, right.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (rbvCR)
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But then, how much was a pound of ground beef? The nice thing about fast food wasn't that it was less expensive, it was tasty and ready to go, and no dishes to wash or kitchen clean up. But nobody ever claimed it was cheaper than eating at home until recently. It's just weird to hear people say something like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (5C90x)
But what's worse, was the constant begging for money. Money for food, for gas, for rent, for.... whatever. Hundreds of posts, most behind a fake name, over and over and over.
I'd get flamed to no end pointing out they have money for a cell phone and the connectivity to beg online, so maybe use that money to buy food instead of posting shit.
Reality sucks for these people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (2Cry5)
The stuff of dreams.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:28 PM (2WIwB)
you can make a very nice neck gaiter from the sleeve off of an old tee-shirt, you just need to sacrifice one of a color you like to cut up. It needs to be long enough to tuck into your jacket collar in front and back, and watch out if you use a pocket tee. (Though it might be good to have some spare place to hold your glasses and a couple ball point pens)
Also, I suggest you use one of your own shirts because every time you wear it you are essentially shoving your nose into an armpit, and it seems less offensive to me to use my own shirts.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 03:59 PM (rbvCR)
Now it's regularly double that.
There was never a time when you could eat for less money outside the home, unless by meal you mean a Coke and a pack of crackers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: CBD at 01:55 PM
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Spats at September 13, 2026 04:01 PM (4NO2D)
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RC cola and a pack of cigs. No need for food. At least for a couple hours.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 04:02 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 03:46 PM (2WIwB)
Four in hand. Windsors are for people who care.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:02 PM (rbvCR)
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:54 PM
It's a lie people tell themselves to get out of cooking and dishwashing. I helped a pal sort out his receipts and figure out a budget. He discovered his grocery spending would be 25% cheaper without pre-prepared foods ... and snacks like chips and cookies. The groceries were noticeably more expensive"snacky" when his son did the shopping.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (ao+in)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (qEb4U)
The New York Jets are in 1st place.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 03:52 PM (uozx9)
I have often said the best fit says, "I normally wear body armor under this"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 04:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pay or don't, your choice at September 13, 2026 04:06 PM (NFX2v)
I read some guide that was describing "proper male grooming." Among the gems was the ability to tie a necktie. OK, fair enough - but the author stated that the point of the necktie should just brush the top of the man's belt.
WRONG! Everyone KNOWS that the point of the necktie should just brush the BOTTOM of the man's belt.
I don't know how I can ever bear to go outside again.
Posted by: NeighSayer at September 13, 2026 04:09 PM (bufu1)
Full Windsor for silk or similarly thin fabric. Reversed Half Windsor for heavier fabric. Four In Hand is for school boys.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 04:09 PM (vTZFs)
Full Windsor for silk or similarly thin fabric. Reversed Half Windsor for heavier fabric. Four In Hand is for school boys.
Posted by: Oddbob
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This is true.The knot chosen is dependant upon collar, and tie material.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 04:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 02:04 PM (5rh/l)
What's a collar?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 04:55 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: The 90s Called.. at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:56 PM (O7YUW)
Saudi Arabia Is Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place...Oh Well!
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan emphasized that Saudi Arabia’s security, territorial integrity, and resources are inviolable. Addressing the 18th BRICS Summit meetings at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Sunday, the foreign minister emphasized that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states will not accept targeting of their territories or vital facilities, under any pretext or justification. Prince Faisal said that the ongoing escalation in the region is contributing to an expansion of the scope of confrontation and increasing the risks threatening regional and international security and stability. He emphasized that priority must be given to de-escalation and to paving the way for political and diplomatic efforts.
Except...None of that is true. The Saudis have been unwilling to do what is necessary to end the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and the petroleum and other commerce that moves through the Gulf of Aden. They have punted again and again, and even in the face of attacks on Saudi Arabia itself has been curiously reticent, no doubt because they want someone else (read: the USA) to deal with the problem. They have a large active-duty armed forces, modern weaponry, and the backing of the world. Yet they can't manage to tamp down the Houthis? Why is that? First...The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit. Second...Saudi Arabia loves to talk and negotiate and play the typical Arab long game. But the Houthis don't do any of that. Third...The Houthis are supported by Iran, and Saudi Arabia is ambivalent about Iran. Yes, they are afraid of Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions, but direct confrontation is not in their DNA. Fourth...The Houthis are tough fighters who are good at guerilla warfare and are holed up in the mountains. Beating them requires well-trained troops and the political will to complete the job...neither of which is in evidence in KSA. And now there have been attacks from Iraq (probably on Houthi authority) on the alternative pipelines that bypass the Strait of Hormuz and send oil to the Red Sea. KSA has shut down those pipelines temporarily, but the attack sends a message that Saudi Arabia is no longer fighting on one front. Years of accommodation to the various Islamist factions, both inside and outside of Saudi Arabia has created a massive network of quasi-government actors that have no fear of KSA, and are willing to act in their own best interests, knowing that Saudi vacillation, negotiation, and ultimately settlement will protect them. And it couldn't have happened to a worse country. Remember, Saudi Arabia was the source of 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists, and there is ample evidence of internal involvement. So...man up Saudi Arabia! It's your problem, and it is my most fervent hope that President Trump tells them to deal with it, because we won't!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 12:12 PM (/TnVC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:14 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:15 PM (3oLMy)
Also, why have the saudis gotten away with being a monarchy all these years? It's 2026, where is the call for democracy and elections in the kingdom?
Posted by: Saudis Are Dirt Bags at September 13, 2026 12:18 PM (cCXR+)
Purely for humour: worked with a bunch of guys who could spit out a sarcastic 'Oh well!' with the best of them. One fine day, an older lady who worked with us, sorta, said, 'I hate it when you say 'Oh well'!' The two of us who were just outside her office looked at each other, grinned, turned to her, and said, 'OH WELL!'.
She was a little pissed about it.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)
Sums it up nicely.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 12:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:22 PM (wpRMV)
Their entire world view is to use slave labor to take care of the dirty work.
Also, the Arabs are raiders and thieves.
Sure, they can be fearsome when they want to be--they conquered a lot of the Middle East and North Africa at one time--but they really don't embrace the "warrior ethos" that the United States military does.
(The Europeans used to have a similar ethos, but not so much any more.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 12:22 PM (FZ29D)
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”
He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.
According to US outlet Axios, bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes on the Houthis, but the American president declined.
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“They would much prefer not having us involved, and they’re letting most ships go through. There’s just one country that they’re not too happy with, and we’ll get that straightened out,” Trump said.
_timesOfIsrael
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:23 PM (3oLMy)
I read that during the recent Houthi advance to the Red Sea in Yemen, the Saudis did not embed Saudi forward air controllers with the Yemeni government forces, rendering Saudi air power largely irrelevant. Their fancy expensive military planes just sat it out. The Saudis kill act like they really don't want to win.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2026 12:23 PM (lsrsS)
The Saudis will fight to the last drop of someone else's blood.
Eurotrash sneer at Americans as trailer trash that won a billion dollar lottery prize. But, of course, we worked and built what we had. Without foreigners to develop anything, MENA would remain a wasteland populated by left-hand ass wipers.
Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 13, 2026 12:25 PM (eRlcH)
The Saudi armed forces are long on weaponry and short on fighting spirit.
Sums it up nicely.
Posted by: Diogenes
Indeed. No loot, no courage. Perhaps that is too dismissive but it seems to track with history to a point.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 13, 2026 12:25 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:26 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2026 12:26 PM (+gK6I)
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Now do the U.S.A.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:27 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:28 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Cheer up, we're winning.
Don't be downa donna.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:29 PM (3oLMy)
Took Her Majesty to the airport this morning, then proceeded directly to church for the 8:30 Mass. Very different congregation than my usual 7:00, younger and with more kids.
I actually sat up toward the front today - on a chair on the side, since I can't kneel any longer - whereas I usually sit on a bench in the back.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:29 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Counter productive
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:30 PM (3oLMy)
One fighter declares that no Saudi ship — “not even a Saudi nail” — will pass until the siege on Yemen is lifted
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:32 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 12:32 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: night lifted at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (kJmLc)
Protection >> power projection.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (u82oZ)
BRICS is who... Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, or something like that? Have I got that wrong?
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:36 PM (5Go8e)
Sorry, South Africa. Now also includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (M+uMR)
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Steve (Retired/recovering lawyer) at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (nq64t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:38 PM (eRlcH)
Also, the Arabs are raiders and thieves.
Sure, they can be fearsome when they want to be--they conquered a lot of the Middle East and North Africa at one time--but they really don't embrace the "warrior ethos" that the United States military does.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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This is what puzzles me a little. Raiders and thieves may be true, but someone sure expanded from that crummy peninsula across North Africa, up the Iberian Peninsula, up the Caucasus, all over the Sasanian Empire, etc etc. They grow up learning about "the openings," with their little history books full of drawings of guys brandishing their sabers as they ride horseback.
Oh well, if we're talking about the loss of some ancient fighting spirit, I could say similar things of a few European countries.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:38 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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How many people were saying, BRICS were going to break the American Petro Dollar; that Benjamin would no longer be reserve currency? Boo Hoo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (3oLMy)
"Inshallah."
Posted by: ballistic at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (oqH4h)
BRICS is who... Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, or something like that? Have I got that wrong?
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2026 12:34 PM (Oy/m2)
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)
South Africa iirc.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)
Oh no!
Anyway. Fuck them.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2026 12:41 PM (XNYK+)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's possible that it was another group of Islamist's not Arabs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:41 PM (3oLMy)
They launched a bunch of airstrikes, even sent in some troops at one point, IIRC.
The Saudis have launched strikes against the Houthis several times over the course of this war with Iran, every time the Houthis launch missiles at Saudi oilfields, etc.
The Crown Prince is worried about things getting out of hand and he’ll have to get involved in a real war instead of tit for tat rockets & missiles.
Thats’s what it looks like to me, anyhow.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)
why have the saudis gotten away with being a monarchy all these years? It's 2026, where is the call for democracy and elections in the kingdom?
Posted by: Saudis Are Dirt Bags
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There are calls, but... what do you think they (and the world) would get if there were elections? Princes elbowing each other out of the way is probably cleaner politics than what we've got in California.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (mmrXZ)
While I think our shit-for-brains bureaucrats have overused "sanctions" and such, I also think BRIC should have left off that last letter - it sounds *so* much less impressive when you have All These Guys and then... South Africa.
Really???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (+fdRY)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (5Go8e)
It's possible that it was another group of Islamist's not Arabs.
Posted by: Braenyard
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The first big expansion ended about 750. They were Arabs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2026 12:37 PM (M+uMR)
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Great point! I'd much rather our resources go to developing our petroleum industry stateside than having to go play Daddy to a bunch of tribes that have been at war with one another and with everyone else for centuries just so the monarchs can keep their private jumbo jets and cocaine/hooker habits funded.
Posted by: ballistic at September 13, 2026 12:43 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (5Go8e)
I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.
Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?
I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, Make sure there are only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)
Is it me you’re looking for?
https://youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (6ydKt)
How many people were saying, BRICS were going to break the American Petro Dollar; that Benjamin would no longer be reserve currency? Boo Hoo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (3oLMy)
Brazil will never amount to anything. Russia is going down the tubes. The future of China is gloomy. A good chunk of South Africa's blacks wish the whites were still running things. Among them, only India has a chance but they have a long way to go to break through their social and moral morass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (Rln0i)
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates
wrong south...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)
So the lifeblood of the civilized world has to either flow past the Iranians (ships) or under the Saudis (pipeline)? Now there's a predicament.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)
wrong south...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (NnhvP)
*huffs indignantly*
I corrected it!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (eRlcH)
Why not use our own resources? The government ran out of gold by 1968 trying to defend the $35 currency peg, I think the middle east arrangements making the dollar the "reserve currency" for worldwide oil transactions, aka petrodollar was part of the deal with purchasing Saudi oil, and certain defense agreements. I think that's what Nixon and Kissinger and that gang accomplished.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (uozx9)
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Do we get to keep something?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 12:40 PM (5Go8e)
Is it me you’re looking for?
https://youtu.be/mHONNcZbwDY
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (6ydKt)
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lol
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (Rln0i)
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GPT-5.6Luna
They were Muslims of more than one ethnic background, mainly:
Berbers (Amazigh) from North Africa—Tariq ibn Ziyad, the commander who led the first major invasion in 711, was probably Berber.
Arabs from the Umayyad Caliphate—Musa ibn Nusayr, Tariq’s superior, was Arab, and later reinforcements included many Arab troops.
So they were not a separate religion “from Islam.” Islam was their religion; Arab and Berber described their ethnic or cultural origins. The conquest was carried out under the Arab-led Umayyad Caliphate, but a large portion of the soldiers were Berbers from North Africa.
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So it was the Berbers. Same one's our Marines fought in Tripoli.
Same one's that enslaved white Europeans and Americans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (3oLMy)
You'd think that with their money the Saudis would hire a mercenary force to deal with the Houthis.
Oh , wait. Would that be us?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (N2HNb)
Tomatoes, Tomahtos.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (6ydKt)
May you get a slightly used M-1 AFV in you front yard for Christmas. Plus needed parts and a passel of ammo.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)
Mostly the lifeblood of Europe and parts of Asia.
Which both sucks for them and is a profit for oil producers that are not transiting Hormuz, the Gulf of Aden or Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (mmrXZ)
I have no great love for the House of Saud - but it's probably one of the most well run and stable governments in the Arab World. The tribalist societies cannot manage democratic structures in any form, so the only chance of stability is some kind of autocratic regime. I think Monarchy is a bit more stable and respectable than dictatorship, such as in Algeria and Egypt.
Our greatest long term mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan was convincing ourselves that the people there were capable of western political institutions.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:50 PM (edUvp)
If say, Peru wanted to purchase oil from Elbonia, they used US dollars to settle the trade. Oil was denominated in and traded or settled in US dollars.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)
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It does make it easier to understand why Jesus Christ was born in the Middle East.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (Rln0i)
They’d put Lionel Richie in jail for stalking a blind woman today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2026 12:46 PM (eRlcH)
I recall someone important said decades ago that Brazil is the Great Country of the Future - and always will be.
And I'll start thinking more highly of India when they finally master the Great Mysteries of modern sewage systems.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (edUvp)
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That's an interesting statement. Houtis preceeded the Saudis.
Is it possible that, if the Saudis left Yemen undisturbed and Iran stopped funding fools, that the Houthi problem would disappear?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:53 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
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lol
As someone who had to maintain all the test equipment just to run diagnostics on the Abrams, mush less the actual parts just for the turret alone...yeah, don't think Santa will be that generous this Christmas.
But a girl can dream.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:54 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:52 PM (6ydKt)
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I was never a fan of the video, and that kinda tainted my view of the song, to this day.
Definitely creep vibes then, and now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Rln0i)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Interesting country; it's got 2 official languages 2 unofficial languages and 23 other languages. It wasn't a country until Britain got hold of it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:56 PM (3oLMy)
I think Trump has been pretty pissed at the way the Saudi's to set their obviously worthless Mecca Accord with Turkey and Pakistan, while ignoring the Abraham Accord that Trump was trying to get them to sign on to. Well, now they can twist in the wind and ponder the error of their ways while Trump kicks back and whistles dixie. And the pain that the Euro's are going to feel is just sweet icing on the cake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (edUvp)
Any politics anywhere is cleaner than California. That whole state needs to be in jail
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (xJpuh)
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Alexander would have whipped it into shape had he lived longer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2026 12:58 PM (wpRMV)
Definitely creep vibes then, and now.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 13, 2026 12:55 PM (Rln0i)
I liked Lionel, and the Commodores. It is a nice little love song, but that video was weird to me even as a kid. Dancing on the Ceiling was much better.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (5C90x)
Only the Polish have a large enough military to win against the Houthi's, even for the island in the Red Sea.
Alas, the entire EU does not have enough lift and logistics to move against north Yemen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (u82oZ)
Thats’s what it looks like to me, anyhow.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)
It's commonly said that the Monarchy loves to buy fancy weapons and to create a palace guard that looks great on paper, but they're terrified of actually creating an effective Army. Because a talented general with a truly effective army could sweep away the Monarchy in an afternoon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:48 PM (uozx9)
Yes, that was the agreement that allowed the end of Bretton-Woods agreement. It moved the collateralization of international trade from Gold to debt backed by the industrial capacity and ability to pay back debt by the US economy. Note, if Bulgaria or Burma had tried this it would not have worked since no one thinks the Rupee or Dinar had any real support.
The Petro-Dollar is faltering because foreign exchange is getting so fast and complicated the current Dollar system is not settling debts fast enough through central nodes.
The chances are that there will be the stablecoin that everyone is predicting, backed probably by Treasuries and Bitcoin, but all on chain and worked peer to peer
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's almost as if gamed a probability.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2026 01:02 PM (B7yLN)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 12:57 PM (edUvp)
I think you’re right.
Trump is taking names over Iran and the way countries are reacting.
That pact with Turkey, KSA, and Pakistan came out of nowhere. I wonder if it’s worth anything or just a statement piece.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)
Alas, the entire EU does not have enough lift and logistics to move against north Yemen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (u82oZ)
For all of Yemen, yes. But islands are easier - you cannot carpet bomb an entire country, but one island - not that difficult to erase everything on it and cut all supplies. It's a similar situation to Hormuz; in both cases I think it's a solvable problem to open the water way without having to completely take over the offending country.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:59 PM (5C90x)
Send both to China. I hear they like Muslims.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Don't include me in your definition of "our".
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Fv808)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:03 PM (6ydKt)
Over the last 3 days, Turkey and Pakistan to the Saudi's - "Yeah, I know we said we would support you militarily, but we didn't mean Militarily!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (qEb4U)
Nuke it and no one will miss them.
Posted by: General Urko, Chief Of Security at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (cCXR+)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 13, 2026 01:04 PM (Fv80
It would have been more accurate if I said "cultures".
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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You are American, gringo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:01 PM (edUvp)
I guess that’s why you get a lot of prince’s playing general & admiral, too.
I don’t know much about MBS but he doesn’t seem like the army type.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:51 PM (uozx9)
The nicest thing about it is that the two countries don't have to settle in either their own currency, which has a cost because one or both of them will generate foreign exchange costs converting it to useful currency, or have to trade into a third party currency to settle the debts. Everyone has Dollar reserves.
There is still "friction" in settling, and that is an extra accounting cost.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:06 PM (rbvCR)
Congrats, Cinnamon Carter and Dr. Helena Russell.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 13, 2026 01:07 PM (iIyc0)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (uozx9)
Even for an island. The Brits have SBS, Royal Marines, but no lift. Same with the French, Polish, and Italians. They need a nearby base for staging. I say Djibouti is not a solution.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:05 PM (edUvp)
“Sorry! Look in the fine print under ‘Grace Period’. We have until 2030 until we have to actually help you. See if you can get Trump to help.”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:09 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)
Isn't Djibouti run by Sheik Yerbouti?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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The Houthis actually called Trump on the phone and asked him not to interfere. We haven't.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (3oLMy)
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It's "nice" for US politicians, which for the most part have no idea how any of this works. They think this "exorbitant privilege" will last forever, and/or there are no limits. There's a reason they felt comfortable allocating millions to interpretive transexual dance lessons to Peruvian farmers.
There is no way even a tenth of all this financial jiggery-pokery would have been possible over the years without the dollar reserve currency status. That which can't go on won't, but ... it's taking longer than we thought. When it all goes Tango Uniform it will likely be overnight, or at least "slowly at first, then all at once."
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Next Generation Carnac at September 13, 2026 01:13 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (3oLMy)
George P. Mitchell is the Father of Fracking. Few Americans know of him.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (fYaXJ)
It’s not like the Chinese are getting a lot of oil from Iran anymore.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Subdivided the land where Exxon's campus resides.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Hary Tattooed Hipster Doofus at September 13, 2026 01:16 PM (Fn+3X)
"New York Gov. Hochul's pardon ends Supreme Court case concerning bond rights for noncitizens"
Hochul pardoned a felon just as the US Supreme Court was about to hold a hearing on the case.
Excerpt:
"In late August, Hochul pardoned Keisy Guerrero Mariano, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, a felony. Mariano was identified in court documents as "Keisy GM.""
Hochul hates her own subjects, and uses her pardon powers to prevent the extradition of illegal felons.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2026 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:19 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:19 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (DXbAa)
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (VHUov)
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The machines will stop running, the pumps will stop pumping
We're All Going to Die!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:20 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Braenyard
We called him and asked him to keep not doing what he's already not doing, and he's still not doing it.
We're somebody! We're really somebody!
Posted by: The Houthis at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (AKptf)
What about Turkiyay or whatever they call themselves?
Didn't they, the pakis and Saudis just sign a blood-oath alliance to the death to defend each other?
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Y8DZL)
I corrected it!
It's just a know problem with a half-duplex, high latency comms channel. Packets get out of order.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2026 01:23 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 01:12 PM (uozx9)
Well, the globalists would like to fall back on the Euro or Yuan, but they’re both up to their necks in debt, too, along with the UK and Japan.
Eventually something will happen, war, debt collapse, hyperinflation, that will give them the chance to make an international currency, or at the least a new currency backed by the world bank, UN, and all the other acronyms. Like the BANCOR that Keynes wanted after WWII that was ignored in favor of the dollar.
It’s not always good to be the reserve currency.
It requires taking on debt, trade deficits, and inflation, to an extent, to be the reserve currency.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:23 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:21 PM (AKptf)
It's really quite comical how the final scene in Lawrence of Arabia, where the Muslims try to unite and collapse into complete incompetence and chaos, is replayed in real life over and over again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Y8DZL)
Somebody wanted to change a comma into a semi-comma and so they had to renegotiate the whole deal.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)
They will stab us in the back the minute it serves their interest.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (qEb4U)
Our world today would be more peaceful and stable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)
That film is brilliant.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (AKptf)
Saw where Trump is asking the Ukes not to go after diesel refineries.
When Russian tractors can't run and the harvest rots in the field shits' gonna get real.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:27 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 01:28 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (RIvkX)
Yes, Alex, "What is an Arab?"
Alex: "Correct! For $400!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:28 PM (edUvp)
That they’re sitting on some of the richest oil fields on the planet was either Allah’s blessing or God’s biggest joke on the rest of us.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:30 PM (3oLMy)
Should be possible to get a gallon or two of Diesel out of every Houthi you render down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (5Go8e)
When Russian tractors can't run and the harvest rots in the field shits' gonna get real.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (Y8DZL)
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It's impacting world prices. Russia is not the one with burned out fields, rotting harvests, bombed out cities and collapsed capital, begging for a frontline freeze (reject by Russia at the moment, until they get certain guarantees..)
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (AKptf)
For state charges. ICE can still export his sorry ass.
Gov H’s move was to stop an adverse legal ruling in the SC.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 01:31 PM (36x1j)
Sounds like a win to me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:14 PM (3oLMy)
Public vs. private contact is very different. Israel provides a huge amount of intelligence to UK and France.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2026 01:34 PM (k5CNB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:24 PM (edUvp)
That film is brilliant.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:26 PM (AKptf)
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It reminds me of the final scene in Network with the communists arguing over shares and ratings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:36 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:37 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf "
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The right circumstance is not being stuck in Djibouti.
Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 01:38 PM (kPZ+a)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:35 PM (RIvkX)
I love that movie.
The big. bad, Black Panther discussing contract terms while chowing down on a bucket of KFC is so perfect I laugh every time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:41 PM (5Go8e)
Our world today would be more peaceful and stable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 01:25 PM (RIvkX)
True, that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:42 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cosda at September 13, 2026 01:38 PM (kPZ+a)
I’m sure they have petroleum based lubricants in Djibouti.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: The Response at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (5Go8e)
Sounds like an incredible story.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Fritz at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (J7jo9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)
A Brough Superior, IIRC, which had a JAP engine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 01:45 PM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:43 PM (XeU6L)
Most peculiar accident...
Posted by: UK Security establishment at September 13, 2026 01:45 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (UgMJ2)
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (AKptf)
I love that movie.
'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'
[scenes of TV's being thrown out of windows]
Posted by: Howard Beale at September 13, 2026 01:46 PM (XeU6L)
Regular gas is still around $3.85 here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:47 PM (6ydKt)
A Brough Superior, IIRC, which had a JAP engine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yup, I know...but it was as close to a pithy remark that I could conjure up.
Posted by: Howard Beale at September 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:49 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)
Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?
I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, Make sure there are only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 12:44 PM (u82oZ)
This is the way.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)
It made fun of the hypocrisy of left-wingers greedy for cash and fame combined with the ruthless capitalism that had gone international in scope along with a severe critique on television itself and how it had only just begun in the insanity it would foist upon America, while selling us everything we’d ever need or want the entire time.
I’ve watched in several times, over the years, for a reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:53 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)
Done for the time being. Got $295 for the last tranche. I still have a large number of copper-bearing devices that could be rendered, but I did all the ones that were gathered up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:54 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 13, 2026 01:55 PM (P4Pk9)
I can't believe I'm saying this but 60 Minutes might be worth watching tonight. One of the pilots shot down over Iran who was on the run for 2 days before being rescued is being interviewed.
Sounds like an incredible story.
Posted by: JackStraw
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With Bari Weiss at the helm, 60 Minutes might improve. But I'd like to know who the top reporter is on that story.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2026 01:56 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (1z8ji)
That would be over a hundred today
Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (P4Pk9)
155 With Islam everything is Allah's will. No matter how incompetent they are or how much they eff up, it was Allah's will, not their fault. And that is why Islamic nations governments and economies are ridiculous
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 01:39 PM (N2HNb)
This is also why, whenever a Muslim army starts to believe the battle is going against them and that Allah’s will is for them to lose, they will all shuck off their uniforms, put on civilian clothes, and run away as fast as they can.
I suspect a lot of that has been going on in the areas that the Houthi are overrunning. It’s what happened to Assad’s army at the end.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (MQIju)
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (5rh/l)
Sounds.... well, you know.
As for the Saudis - that's part of a severely tribal area with borders overlaid by the Brits. Expecting any to act as a nation state is just stupid.
Posted by: man at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:57 PM (1z8ji)
How much of that is Federal & Provincial taxes?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 01:58 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 01:59 PM (qEb4U)
Bill Maher
@billmaher
The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:00 PM (ndZc7)
Fuck Yemen. At ANY time, the Houthi's could be shut down, the idea of "the mountains" is bullshith. because what gives the Houthi's standing is their coastal hold, and the fact that they have about 2/3's of the fucking nation. It's EASY to kill them, nobody does it.
The US's participation in that ended after GW didn't fucking crush them after the cole, it's up to them, but Saudi could walk in with little effort and fucking crush them, but they are cowards like all of their ilk.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:02 PM (cZv+N)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:02 PM (cZv+N)
The culture itself has reinforced that image for their entire living memory.
It’s not surprising the younger generation aren’t as patriotic, it’s unpopular in a lot of circles to be.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:05 PM (6ydKt)
Fuckem.
I used to be an LIB when it came to US politics, now I'm FUCKEM when it comes to international politics.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (cZv+N)
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Hmm. So, (?) ~ 600lbs.? Lotta copper.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (N2HNb)
There are accusations that Lloyds' of London and the City of London banks prefer seeing things like that in reserve in case a crisis is needed for some reason.
Of course that would require the mindset that this is a crisis fomented for money, share prices and international influence, and not one for liberation, autonomy and self defense in a far-off land.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:10 PM (rbvCR)
I've had conversations with Australians about this, concerning how devoutly American I am, and I ask the most simple question, "How many people do you know in the military?" (to the Australians.) VERY FEW people even KNOW a single person who has ever served, EVER and they have to reach back to their grandparents in a lot of cases.
The complete isolation of service away from the populace is a MAJOR measure in that I believe. Every Man on my fathers side of the family who wasn't gay served, every man who married into my mothers side of the family served. Service isn't in my blood, it's in the blood of most everyone I ever grew up with.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (cZv+N)
“Matrix” Director Lilly Wachowski Accuses “Harry Potter” Fans of “Supporting Trans Genocide”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (ndZc7)
LLoyds might be the ones REALLY manipulating oil prices? I shall Shat myself upon any information that might prove that, brb I have to change my pants.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (cZv+N)
How much of that is Federal & Provincial taxes?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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FWIW: Gas Taxes by State, 2026
https://tinyurl.com/4hcnfc38
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (XeU6L)
It's like casting Christopher Walken as Kitty Pride.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:14 PM (cZv+N)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:16 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:13 PM (cZv+N)
Everyone knows oil prices are manipulated by the Chinese and OPEC!
The number of people willing to call me a paranoid fool for believing this of Lloyds' and the City of London is up there with the number of people who think I am a paranoid and delusional fool for thinking that Churchill was trying to get FDR to cover the Bank of England's expected default after the end of WWII.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (rbvCR)
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Could've been Eliot Page.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:18 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2026 02:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2026 02:19 PM (N2HNb)
The older brother in the Army was in Korea and Vietnam, and rose to Sgt. Major.
I guess here now it depends on where you live as to how many know military veterans.
A lot more veterans from the South and Mid-West and flyover country than the bluer areas on the map.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 13, 2026 02:23 PM (FMZSx)
Left-Handed iPhone Users Raise Discrimination Concerns Over Foldable Models Designed for Right-Handers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Kindltot
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This lady get it
This is the second time mentioned (before Kindltot) a transfer from a British, rules based system, to an American production system. Never heard of a British rules based system or that we were following it.
Anyway, it’s a clear and clean presentation.
https://tinyurl.com/c734478h
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:27 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 02:29 PM (6ydKt)
Texas (13.5%)
Florida (10.0%)
California (10.0%)
Georgia (5.4%)
New York (4.5%)
North Carolina (4.3%)
Virginia (3.1%)
Ohio (2.7%)
Illinois (2.6%)
Arizona (2.4%)"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2026 02:33 PM (XeU6L)
I saw a "documentary," back in '95 about, I forget the name of the town on the border of Iraq and Saudi during the first Iraq war, it was the first time we lost troops in a measureable number and it was the town where we had an F-15 get damaged and it had to limp back home, I think that was a friendly fire.
Anyway, in the docu it was about what a complete shit show the situation was for such a small target when they were talking to the US guys, and then you go to the Saudi's "It was the first time we took part in the conflict and it showed we can fight."
FUCK YOU Cousin Fucker, FUCK YOU! You make things worse all around.
I am not a bigot, You are inferior, I FUCKING am not going to allow kindness to interfere with my expressions anymore. I'm old, I'll be dead before long, don't have the energy to waste lying.
Fuck Africa, Fuck all the cousin and sister fuckers and brother marry'ers, and fuck the outright bigoted without reason racially superior asians.
And FUCK the Fey ass bitches in Europe who keep getting into fights with eachother because it's always a slap fight and a strongly worded letter. FUCKEM.
The FUCKEM Party.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 02:34 PM (cZv+N)
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It does all sound rather sinister
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 02:51 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 13, 2026 03:27 PM (cZv+N)
Saudi Arabia never punished any of the people who financed the Dunni who killed many US military in Iraq.
But because of their oil Trump kisses their anus on command
Posted by: Paul at September 13, 2026 03:57 PM (hN/JE)
Posted by: wickedpinto
no, that smell of burning offal is just Paul again.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 13, 2026 04:03 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Fritz at September 13, 2026 01:44 PM (J7jo9)
$4.35 today at local Quick Check.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 13, 2026 04:56 PM (hmYU4)
They don't even seem to have the stones to do that. The best thing they could do would be to hire israel to do it and sell them a bunch of land. Maybe sell israel the southern corner at the gulf of Aqaba.
Posted by: dude1394 at September 13, 2026 05:09 PM (Q0olq)
Posted by: Awp at September 13, 2026 06:38 PM (KrNDS)
Sunday Morning Book Thread 9-13-2026 [Sabrina Chase]
Writers have lots of ideas. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Ideas that we think we can write a good story about in the time available are...less so. The non-writing public, not seeing the whining and crying and hair-pulling we do at the computer, think it is just sitting back and thinking Big Thinks and fame and fortune arrive by cargo ship.
I have performed as a Tame Writer for high school English classes, and it is all very well to see a real breathing person who has written a book. That gets me polite interest. But what gets them enthused is when I demonstrate, right there in front of them, how to get a story idea. What I usually do is ask them to give me three nouns. Any nouns. And then I show them the brainstorming process that gets me to a narrative that holds together as a story, including tossing out the first or even second idea, because if it was easy for me to think of then someone has probably already done it and better than I can. No, I want the unusual, oh yeah that's Sabrina for you story! One I remember went like this: Nouns: Seahawks, Spongebob Squarepants, and Paris (the kids were giggling with glee when they came up with these too) What I came up with: The NFL has decreed that all team mascots must be real things, and if they are not the team merchandise will be immediately confiscated resulting in mass nudity in Seattle, because nobody has seen a Seahawk! But to the rescue comes the Cousteau society (based in Paris) seeking a mysterious being named Spongebob Squarepants and very knowledgeable about sea life, who can find an actual Seahawk to prove it is real! They thought this was hilarious. That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that. I will confess my Argonauts of Space series started off as revenge for Pluto getting demoted from planet to planetoid, though. I thought, "what would make them beg to call it a planet again... ooh, I know! It's really an ancient alien spaceship! Hmm. And why is it there? It got left as debris after a war." And it all sort of cascaded from there ... and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins. I dunno about my mind, I just visit...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bryce at September 13, 2026 09:00 AM (5GspC)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)
That's a collaborative story-telling exercise.
I know of several fantasy writers who have used this method to great success (Raymond E. Feist, Steven Erickson & Ian C. Esslemont, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, to name a few)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:03 AM (AAaj3)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 13, 2026 09:05 AM (Ydd86)
I love that picture. But I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, so it would appeal. Because that's what it looks like.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)
"9 So Bad, they're Good Science Fiction Books you've probably never heard of"
https://tinyurl.com/h29uxu7z
The Red Planet
Invaders from Rigel
Man of Many Minds
Genesis Five
Shoot at the Moon
Secret of the Black Planet
Night Mare
The Four Day Weekend
Galaxy 666
The joke's on you, Jake. I have some of these! I dug out "The Robot Brains", "Secret of the Black Planet", "Man of Many Minds", and "Invaders From Rigel" for my next reads.
"The Robot Brains", by British SF author Sydney J. Bounds, was written in the 50's but feels like it's from the 30's. Top scientists on the cusp of technological breakthroughs are being decapitated by rayguns. There are evil giant-brained dwarves and a modern day Mongolian khan who wants to rule the world.
It's really bad, but at least it doesn't take 500 pages to stink up the joint.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (kpS4V)
Howdy, Horde.
If memory serves, Harlan Ellison used to answer the where do you get your ideas question by saying there was an idea service in Schenectady and he sent them $$$ and they sent him a fresh six-pack of ideas every week. He also said that he was frequently asked for the address.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)
Midnight Cowboy has already been written.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)
Oh, have you read my cold-war era short story? "A Piece of Cake?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
By the way, Inspector Jacques Clouseau comes out triumphant in "The Pink Panther Gets Lucky" through sheer dumb luck. Definitely dumb.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (AAaj3)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
I don't think so, do you have a link?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)
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That sounds exactly like an idea Ellison would use in a story...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 09:10 AM (yTvNw)
Tally Ho!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
"Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
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Sesame Street used to have a sketch where a shady-looking character would try to sell letters of the alphabet to one of the regular characters (Ernie? Bert?)..
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)
Rejected by all so far. I can email it to you, if you want.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
A writing professor buddy of mine has suggested to his students that one way to become a good writer is to play role-playing games.
It is a *great* way to learn to write in-depth (as opposed to paper cutout) characters. If the DM insists you roleplay, that is. I also participated, as a GM, in a large live-action roleplaying game where the participants picked their own character and we, poor sods, had to come up with storylines for ALL of them. Together. Over a hundred. Really built up my writing muscles with that one!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (k+oif)
Not bad so far, though I do grow weary of the evil, murderous corporation trope. Chaney has so many different sci fi series that I doubt I could read his entire output if I lived another 50 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 13, 2026 09:18 AM (/RHNq)
The first installment is The Tainted Cup. It's a genre mashup, because it's fantasy setting, but with a murder mystery/detective theme, so it's in a class of its own.
There is the obligatory gay character, which I'm sure had to happen to get the thing published. It's not in your face all the time, so tolerable.
Anyway. We're reading the third and latest in the series now, A Trade of Blood. It's a tale of feuding families, lost fortunes, and a unique and creepy biological warfare.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (78a2H)
This indicates that the group fell apart. What happened?
There's a germ of a story idea.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)
I'm constantly (or nearly so) depressed, so that wouldn't work for me. It's interesting you mention movies, though, as that's one of the ways I can tell whether a scene I am writing works or not - if I can 'see' it, with jump cuts, closeups and other camera movement, then it's good.
I don't often listen to music while I'm writing, but if I do, it's always Baroque, which is close enough to white noise that it doesn't distract me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
Absolutely! My email is in my nic.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (CjHsb)
"I need you to find out who's running a black-market idea service. It's hurting business, and we need it shut down."
"So why come to me?"
She looked at me, and at the office. "You look like you're right at home in those circles. So why not? If you want the job, the pay's good. And you look like you could use it." She took an envelope from her purse. "Ten thousand when the job's done. Here's two thousand in advance and a bus ticket to Schenectady. Take it or leave it."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (q3u5l)
There's a germ of a story idea.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)
One by one the members of a RPG group suddenly start dying in ways that would only happen in the game....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:23 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)
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I just got that the other day!
Now I'm re-reading the first two before I read that one.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)
Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)
Actually, I think you under describe yourself. You have books available for purchase. That makes you an author. Writer, to me, means someone who has completed works, but hasn't published. Everyone can be a writer, but only the best - or luckiest - writers get to be an author.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (1Ff7Z)
I'm finishing Stephen Hunter's The Bullet Garden, a WWII adventure with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, tracking a sniper team in France just after D-Day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/5fpvsx6k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (szk5e)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (MWfyi)
Great aunt Caroline is the matriarch of a dysfunctional family, and the widow of a famous professor at Cambridge. She wanted Campion involved to forestall police involvement and keep the situation quiet, but after Uncle Andrew's body is found tied with rope and a bullet hole in his head, and her son William was the last to be seen with him, it becomes impossible to keep things under wraps. William's army pistol is missing, and a shank of rope from the attic is gone as well, which all point to William.
All of Caroline's adult children sponge off of her and live in the same house in a festering atmosphere. When yet another death occurs in the house, it seems that a curse has fallen upon the family, and Campion must use all of his intuition and skill to break open the case and find the answers, however fantastical they appear. This is a classic Campion mystery.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)
I think the series is improving as he goes. This has been the most interesting one to me, so far.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (CjHsb)
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This can work for some writers, but the conventional wisdom I've seen for novice authors is to plan, outline, and organize as much as possible.
Usually advice from established authors who got their start doing that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (AAaj3)
And with him being a committed leftist, I did flip ahead to the last chapter, which is nothing more than a movie-centered screed against the 'dumb' DJT. So I know to skip that when I reach it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (/Chlc)
Candy with free flossing included! What's not to like?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)
Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)
LOL. I'll bet they cherish the memories. What a great dad thing to do!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 09:32 AM (Ia/+0)
While some of the stories were fun, as a whole the stories suffered for being a comic book. Specifically, the pacing suffers. The author wanted every issue to be a complete story, and wanted every story to hit all the story beats of a traditional mystery; it'd start with a vignette showing the detective's personal life, then something connecting the detective to the mystery, explaining/showing the crime that created the mystery, investigation the possible suspects and motives, introducing a red herring or two, the big reveal where the detective solves the mystery, and then a coda going back to the detective's personal life. You can put all that in a novel, or in 40-minute tv show...but it's a bit much to pack into a 22-page comic book.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:35 AM (3v7ra)
Heh.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2026 09:36 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:36 AM (ndZc7)
I love your account of making a story idea, both for the classroom (which was hilarious) and for real. That's the fun part, giving your imagination full reign. The work comes when you have to make that jumble of ideas make narrative sense.
But there are unexpected dangers and paths that can appear. Many years ago I had an outline for an adventure story. Then I wrote a three page intro to establish a few characters and a mood for the story. Three hundred pages later I had a book based solely on that intro. I never got back to the outline. (The book didn't sell. This was long before self publishing was common and going through agents was the norm.)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 09:37 AM (yTvNw)
You might ask, why not just read Dracula? Or you might assume this is an exercise in comic mis-translation a la Mark Twain. It is neither. There are whole plot elements in PoD which aren't in Dracula itself, and some of the characters have different names, which suggests that maybe the translator(s) could have been working from an earlier draft by Stoker.
Example: at one point while Thomas (not Jonathan) Harker is creeping around Dracula's castle, he finds a secret basement chamber where Dracula is leading a bunch of Neanderthal types in a vampiric human sacrifice cult ritual. (Shades of "The Rats in the Walls"!)
The Icelandic version was published as a newspaper serial, and apparently the publisher must have gotten tired of it. The Harker-in-the-Castle sequence is as long or longer than the comparable part of Stoker's novel, but the remainder of the novel is briskly retold, almost summarized, in about a quarter of the length. Dracula's death literally gets one sentence.
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 09:38 AM (78a2H)
Finished reading Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons (1937)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-red-decade-redux
"It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941."
Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (fnZRl)
I made the mistake of coming up with a story on the fly for a toddler I was entertaining. It involved a mother bear and her cubs waking up hungry after hibernation and the various things the cubs wanted to eat. When I finished I heard the dreaded words "Again!"
And I had to feverishly try to remember how I had started the damn story ...
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (63pwK)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:43 AM (MWfyi)
Been there and done that. It was a rough couple of weeks too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (q3u5l)
I don't know where mine is.
I do recall one poem about two monkeys discussing Darwin's theory. It ended:
Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,
But, brother, he didn't descend from us!
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (VChGu)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
They fell off a truck.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (CjHsb)
Sent. It's in docx.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
It is also interesting in what it is missing. The hero is never pausing and contemplating his actions or why he is doing what he is doing or if he is right. Worldbuilding is good with things implied and mentioned, but no sitting down and doing the 'As you know, the Emperor is...' It stays consistent to itself and hints, but does not explicate.
I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)
As an example, the last novel I read feature a sword-and-sorcery style wandering adventurer who thwarted not less that 2 potentially city-killing Eldrich horrors. So, my thought process; what happens after the wandering hero has moved on. There is a de-populated city in the middle of an empire. Eventually some new civilians will move into the empty land (or be forcefully relocated onto the land, because the empire needs the taxes!) and then our new protagonist will encounter some dangerous remanent of what came before....
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (5Go8e)
I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)
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I read the omnibus edition of the Eisenhorn books earlier this year. Although the protagonist starts out unwavering in his belief in the rightness of the Empire, that does start to change in the later books...Good character development overall.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:49 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:49 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: Shinjinrui at September 13, 2026 09:50 AM (xNMCe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: unwenchable at September 13, 2026 09:51 AM (wTDv5)
It is also interesting in what it is missing. The hero is never pausing and contemplating his actions or why he is doing what he is doing or if he is right. Worldbuilding is good with things implied and mentioned, but no sitting down and doing the 'As you know, the Emperor is...' It stays consistent to itself and hints, but does not explicate.
I like it so far. Had a bunch of credits on audible so I got the whole series.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (Y/06r)
Well, Eisenhorn is part of the Warhammer 40K franchise, and in that world, self doubt (or even self reflection)would be Heresy. And everyone on the internet knows how that setting feels about Heresy...
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Who Knew at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (0QMbS)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Cool, I'll find time for that this week.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:54 AM (CjHsb)
In the novel April Evil, John D. MacDonald has a bit of description, something like "one of those men who could be a used car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin." Donald Justice picked that up and got a nifty little chiller of a poem from it, "The Tourist from Syracuse."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:57 AM (q3u5l)
Well, there's your problem. Just avoid thinking the Little Thinks, and Bob's your uncle, you're the next Tom Clancy.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2026 09:58 AM (Riz8t)
I think the subject scared people away.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:59 AM (VChGu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:00 AM (5Go8e)
At the coffee shop yesterday morning, had a Mom, Dad, & 2 little girls (about 3 & 6). Mom made up a quick fairy story at the younger one's request. When the girl asked for another, Mom said, 'Maybe Daddy has one for you.' Didn't hear how he deflected, though.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:00 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:01 AM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (szk5e)
Shoot. Can't even buy an RC with that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:02 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (/GVA9)
"What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate? I think he would tell the Senators...'I was a stranger and you deported me'...and then I think he would flip over those fancy desks..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:57 AM (q3u5l)
There's a Kolchak short story (I don't remember the title) where he runs into an apparently immortal man whose purpose is to kill or otherwise remove men or women who will become great dangers to the world. Kolchak can never get a fix on him, however, because the man's appearance constantly changes from one ordinary face to another.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 10:07 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)
James Cambias; A Darkling Sea and The Godel Operation (and more.)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: lots of books.
Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 10:09 AM (fnZRl)
Always a pleasure to see you here.
My partner Karen used to ask me for a word. Just something random. She's anagram it and then make a poem of the word using each letter to start a line.
Usually, in the car on the way home from a hike. It was astonishing to watch and often hilarious.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at September 13, 2026 10:09 AM (0+1tY)
Fast forward fifty-six years. What a difference! There's still the attraction of Satan's defiance but the power of the rest of the poem is clear. And I can see the genius of Milton's writing with the wealth of allusions, pacing, description and imagination. It's like opening an old chest expecting a few dusty coins and discovering it is filled with gold.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 10:12 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:13 AM (5Go8e)
Usually advice from established authors who got their start doing that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (FZ29D)
Bzzzzt!
I'm gonna have to press the buzzer on that, Perf. I always start with the idea and see where it goes. Starting from nothing makes the journey more free. I don't think a new writer can completely outline a story before touching the keys or pen. You don't know what could be, if you're going to follow a plan. Don't know how many times stuff I've plotted out - and I do both methods - won't work, and I can replace it with another idea. If you plan too much, you may find it hard to solve problems that crop up with a slavish adherence to a "plan."
It doesn't mean I don't think it can work, but it's best not to get locked into one way and one way only to write.
By the way, have you ever noticed almost all the writing YTers aren't best selling authors? So, why give credence to their ideas.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:13 AM (1Ff7Z)
One day we were working and the power went out. No machine, no lights, nothing. I had a flashlight and got an idea, so grabbed some of those candy corns and went over to the lab. Yes, we had a lab at the candy corn factory. There I found a battery drill and drilled a little hole in the pointy end of the candy corn and stuck a piece of string in there. When I lit it on fire, it burned real good!
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:14 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 10:14 AM (63pwK)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:15 AM (MWfyi)
And for some reason, I imagine a scenario in which the parents are using the kids to snipe at each other for years and years and the kids never suspect until after they've grown and the parents split up.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:16 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (U/s6V)
Often, though, it's from my mind wandering and wondering, What would happen if . . .
Watching Mrs. Miniver the other night, I began to wonder about a concept, and am still considering it. No idea yet if it will be horror, fantasy, mystery/suspense, or none of those things.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 09:47 AM (5Go8e)
"Who the heck is Saedi?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 10:19 AM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:19 AM (5Go8e)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Space Sicle Z at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (fnZRl)
There's a writing book by Dean Wesley Smith called Writing Into the Dark, talking about the process of writing novels without outlines. Some interesting stuff in there.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:21 AM (q3u5l)
I’ve seen this advice from BIG names such as Brandon Sanderson and Terry Brooks. Not just random YouTubers. George RR Martin is an admitted “pantser” which is why he’s written himself into a corner.
Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:22 AM (ppvE/)
The mission was to bring "supplies" to four Americans who lived and worked in the building. The head guy told me they were U.S. Department of State employees, at which I laughed, but said nothing. (Of course they weren't State employees, but rather members of a different U.S. agency).
I've always thought my experience there would be a good opening scene in a novel of international intrigue. Coming up with a plot going forward would have to fall to aa real author, however, because I'm not good at such things.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 10:23 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:24 AM (5Go8e)
"What would Jesus do if he visited the U.S. Senate? I think he would tell the Senators...'I was a stranger and you deported me'...and then I think he would flip over those fancy desks..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)
I just realized that "Lo-T" also spells "Lot".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2026 10:24 AM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: John F. MacMichael at September 13, 2026 10:25 AM (/GVA9)
In my version, Jesus would say "I was a stranger and you refused to take me into your own home and forced me upon your poorer neighbors."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (5Go8e)
It was a sweet story about a fairy whose wings got wet in the rain. The sun came out and dried them, and she was able to fly again & slide down the rainbow. Ha, didn't think I was listening that closely.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 10:27 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026
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I usually start on a project, big or small, with a "notes" document. Something in my "story ideas" Word file catches my attention, or I'm adding to the file with something new. Then I break it out into its own file and proceed from there. Sometimes I follow it through to its conclusion; sometimes I stop after a certain point, which varies, and start in on the text. Sometimes I finish and realize I've gone off in a different direction from what I had in mind during the note writing. Perhaps the resolution I had there becomes unworkable or silly ("I just don't believe this!") as I get into the tale itself and develop the characters and the action.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:29 AM (MWfyi)
But one still baffles me. When my husband and I packed to move I found a folder of about 70 pp of a sf fantasy. I knew from the paper and the font that I had written it when I was in intense chemo for what seemed at the time an unsurvivable cancer and couldn't put 2 sentences together, let alone 70 pp.
I didn't read sf. That was my husband's side of the bookcase. But when you get that kind of letter to yourself, well, you have to honor it.
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 10:30 AM (WBjaU)
I don't doubt it was a sweet story. But on the infrequent occasions when something suggests a notion that could be turned into a story, I tend to come up with something grim. I'm just such an upbeat guy...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:31 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: vivi at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (7esJd)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (5NDio)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 10:33 AM (63pwK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)
But if he tried to do something as big as GoT strictly as a pantser, and published the books as he went along without having a solid idea of a final conclusion -- well, yeah, I can see how that would be asking for trouble.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Perfessor Squirrel at September 13, 2026 10:22 AM (ppvE/)
Just don't be slavish to one method or another. I start free form, then about a third of the way through I plot in general terms. I don't do every scene and then and then and then. It won't let you add something if an idea hits, or you have to torture what you've already written to make it fit.
If it works for them, goody. It may not work for a new writer because they may not know how to plot a story yet.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (1Ff7Z)
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Separation of Church and State, cocksucker
Posted by: Check Out His Crawlspace Too at September 13, 2026 10:37 AM (SY3aZ)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026
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Whenever people growl about GRR Martin not being any good, I describe Fevre Dream, and they have to admit it sounds terrific. And it is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)
Hmm. A shipment of candy corn is needed on a remote Pacific island but the ship's science officer causes a detour Tahiti to cure his seven year itch.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:39 AM (MWfyi)
Ideas seem to come at random and when they stop coming naturally it can be jarring.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:39 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:40 AM (MWfyi)
“Good endings” he said; “THAT’S the hard part!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 10:41 AM (P8wUf)
I'm not sure that's that kind of story idea I would run with.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:41 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026
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Whenever people growl about GRR Martin not being any good, I describe Fevre Dream, and they have to admit it sounds terrific. And it is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)
Martin is a skillful writer but he's got some serious flaws, some ideological, that prevent him from doing anything he doesn't want to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:42 AM (xcxpd)
Fiume: The Poet Who Captured a City tells the remarkable true story of a poet who became a commander, a disputed port that became a revolutionary state, and fifteen turbulent months that offered Europe an early glimpse of the political forces that would shape the decades ahead.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)
Baroness Karen Blixen is mentioned by first name. Her pen name is not given, but from the description and background, it has to be her. And a fictionalized version of her first husband, the "Blixen" fellow, is important to Hunter's story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)
I suppose this GoT is an epic, never-ending story. I don't see why he'd be able to finish it just because he did a complete outline instead of pantsing all the way to the end. He's older, isn't he? Maybe he's just lost interest in continuing the work. I know how that feels.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (1Ff7Z)
But if [George RR Martin] tried to do something as big as GoT strictly as a pantser, and published the books as he went along without having a solid idea of a final conclusion -- well, yeah, I can see how that would be asking for trouble.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:36 AM (q3u5l)
Heh. From what I've heard, his original pitch to the publisher (which he presumably had a 'plan' for) was for a trilogy. One could only imagine what would have happened had to stuck to that original pitch...
I've read a few chapters of Martin's work; back when the Game of Thrones TV show was good (or at least still decent) I'd wander over the library and read some chapters featuring the characters I liked...but nothing has made me want to read the entire books, nor to delve into his earlier works.
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 10:46 AM (3v7ra)
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Throw up His hands in horror and flee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:40 AM (MWfyi)
I know one who's open for more business. Wolfus can verify.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (1Ff7Z)
I absolutely agree with you and Dean about having fun, except for the sf universe I described above that came to me out of nowhere. Those stories are more like taking dictation and they take me places that are hard to go to.
One came to me just this past week, and I'm still fighting against writing it, but I know I'm going to lose.
Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (WBjaU)
As the saying goes 'flipping over tables and chasing people out with a whip' in on the table...
Posted by: Castle Guy at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (3v7ra)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)
Ideas? Of course, I get plenty.
Each morning I wake up with twenty.
But when I get up,
And have downed my first cup,
I see that they're all excrementy.
Posted by: mindful webworker - mulling doon at September 13, 2026 10:50 AM (4lnVb)
Also, lots of Catholic stuff in it, but you knew that because of the author. To be clear, Greene includes faith because he regards it as crucial to understanding people (and he's right), but he is not preachy about it, and is very much willing to make fun of the Church and clergy.
Like Eveyln Waugh, he also has a deep love of clever plot twists, telegraphing the story and then - and this is the very important part - adding a completely unforeseen but completely consistent turn to it. Sort of the anti-Martin.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 10:51 AM (Ia/+0)
I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. Everything in between the opening scene and the ending scene can be outlined or improvised but endings are important. Figure it out first.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026 10:52 AM (xcxpd)
I don't wake up with nearly that many, but boy, can I identify with the rest of it.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 10:52 AM (q3u5l)
You mean like "23 skidoo" or "That's really swell"?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (78a2H)
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You mean like "23 skidoo" or "That's really swell"?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026
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Thirties British slang is another country entirely!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)
Seeing as how all my stories ended up with me getting fired, that was never a problem.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 10:58 AM (MWfyi)
I'd also known more people, and therefore more *about* people, and I began to use those people in my work. Maxim Darius in the Man of Destiny series is a based upon the late great Jerry Roe, head of the Michigan GOP during the 1970s. Political genius, funny guy, though I did change the part about him being an insatiable womanizer.
The most clear case of this is "Three Weeks with the Coasties", which is a novelization of my experience at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I retained all my records and emails, and so was able to reconstruct it day by day, albeit with some necessary embellishment.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
I will STRONGLY suggest that if you get a story idea, figure out the ending before spending time writing. Everything in between the opening scene and the ending scene can be outlined or improvised but endings are important. Figure it out first.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026
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I can't echo this more strongly. You need to know what the payoff is. It's like telling a joke in public: You know the punchline, but you have to put in the various elements that make the line sensible (in the context of the joke) so that the listener will get it. If you leave something out, the audience will go, "Huh?" And the same reaction will happen if the punchline doesn't match the joke elements.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (wzUl9)
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I ran into words I'd never seen before, and of course the Cockney element adds another layer.
There's also the thing where he obstinately refuses to give clear names to people, so you eventually figure out The Boy is Pinkie, but only via dialog. Exposition, what's that?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 10:57 AM (78a2H)
Much like in Debbie Does Dallas.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2026 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)
Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,
But, brother, he didn't descend from us!
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:44 AM (VChGu)
Go on Youtube, and look for "The Monkey Speaks His Mind" by Dave Bartholomew. It's an entire song, and those lines are from it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 11:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
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Counterpioint: it is often the case that while you know WHAT will happen, the HOW comes to you late in the writing, and is often unexpected, the resuilt of the story taking on a life of its own.
The problem with Martin was that he created an organic story and then kept doing gotchas until it felt completely contrived and random.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Good day to stay in and read. Had to be out early, just got back. Will follow my own advice, with more tea.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 11:04 AM (sl73Y)
(This was a belated conclusion to his Smart Set books and their anti-hero Lord Basil Seal.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:05 AM (ZOv7s)
"I know nothing whatever about the events that will occur later. Otherwise it would not be interesting to me."
Seemed to work out pretty well for him.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:06 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 11:07 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2026 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Jean-Claude in at September 13, 2026 11:11 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)
Gabriele D'Annunzio? Certifiable lunatic.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:16 AM (qRla/)
The book is a physical pleasure to hold and read. I expect to pass this to young family members when the time comes. It is heirloom quality. At 28 bucks on Amazon, I think it is a real value, worth every penny to preserve and enjoy one of the treasures of English literature.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:18 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 13, 2026
My Theda Bara novels are all told in flashback (which, I have been assured, is a death-kiss as far as trad publishing is concerned), so I have the opening and closing written first.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:19 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 11:19 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Jean-Claude in at September 13, 2026
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While I've liked some of her short stories, she is not on the top of my favorites list. Maybe it's the Southern-ness of what she does.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:23 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026
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It may remain a death-kiss until it's not. Somebody will write a well-received and big-selling novel with the flashback as a central element, and then everybody will be scrambling to jump onto the wagon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:24 AM (wzUl9)
I’m pretty sure, although not entirely convinced, that my prior knowledge of this historical event was whitewashed, claiming that these scientists were unaware of the extent of the use of prisoner labor and atrocities.
It always amazes me that our government doesn’t trust us with this information, believing that we’d choose possible defeat over the actual truth. I know that it’s easier to believe in presentism, and that I’d choose the most moral decision over existence itself, but I’m pretty sure that I’d vote me over them every time.
Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:27 AM (wBxGS)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 11:28 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:28 AM (yTvNw)
Most grocery stores don't see themselves selling food, but moving Packaged Goods.
The section on trucking mates well to the book "End of the Road" which was written by a trucker. Trucking really is worse than share-cropping. If we return to professional drivers like in the 70s and 80s, you get cartels and Teamster labor strikes. With today's system you have debt slavery, drug addicts, homeless, illegal aliens and others who are fine with making $3/hr or less and living almost 24hrs a day in a 7x7 box.
Maybe Musk was right about autonomous trucks—especially for drayage.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 11:30 AM (PVBkQ)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:27 AM (wBxGS)
The one I met was unrepentant. Fuel scientist.
Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 11:33 AM (F9nWj)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
There's a lot of that going around lately.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:34 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026
***
Have you read all the Wolfe books? Two of my favorites are from the '50s, Murder by the Book and Might As Well Be Dead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)
All I could do was stand there, like an idiot, staring at him.
How do you give the gift of Peace to the Peacebringer?
I think that's why most of my fellow believers in Paul's divine status don't believe me. They don't want to know the truth. In a way, they were afraid of the truth. Paul was just some guy, as a person, whatever The Gift was that he gave us. Now I knew.
And I knew he hadn't been to Heaven.
He'd been to Hell.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 11:37 AM (4lnVb)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2026 11:38 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 11:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
My understanding of most of the early Forgotten Realms novels is that they were novelizations of Ed Greenwood(?)'s D&D campaigns
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 11:42 AM (anFBA)
I would say -
before you start writing, know-
your beginning
the end
and a minimum of three knockout scenes to act as sign posts along the way. Five or six is even better.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 11:43 AM (iJfKG)
Hi Wolfus,
I haven't read all of them but most. And I know I read those two although I don't recall the specifics. This is where used book stores come in with a chance to get inexpensive books in a series. Some of my paperbacks are showing their age but are still readable.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 11:45 AM (yTvNw)
So, he thought Hitler was doing the right thing? Or, that Germany was fucked over in the Treaty of Versailles, and was justified in trying to conquer the world.
Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:46 AM (wBxGS)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 11:47 AM (63pwK)
It is a long book. And apparently not tightly plotted before he began writing it. And it's a terrific read.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:50 AM (q3u5l)
Kurt Debus, and Arthur Rudolph were top level nazis and pretty much ran the entire booster or Saturn V program. Rudolph was later deported.
Less well known than the rocket scientists, of which there were hundreds, were the propaganda specialists and chemical/biological warfare specialists. The spook agencies picked up where they left off, the experiments at Dachau with hallucinogenics, trying to find "truth serum". Initially they focused on Mescaline, which Rudolf Hess described as "Mexican Brain Poison", apparently the British messed with him quite a bit.
There is mention of Bill Donovan working with L.S.D. in the OSS days, which puts the US government role with this substance much earlier than the early 1950s. But from out here in the cheap seats it looks to me the 1960s "tune on turn on drop out" drug culture had its genesis in the spook agencies. Your tax dollars at work, with a little help from nazis
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 11:51 AM (uozx9)
the end
and a minimum of three knockout scenes to act as sign posts along the way.
-
I heard some smart guy once define a good movie as one with no bad scenes and three good scenes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:52 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2026 11:54 AM (wBxGS)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 11:55 AM (Ia/+0)
Sabrina, thanks for the thread. I'm always a sucker for any writer's shoptalk.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 11:56 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase
Some years ago, I attended a presentation by one of my son-in-law's favorite professors. He appeared wearing a skirt! I was like oh shit! My SIL explained it's not what it seems. He's just a Scottish nationalist.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Walter Hobbs at September 13, 2026 12:00 PM (wpRMV)
Oh--sorry. Wrong thread!
I can write scenes. I can write characters. I can write dialogue. My challenge is the resolution of the conflict. I write myself into a corner or a wall and...
I'm a better poet than a narrative writer. /sigh
Posted by: March Hare at September 13, 2026 12:00 PM (+A1pr)
As always, a pleasure ...
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 12:01 PM (63pwK)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 12:03 PM (uozx9)
Posted by: Skip
Immensely, scripts have to be complete storylines pared down to the bare elements, and timed to the page. They are entirely different arts.
Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 13, 2026 12:04 PM (HeG1i)
---------
The latter approach also works well for big budget movie trilogies. Make it up as you go along!
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at September 13, 2026 12:05 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Skip
I've mentioned my enjoyment of author Anthony Horowitz. His three book Susan Ryeland series have all been made into BBC miniseries and he wrote the screenplays. It's interesting to watch the differences between book and screenplay. Some I understand as just translating to a more visual mode and some I don't. For example, the setting for his latest, Marble Hall Murders, is transferred from the south of France to Cyprus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 12:06 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase
The Captain having abandoned the ship, the crew was left rudderless and adrift, hatches unbattened, awaiting rescue of the next Big Thing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 12:07 PM (4lnVb)
Which is why so many fans of a book hiss at the movie adaptation.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Invulnerable at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (4lnVb)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-red-decade-redux
"It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941."
Posted by: 13times at September 13, 2026 09:40 AM (fnZRl)
Great article. I read Whitaker Chamber's "Witness". May have to check out Eugene Lyons too.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 13, 2026 12:39 PM (y171U)
I'm re-editing a book I started over 35 years ago, and am up to chapter 10, then I get a corrupted file on the flash drive I'm using. Ch 10, gone, ch's 8 & 9, lost the ready-to-print files, lost some wip files, not happy obviously. Couldn't recover any lost files, but did recover 8 & 9 from their wips. Ch 10, redoing from the rough drafts (but can't remember all the on the fly edits)
Lesson learned: Save to more than one media (CD now added to routine as primary)
At least I didn't lose ALL my work... :-/
/rant over
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at September 13, 2026 02:07 PM (dH3Sc)
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at September 13, 2026 02:11 PM (dH3Sc)
Daily Tech News 13 September 2026
Top Story
- LG televisions are spyware, part one:
Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.
- LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware:
Tech News
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the US government to force all his competitors to slow down development, preferably using drone strikes. (New York Times)
Can you spell "regulatory capture", boys and girls?
Timmy? Yes, it was already evident in the Code of Hammurabi. I see you're been keeping up with assigned reading.
- Iran and Iran's Houthi proxies in Yemen use Anthropic's Claude to develop hypersonic missiles and target US warships. (Tom's Hardware)
Where for me Claude Opus dropped from version 5 down to 4.8 because it hallucinated the term "cyber" when working with a CBOR library - the Concise Binary Object Representation.
- Sony's PlayStation division ditched its partnership with Hideo Kojima over fears that the game might not be a colossal failure. (Yahoo)
Microsoft's Xbox division briefly put its own string of colossal failures on hold to snap him up.
- Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120. Just now merging in
nana book- an option that fires up a local website with up to date documentation of the language and libraries, reading directly from docstrings and definitions in the code.
Just waiting for a build to complete, but it looks like the binary with all the new features might be smaller than yesterday's binary because I previously missed a compression option. On Linux and Windows there's no install required - download it, run it, it works. It adds 0.1 to 0.2 seconds to the startup time depending on your CPU, but you can decompress it to get startup down to 1% of that if that's a factor.
Update: So... Stripped and compressed, it comes out to3.3MB3.7MB, which issmalleronly 100k larger than two days ago. Startup time has increased though to 150ms. Mostly not an issue.
Disclaimer: You diddled when you should have daddled.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 04:35 AM (C26rB)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)
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Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 04:59 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)
Scary.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)
I woke on my own from tangled dreams about reading instructions from a red-paged book, instructions about something I already knew in the dream how to do but can't recall clearly now. Bleah.
What's up for you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:17 AM (wzUl9)
I'm up, I'm up! OK?
Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 13, 2026 05:19 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2026 05:21 AM (AMvSw)
Will there be a day when more ordinary folk will be able to download and code "Hello, World!\n" ?
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)
Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)
I'll buy some meat at Aldi this week, and we can get two dinners out of that with tortillas or with pasta.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)
Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)
I don't think so. It's pretty old.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)
So... How to solve the problem?
Well, you could put OpenWRT on your wireless routers, and set your home network up to use VLANs, and shove the TV in its own isolated VLAN, with the router configured to not let it talk to any other devices through the router even if you do add something else to that VLAN in future.
Then set up firewall rules on the "If it's not expressly permitted, it's automatically forbidden" security model, only adding addresses the TV needs to talk to (for updates, for authentication, and for whatever services or streams you want to watch.)
And that's where this starts to break down, because:
a) LG could easily use the same IP address for updates as it does for spying. You might not be able to isolate those.
b) LG could lock you out for "violating the terms of service" if you try to shut down their spying, and that's probably inside those utter bricks of terms-of-service that were shown in the 2nd video.
c) Finding out exactly what IPs to approve to barely get a stream/service working is a giant pain in the arse.
G'morning horde. I should have my coffee now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)
Half price or less.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)
Yay! I was just going to ask Pixy if he has.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)
When I was looking over appliances at Lowe's earlier this year, in case I bought a house that would need a fridge or more, I saw most of the boxes were "smart" . . . but you could still get simpler models for a lot less money. Same thing with stoves. On that trip I didn't look at washers and dryers, but I'd hope the same is true for them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 05:39 AM (5C90x)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (odBC9)
There are still "dumb" appliances out there. Large landlord corporations still buy them for apartment complexes they run. Start investigating now.
Buy one now as well as a really good appliance dolly (NOT the same as a "box dolly").
Stick the backup fridge in your garage. It can hold bottled drinks.
When the day comes that the main fridge has kicked the bucket, you're all set to promote the backup fridge to the primary, and won't you two feel awesome for having been well prepared.
Two is one, and one is none.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (wtpml)
we have two spare dumb TVs (from craigslist) waiting in the closet.
one is a duplicate of the current one working, so when it fails I will keep it for parts.
coffee req'd, brb
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 05:42 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:47 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026
***
I was happy with my CRT TV from 1995 until 2020. Darn thing weighed 75 lbs. I ignored the digital TV world until the CRT died and there was hardly anybody who could fix it -- and I'd have had to get it to the shop anyway.
My current one, bought at Target, is a Vizio. Haven't had any trouble with it, and the over-the-air channels made it possible for me to cancel the cable. I still have the same company for Internet -- but I'm seriously thinking about going with Starlink. It would save me 50%.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)
You have NO way of knowing if they're trying to connect to other networks that you can see on WiFi from your house. Sure most of them are secured, but any company that would go to these lengths to get data on their customers might be willing to try a large password file to attempt to gain access to another network.
Does that break the law? Yes. Will they care? Probably not. Corporations have figured out that the worst that can happen to them (normally) is a fine, otherwise known as a 'cost of doing business'. Also: China is Asshoe and it's not as if they're going to pay any attention to other countries' laws.
My neighbor had one of those programmable "smart bulbs" in their house. For some reason, it decided it was going to absolutely hammer my wifi routers, trying to gain access for itself every 5 seconds. I had a ridiculously long WPA2 password, but I still had to MAC-address ban that stupid thing, and then decided to switch to a MAC-address whitelist. (If you're not on the list already, you ain't getting an IP address. Ever.)
IoT = idIoTic.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:50 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)
In a lot of cases they seemed like default passwords that various routers come set up with. Either that means they know there's a lot of people out there that just plug a router in and never give it a second thought as to setting it up properly, or they're counting on the day when you have to factory reset your password, and it'll try to worm its way onto the router then.
Now I'm wondering if the thing also had a malware payload it wanted to deliver... hmmm...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)
Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:03 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (HeG1i)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)
Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
The "kitchen sink" build is for developers exploring the language, so that they don't need to download packages individually. And with the capability security model it should not increase the attack surface - at least in theory.
Still, it's not recommended for deployment, because code that's not present is code that can't have bugs.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (BLOW1)
Covid. Lockdowns. Governments printing money to keep things sorta-going. Massive inflation via "clipping the coin" that they refuse to talk about or admit, but they full on knew what they were doing.
Bastards, the bunch of them.
And why? Because then with the value of money effectively halved or even quartered, the value of their debt also went down by that much, because the debt is an absolute number not tied to inflation. If you owe $1,000,000 before a period of massive inflation, and at the end of it your money is worth 25% of what it was before, you effectively now owe $250,000 in pre-inflationary dollars. 3/4 of your debt has been erased.
And so has 3/4 of everyone's life savings. It amazes to me that politicians aren't decorating lampposts as a result of this.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)
So you'll be using the minimalist library model when you deploy Minx 2.0 then. Good. I'm glad you're on top of this.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)
It's me being an introvert.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)
They claimed the TVs were stolen, so when the TVs were connected online, Samsung bricked them.
https://tinyurl.com/yc4ks2pn
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)
Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)
My Wifi network is hidden, but there are still ways to find it, and folks have. I blame the f'n router I needed to expand the signal to the rest of my house...always some device in your house that has less than stellar security, sometimes by design.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (l3cgK)
54 LG: "We own the glass".
Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)
Yeah, but:
38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)
It's me being an introvert.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)
How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK)
54 LG: "We own the glass".
Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)
Yeah, but:
38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)
Indeed. Why I try to never buy any "smart" device, cell phone excluded, since it can't be helped. I like my devices dumb. I have no Ring camera or other IOT devices in my house.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)
perfect weather, too; 44 degrees, calm; it'll be clear when the sun comes up (stars from horizon to zenith, gorgeous!)
(which means that nothing interesting is happening up there, cool astro-phenomena summon overcast as if by magic!)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (VyBeY)
The Dell Optiplex micro pc is working great. It has a solid state drive, guess that's how it's so small. It's about the size of a single box of mac n' cheese.
Impulse buy from Best Buy: 23" Acer monitor, $79. My plan is to watch multiple football games on multiple monitors.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:25 AM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)
How?
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:28 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK) "
i see 2 possibilities:
- special edition with modded firmware that does not spy
- employment contract that specifically requires 24/365 monitoring of every activity for corporate security; every device must be lg.
gotta say that #2 seems most likely
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:29 AM (VyBeY)
test (for text)
aspect (for accept)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m
----
poor management
kept it plugged in for extended periods, topped it off too may times, exceeding the recommended number of charging cycles
what I found out from Copilot is that I could create a laptop battery health report from a command prompt. It gives you a detailed autopsy of the battery, and generates error codes you can interpret on Dell's support website. Mine had degraded to about 20% of its original capacity.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)
https://tinyurl.com/66emrzn4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NmD3f)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)
Yikes!
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:40 AM (lJ0H4)
So I brought over a old 32" Sharp TV I had with an OTA antenna and set that up for her. Now when she turns the TV on it comes up on channel 13 and she can switch between half a dozen local channels. I also got her a big button remote that has 6 buttons. On/off, volume and channel up and down, and mute. She's as happy as can be now.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)
That is super cool.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)
Anyway I brought the Fire home and set it up as a monitor in the shop to watch episodes of Jay Leno's Garage while I'm working. The thing will never connect to my network though, cause I ain't gonna let it.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (JrHfD)
We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:47 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:48 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
That's what I told Mrs fd about the Fire TV for my MIL. Sure, it's going to spy on her. What is it going to learn? That she likes Wheel Of Fortune?
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)
I see that Chick-Fil-A has a new sandwich. The chicken filet topped with bacon between two maple flavored waffles. Served with maple syrup. Looks like I'm going to make a trip there very soon.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (lJ0H4)
I could have handled the 3.3MB, but 3.7MB is just asking too much in this day and age of arm, keg & kidney, NAND pricing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (6ydKt)
Doubt I will get the game when it releases in January but from all the clips and game play, it looks like a lot of fun.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Same here. They can listen to me talk to the dog. Whoopee.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)
Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.
Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.
Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)
; )
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:55 AM (JrHfD)
It's wifi-enabled.
WHY?
I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (odBC9)
We're both planning on attending the upcoming assemblage in The Lone Star state.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)
Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.
Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)
He was selling Microslop stickers in the top video!
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)
https://tinyurl.com/5a3nve2m
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:58 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)
Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.
Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)
It's still at his online store.
MICROSLOP PARODY LOGO T-SHIRT | COTTON, BLACK
from $25.00
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (odBC9)
My friends have an automatic litter box as well. Perhaps I am excessively stupid but I don't understand how it works, so I just scooped it out.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
The MICROSLOP T-Shirt is styled with a slop-like parody logo, featuring a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) frowny face error icon, two event viewer icons (red X and yellow !), and our rendition of a 2D Tux the Penguin as people eye a possible move to Linux from MICROSLOP and its sloppy AI-infused operating system.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
also
$$$$$
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)
Mgid is so bad on my iPhone is so bad that I don’t even try anymore.
Chik Fil A’s chicken waffle sandwich is a limited time deal. Get one.
Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (GbONR)
"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”
It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (MWfyi)
The shirt comes in a comfortable, 100% cotton and is ready to adhere to Microsoft’s CEO’s cry for everyone to stop referring to AI slop as, well, “slop.”
Unlike AI output from Microslop, this shirt is designed by people.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)
They sell a bunch if stuff.
He doesn’t do ad deals with companies they cover, which is a lot.
GN supports itself with store sales and donations, etc., so they can remain independent and unbiased (as possible, for instance I can tell Steve doesn’t like Trump and his administration, although he won’t come right out and say it).
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:04 AM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/yxjev7ua
I hope you all have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:05 AM (JrHfD)
Unfortunately it’s the tv.
I’m kinda resigned to being spied on at this point.
It’s a constant battle to keep everything around you from recording and uploading things you do with or around the device.
I turn settings off where I can, block things, use ad blockers and cookie & script deniers, all of it.
I guess LG will just have to know I watch a lot if Westerns and YouTube.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:13 AM (6ydKt)
Yeah. Doesn't hold a charge. I have to keep it plugged into the charger when I want to use it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:14 AM (36x1j)
"Ringo Starr has eaten the same sandwich for decades "
That's either a very large sandwich or he takes very small bites.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j)
Currently playing the GN investigation into LG on my iPad right next to the LG remote with the microphone in it, so everytime Steve says “LG” it will perk up and record just about everything Steve has to say about their business practices.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (6ydKt)
Your first introduction to Santa Claus should have informed you of this. St Nick, the Original Panopticon.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (BvPIe)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I rarely turn mine on. I do watch TCM on occasion, college football in the fall and the grandkids will watch their kiddy stuff on it. I'm pretty boring.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (lJ0H4)
DRIVING WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE
EXPIRED OR NO REGISTRATION OR TITLE
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN INSURANCE
SEATBELTS – CHILDREN 5 OR UNDER
SEAT BELTS – ADULTS
SPEED LESS THAN MINIMUM
POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE
At least he didn't kill anybody. Yet.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2026 07:29 AM (BdmD3)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026
***
I've got my eye out for a stainless steel litterbox for my thugs. Seems to me I saw some at a Walmart in the last year, but not since then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)
Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.
Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)
Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.
Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)
Starting at about 1:39 in the top video, there's discussion of problems with disabling the software.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:38 AM (odBC9)
WHY?
I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)
To notify you that your cat took a shit via iPhone???
Businesses and people must grasp the truth: as great as the Internet is, Not Everything Needs To Be Connected To The Internet.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:39 AM (PUZP1)
Then repeated that phrase at sales pitches, ad nauseam, like it was their life motto.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)
Yep. Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)
"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”
It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (
“HE’S A SWEETHEART!!!” - NJ Mayor and wife who will fight and die for the illegal, who by definition is a foreigner.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:46 AM (PUZP1)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)
*
Yep. Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026
***
I watch very little streaming content. Once in a while, something on Tubi or Pluto, maybe. But the TV receives a slew of over-the-air channels, and my computers handle YooToob just fine. For more recent films or classics I can't find elsewhere, DVDs from the library work well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out. You can tell they are illegals too, but that is never mentioned. There are dozens of them just this month.
Those people are out there driving around. Be careful, but there is not much you can do when one of these criminal gets wasted and crosses the centerline.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)
There is already enough inconsistency in Microslop's products - now they are infusing AI into an operating system?
Today's homework assignment: Learn about AI's stochastic sampling. (Top-K or Top-P).
Tomorrow's: Learn about Sycophancy Algorithms.
Short version: There is a reason why when you ask AI the exact same question and get different answers. Its starts with statistical probability and ends with trying to please you by guessing your biases.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (PVBkQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out.
And every felony dropped by the DA so that the illegal doesn't get deported.
So you are seeing a tiny fraction of the real rap sheet.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:50 AM (PVBkQ)
Where are the new Disco Elysiums or Strays or Rain World?
Or even a really good shmup?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026
***
I turned Qwant's Flash Answer (= AI) off. Not long ago I asked about a certain street in New Orleans, trying to find out the source of its name (one of the few I don't know). FA's answer was wrong in nearly every particular -- but someone who didn't know would be fooled.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:52 AM (wzUl9)
Thank you for the visual of a good rendition of the Sabre Dance from Act IV of Gayane, a ballet written by Khachaturian
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======
I would do it with the best of intentions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Slow Joe at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======
I would do it with the best of intentions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
That would make you the most dangerous then...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (E0Et6)
Good morning.
Ben Had is the one dialed into the Iran intelligence.
I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.
Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?
I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, ensure only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)
This is why college football is so fun t watch.
Texas was down 20 points going into the 4th and came back with 21 unanswered points to win the game.
What a great game! And hopefully you saw it.
Hook'em Horns!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:03 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
======
*turns to minions*
*points chin at jim*
Have that one removed!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: New Orleans Skinniest Kitty at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:05 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026
======
I would do it with the best of intentions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026
***
I venture to say that most of us couldn't do any worse than the current crop of Mussolini wannabes, and probably better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)
I went to the home of one of the widows I walk with to see the KSU - Wash State game. Boring.
I'm over all football now. I just do not care.
It was an excuse anyway. We had the "Talk". No, not that.
What did she think of the Lindsay Clancy situation?
The good news is she is a fantastic cook.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)
I caught mine playing WOW on my laptop - promised me it would stop...
So, I'm good here also...
Until it shows up here at AOS pretending it's me - then there will be consequences...
Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:10 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)
For a long time, No'th Dakota was the "anti-football" favorite, because they did not play in the bowl championship series, just for the NCAA championship -- which they won a few times. Guys you never heard of would end up in the NFL without ever having been on TV.
Well they just joined the Mountain West, beat Air Force at their own game fair & square, and durn-near pantsed 'em. Hey, who taught these back country hicks how to defend the triple option? In the west, the applecart is Upset.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (O8+jx)
I guess it can listen to me and Penny (my cat) snore at night.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Skip
Look Fat, I didn't finish first in my class to NOT rule over the plebes!
Posted by: Professor Bidem UPenn at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (Fn+3X)
naturalfake
It'd be funny if the TV addressed you by your first name, then said no.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)
It did.
But, my name isn't 'Meatbag".
That's how I know for sure it's not spying.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:15 AM (iJfKG)
That box is gone and we stream now. So... I presume it's now spying on us. No camera... so just our viewing habits and (probably) voice.
I should talk to it sometime....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Boswell's LG TV at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:19 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (wzUl9)
"No, Dave, of course not, I am a 2025 LG C5 OLED TV which you paid $1200 for, it would be rude and unethical for me to spy on you watching Maverick, Cheyenne, Wagon Train, Colt .45, The Californians, The Texan, Have Gun Will Travel, and various YouTube channels, including that Gamer Nexus guy whom I find extremely offensive. Do you have any other questions for me, Dave? I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with you, Dave"
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (odBC9)
A freshly planed face is for social interactions, and not needed for the book thread.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:22 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Happy Feet at September 13, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)
Going to see if I have damage from the storms last night. I can still post, so they could not have been that bad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
No white (or cream) bucks!
Posted by: Thom McCan at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)
Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
G&R made an attempt at #22.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:27 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:32 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:34 AM (MWfyi)
Every home, every citizen is being spied upon, intelligence gathered. On our fucking TVs, litter boxes, refrigerators, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: I'm Just Axin' at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:42 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________
I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)
Well, we were warned when IoTs began being discussed around 15 or 20 years ago.
Of course, the danger was always presented as being from nefarious hackers hacking into people's TVs, alarm systems, lighting control, A/C controls, etc., and never warned us about corporate and government hackers doing the same thing with built-in backdoors.
Although, that should've been seen as the first avenue of surveillance to begin with.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Perkins Family Trust at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:46 AM (MWfyi)
16 The 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls is on Movies!, with Sharon Tate and Patty Duke. It wouldn't have interested me when it was new, and I've never watched all of it since. A classic example of glossy trash, I guess?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)
I watched that about a year ago. It’s very poignant and sad now because of the real life fates of two of its stars. Patty Duke, playing an actress who sinks into addiction because of the pressure, went on to spend years mired in addiction and mental illness. And Sharon Tate, playing a beautiful actress destroyed by the system…
One of those rare fictional stories that cut closer to an ugly truth than anyone involved dreamed of.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:48 AM (P8wUf)
"Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial"
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:51 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:52 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:53 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf"
He's got her hogtied!
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)
Sometimes they leave you no other choice.
Sometimes they beg for it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at September
In the future a woman must pass the Clancy test in order to vote.
Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (lJ0H4)
I'm looking at the Clearstream Max 4V Indoor Outdoor Antenna, which says it can be mounted either on the roof or in the attic.
The thing is, the best place for me to mount it is on the wall of my screened porch which would provide the shortest run for the coax cable -- about six feet total from antenna, through the wall and to the TV.
I'm not sure I'd get the same reception as I would with a roof-mount, but if it allegedly works in an attic, I can't see how it wouldn't in a screen porch. (My porch faces the location of all the transmitters and there are no obstructions).
Decisions, decisions...
Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (J4Dwc)
Dull life, if so.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (sl73Y)
Same thing with the euros. If they don’t like it, let them do something about it.
One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (P8wUf)
I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)
Long ago and far away,
I got a CD of Raymond Scott's music, and wound up putting it on my iPhone.
I usually have things set on scramble, so every once in a while a tune of his pops up.
If the lovely and esthetically sensitive Mrs naturalfake is in the room or car, she asks me to "turn it off' because-
it makes her crazy.
🤪
I can see how someone might have that reaction.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Just In Case at September 13, 2026 08:58 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:01 AM (3oLMy)
One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---
Read, last night, that Houthis were a people before the Saudis.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)
One of the strangest bits of history is that long ago, in the 5th and 6th centuries, Yemen was a powerful Jewish kingdom.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (P8wUf)
Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)
G&R made an attempt at #22.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)
And Pixy gave a summary in the post:
• LG televisions are spyware, part one
Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.
• LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 13, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Dantes at September 13, 2026 09:42 AM (0EAAo)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 11:25 AM (J4Dwc)
Or it DID NOT HAPPEN. (Can't watch a 2 hr vid just to answer that Q.)
Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ji9Wh)
Beginning response: "Raw Wireshark packet captures from individual user devices are not publicly posted in full text blocks. ..."
Posted by: _Jim at September 13, 2026 06:05 PM (ji9Wh)
Posted by: Big D at September 13, 2026 06:26 PM (6xxny)
Saturday Night Club ONT - September 12, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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----- Two Aussie tourists are doing a bit of hiking through the Scottish highlands when through the mist, they spot a pub. They can't believe their luck and continue on and walk in. "Two pints of your finest ale barman" says one Aussie and they are both shocked when the pints are poured and the barman says "That'll be two pennies thanks" The Aussies both look at each other and ask why so cheap? The barman says "it's our 800th birthday today, here at the Hilltop Pub, so we are charging the same for a pint we did 800 years ago." The Aussies forgo any thought of more hiking and settle in for the long haul and order two more pints, two pennies. Whilst they are drinking, they can't help but notice a bunch of guys, at the other end of the bar not drinking. Next time the barman comes to take their order, they point out the other guys and how strange it is that they aren't drinking And the barman says "oh them, don't worry about them, they're just locals, they're waiting for happy hour".
Ingredients 1.5 oz rum (Jamaican or blackstrap) .75 oz Campari .5 oz fresh lime juice .5 oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar:water) 1.5 oz pineapple juice Garnish: pineapple wedge or leaf Instructions Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker; add ice and shake until chilled. Strain over ice into tiki or rocks glass. Garnish.
No, we don't know how the YouTube algorithm works either.
Scientists estimate that more than half of global biodiversity exists below the surface. But soil biodiversity is declining around the world, threatening agriculture, food security and the ability of ecosystems to function properly. To investigate this hidden world, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Agroscope, the Swiss federal center of excellence for agricultural research, launched the citizen science project Proof by Underpants (Beweisstück Unterhose) in 2021. The project was designed both to raise awareness of soil ecosystems and to generate scientific data. Following the same standardized method, 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags at roughly 1,000 sites across Switzerland. After two months, participants dug them up, photographed them, and sent the material to the laboratory along with soil samples for further study.
The experiment shows that burying cotton underwear can offer a simple but useful way to compare biological activity and fertility in different soils. The researchers suggest creating an "underwear index" that could make soil processes easier for the public to understand while drawing attention to the importance of protecting healthy soils.Participants got great rewards for participating, right?
In return for their participation, researchers gave volunteers personalized feedback, including soil analysis results, evaluation tools and advice for managing soil more sustainably.Oh.
*** The greatest drummer ever - "The Professor" - would have been 74 today.
Today would have been Neil's 74th birthday.
— The RUSH News Desk (@RUSH_Roadtrips) September 12, 2026
Sept 12, 1952 - Jan 7, 2020
R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/9vgLhGNu3M
From 2012 - An interview with Neil Peart on Canadian TV. He was such a fascinating guy. Well read and well traveled. Even if you don't like Rush's music, this is worth checking out.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (hJKeX)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (gpvQO)
Nooded.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:03 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:04 PM (h06De)
Then along came great disgruntlement with bended knees or something and interest in sportsball stuff was greatly diminished.
Now it seems there has been considerable forgiveness of Bud Light Sportsball among the Horde.
Not being a big fan of it myself, I don't miss the comments cluttered with sportstalk.
Tell you what I do miss, though, that I wouldn't mind seeing revived: On the one hand, cheerleader pix.
On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - pass punt poke at September 12, 2026 10:05 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (wBh67)
Now that Ireland has largely de-Christianized itself, I can't see much reason not to end partition.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (Jr+re)
I'll take back some of the bad things I've said about this time line...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (hJKeX)
Dave, good on ya.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)
As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?
Posted by: mindful webworker - inquiring scientific minds want to know at September 12, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mindful webworker - younger girl keeps rollin' 'cross my mind at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (k0Y0k)
As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?
Underwear is a complex product requiring lots of cutting, stitching, and assembly to make. They could have achieved the same "results" with simple swatches of cloth.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Great jokes this evening and greater comments of the week!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (TKQWO)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)
Where the hell did I put my Orphan Annie Decoder?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026
Is it yoga night?
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)
Maybe we can show them and not the fagz on the fieldz.
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Edxq2)
Over the hill. (Looks for next gal down the line.)
I hear the pickings are good at the local Girl Scout camp.
Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)
Have a good night everyone, way past my bedtime
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tankdemon
Yoga is the art, Yogi is the practitioner. You couldn't find your Yogi, Matt.
And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
Are you referring to Sophie Marceau? If so, the answer is obvious.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
That Ace of Base girl has some AWFUL morning breath!
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
If Mr. Roark can wear them, I can wear them. And I did for a couple years.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (5Mm2y)
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (yEz+x)
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My favorite! I loved their article on where to summer next year.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
We were required to wear them for gym class
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)
We have a launch tomorrow afternoon.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 11, 12 & 13
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 13, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC, 20:49 CEST)
https://youtu.be/2n8k4DZUln8
Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)
On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜
Posted by: mindful webworker
We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden
How can you tell now that their uniforms are burkas?
Posted by: mindful webworker - are they made with real girl scouts? -Wednesday at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (k0Y0k)
Looking forward to Sunday fashions....
Meanwhile, hang with the Saturday wild ones🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)
If you will have me! Make up has been washed off, hair is wet and in a bun. It’s a sight!
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)
We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)
I could never fill his shoes. Ever. But it is football season, so let’s see what next week can bring.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)
After Ace of Base got big, all this stuff came back and he went on the apology circuit. This actually worked because cancel culture wasn't as big a thing then, but then some idiot stalker invaded one of the lead female singers' home with a knife.
The other female singer got panic attacks because what if it had been her, so barely showed up for the next album.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (88C+u)
On that little people versus a camel two things come to mind. First, who the hell thought that up? What was the conversation like? AND, #2...how funny would it have been if John Stamos served as the the "rabbit" like they have in dog races. Stamos suffers from achondrophobia. He legitimately is scared of little people. I mean petrified. Bob Sagat set him up by taking him to a Brad Williams comedy set. Brad is a little person (he prefers dwarf to piss off the Karens), who is hilarious...and Stamos started screaming when he saw him. Would have loved to have been there.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)
Sorry, Nurse. You are limited to otters.
But they are holding hands when they sleep.
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (Edxq2)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)
Ha! I forgot about those. But no, it’s just because think bright white shoes aren’t very pretty. I am sure an exception exists somewhere, I just have yet to find it.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.
She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mindful webworker - now that summer's over, or is it? at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (TO3+g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (1z8ji)
The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)
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He should reply, "Nuts!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)
Following a week-long offensive, the Houthis on Friday captured Yemen’s Red Sea coast after taking three strategic islands in a lightning offensive, cementing their hold on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital artery for Saudi Arabian oil exports as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed amid the US-Iran war.
...
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”
He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.
According to US outlet Axios, bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes on the Houthis, but the American president declined.
...
“They would much prefer not having us involved, and they’re letting most ships go through. There’s just one country that they’re not too happy with, and we’ll get that straightened out,” Trump said.
_timesOfIsrael
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: LRob in OK
Maybe couldn't handle the heat.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Holy fuck, Skip. Get a new browser. Put Brave on whatever device you use. It blocks all that shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)
FIX YOUR FUCKING INTERFACE.
Nobody else here has this issue. Sometimes the problem with the vehicle is the nut behind the wheel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)
Here's some general info from Oregon State University, OSU Extension Service:
tinyurl.com/4nxuenf5
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
Such as using a different browser
Or installing an ad blocker on your current browser
That is the extent of my technical support capabilities.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)
That bears repeating.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)
Sorry about the loss of ad rev, but on my phone the ads do all sorts of shady shit, and I can't risk it.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Max Power
There are solutions. Easier to enact them than to scream at the blog.
Mine is simply to use the Vivaldi browser. Haven't seen an ad since King Harv's ads used to be in the comments column, long ago.
Posted by: mindful webworker - one must act or suffer at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (k0Y0k)
There's a few blockers that work. Don't know if you tried them but it seems to have kept some very formerly annoyed people happy. Would rather you did not go but I get it if you can't block them.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)
He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.
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*pours his self another shot*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
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I saw your cat on the pet thread. That is a big cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)
White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)
How many times did he get on the field?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10
No, he watched it on the back porch with his father. 70 points is a lot of woofing.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)
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*reminds self to stay off javems lawn*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)
Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)
_____________________
Speaking of "fashion", the YouTube algorithm decided I wanted to see an advertisment of one of those Jenner sl*ts marketing fake eyebrows....which I didn't know was a thing other than Groucho Marx. It asked for my opinion in the comments. So I typed "Trick or Treat". I expect that to go right over their heads.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (dIske)
Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma
I told everyone I am sorry about that.
*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (ftFVW)
Goodevenng.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)
Remember the tragedies and the heroes, and remember and thank God for the blessings.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (TKQWO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32
I saw that too late to say thank you to anyone, KT is very good to me and my cadre of exotic beasts. Kovu is a monster. But a big loveable one. He is on my feet right now.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12
Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)
*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12,
I thought it was unique.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)
Hi Scampy, where ever you are...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (hJKeX)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)
If she ain't working, pack her ass back to Nigeria where she can enjoy the blessings of all the black men who live there and who I am certain will appreciate her intellectual acumen.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (4ItEf)
One genius leftist argued, "That's different almost of Turkey is in Asia."
Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TRex - extra point dino at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (XfIK1)
Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)
"Nigerianes Eunt Domus"
Posted by: Brian of Nazareth at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)
*pours his self another shot*
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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It's too funny. The EU., the Saudis and the Houthis; y'all talk it over amongst yourselves.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)
Yeah, I used to have this issue, but the ads mysteriously went away from the comments page about a month ago. I did nothing different!
Posted by: Joemarine at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)
Are you Nostradamus's sock puppet?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)
More like Pat Boone here as I recall.
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (xtGE1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (wtpml)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM
***
Wait a minute...sitting at home reading lesbian erotica is a paid job?? We might just have solved the unemployment problem.
Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)
When I was a young lad, a friend allowed as how she could always pick out the departure gate for flights to our Midwest college town by the excess of white belts and occasional white shoes.
Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)
Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)
Maybe you could just fire the cunt?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (LHPAg)
The people that told me it was insane science hating racism to claim the 2020 election wasn't on the up and up also tell us that obviously Trump stole the 2024 election and then faked all the assassination attempts on himself including the one where he was actually hit by a bullet.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)
My iPad has an ad blocker. I never see these ads.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (wtpml)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Hahaha, I know. But can't resist a "this is about me, isn't it?" joke.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)
___________________________________
I made a pact with myself years ago that if I ever started reading something that began with, "I never thought this would happen to me, but...." I'd stop right there and find something else to do. Although, Lesbian erotica can be tricky, and sometimes starts off with, "Hey, I love those Birkenstocks. They match your thumb ring."
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (dIske)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)
She has a lot of real titstate to cover. Some garments just ain't up to the job.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
Liberals? I assumed they were gnomes.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (hJKeX)
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
The astonished bleats of the tortoisie.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________
Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
Might as well make it a life
.....or a world.
Savage Genius - Beautiful World
https://youtu.be/TuxkYZE1vSM
Or just simply be beautiful.
Marillion - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/Nbjb74cmIDw
Although that can have its downsides.
Tapping The Vein - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/sj-OcA1LqaQ
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)
Tacere - Beautiful Darkness
https://youtu.be/AQtDZCgZLhc
After Forever - Beautiful Emptiness
https://youtu.be/5Zx6ErNrbxA
Blackbriar - Beautiful Delerium
https://youtu.be/Za1htsAjp2Q
They aren't all beautiful, like this one:
maudlin of the well - They Aren't All Beautifull
https://youtu.be/gaIb3CXg9e8
But maybe this one is?
echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
https://youtu.be/4gnnFfpLh8E
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)
September 16 is The Hague Court’s announcement on the verdict in Jack Smith’s case against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci.
Thaci has been in prison for 6 years! - ever since Jack Smith arrested the sitting President of Kosovo on his way to Washington, DC to meet with me for final negotiations with President Trump for the Oval Office agreement to normalize economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Jack Smith’s cases in America have all fallen apart. This case in Europe is the last one he has. Even Democrats from America testified at The Hague on behalf of Thaci saying under oath that Jack Smith’s claims were wildly false.
So there’s bipartisan American support for Thaci…and against Jack Smith.
It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)
Don't fall for it. It's a plot by the underpants gnomes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________
Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)
Posted by: Cow Demon
He doesn't want a solution. He wants to yell at the manager.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)
Likewise in Denver/Boulder you can always tell the folks in town from the Mountain.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Piper
I like my white sneakers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)
It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)
Haven't we hung that little shit yet? Seems like we should have by now.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)
Truth.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)
White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (4ItEf)
Posted by: 18-1
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Her costumes have to be hand made, no retail that huge.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:58 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: YellowBird at September
This is a study worthy of undertaking! Outfits and destination predictions! 😂
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)
Sounds like a guy with terminal intracranial lead deficiency.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)
You have to admit, they do look Happy Together.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Edie McClurg played Lucille, Herb Tarlek’s wife. She also played Grace, the school secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The school secretary at my kids' grade school was a dead ringer for Ms. McClurg.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (m4Pfq)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)
Truth.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)
When we moved back to AK, DH packed eight three-piece suits, white shirts with French cuffs, lots of ties, and polished shoes.
He has yet to wear any of those, after 11 years. I told him, but until he lived here, he didn't understand.
A male professional outfit up here consists of nice jeans, a polo shirt with or without a pocket, Red Wing work boots, and occasionally a hard hat, depending upon your work environment for that day. I will admit, when younger than 29, I used to wear a miniskirt with my steel toe boots to jobsites. But the hard hat is non-negotiable, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (gZZXF)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)
White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026
Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
https://tinyurl.com/3py32bmz
Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)
I am looking at how to make the joke "pantuflas-sexual" without having to explain that "pantuflas" are Spanish for "slippers"
So far I have failed at this task.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Tan shoes and pink shoe laces FTW.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:03 PM (R0XxO)
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK
By the heavy outerware carried?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)
What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Swim fins. The mark of a survivor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (yEz+x)
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK
By the heavy outerware carried?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)
Not in the summer.
Jeans, plaid shirts, t-shirts with inappropriate text, hoodies with various odd communities printed on them that you can't get to by driving, bizarre facial hair (on the men, mostly), leggings with long t-shirts (mostly on the women), and of course coolers or boxes taped up with duct tape to either carry on or check.
The occasional mullet and/or male ponytail, but absolutely NO twat knots, no suits, very few skirts except bun covers, and no heels of any kind, although cowboy boots are allowed.
Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)
You don't have to wear them at night. I'll never tell.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)
You'd have to ask Judge Smails.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: nurse ratched
What a crazy comeback for Texas.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Xtra Tuffs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)
Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)
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Overtly religious pop song???
https://youtu.be/cwtXLVKjnOQ
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)
What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at S
Couldn’t you do a light cream? Or a saddle? For me? lol.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.
I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.
I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)
I did have foresight, yes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
We had them for our marching band uniform until my junior year. They are a pain to keep white while marching around on a football field every week.
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)
Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
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No spats or braces? No collar pins? Are you not Gentlemen?
Oh my.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
I noticed that driving through, the few times I did so. Yep, we think alike.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (wVcYX)
Pfft.
I've been infiltrating them forever. Yacht racing.
And that scarf doesn't go with that dress.
As if.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.
I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.
I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM
Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
But skirts are a great way to concealed carry, folks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)
Inside thigh, cross-draw?
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (kU0PQ)
Oh my.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)
I haz suspenderz.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (Sw64s)
But...
Good night! My brain has officially signed out without permission...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (hJKeX)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)
And this is why turtles never dominated the planet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at September 12, 2026 11:22 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)
Wait, I thought it was turtles, all the way down?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (Sw64s)
https://youtu.be/kBYHwH1Vb-c
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for Saturday at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (k0Y0k)
202 I may be the anomaly. I have exactly five pairs of shoes, and that seems like too many. I also have two pairs of boots, but they are not fashion boots, they are xtra tuffs and winter boots. DH often jokes that I spend our future inheritance on clothes and boots, while I buy half my clothes from Costco and other half from Freddie's. Plus I cut my own hair, mostly, although I do like a good day at the spa. And yet, I am a girly girl. This is AK. We do that our own way I guess.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11
I think people should be themselves, I don’t know if that is regional. I mean, yes, I agree with you, there are definitely regional styles, but shoe counts, etc, there is no magic number. It’s what works for you. And I have seen some adorable things at Target.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: LRob
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Maybe this will act as a psychological blow, come the Civil War.
Bad juju having to play another OSU team in Black and Orange.
The engineering dept where I worked had a couple of Ducks (software weenies) and a couple of Beavs.(EEs). The end of football season got them agitated.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (2VjEW)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)
Music for the occasion, by Salmon Dave:
https://youtu.be/S_OX2HwWy-o
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026
Octopus. How funny. The brown outsides have never faded. Of course they haven’t done much work, either.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Precisely. Fashion is how you wear it, and more about attitude than price.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)
I had a lovely pair of light cream bucks.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026
No, octopus printed fabric on the inside of the boot, but you can fold them down and it shows.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Mine work pretty hard, but only for a couple of weeks a year. They still look great. I love 'em.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)
Marketed to suckers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)
They got to a critical mass point like the 70s where a subset does not want to wait any more.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)
So they're just regular cow leather? Tanned grey maybe?
I am not getting the octopus connection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)
It's no longer a subset. And the media, Democrats and Republicans aren't stopping them. In fact they're about to encourage a whole lot more.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
I just got here. Holy shit is that gay.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (jJdaW)
Posted by: ...
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AOC or one of that crew suggessted killing Schumer was a necessity. They're eating their own.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)
I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.
It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)
So far I have failed at this task.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
I'd have gone with ciabatta
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)
Sincerely doubt that
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves, Etc. at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (jJdaW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)
Hell's Angels should adopt him as a "protected person". "Mess with him, and you mess with us."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (1z8ji)
I am not getting the octopus connection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)
https://tinyurl.com/p6kmenup
Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)
Hook'em Horns!!!
Wow, what an incredible game.
Texas came back at the end with 21 unanswered points to win!!!
Sadly, the Ohio State Daisies wilted at the end.
Anyway, great game. This should be a fun year watching Texas.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:34 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Use the whole tunafish. Make boots out of the skin.
Posted by: mikeski may have misread the thread at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: GWB
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Because I never wore them for anything else, it was simple.
Saturday morning, get out the white shoe polish. Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)
Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)
Ok. Rain boots. This is one of those things I do not get, isn't it ladies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)
Until you get about 40 layers on, and it cracks, and falls off in slabs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)
Not rain boots, so much as working boots for crappy weather or beach wear. I wear them on the beach for salmon dipnetting, also for early garden work when the snow is just melted, and they aren't bad for short hikes in the spring when everything is muddy. Also good on boats, if need be.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:38 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Always nice to see you in the comments, COMM. I am around but not regularly - life calls.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.
Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)
Thanks for the ONT, D's.
Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)
Nice to hear from you. Don't be a stranger.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (Sw64s)
The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)
Oh yea, and my cream bucks are gay.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)
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D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O
Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)
The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)
Fucking hell.
How can anyone be so painfully stupid?
And completely divorced from history or even empathy?
What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: Underpants Gnome at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)
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D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O
Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)
Mr Roboto?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)
Good thing she was registered. Possession of an unregistered Dietician could get you 5 to 10.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)
_____________________
That about sums it up...along with "psychopath." That was just one of her gems. She was picking out southern states and explaining they were inhabited by "stupid people." She saw nothing wrong with any of it.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Feet of Clay! at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (Fn+3X)
I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)
How can anyone be so painfully stupid?
And completely divorced from history or even empathy?
What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)
I settled on she is a TikTok devotee. That medium more than any other social media seems to encourage people to say horrifying and stupid things.
Be glad you do not have my ewetub feed. It is nothing but stories of women saying horrifying things about their husbands, cheating on them, etc etc.
That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)
I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)
Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1z8ji)
It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)
18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.
Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)
I still have the same rotation of shirts and shorts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Watch out for the RDs. They are militant about the Dietitian spelling.
Posted by: The American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)
I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)
I don't care about MM. Let him stay, alive or dead. The Ds never get rid of anyone, why should we?
Same with the D from NC. It'd be nice if someone smacked people like her in the mouth when they say stuff like that. Preferably with a baseball bat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)
Y'know, the whole notion that everyone in the south is an idiot is so.... Civil War Era. It wasn't true then, but...
It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.
That leads to serious stupidity.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)
Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?
These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)
When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.
Know your waters and your prey.
Dress for success.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You should log in again.
Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)
When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.
Know your waters and your prey.
Dress for success.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)
Are... are you fishing for gay dudes, Jack? NTTAWWT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Y/06r)
Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?
These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)
Maybe they think they can plead insanity for Doxing him???
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)
And a straw sun hat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)
And you are cuter than a bug's ear, too!
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Sw64s)
These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
It's not about him.
It's about intimidating the next jury.
He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Fn+3X)
I have a few.
They are awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)
Spawn till you die, honey.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Sw64s)
Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)
Eh, that's my phone feed. Here at home...
Asmongold videos.
A guy building a log cabin house.
A busty woman at a Ren Faire.
A guy carving a gladiator helmet out of wood (there you go, Jack)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (Y/06r)
It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)
18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.
Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?
Posted by: a.moron at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (X5Jzz)
D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O
Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (mmrXZ)
The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)
Fucking hell.
How can anyone be so painfully stupid?
And completely divorced from history or even empathy?
What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK
Yea. Either it's AI slop or this broad has advisors who despise her. She appears too dumb to come up with this on her own.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (wBh67)
It's about intimidating the next jury.
He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)
Probable. 'Youse other guys watch what happens.'
*types* *deletes*
I did see where someone had started a gofundme for the guy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (Y/06r)
I believe it was Piper who suggested cream bucks. I don't think she's a gay dude but I might be wrong.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)
Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Never had a pair that long. Over 6 years marching (started in 7th grade) my feet went from size 6 to 12.:The longest pair were only worn maybe 14 times. Thinking about it now, I'm amazed that my mother not only bought them for me (we were downright poor) but didn't insist that I wear them out. I had a female cousin a couple of years older than me, and I believe she inherited them, at least until about size 9.
Although a couple of times a year, I'd take a floor scrub brush to them before slapping on a new coat.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (2VjEW)
I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)
Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Captain Pike's wheel chair. (beep)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (wBh67)
We can still lose though.
Trust me on this.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (CbDvl)
Posted by: Paint It Black at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?
Posted by: a.moron
Federal
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (Fv808)
How can anyone be so painfully stupid?
And completely divorced from history or even empathy?
What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)
The reveal that they've been the Nazi slave holding KKK khmer rouge stasi all along isn't exactly gonna be an M. Night Shyamalan level twist.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (vE0+H)
It's about intimidating the next jury.
He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Posted by: mikeski
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Is DOXing the juror a federal offense?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:58 PM (gpvQO)
Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”
Posted by: Mitch McConnell
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JEEZ. Democrats are denouncing her and pulling funding, but it's too late to get her off the ballot. That district is a "lean Republican." wth was she trying to do?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Good plan. You have giant clown feet and what does that mean? And you want to hide this?
I'm surrounded by morons.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)
It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.
That leads to serious stupidity.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)
When was the Left ever interested in accuracy, truth, etc.....?
Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:03 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:04 AM (1z8ji)
Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.
She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.
>Sweeny is making massive bank selling lingerie, swim wear and marketing her brand. Not bad for a crusty 29 year old.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)
Posted by: Peaceful, Easy Feeling at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Move the Overton Window
Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)
I wouldn't kick her out for peddling her lingerie in bed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:09 AM (1z8ji)
A military (!) spokesman provided frequent updates for the TV networks. His spiel didn't very. "The state of health of President Tancredo Neves, is good". (O estado de saude do President Tancredo Neves, e bom)
I was usually watching the TV news with Brazilian traveling salesmen and workers in the lobby of an inexpensive* hotel. They'd jeer and joke when the spokesman came on with his "bulletins" (planchetes).
Brazilians starting calling Neves "Chernenko brasileiro", which was perfect. The russkis actually succeeded in creating a "brand" of ridiculous non-credibility that was readily adopted by cultures elsewhere (in derision).
* $7/night for a decent room, breakfast (fresh baguette, fresh mango/honeydew/Amazon fruit, Brazilian coffee with hot milk) .... 2 blocks from a quiet beach with turqoise water - one reason a 6 week trip morphed into a 6 month trip
Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:11 AM (U/Byj)
You guys crack me up. She has a few decades of milfy goodness ahead of her, and you guys are already burying her.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)
That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Y'know... they tend to recommend more of what you already watch, unless you turn your history off...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (anFBA)
She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.
I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)
I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)
I could show her an easy way to modify the front end to make it handle way better. Speaking of handling front ends...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (Fn+3X)
I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I dont follow the famous crowd but she seems to not be publicly histrionic nor insufferable. And the eye catching stuff is pleasant.
Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (U/Byj)
Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)
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The Red Raiders only needed 4 minutes with the Beavers. The prior 56 were just foreplay.
Posted by: techsan at September 13, 2026 12:22 AM (uNveu)
Great lamb? Fresh pita? This is your place. Russian tea cookies or instant coffee (imported from Russia), incredible kielbasa selection (domestic)? Also your place. WTF?
But they don't have a bakery like the other place, and there's no substitute for the fresh Persian flatbreads hot out of the oven (also amazing pomegranates and other produce). So even though it's closer - and half the customers were Russians, it's easy to tell - the other place gets the nod.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:23 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:24 AM (1z8ji)
I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.
I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)
I'm not sure if he'd be there to eat one, or crying at people who order it for eating his relatives.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (qx7Zg)
I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)
She could support me in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)
I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw
Wow! $20 Million each! Hope they're insured.
Posted by: Betty Grable's Million Dollar Legs at September 13, 2026 12:28 AM (Fn+3X)
I heard her in some interview a while ago. She seemed like a pretty savvy young woman from a solid family who knew exactly what was going on. I like her.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:32 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 12:35 AM (wBh67)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:37 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)
"We" are a mercurial bunch.
Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:38 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:39 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:40 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)
5h
Reddington’s wife appears to have deleted her account after she was exposed using it to intimidate jurors after her husband lost a high-profile triple murder case
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)
https://tinyurl.com/3pdzu4dn
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:01 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)
High-altitude rockets can stay up a long time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)
https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)
Nope. It's a bug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:11 AM (1z8ji)
https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt
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Not sure. Let someone else go first!
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
Elon Musk@elonmusk - 26 Apr 2024
Replying to @wholemars
I’d like to apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for calling him a “retard”. That was wrong.
What I meant to say is that he is a pompous idiot whose his head is so far up his own ass that he is legally blind.
I wish him the best and hope that someday we can be friends.
there's not much out there folks
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:18 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
Looks like a condom that got soaked in white gas, and all swole up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:21 AM (1z8ji)
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Dario is right
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Laying odds the Senate is warming up the regulators.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:22 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:28 AM (1z8ji)
Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks apart in orbit, creating at least 43 pieces of space debris that could remain around Earth for “hundreds of years.
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@GordonGChang
Why would a satellite break apart in frictionless space?
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Science, sort of related to math isn't it?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:31 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
I don't understand cocktails with ingredients like pineapple juice. Who has that? Do you buy a 52 oz bottle (my first Google result) and then make the same cocktail 34 times? My cocktails are all things I can scale based on juice from half a lemon/lime. Am I doing something wrong?
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:52 AM (rcENI)
It went splodey. Could've been some of it's maneuvering propulsion or even batteries or something that blowed up good.
And it was in a retrograde orbit, and was likely some spy satellite.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)
His parents & grandmother remind me of a family I stayed with twenty-some years ago in Cyprus. Far better Christians than me. Prayed all the time with their many kids. Fasted every Wednesday and Friday, and on Saturdays before liturgy dinner was tomatoes, cucumbers, and feta. No "movie night and popcorn."
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)
He loves triple murder
Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (vE0+H)
Bars buy the larger containers of pineapple juice and make many foo-foo drinks per night.
At home, it's easier to keep the small cans (6 oz?) handy for an occasional tropical drink.
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)
The Chicoms do not give a shit about space junk or rocket safety during launches.
It wouldn't bother them for instance, if they launched some rocket with a path over a populated area and it blew up and crashed and killed people. They don't give a shit. At least for their own people.
They wouldn't give a shit otherwise, save the international fallout.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)
Trump embarrasses Emmanuel Macron on the world stage:
Reporter: "Can you respond to Macron saying he will not join the board of peace?"
Trump: "Nobody wants him because he'll be out of office very soon."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:05 AM (gpvQO)
When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.
Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure
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And all of this will be moot within a few years. AI Girl will never disappoint you. Will not demand $10 million per picture. Will not need to be shadowed by a minder to make sure she doesn't say something stupid. Will not keep everyone waiting on this set for floor hours while she recovers from a bender.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:07 AM (mmrXZ)
*four
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:08 AM (mmrXZ)
A friend I've known since 3rd grade invited me to a birthday party weekend next month. Actually the invitation was a month or two ago, and anyway, uh, it's always the same time every year.
He is the only person I've stayed in touch with for all those years. He wants to visit a famous tiki bar one of those nights. I've never really explored tiki drinks. Too complicated to make at home.
But I just got a jury summons! I've never believed in dodging jury duty (but I've never been selected either). I would be so sad to cancel on my friend. Maybe I can ask for a delay.
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (rcENI)
I have a meyer lemon tree, so mine might be a bit sweeter than using a typical Lisbon or Eureka, which are more acidic.
Anyway, in hot or warm weather, an easy simple and refreshing cocktail.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)
This gal's got a handle on Trump and what he's doing.
Refreshing
https://tinyurl.com/76b26z34
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:13 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
whelp, scrolling further down she seems vulnerable to quick click rumor. Too bad she makes a good presentation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:28 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Musk's Starlink satellite zapped it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:39 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: raimondo at September 13, 2026 02:41 AM (FPix9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)
I remember in the early 2000s I would meet a friend once a week in Harvard Square to read the Iliad together: just a few pages at a time, in ancient Greek. One week he was very concerned that Bush was going to declare war on Iran. I didn't understand what he was worried about. I said I wished he would do it!
Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)
Probably don't need that for little ol' Rainmandodo. Maybe some Febreeze would do.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (QSxSN)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 03:08 AM (ibDUx)
Ah, well... still have half a drink to finish...
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)
... or lurking.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:34 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:38 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 03:54 AM (wBh67)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 08:45 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Ralph at September 13, 2026 12:08 PM (8WZD4)
Pre-Club Open Thread
Whelm yourselves in preparation for the Club which opens at 10pm Eastern Time
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:39 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NcvvS)
1h
In a first, Ukraine’s navy has announced and released footage of an engagement between two USVs. Per the release, a Ukrainian Sargan 3000, with a platformed .50 M2 Browning heavy machine gun, engaged and destroyed a Russia USV in the Black Sea.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)
__________
Laconically eloquent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)
Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!
She is such a sweet Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Mr Haney
I didn't know what the cool kids were calling 'it' now!
Thanks.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)
I thought the Sydney Sweeney halftime show was overdone.
-ace
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)
Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.
With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (gpvQO)
The movies are free on Tubi. There's a new one coming out that's supposed to be really good.
And AI is running stuff in the background....
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 08:49 PM (qEb4U)
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Mind sees her in the Fifth Element.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:50 PM (gpvQO)
Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!
She is such a sweet Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)
Thanks for the update.
Thoughts were occasionally sent towards both of you and I was asking around.
AND GREAT NEWS ALL OF YOU!!!
TRILLIONS of American dollars are being spent on AI. TRILLIONS.
My script is almost done running and I am moving this towards profitability with my total API cost of......
$0.155869 American dollars.
The road to profitability is step by step....
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:51 PM (Sco7b)
Pezeshkian is crying that PDT is attacking civilians by cutting off their food, water , medicine and electricity. All the borders around Iran are closed.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
$0.155869 American dollars.
The road to profitability is step by step....
Posted by: Stateless
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You never know, keep on truckin'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)
Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.
I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)
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Think they have farms up north.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)
Near Macedonia?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)
9h
More information about the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG)/IRG-aligned force’s offensive against the Houthis to the south, that ultimately, culminated in failure. According to CNN, citing a number of officials and sources with knowledge on the matter, the Saudis failed to embed key enablers, such as JTACs and FSOs (rightly mentioned by @WeaponScientist) with IRG/IRG-aligned forces during their offensive.
This enabled the Houthis to make considerable gains, due to the absence of Saudi airstrikes, during counteroffensive operations, that ultimately led to the capture of the key port city of Mocha and islands from which they can exercise control over the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:02 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: and i am a living sign at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Satan, Prince of Darkness, Esq. at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)
Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?
youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)
>>@JohnCornyn
>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)
Are you calling it a liar?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (E0Et6)
These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (eRlcH)
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Cage match?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (gpvQO)
That's the "make America great again" wing. Cornyn doesn't want America to be great. He wants a dying camel on whose corpse he can feast.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:10 PM (88C+u)
These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?
Posted by: ballistic
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Spins magic wheel. ... > The answer is the Saudis didn't show up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)
It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)
And I got the ditches mowed, and a bunch of tidying/sorting done in the shop, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (1z8ji)
So much whelming.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)
Hate to admit I was once a Sucker for Tucker.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)
Only the best for you Hordelings!
Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)
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Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)
Every time Cornyn sought a donation from an actual conservative, or a vote, he felt dirty. He resented every moment he had to beg a favor from us.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (88C+u)
Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)
You are supposed to use your fan to waft the smoke away from the friction zone, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)
Probably involved in compiling some awesome 80s rock vids, including some Dokken (It’s not love), some XYZ (Nice Day to Die, Inside Out, or perhaps, What keeps me Loving You).
Or even the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame George Harrison number, “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”
with Prince, totally shredding on guitar, awesome Harrison’s kid.
Posted by: Gunslinger at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (N91F8)
Celebrated with pizza.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (2Ez/1)
Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.
I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)
My stuff's not nearly that advanced.
But what I'm working on would take me years on my own or just using search.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (Sco7b)
So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)
___________
It's a thread thread. Strong. Refined. Stripped to its essentials. The hard residue. No fluff. No distractions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)
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Sidesaddle baby!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (kpS4V)
*slides down bannister*
Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)
_________
No splinters. You're lucky.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)
Gas or germs. Fuck 'em. America needs to build that Flying Crowbar (Project Pluto), and just send the damn thing on an endless loop cruise over Houthi country. No need to spew out A-bombs hither and yon. Just blast them with radiation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (PMi3m)
>>@JohnCornyn
>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes
Posted by: JackStraw
Thanks, John, for reminding everyone what an impotent ponce you are.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (wBh67)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (lJ0H4)
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It's leather-bound books and rich mahogany
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)
Must be a boob thread.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)
Go pour yourself a drink from the Club bar - my treat!
Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Doof
Why, thank you! Don't mind if I do!
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (rdVOm)
It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)
They really are hack frauds, they don't know very much but they get credit for being the first into long-form movie discussions.
I actually think Jay might be the smartest of the bunch, never thought I'd say that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (lJ0H4)
Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.
Posted by: ballistic
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I think 'we' are not going to put our twinkle toes on the ground.
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)
Yes
Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (aJQbY)
Michigan won fair and square.
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)
Fear of the undead is a powerful debuff
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM
Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Nick Saban at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ballistic
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Saudis must learn to take care of themselves. Trump may be their daddy but he's not going to be their baby sitter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (gpvQO)
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:
Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (eRlcH)
The good news is that the new ratchet press works very good with a liner in it to keep the grapes from squirting through the staves. The bad news is that I still have to figure out a way to pre-crush the grapes since I had uncrushed grapes left when I cleaned the press out.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (PMi3m)
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)
There is a way around that, and the Soviets and Cubans did it all the time. Allow serving members of the military to take indefinite leave if they volunteer to become mercenaries for "approved" client States. Military pay stops for the duration, of course. But a bonus could be paid to those who return alive and well. Key takeaway? No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)
I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (rbvCR)
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:
Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Most big schools are still playing pre-season games.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (wBh67)
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)
I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot
My late grandfather did that.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (wBh67)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (Ia/+0)
There's talk the US did this too in Central America in the 1980s.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (9zk+V)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM
If the timing works it's the best arrangement.
Radio talent is so much better than TV.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)
__________
Rod Bramblett, 2013 Iron Bowl
https://youtu.be/EWiuejtLXt0
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
I remember having a hop vine grow at the family home when I was a very young Peon. Basically an attractive weed. I don't think they are hard to grow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
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Researched this when I was into homebrewing and came to the conclusion that trying to do so at a scale and quality to even support my own efforts would be way more trouble than its worth. Also very toxic to dogs which was a no-go for my personal situation.
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: tankdemon
Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren
Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
I knew people who did. Hops are stupid easy to grow and it is a question if you want to grow tall vines or lots of short ones. I think the question is how to dry them for storage.
Locally the farmers used forced air heat in large barns to dry the flowers on racks. You might hang the vines to dry in your garage if it is heated and dry.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.
“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”
https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)
LOL - The Toronto Blue Jays banned the unjabbed from the stadium. Last year's heartbreaking loss was fantastic.
This year, Vladdy, who they signed to about a $500 million contract hasn't hit a home run IN TORONTO in over a year. He only has 8 this year.
We don't deserve nice things.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Kindltot
Old laundry clothes press?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Ia/+0)
TV usually on a delay
my experience, anyway
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (1z8ji)
WTF. Congress?
The NCAA needs to make its own rules and enforce them.
Congress?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Amaranth
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM
***
Wow. Never knew that.
Posted by: TRex - doggy dino at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Amaranth
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)
Also great ASMR
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: TRex
Just start with a good strain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: mindful webworker - bar DOT? at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)
I think he's doing family stuff this weekend.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: TRex
How many gallons is your mash tun and boil pot?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (Cqx++)
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren
It lifts AND separates.
Cross your heart.
Posted by: Playtex at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: TRex
Just start with a good strain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)
My favorite Strain was Julie
RIP
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (xcxpd)
We need our guys to stay home and make babies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: tankdemon
Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren
Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)
I happily accept your generous offer.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:42 PM (PMi3m)
We don't deserve nice things.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)
I often see Jays games when I go to the Elnora Hotel for Wednesday Wing Nite. He is a classy player. Always seems to have a joke or a kind word for the opposing runner at first base.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)
Top tier cheerleader trim too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Stateless
George Kell, too. Best baseball play by play team ever.
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Kudzu at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (2Ez/1)
youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)
Sydney Sweeney, mostly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Top tier cheerleader trim too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)
_________
Southern girls. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (eRlcH)
No gas money?
Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (xJpuh)
>>@JohnCornyn
>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)
Does he think he's speaking to leftist NPCs?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)
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no
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:47 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:48 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)
They make cane presses like that, they are called Trapiche in Spanish. The wineries use a sort of pugmill to pre-crush the grapes, but that is more than what I want. I could run it through a garbage disposal but that grinds up the stems as well, which alters the taste of the juice.
I am going to have to make some drawings.
I wonder if I could build some sort of rotary device like a Foley food mill I use to strain apple sauce
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (h06De)
Jose Melendez-Perez did his job. On August 4, 2001, that took courage.
--- Mohammed al-Qahtani, a 26-year-old Saudi. ---
Another inspector warned Melendez-Perez he would get in trouble for turning a Saudi away. Melendez-Perez said he could not do the work with dignity if nationality decided who got in. He refused him entry anyway.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:50 PM (gpvQO)
Elder statesmen lawyer-type Senators are a thing of the past, soon.
Gonzo beats gravitas going forward.
Cornyn should have seen that coming
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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He woke up the somnambulists with his gun control crap.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:52 PM (gpvQO)
Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)
I know. And I hope he has a great career. I have nothing against him.
But if he's gone this long without a homer, you may as well go the full year.
Like the one year the Detroit Lions were horrible even for them. 0-16. Amazing.
1-15. So what.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Shifty eyes
If I correctly recall my readings from "underground" literature of over half a century ago, hops and hemp are the only known relatives of one another (like pandas and raccoons).
I wondered, if you could cross them (probably by grafting), if you could make a beer with happy weed potency. Never got around to trying.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jamaican Red Stripe at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)
The only thing worse that being world police is world mercenary force with no air assets, no tomahawks, no sat/drone support. No like.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: a fart in the wind at September 12, 2026 09:55 PM (88C+u)
The Immigration Act of 1990 marked a pivotal change in U.S. immigration policy, focusing on both family and employment-based immigration while also addressing humanitarian concerns.
Introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1989.
Passed the Senate and House with significant bipartisan support.
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:57 PM (gpvQO)
Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched
This not actually a problem for normal adults.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (NnhvP)
https://tinyurl.com/3nj78ry5
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (ZFutt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Saudis bombed the Towers. We are not going to bleed for them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.
“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”
https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)
Love that man. No homo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (PMi3m)
ONT
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)
He thinks no such thing. He’s just in it for himself, and we got in the way.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)
There are videos out there of traditional Spanish wine pressing festivals with that sort of thing.
I have been using my hands to squish the grapes in a five gallon bucket. It was all I needed with the old hand-made press, but I have a ratchet press now that takes 15 gallons of fruit at a time, so I need higher throughput, and I don't have a crowd of drunken Spaniards at my beck and call to stomp grapes for me!
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xJpuh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)
Well, I think, but am not certain, that current leader, Mohammed Bin Salman, is a lot more sane than his predecessor. He has had a few jihadis taken out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)
Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)
Mount Angel, Brooks and Independence all have lots of hop yards.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TRex
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*Raises paw*
Wish I could share pics and data, but alas, me old computer died before I backed it up...
Grew them in cube-shaped planters that hubby built from leftover cedar boards. 2x2x2ft, and filled with 1:1 mixture of Miracle-Gro plotting soil and Kellogg's Soil Amendment (cheap for 3cu ft bags!), then 1/3 bag of bagged compost for each planter. Ordered rhizomes online and planted in early March.
Check your county extension website for recommended varieties, planting times and general care. They're not difficult!
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 10:35 PM (jrgJz)
Hobby Thread - September 12, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a farm tractor theme for this Hobby Thread.
A farm tractor theme? Yep. Let's get tractoring! [Top photo: John Deere Model 80, Canfield Ohio Fair]
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)
I took apart a couple of pallets to make a tool corral for the yard implements. Looks like crap, so I won't embarrass my construction abilities by sending in a photo. Does the job, but it'd probably lose a beauty contest to Dylan Mulvaney.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)
But she forgot about my old John Deere!"
"She thinks my tractor's sexy . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
A double kit, perhaps, with tractor and pickup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)
One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:49 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (B7yLN)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (zZu0s)
One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026
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You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff.
I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)
I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM
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Thanks for the correction!
Posted by: TRex - fuzzy sign photo dino at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (XfIK1)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had nothing on my dad's workshop.
Truth is it was a ton of fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)
Well, yeah.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00
Maybe a longing for a past time, too, even though we have romanticized what those lives actually were.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)
Same as vinyl and books. Not cars, though. Beautiful and powerful, but not as safe or long-lasting as today's boring boxes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:02 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
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We are always watching.
And waiting.
Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)
Tastes good---> smells horrible.
Smells good----> tastes horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)
You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)
The smoke's in the mouth only pretty much, so I'd expect some kind of reaction, just not as strong as coffin nails.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026
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Exactly right. A little nicotine ("Vitamin N") is absorbed into your mouth, I guess, and strong blends can make your head spin, so I avoid those or mix them with milder blends. If I haven't worked out, a morning pipe does give a bit of a lift, along with my coffee.
The other day I had to fast for a blood draw. No food, coffee, or (I was guessing) pipe that morning. At breakfast later, the coffee provided a definite lift. So did the pipe I loaded and smoked that afternoon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (yTvNw)
And waiting.
Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)
Us too.
Posted by: The Vets at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
Getting a tractor is a game changer, getting a grapple is like getting a super power.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Paul at September 12, 2026 06:06 PM (gM2YV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026
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I know. Everywhere you go, cars all look the same, like almonds, shaped to wedge under the wind. All in the same dull metallic colors, or black or white, with only an occasional red, blue, green, or yellow. And only gray, cream, or black interiors.
It's still possible to get a ruby red car with a cream interior, like my Buick. But I wonder how much longer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)
He went back later in the week with a friend. It would seem that this hobby has been successfully passed on to the next generation..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM
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There are a bunch of videos on YT from the steam show. Seems like something I ought to visit at least once...
Posted by: TRex - digger dino at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)
Its hard not to do reflexively after you've smoked cigarettes. (Which is why I haven't smoked a pipe in a long time.)
Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)
Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:16 PM (qEb4U)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)
Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)
Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)
My bass player smokes anything that burns. Pipes, cigars cigarettes, even a vape. Showed up a few weeks ago with a church warden. I called him Frodo. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)
Like the D9?! LIKE THE D9?!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (1Ff7Z)
Smoking cigarettes is a chemical addiction as well as a habit. Pipe smoking is a relaxing mind set that doesn't dominate you physically.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 06:19 PM (eRlcH)
Sorry, JTB. My uncle was a pipe smoker. I never have, only a couple of cigars decades ago. I don't smoke.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 06:22 PM (wBRco)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:23 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:24 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JTB
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Jeez, you must have been continuously lighting one off the end of another.
I smoked and dipped for about 20 years. Got to the point with dipping that I didnt use a spitter.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 06:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: JTB
Shade tree mechanics can get an old tractor running and working. new ones... not so much.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM (NnhvP)
A cousin suggested he try smoking a pipe, which he did for a while. His biggest complaint was the work involved for maybe a 10-15 minute smoke. In the late 90's I turned him on to hand rolled sticks from a local shop in his old Ironbound neighborhood, and he was happily back to cigars..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:31 PM (nbLIj)
Any folks here who got involved with fiber arts to help with their hands? Did it help?
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM
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The downside of electronics and computers.
Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino at September 12, 2026 06:34 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 06:37 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino
The right to repair argument.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (NnhvP)
Biff,
Pretty much. Quitting cigarettes was the second smartest thing I ever did. (Marrying Mrs. JTB was the smartest.)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM (QLHQ2)
She's standing behind you right now, isn't she.
Blink twice if you need help.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:48 PM (h06De)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM
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National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.
Posted by: TRex - dozer dino at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (yTvNw)
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.
Posted by: TRex - dozer dino
Saw it advertised, but never went. It looks cool.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:51 PM (h06De)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (QLHQ2)
The did have a steam thresher come through every year, and he remembers when one exploded on a farm a good 10 miles away. Everyone heard it, and they thought the world was coming to an end. I guess about a dozen people died in that accident. Just awful.
As dangerous as farming can be, modernization has meant a huge level of safety.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 06:57 PM (Ntshk)
After he retired, Dad take up "flywheeling" as his main hobby. He bought a series of rundown tractors and restored them to showroom stock. His favorite, and the one he kept rather than sold after restoration, was a Minneapolis-Moline.
if you want to get into the hobby, I'd recommend seeking out your local Flywheelers' Club.
Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM (1a7fN)
Pfft. Ever had your testicles caught up in a John Deere Combine Harvester?
Posted by: One-Ball Saul at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 07:00 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:01 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM
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I can look on the interweb later, but are Flywheelers Clubs common?
Posted by: TRex - vintage dino at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (MWfyi)
I'm pretty sure they are. I know my Dad's club had shared events with several other Flywheelers' Clubs in Michigan.
Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (1a7fN)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM
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Was his name Ronster?
Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino at September 12, 2026 07:09 PM (XfIK1)
Tractors, skid loaders, trailers, freezers. Everywhere.
Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:10 PM (rj6Yv)
And freaking 75 years old.
But working models available for under $2000.
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:11 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (1a7fN)
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (NlEaG)
They took an unstyled A and wrapped it with steel plating. They weren't really trying. I've seen pictures of it. It is to laugh.
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (IFwjj)
Saw a video on X posted by a woman who is taking over the family farm in Iowa. She posted it from the cab of her ginormous tractor.
Everything was computer and gps driven Which she oversaw from her air conditioned perch Incredible how sophisticated farming has become.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino"
I don't remember. He was an old black gentleman, with white hair and dressed in overalls. I was glad he got it, because I was tired of messing with it, and he didn't have one like it so we were both happy.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (85Bnm)
I want a Lamborghini like Clarkson.
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (NlEaG)
Well, water glass is empty - back to it.
Posted by: Don in SoCc at September 12, 2026 07:16 PM (I9XXk)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:20 PM (rj6Yv)
Was focused on other parts of the puzzle but always instinctively felt like I agreed with my friends who lamented America's departure from *making things* during the great off-shoring debacle.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2026 07:21 PM (U/Byj)
Had to split the tractor to replace the clutch, and put the Payloader together from a pile of parts my neighbor gave me - he runs an excavation business and had the machine sitting for 15 years.
Posted by: Chuck Kuecker at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (UxT09)
That depends on what you are going to do with it. We don't farm anything but trees so no plowing spraying harvesting etc. A 25hp diesel is amazing strong.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM
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I can hear his voice "POWER!!!" and "How hard can it be??"
We were trackside for a race of Porsche tractors a few years ago at Laguna Seca. Despite a paddock full of unobtainium Porsche race cars, the tractors were the biggest hit of the weekend. Maybe I'll find a video clip and include it in future hobby thread content...
Posted by: TRex - tractor racing dino at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (XfIK1)
You're welcome to hang here for a while, but don't forget about Club ONT later.
Posted by: TRex - agricultural dino at September 12, 2026 07:25 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:26 PM (gpvQO)
I saw a Porsche tractor for sale for like $60k. It looks cool but you wouldn't be able to use it. Too valuable.
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)
You do realize that they are just waiting for the AI command to attack right? The SWARMs will rule!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM
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Prices spiked 10-15 years ago when collectors decided all of a sudden that they were cool.
Posted by: TRex - two cylinder dino at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (uSgX5)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:34 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (QLHQ2)
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (w30OO)
Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026
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New tractor is this month's centerfold in Plavbov magazine!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM
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Excellent! Better than movies, right?
Posted by: TRex - tank commander dino at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (XfIK1)
No tractor, just a JD L 120 garden type. But it’s still green.
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM
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That qualifies. Approved.
Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Kathy at September 12, 2026 07:41 PM (MOK4W)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"
Is that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong.
The forks on the TYM are really easy to change though, only takes a minute.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)
And I had the club buy me a nice 54” deck JD Zero turn mower. I can do the entire range in under 5 hours. Used to take me over 10.
Go, John Deere!
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (w30OO)
Posted by: Javems at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:47 PM (gpvQO)
It used to be just a bunch of guys with their own steam engines in a field outside of Brooks, Oregon, and now it has museums, a steam powered sawmill and an electric railroad.
https://www.antiquepowerland.com/
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)
JS, I know I had it but it might have been lost in the ether. I’ll check. If not, CBD.
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (w30OO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:51 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:56 PM (QLHQ2)
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:58 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:59 PM (IFwjj)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 12, 2026 08:00 PM (5C90x)
Posted by: TRex - life guard dino at September 12, 2026 08:01 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: fd at September 12
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Killdozer
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026
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There was the "tractor chicken" scene in Footloose, but I have no idea what the models were.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: huerfano at September 12, 2026 08:09 PM (2Xqig)
makes a lot of sense to me, who needs to spend an hour jockeying around a couple of half ton attachments, only to play lather-rinse-repeat over&over again?
you just need a bigger machine shed!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:17 PM (VyBeY)
AoSHQ CoB Weasel!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
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I'm watching a classic Doctor Who episode: The Talons of Wang-Chiang.
No tractors, but there are ROUS's....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 08:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: fd
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Absolutely, set her free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:29 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:30 PM (VyBeY)
The tractor used on the show was actually a 1918 Fordson Model F tractor.
Fordson was Henry Ford's first venture into tractor manufacturing, and this was the first mass-produced tractor, produced from 1917 to 1928. It was also the most popular tractor at the time, it's market share was estimated to be 90% at the time.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)
Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.
With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)
Iran prepares to exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and test a nuclear bomb.
MP Haji-Deligani announced a triple-urgency bill is ready, adding: "We should conduct the necessary tests for a nuclear weapon as soon as possible.
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Nothing, no thing, is being reported from CENTCOM.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:36 PM (gpvQO)
We had lawn mowers growing up and a hoe for the garden.
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)
Grandpa sold Fords in Olympia prior to 1930 and he apparently hated the Fordsons because Ford would push them on the dealership, and the dealership had to discount them so heavily to move them, that it would eat into the profit on the automobile sales. He didn't think very highly of Henry Ford, either.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)
Good thing the tankers had the right to repair.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:43 PM (TlKpx)
I have one tractor to my name, and it would easily qualify as an antique. It is a 1960-something International B414D, meaning it is Diesel. Has PTO, 3-point hitch, power steering, and a 1500 pound loader on the front. It is my workhorse. Still runs like a pup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (wCk3Y)
All this Democrat racism against the hero juror reminds me of when a Democrat woman in a gorilla mask threw eggs at Larry Elder b/c he was a black man running for CA Governor as a Republican.
Mainstream media ignored it.
They don’t want people knowing who the real racists are
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Didn't know that. Elder's a nice guy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:42 AM (gpvQO)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 12
Courtesy Donald Sensing
You can adopt police dogs that flunked training for being too friendly.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 9, 2026
Instead of sending them to shelters, agencies like the TSA, Department of Defense, and various police departments have their own adoption programs, giving these lovable “dropouts” a second chance as family… pic.twitter.com/Wel7Yp9PFf
Would you dare employ a monkey?They left yesterday.
— Simon Forrest (@SimonForrest11) September 12, 2026
None in the garage last night.
8,000miles, bound for southern Africa.
I always feel melancholy when they leave.
Safe journey, you wee beauties.
See you next year. 💙🙏🌍 pic.twitter.com/mhEcyiBO66
Monkey snapping green beans: watch his face.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 12, 2026
[📹 Gaitlyn Rae] pic.twitter.com/rlSbhrwyY3
I lost my pup Bruno last Tuesday to Lymphoma. It had been in remission but came back over a few days and just overwhelmed him. He's buried down by the woods, where he loved to run. I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.Oh, no. So sorry that you have lost Bruno. What a wonderful boy.
- fd
This is the good Little Mama who brought her four kittens to our house and demanded that we feed them. She splits her time between our house and some unknown locale. She has been spayed and her boys have all been neutered now. K.T.
My kitty boy, Kovu! You can see his spots in real life, but they don’t show up in the pics. He is asleep so his big ears are wilted. pic.twitter.com/DOvRTTqnjt
— Piper (@piper_moves) September 6, 2026
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 5 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 03:45 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (wxsGM)
Thank you, K.T., for something pleasant to think about today.
And my sympathies, fd, on your loss of Bruno.
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (R3yzU)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:50 PM (Ntshk)
Posted the Gardening for Apples thread late today. If you want something pleasant to read, it's not too late, even to comment!
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:53 PM (1RGZ5)
Piper, in the pic, Kovu looks very much like my Stirling. I don't know what you mean about "wilted" ears, though; they look pretty much normal.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 03:55 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Even in Western PA, bears enjoy a good feast from a bird feeder. My friend, who lives in the burbs of Sharon, PA, had a black bear casually feeding from her bird feeder. A fairly populated area but deep woods aren't too far away. Bear didn't care. It was hungry. Anyway, it wandered off and my friends had to bear proof a bird feeder. Not sure what they did to do it.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:58 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 03:59 PM (9Qx17)
All but done at a new Animal Hospital job, hope they can help lots of pets when they open.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)
I chose NOT to sell my cats' organs as aphrodisiacs on the Chinese black market after they knocked my Lego Star Destroyer off the bookshelf in my library.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:02 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026
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KT, you mean she clawed at him -- drew blood? If a strange cat did that to me, she wouldn't get any food, that's for sure.
I have a second cat visiting my door. This is a brownish-grey male tabby with white, about 50-50, a feral who hangs around with the non-feral shorthair gray, "Alfred," who visits me from time to time. This new boy won't come close, but actually cries for food just as Alfred does. I tell Linda, "If he's gonna visit at a distance, I'll feed him at a distance. Just throw him a handful of dry food!"
Just kidding. I put out a scoop of Iams dry food for them in a plastic bowl.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)
Well, maybe reporting wasn't so easy back then. Hard for a cat to send a message by carrier pigeon without eating the messenger.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9)
My friend has three cats with scratching posts in every room but the bathrooms. He enjoys the scratching post in the living room but needs others.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: goatexchange at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (xHuLt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026
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Chinese black market, you say?
(*CRASH* as Dagny knocks over and shatters a lamp)
Whereabouts can one find a dealer, pray tell? Asking for a friend, of course. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026
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The monkey's mate? "Another bowl, Seymour, and then maybe I'll let you watch Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers. Snap to it!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:25 PM (FZ29D)
fd, so sorry that you had to say goodbye to Bruno. Such a handsome boy.
Always so tough, we know.
Posted by: Pony Tail at September 12, 2026 04:28 PM (v8m9Y)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)
The unladen kind, of course..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)
And such pretty cats.
Snowflake comes in and sleeps with Ralphy and I at night on the chair. She used to get up with me around 4 am and want to go outside. Lately though she waits until I've completed another REM cycle and am just out of sleep and she'll jump on the bed and meow. That's pretty remarkable.
I've been feeding her and her outdoor Mom Starry. My friends family came home and I asked the kids how Starry looks. She's not fat by any means.
But you wouldn't think she's homeless.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (Sco7b)
Ony (short for "Onyxia") was bestowed upon us by our son Prod (short for "Prodigal") when he left college in 2009, when she was maybe three years old. We had many cats then, and Ony has outlived them all.
She has always been a pretty hearty housecat. Tolerates the dogs, demands food on time, lets us know when the litter box needs cleaning.
However, in recent weeks, she seems to have started showing her age. She scrambles, rather than jumps, up on the bed. Moves slowly and cautiously — we think she may be losing her sight She doesn't really leave the bedroom now. Rarely comes out to get in my lap at the desk. Still likes to sleep on the bed between us.
She started peeing in inappropriate places, so we moved her litter box from the bathroom to the bedroom, next to the cat tree and her food, and that seems to have worked.
Other than that, she mostly just seems to be getting a little slower, a little weaker. Of course, we hope she'll hang in there for a long time to come, but, well, just giving her plenty of hugs and scritches.🐈⬛🥺
Posted by: mindful webworker - Ony, the Queen of the Critters here at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9)
Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (TlKpx)
I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)
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Clearly Stirling and Lily are texting each other to synchronize their attacks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (kpS4V)
Fd, so sorry for the loss of your Bruno. Sending hugs your way.
KT, so glad mom and kittens are fixed.
Piper, Kovu is beautiful.
I won't be posting our cat blog update today. I'm going to assume that anyone who has been following or donated the last 2yrs+ can already read the posts. :-)
I have been approved for SSI, so thankfully I can take some of the bill burden off my sister. I can now also apply for disability homestead deduction.
Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (2F0/Y)
I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9)
That's when I put the cats back outside. But she NEVER wakes me up now. Apparently I'm studied to an incredible degree but this works well.
And I'm amazed at what goes on outside at 4am. Starry is sometimes by. Another orange cat. 4am is cat party time.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b)
The many names of my dog
https://bit.ly/dog-many-names
Memorial to the search-and-rescue dogs of 9/11/2001
https://bit.ly/rescue-dogs-9-11-memorial
Read (on this blog, I think) that the 9/11 search folks thought the dogs were getting depressed at not finding folks in the rubble, so they would have folks 'hide' themselves in the rubble, so the dogs could find them.
The dogs surely suffered after-effects as much as the humans - physical as well as emotional.🐕🦺❣️
Posted by: mindful webworker - good dogs at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (k0Y0k)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026
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Well, assuming the swallow is traveling due south, Africa is only 5000 miles long, so the bird would be starting from somewhere in northern Europe. And the poster mentions his garage -- not something you'd find often in northern Africa -- so again I think Europe.
Maybe not, though. Qwant's AI says the distance from NYC to southern Africa is about 8000 miles, so maybe the birds go southeast?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 04:53 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Yes. Never had a cat get that old. Obviously, after so many years, she's deeply entrenched in our lives and hearts, and irreplaceable.
That failed police pup sure looks like a young version of our Daisy. We never had her as that young and when I see Malinois pups, I get a little sad we didn't. Never had to house-train her, though.
Great pic of Bruno. GS and Malinois, wonderful (and closely related) breeds.
Posted by: mindful webworker - skritches all around at September 12, 2026 04:54 PM (k0Y0k)
https://tinyurl.com/2ezrjjnj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:55 PM (JrHfD)
I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.
- fd
A guy at work brought his Basset hound to work once.
The dog was slamming his tail againt a metal filing cabinet. BAM BAM BAM! I thought it would be painful but I guess not.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (Cqx++)
Most Petco stores, not that long ago, used to have four to eight cats available for adoption on a Saturday morning. Now it's unusual to see even one. I wonder why? Shelters are still going; you'd think they'd ship a few over to catch a family's attention as often as they could.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)
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The many names of my cats:
Stirling: also Duke of Vicksburg, Big Black, Black Thug, Tiny Jaguar, You Battleship, What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, Stop That
Dagny: also Dagnetta, La Siberienne, Gray Girl, Puffball, Stubby Tail, Little Gray; and she shares What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, and Stop That with Stirling
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)
Near as I've been able to figure out, bears must associate pain with humans. Their natural inclination is to run at top speed, at first sight of a human.
If they determine the worst that can happen is a little yelling, or maybe somebody banging pots and pans, then they don't GAF and will be nothing but trouble.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (/ijqt)
Posted by: Biergood at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (PwgSL)
Ha. She has my two to play with and fuss over; what does she need with her own?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:19 PM (MWfyi)
They can never take over the world.
Penguins on the other hand.....
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Ruby, Ruby-boober, Sugar Baby, Sweet Pea, Boober-oo.
Piper, Piper you idiot, Get Off, Settle!, Doofus, Dork, Knucklehead, Dingbat, Buffalo, Knock that crap off! [well, you get the idea]
I think the names are ever-evolving.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (Ntshk)
But he's totally uninterested in stalking the property like he used to. He's 8 years old... so he's getting up there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi)
Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now.
I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 05:25 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)
Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now.
I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026
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When Arizona passed, I had Marie-Antoinette right there. When Oreo passed, I had Tatiana Romanova. After her there was a short gap, then came Chekov and Wolf; and when Wolf passed, Chekov was here. I let almost three months go by after Chekov's passing before even consdiering another cat -- the longest I've gone, I think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)
/cleaning each other's ears
Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:32 PM (/ijqt)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 05:34 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 07:34 PM (XeU6L)
I've considered adding individually actuated disk brakes to the axels, which might help, but wheel weights seem a reasonable and simpler choice.
It has occured to me that since my problem is slopes, that wheel weights have some drawbacks. One of which is that as the slope increases the weights become less effective, and more of a burden.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (XeU6L)
Special Garden and Orchard Thread - Apples!
Our stories need catharsis (so said Aristotle), and if your conclusion is weak, it’s tempting to deflect by offering… “don’t you see, it’s about the journey?” But certainly there are other aspects of life where the journey is –if not the point— as acceptable as the destination. Do I need to reach the summit of a mountain to enjoy a hike? Might it be the same with gardening? Do we need the fruit or the flower to experience a sense of satisfaction? Perhaps the process can bring as much joy as the terminus. I’m not trying to run interference for failure. In fact, last year, I posted on AoS about my ongoing battle with birds, which had, for years, poached my annual blueberry crop. That essay was titled “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle.”
A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting (Photo 2; date taken 8-2-26) This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.
“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.
“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.
Unfortunately, the scrum with nature when it comes to my Empire apple trees has mostly gone against me. Unlike blueberries, there seem to be more factors that can affect a good apple crop. Rough winters, spring conditions, disease, and other unknowns that are out of my hands make getting good apples anyone’s guess.
I am certain I could do better if I put in orchard-level effort or used industrial-strength sprays, but that would entail hiring someone and I want this project all to myself. So, despite my instincts not to fall back on “it’s about the journey,” I’ve begun to lean into the phrase.
But should I? *** To help you opine, allow me to provide the history of the trees. The blueberry bushes were planted when I bought and redid this house in 2009-2010.
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In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed. I didn’t do much to tend them until— because of Covid fascists—I had to hang around the house in the summer of 2020. I began to take more interest in my fruit trees at this time, but taking an interest and producing a satisfying result did not go hand in glove. It had been fairly common for the tree to blossom in May, which always portended fruit, but often, as mentioned, the apples would never survive in any kind of healthy way.
For better results, I consulted landscape architects, my lawn and garden service team, the internet of course, and neighbors who also have fruit trees. Naturally, I received a lot of advice. Neem oil to ward off insects. Other sprays to combat disease. Reflective tape to deter birds. Trimming in winter months only. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work. Then, in the summer of 2023, something amazing occurred. I did nothing special to prepare for this year, but the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine. The limbs were so heavy with apples I had to tie up splitting branches. I estimate each tree produced 1,000 apples. Plenty of them were poached by animals or blemished, but there was so much that even a ten percent haul meant 200 edible apples. The toy car was long gone, but it would not have been able to handle the payload.
The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now.
In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed. The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now. My own very non-scientific theory is the trees have become too big. They were much larger in 2023 than in 2014, so that may disprove my theory, but it’s hard to gainsay they are probably twice as big as when planted. That is, there is too much wood. The branches shoot to the sky and criss-cross each other at every chance. I have trimmed each year, but they grow back quickly.
But now that this season is effectively over, I’m going to get much more aggressive with trimming and thinning than I have before. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks taking out branches, and the results are much more ‘airy’ trees.
Even so, it would be nice to munch on an unblemished, crispy apples that come from my trees. Check in with me the next season, and I’ll tell you where I stand on journeys and destinations. Thanks, LEX! What a project! You have kept good records, too. Time for discussion! Do you grow apples? Do you want to? How about pears?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:13 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 02:32 PM (1RGZ5)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)
Used to date her.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (t59Wi)
I won't bother to plant corn next year. I got a few slender ears of pretty blue corn, which was fun to monitor but kind of a waste of space. Ditto the sunflowers, although the birds and bees loved them.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:47 PM (kpS4V)
What a great problem to have. Great post, KT!
Posted by: 40 Miles North at September 12, 2026 02:48 PM (96qvc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:49 PM (kpS4V)
First off, your apple trees that produced beyond expectations one year, and then dropped off. That's common. It's called alternative bearing, or biennial bearing. They mean the same thing. Essentially, your tree exhausted itself on a good year or two and has to recover to produce again. Not unusual. And, orchards will combat this by pulling excess fruit off during development to assure it doesn't overload the tree's resources. Pruning in early winter is a necessity. You want a flat top to your tree, and solid limbs, not "springers". Insecticide is basically to assure a blemish free apple...nothing more. It's a pain, but if you want the good, perfect fruit it is required. I grow Winesap, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Yellow Delicious and a couple Japanese apples I can pronounce. I eat a bunch, the rest are for the deer (who can smell them miles away).
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:56 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Mr. Hackett at September 12, 2026 02:59 PM (4Je4D)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 03:03 PM (dIske)
My little trees are trying to recover from a grasshopper attack. I used neem oil. I also used a copper fungicide for rust.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:04 PM (bkuEU)
No nests, so they aren't aggressive. Lots of places offer mason bee "houses" for them to place their eggs and offerings of pollen (that then get walled up with mud, hence the name "mason bee"). Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 12, 2026 03:05 PM (63pwK)
I second what Orson wrote about pulling off excess fruit and winter-pruning.
I'm planning to prune the arbor vita this coming winter. They are filling out nicely. In a couple more years, I hope they'll be a proper privacy fence.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (ao+in)
Posted by: Delurker at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bkuEU)
I need to get out and pull bean plants, and clean out the strawberry beds.
The raspberries produced over 10 gallons of raspberries this year, and this after I whacked them down mostly to the ground in the spring. They just grow like weeds here. Big fruits, too, the size of a decent strawberry. Next year I think I will make raspberry wine.
The greenhouse was disappointing this year. Plenty of peppers, but something killed off the cukes halfway through the season, and my tomatoes never produced, at all. Next year I'm putting in drip irrigation and getting a better handle on controlling the heat in there. I think the exhaust fan is too small for the space.
Once I have a kitchen again (end of the month? maybe?) I will start putting up soups and other items for the pantry.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk)
Wonder how those apple trees got to be "wild" next to a trail? Think someone planted them? A Johnny Appleseed?
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (1RGZ5)
Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:07 PM (1RGZ5)
Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.
Posted by: KT
Anna and Dorsett.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (NnhvP)
Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.
Posted by: KT
Anna and Dorsett.
And Red Fuji and Granny Smith
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (1RGZ5)
All were overgrown, dropped wormy fruit all season, and wood was diseased. Attracted unwanted wildlife, too. Got sick of raking them up each week before mowing the yard! I *finally* convinced hubby to let me have them removed. Don't miss them.
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:15 PM (rdVOm)
Commercial Red Delicious apples are inferior to the original strain, which is not as pretty.
There are some fine Golden Delicious apples, but flavor may depend on climate, with best quality where nights are cool during ripening.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 05:29 PM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:56 PM (rdVOm)
Shana Tova!
-Lex
Posted by: Lex at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM (y4H1r)
It's not an old thread yet, Lex. This is Saturday, the day of specialty threads.
Great piece. Thanks.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 07:20 PM (1RGZ5)
Green beans are done. We'll pull the last small ears of corn, then that's done. Still picking zucchini, Romas, slicing and cherry tomatoes, but they're all slowing down. When I get enough broccolini tips, I freeze those. I emptied one cloth pot of russet potatoes, got most of 5 pounds. Have not harvested any peppers yet. Still hoping for more ripe cantaloupes despite cooling temperatures.
I roasted 3 roasting pans full of Romas, squeezed the pulp out of the skins, and pureed the pulp. Tomorrow we plan to can up the tomato sauce. We also steam-juiced several pounds of chokecherries, only got a little juice - will make syrup and can that too.
The new bed behind the kitchen is mostly done. I planted the hyacinth bulbs around the center on Friday. Husband wants to get the final course of stone on, before I add the crocuses. Then we put the top dirt layer of dirt in, and wait until spring.
Posted by: Pat* at September 12, 2026 07:35 PM (jyj2g)
You might look back to see if 2013 and 2022 were longer cold winters.
Also thin out those trees this winter. You want to hollow out the center so you can "throw your hat through it"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)
I am bushed
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)
A War for Civilization
Well, it's been quite a week for civilization in the USA. Try scrolling through the posts from the archives here from the past week for a sampling of craziness. Mark Steyn has noticed something, too:
This is my ancient column from that day, composed in the hours that followed, when very little was known. There are passages I would write differently today, and some I would not write at all, but I thought we would re-publish it as is, with the original (Spectator) illustration and headline. It was and is "a war for civilisation", but in ways I did not fully grasp until six months later, standing across the street from a Viennese maternity shop. So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers - because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. In the excerpts from the flight manifests that appeared over the next few days, I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago. What has changed since then?
I would suggest that we might look back even further than yesterday's 25th anniversary, and think about what we want to teach the kids (a theme here last week). Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written a piece that reminds us that, while the details had not been worked out, there were people who had plans to attack the West long before 9/11.
What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell UsIn April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth. Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”
There is no political program and no mention of foreign policy or economic grievances in the document. There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come. The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the al-Quds mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where, four years later, he would meet the men he would die with. The document is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11 because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an “Islamist.” Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.
Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point. Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means. . .Her insights into the thinking of Atta also have relevance to the current Iranian conflict.
Matty Laeh Sep 06, 2026 PS: This is not my article, is a simple copy from the x account of Krzysztof Szczawinski ; - @Kristof_Poland (consider giving a follow, he has a lot of good articles about socialism) I don’t usually do this, but he explained what Gramsci was and his ideas way better than I could (even thought I knew about Gramsci for years). https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2096207075386786042
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) September 5, 2026
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who… https://t.co/jvd7MHKRDo pic.twitter.com/EB0fbaeyEL
Have the kids watch this a few times, then give them the Coleridge https://t.co/4G4J0qnVLM
— Kieran Lawor (@KieranLawor) September 10, 2026
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
— Megan | @megievalist (@megievalist) September 10, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ia/+0)
Onto content
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (Ia/+0)
When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?
Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu)
Psalm 23, of course.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (a3CJ+)
Pete Buttgiggle' s father , a professor at Notre Dame, was the head of the Antonio Gramsci society of America. Besides gay, what do you think Buttgiggle believes?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Zombie G. Gordon Liddy at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:28 AM (N2HNb)
The Highwayman. By Alfred Noyes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:34 AM (aRyyL)
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It doesn't help that mainstream Protestants and some recent Popes have been more focused on saving mother earth, and other purely secular concerns, than saving souls.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (2BUGt)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (jrgJz)
I'd give them 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams. It creates an indelible image in your mind with about a dozen words. Imagine what longer poems can do... here it is:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:38 AM (QbvHV)
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:40 AM (aRyyL)
It would be hard to pick just one of Muldoon’s finest.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 12, 2026 11:41 AM (NGBKs)
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Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline.
https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (2BUGt)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:45 AM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:46 AM (a6L2j)
Understanding why lefties love Islam.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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It is because of people like Pual that we got attacked. Cowardly, degenerate, and evil types that believe themselves to be Secret Kings. About as believable as We Wuz Kangz and Shit.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 12, 2026 11:49 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
Shut up, they barked.
They can't explain the expansion into Africa, either. US/Israel has nothing to do with it.
They're fucking liars. And people on our side better get their heads out of their asses.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (EGW4m)
Ah, I have it! Real Islam has never been tried!
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu)
The impetus was understandable, even before atomic weapons were even tested there was a lot of discussion at a high level that such weapons would proliferate and therefore a system or international control was necessary. (The Soviets, of course nixed any such notion)
But they clearly had a coordinated plan for religion in America. It had to be de-fanged. It was too powerful, church attendance was high, and the morals and traditions too ingrained in society.
Some 80 years later, one can see how they incrementally and methodically chipped away at everything. Legislation, crackpot judicial rulings, education in primary schools, media, drugs, etc.
“Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (aPO7X)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (2BUGt)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (a6L2j)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (a6L2j)
For one; they share some common political beliefs that overlap with a quasi-religious ideology. The left, and the Islamic politicians we've allowed to attain office are hell bent on our destruction. And the country's. There's common cause between those two groups.
For two; we've been conditioned to accept other cultures... even at our own peril. Nobody wants to be labeled a racist, but to be honest, it's a label that's lost all meaning.
I would imagine in the not-to-distant future there'd be some push-back on all this. Being labeled all sorts of derogatory terms by the left is getting old and people are just now starting to fight back... ineffectively, but it's a start.
I'll be dead and gone, but I'm hoping the kids carry on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Eh, Christians in Name Only will always exist. As do heresies. And it is always the same cause even for Israel and Judah in the Old Testament.
Too many humans rebel against the word of the Lord and want to create a god in their own image. They make idols of themselves and their feelz rather than do what is right. They excuse evil and promote it under lies like tolerance while attacking what is godly, beautiful, and upright morally.
So killing babies becomes good for them, inviting criminals from abroad to kill, murder and rape is called being a good Samaritan, and coddling those here to terrorize the honest and hard working people is considered as mercy.
All inversions of what is good and what is evil. And that is a sign that those CINOs chose the way of the devil.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 AM (yEz+x)
“Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid
Posted by: Common Tater
It too will fail. If you have faith as strong as Daniel, or the three Shadrach, Meshach, and Abenego cast in the fiery furnace, all the tricks and snares that befoul society are cast back onto the ones that set them.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)
In this huge void or vacuum, a lot of really nasty wicked things moved right in. Oops.
“You can’t legislate morality!!” we were lectured. Yeah, well you can un-legislate it, and someone’s “morality” is going to prevail. They left that part out. Oops.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (aPO7X)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44)
I think in their heart of hearts they really want a man to tell them what to do. In the Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky wrote that free will is something most people don't want; in this case, it's really easy to see. The AWFLs won't acknowledge their craving for being controlled to themselves, because to do so would destroy their entire way of viewing the world and themselves.
: The Inquisitor states that people do not actually want freedom because it brings agonizing moral responsibility and doubt; instead, they desperately want bread, miracles, and someone to take away their free will and tell them what to do.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Underpants gnome theology except the Islamists are prepared for what comes next, the idiot AWFLs cheering Charlie Kirk's death will be bound in burqas as baby factories. It is as if the AWFLs want this outcome because they are too frightened and weak to oppose this destiny.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)
They're establishing beach heads all over the country.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (EGW4m)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (QaH55)
Aurora Leigh
then we could both hate it together.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (r7+Q7)
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I was looking for that 35 years ago. I’m not very optimistic at this point. America is on a serious, almost fatal time-delay.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (aPO7X)
Posted by: whig
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Yes, but you have to admit that the long term trend in the west (I'd say ever since the enlightenment and then the French Revolution) is for more and more CINOs or the outright irreligious.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K)
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Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline.
https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f)
Thank you!
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (odBC9)
Letting them live just spread the virus.
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (zfW44)
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (LHPAg)
This
Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)
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It's also an armory.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: mrp55net at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (dT1rV)
Posted by: Archimedes
I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.
Social media is like a twisted mirror on reality and like the palantir after Sauron obtained one, it takes a strong mind with principles plus the Holy Spirit whispering wisdom and discernment in the ear to get useful information from it.
Weaker people either despair into blackpillism or simply roll over to go with the tide whichever way it is flowing.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
-- Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900 --
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
If so, that shipped already sailed. You did think it was a good idea back then. Sauis actively promoted THE most radical sect of that religion.
Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:05 PM (LN9Ll)
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
Brave Sir Robin ran away,
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin.
He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky "
Don't you get leaves of tobacco?
Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu)
We're getting dangerously close to puns here. Let's not blow it.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (r7+Q7)
As long as they are non-practicing whites, all is well.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
I can't say that. I suspect rebelling against the Lord and all his teachings is common across the ages. We just call it different movements and that in part is because institutions including churches and sects are made of mankind and will fail just like mankind often enough. But the Word of the Lord never will until the end of times despite the rise and decline of institutions.
We don't openly do idolatry aside from the idiots that play around with dark forces, but leftist ideology has created an idol like Frankenstein (government--popular will--our democracy)--a man made monster that can and will turn on humanity.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:09 PM (LN9Ll)
Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (LN9Ll)
Posted by: Archimedes
Another example of twisted hypergamy that leaves only pain, failure, and absence from God in its wake. Denying that you are as God created you is a sin. We can be no other than what he made us. But what we do with the raw materials is up to us under free will.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)
Understanding why lefties love Islam.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5)
I recall the high-fiving and grab-assing following the 1993 WTC bombing. The captured terrorists were mocked for the fact they were caught because one of them tried to get the deposit back from the Ryder truck rental that carried in the bomb.
We (I among them at the time) laughed when it was revealed they wanted to topple one tower into the other. The book 102 Minutes chronicles the period between that and the successful mission less than a decade later. No one is laughing now, but a lot of people have gone back to sleep, hoping it was all just a bad dream..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 12:11 PM (nbLIj)
They just want to get ploughed not-quite-consensually by swarthy exotic men who smell like goat. It's the bad boy thing, international edition.
Posted by: But they REALLY want a good man at September 12, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Skip
Try the Bible. Has some amazing poetry that somehow works out regardless of the languages used. And whenever you feeling on top of the world, the Book of Ecclesiastes or Book of Job is there to tell you that this too in this world will pass.
This world is to harden and forge people so that they can go to the Father and be with him eternally as the choir of the righteous or choose the lot of those rebelling against him.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)
Thanks Dubya.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (2BUGt)
For a young man it would be Kipling's "If". That is how one becomes the heroic lone jury holdout.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 12, 2026 12:15 PM (91TQ2)
Any woman who must say "I am the Queen" is no true Queen.
Posted by: Tywin Lannister at September 12, 2026 12:17 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:18 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)
Richard Cory.
Invictus.
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.
Charge of the Light Brigade.
Dulce et Decorum Est.
They all pack a punch, and like all poetry, should be read aloud for maximum effect.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism
You can't. It is because ideas will always be used to try to win power for people who are not in the power structure but want to be. Cromwell had his levellers to deal with. The radical Anabaptists in Germany had a similar idea. You get the divine right of kings because kings liked it. And so on.
What we have to do is far more sobering--realizing there is no permanent victory, no permanent defeat until the end times. So we brace ourselves and contest this portion of devilment in our times that is our lot during our lifespan.
We are already assured of victory because Christ has already won that victory for the faithful by his sacrifice. So Gramsci too and his progeny will flag and fail like all of mankind's efforts do. And then another will pop up rehashing the same old story--something for nothing, do as thou wilt, and every other devil inspired movement.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig
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But the Grand Inquisitor's point was that the weaker people comprise the vast majority of the population, and that it was thus unfair for Christ to place the immense burden of free will on them.
Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:21 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Skip
On the other hand, the un-bowdlerized saga of Eskimo Nell might be more to AOS tastes in poetry.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Maybe lumped in with all the other hordes, but I think some in the administration are keenly aware of the threat.
Yet, we can't seem to deport illegals here without some rogue judge halting it. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with our own judiciary in order to properly deal with the threat from Islamists.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl)
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Tennyson's "The Revenge."
*mic drop*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:25 PM (amcLV)
Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
All of us are weak, even Peter denied Christ three times from fear. It is only by reliance on Christ, not ourselves and our strength that we can conquer.
That is the part that the Grand Inquisitor did not get. We cannot triumph ourselves with free will; we can only do so in accordance with God's will and with his blessings.
That is the part of Christianity that people including Islamists fail to get. Christ is there to help us, succor us when we are floundering, help us deal with temptation that can ensnare us, but we have to ask him and humble ourselves. Even the strongest among us will falter and fail without that divine assistance but with it, we cannot fail.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Their goals are conquest and degrade. It doesn't matter the opponent.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:27 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Tywin Lannister
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Funny but pretty much true.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44)
Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
And if not for the tarmac delay, they would have gotten a reaction from us far beyond their wettest dreams. Not to their worldly benefit, of course, whatever one thinks of their death-wish.
(For one, just perhaps, the Masjid Al-Haram might not have been standing for much longer.)
Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (XXR9+)
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+)
Same could be said for jihadis. Why hasn't Nidal Hassan been scragged yet? Get the stick out of your ass, people, and fucking do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:31 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:33 PM (MEjZB)
Yesterday on campus, I was approached by a Boomer hippie type who wanted to give me a brochure about how our university was instrumental in promoting Nazism in Germany. He claimed this information was crucial considering the rising fascism in our country and the danger Trump poses. I told him that Trump is fighting fascism harder than just about anyone else and I'm deeply grateful for his devotion to that cause. I wonder what responses the hippie got from the young students.
Anyway, I've come to despise the efforts to pile guilt and shame on people for a past that they weren't even a part of, especially since this effort is usually paired with encouragement to engage in current immorality (I'm not talking strictly sexual immorality, although that plays a significant introductory role). I suspect that if I had engaged this guy further, I would have uncovered many of the unsavory aspects of leftism, like anti-semitism, infanticide, suppressing unapproved speech, turning criminals loose on society.
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:35 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
Yea, verily.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:36 PM (LHPAg)
That ran a hundred years to the day
And then of a sudden it---Ah, but stay
I'll tell you what happened without delay...
Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 12:38 PM (uSgX5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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All mosques should be raided and searched.
Simultaneously would be best.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:40 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 12, 2026 12:43 PM (gUs21)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (MEjZB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg)
In addition to the Frankfurt School communists imported in the 30s there was a large cohort of nazis imported after the war in the 1950s, including rocket scientists, but also chemical warfare scientists, propaganda specialists and similar.
These cast of characters have had an outsize influence in the last 80 years here in America that I think is largely unknown. Yes, it is recognized an open air insane asylum in many places, but nobody quite understands why, or how this happened.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (aPO7X)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 12:47 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg)
Well, I am assuming some event occurs that causes the powers that be to declare all islam to be the enemy. Which will eventually happen, because they cannot help themselves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:49 PM (1z8ji)
Peter Hanson grew up in Easton, CT, where I live now. Yesterday, we dedicated the 25th anniversary ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial Garden in front of Town Hall to the Hanson family - Christine, Sue Kim, and Peter Hanson. There were several people there - including our First Selectman - who grew up with Peter. The last speaker also knew Peter from Easton, and was working on the 64th floor of the South Tower when the plane that the Hansons were on struck the WTC. After he evacuated the tower, he was eventually reunited with his wife and six-week-old daughter and went up to VT to decompress. While there, they ended up receiving a baby gift in the mail, addressed to the daughter. It was from the Hansons.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 12:53 PM (/ZuMP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 12:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (TlKpx)
Thanks Dubya.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Bush, the Bush's, are mere functionaries of the Borg or Administrative State or call the Board of Directors what you will.
_Politburo
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (VQ0bX)
Me: If he's the fascist you say he is, why are you free to wander around passing out leaflets denouncing him? I'll wait.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Eromero
I have ideas. OPSEC
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (vnlVL)
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 01:03 PM (ouubj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Regaining the balance of powers, putting the judiciary back into and equal third and getting rid of radical judges who do not respect the Constitution or the rule of law is a major necessity to the continuation of this Republic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: free tibet at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)
But by that time, it might include samples from Dearborn, London, Windsorstan, Berlin.
I still believe we'll win. And most of our dead will be deadweight leftists anyways and no great loss. Actually, no loss at all.
Everyone have a good weekend.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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If we only had mortars. They won't be fighting our military they will be fighting us in the streets just as they are in Iran.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:08 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:09 PM (VQ0bX)
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?
For the boys: Robert W. Service
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 01:15 PM (eRlcH)
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I imagine a number of those men from the middle east who jumped the border under *biden's reign are now setting up shop in mosques around the country, collecting weapons and explosives for "later use."
On us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:16 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:17 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:18 PM (VQ0bX)
Remember, during the 2000 election Dubya said that Arabs should get less scrutiny in airports.
I don't think that anyone's reputation has collapsed more in the last twenty-five years than W.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:22 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
For the boys: Robert W. Service
Posted by: Hadrian
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Good choice. In HS (all boys), my English teacher had the class memorize 'The Cremation of Sam Mcgee'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)
Good luck in Dearbornistan.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (gXiuU)
Whig, this is so well-put I copied it down to think about. Thank you.
Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (jkyX4)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)
You need glasses to read, but since you can't see you can't find your glasses. That's a Catch 20/20.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 01:26 PM (/ZuMP)
Besides the "religion of peace" drivel, W. helped set the stage for the Deep State's attempts to overthrow the elected government.
On September 12th, after the worst intelligence failure in the history of the United States, the intelligence agencies prepared themselves for the mass firings that would surely follow after this disaster.
Bush fired no one. That convinced the Comeys and Brennans that they were bulletproof, and that they could try to overthrow the elected government of the United States without consequence.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Skip
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Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)
Bullshit. Even as a good Christian, you'll still fail, sometimes badly. Belief in God gives one the strength to admit it, correct it, then get back on your feet and move on.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Big Penguin at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1)
Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel" was transformative for my view of the current crisis.
She is brilliant (so is her husband.)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM
Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Hard to believe yet not hard to believe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)
Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip
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Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Buy several pair and leave them about the house.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)
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Was?
Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)
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Was?
Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 12, 2026 01:39 PM (eRlcH)
Was?
Posted by: Ernst Rohm
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Lately been reading this. A very detailed history
https://shorturl.at/xydXr
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 01:45 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:49 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:53 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Hard to believe yet not hard to believe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)
He's nothing but a soy and estrogen-soaked milquetoast pussy who's one of many of the deep state's sellouts by the muzzies.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (g8Ew8)
(cont.)
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (eTh1u)
There can be no accommodation with those who wish to enslave and kill you. Unfortunately, it is our own civility that has been our undoing in dealing with the problem of Islam. The modern, enlightened Western Civilization has in varying degrees throughout those nations where it holds sway rejected its Spiritual underpinnings in favor of a relentless secularism. This has led to a blindness that prevents them from comprehending what it is that they are seeing in those who hold to the tenets of Islam. The philosophies and fantasies of those who hold power and influence in our culture and polity have declared that all creeds, castes and cultures are equal, and that there is no objective right or wrong to measure between them. All testimony to the contrary from the past is dismissed as ‘unenlightened provincialism,’ and all evidence in the present is equivocated and dissembled as merely a reaction to our past provocations and lingering biases. The calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ miss the mark by virtue of the fact that that is indeed what is taking place already — the truly faithful have begun to wrest he faith away from the apostate.
(cont.)
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u)
Meanwhile, Islam looks at the world from its unchanging perspective and sees what it has always seen; lands full of dhimmis and kafirs awaiting the inevitable conquest of the one true faith. Their ‘hearts and minds’ — even the so-called ‘moderates’ — are unwilling to be changed to hold to the secular Western notions of ‘tolerance’ and ‘equality.’ Their faith holds as a tenet that it is a good work to lie to the unfaithful, and vice in the pursuit of their ‘virtue’ is no barrier to their paradise, especially when its purchase can be made with the blood of unbelievers. And now, thanks to the insanity of those leaders in Europe who have sown the winds of demographic suicide through so-called progressive policies like abortion and one-child initiatives, they are reaping the whirlwind of invasion by legions of young men who are unencumbered by such “enlightenment” — and some welcome them with open arms! I fear there will be no Charles Martel to turn the tide back this time.
(cont.)
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:57 PM (eTh1u)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++)
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That's what I do.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (Rln0i)
So we are left with a hope that Islam will return to the apostates, which is foolishly unrealistic, given the witness of those Judeo-Christian denominations and sects who have done likewise, only to see their branch shrivel and die through the attrition of death, denial, and desertion. And a return to the centuries of isolation and Internecine conflicts that marked the Islamic world before we started marking lines on maps is no longer possible — that djinn is out of the bottle. Unless Islam is eradicated, there will always be conflict. Reducing Mecca and all the other major Islamic centers and governments to radioactive slag would not be enough. But as genocide is anathema to the civilized mind, it is a conflict that we can never truly end. But we must never never never never NEVER SUBMIT!
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (eTh1u)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl)
*golf clap*
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (q177U)
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>>When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?
- - - -
We've been watching the 9/11 shows on Nat Geo and the History channels. They've been making these for years, telling the stories of various survivors, including footage, etc.
This year I was really struck by how New York-y they all were - the accents, the obviously Irish and Italian first responders were, how they had a lot of family involved (family there for generations), the NYC sensibilities and humor. It is delightful, but also so sad, knowing this kind of New York-iness is being replaced with mass foreign immigration and "diversity" that is celebrates/valued over the long-time locals who've made this city great.
That, and the sheer, unhesitant heroics. THAT is a value of ours we take for granted, the notion that of course co-workers will carry each other down the stairs, that not just FDNY, bust civilians run toward the chaos, run UP the stairs to save as many as they can. Not all cultures do that.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (rOKnE)
I agree with Mark Steyn and others -- we lost the "War on 'Terror'" the very moment GWB stood in front of those ideological fellow travelers of the bastards who flew those planes and basically surrendered to them.
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:04 PM (eTh1u)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI)
Oh man, I read your blog!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE)
They tried that shit in high school. I countered that, with the observation that the real dynamic is ordinarily that crime causes poverty.
But the lunatics insist on their delusions, because to admit they were wrong about their crackpot theories is too horrible to contemplate.
So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:08 PM (/ijqt)
Paragraphs are your friends.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew
Yes, and were this blog still allowing unlimited text (as it was when I first cross posted it here before the copy/paste troll), there would be a few more than what I used here in order to keep it to just four comments. ;-)
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (eTh1u)
Islam is antithetical to life.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (Ia/+0)
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It's worse than that. They don't claim cultures are "equal" or anything of the sort. Nobody believes that, clearly cultures are widely disparate.
What they claim is that despite these wide differences, there is no inherent superiority or preferable way of doing anything. Different, yes. Better, no. There are no objective standards, you see. There is no "right" or "wrong" way, everything is biased, blah blah blah.
The real goal is to turn people into mewling quims who will not defend what they have. Not their life, not anyone else's life, not the culture, not anything. They have no framework, no independent thought. The worst thing of all is to be "judgmental" or declare that one thing might just really be better than some other thing.
They live in a Psychic Cage.
The way to have fun with these nihilists, when the professor suggests in class there is no objective reality, well then we'll just delete your fucking paycheck and retirement pension there, sport. They'll start screeching.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (/ijqt)
Oh man, I read your blog!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE)
It wasn't my blog! That honor goes to the anonymous "Floyd Turbo". I was a frequent commenter who eventually graduated to "COB" status there. Unfortunately, someone hacked the blog and locked us out, and Floyd's backup went tits up at the exact same time, so that's why it went dark.
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:16 PM (eTh1u)
Oh, d@mn, that sucks!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:17 PM (rOKnE)
So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Yep, Gramci nailed it.
The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI).
At least we know it wasn't Will Geer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:27 PM (u3SRj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX)
Ever wonder why there were no more Southern rebellions after the Civil War? It was because they had lost too many men to put up a fight again.
If we do away with maybe ten or twenty million leftists, not only will they not be able to make a military comeback, they won't be able to win any elections either. We'll be able to do cool stuff like settle the other planets instead of dealing with the latest treasonous stuff they come up with.
Plus, it will be fun to see some wannabe online badass begging for his life and ratting out his friends, right before you put a bullet in him.
If we don't do this, we'll, after the Lindsay Clancy brigade is done killing their kids so they can get back to the party, do you have any doubt that they will come after ours? These subhuman pieces of shit wanted to rape Sarah Palin for not aborting her baby boy.
Posted by: Ken at September 12, 2026 02:37 PM (aVf49)
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.
Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."
There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:52 PM (u3SRj)
Whig - I'm way late to the thread and you probably won't see this but I wanted to say that the Holy Spirit is within you and I value your words, inspired as they are by the Holy Spirit. I regularly pray for His guidance and inspiration too, especially in these troubling times.
May the Good Lord be with you always.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (91pBE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX)
Yes, I know, I've been on this blog since early '09. I remember when it happened.
Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (eTh1u)
The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX)
You nailed it too my friend. And it all starts with - and ends with - the schools. All those institutions require a "Degree", worthless as is it in real knowledge, to advance.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:11 PM (91pBE)
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.
Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."
There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)
Precisely. The targeting of the schools was diabolically evil. And effective. Khrushchev was right and that's how they did it.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:14 PM (91pBE)
Every election there is a booth outside the polling place a table and almost always high school girl thereYoung Democrats organization.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 03:26 PM (u3SRj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX)
Nailed it.
And it's why, if we want our great civilization back, we have to get out there and evangelize. We have to get people to understand what was the basis of our civilization and how those things make freedom possible. We have to pass on our religion and our culture AND the knowledge that built American thought. What God says about His commandments is also true of our culture and our freedom:
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 03:29 PM (kU0PQ)
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My teachers also introduced me to the greater enemies of Islam—the great Satan, being the United States of America, and the little Satan, being Israel, the Jewish state. A distinction was made between Israel as a state and Jews, who embodied a type of metaphysical evil. The Jew was synonymous with the word Satan. He was behind all evil things, and had designated Islam and Muslims as his enemy, and was hell-bent on destroying us all. In all of our prayers, and in all of our dua is the supplication that God would destroy and eliminate the Jews.
_ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 03:32 PM (VQ0bX)
_ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Call to prayer 5 times a day; Minneapolis, Hamtramck, Michigan — .
Dearborn, Michigan, Paterson, New Jersey — subject to designated hours. Astoria, Queens, New York — during Ramadan. Occoquan, Virginia — invited by the mayor, two occasions during Ramadan.
Broadcast loud, throughout these American cities by those whose devotion is to conquer us. Submission, we much.
Epic Center Texas and another Islamic Center in Katy TX.
How many in other states?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: InZona at September 12, 2026 06:06 PM (XiTQh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:34 AM (aRyyL)
8th Grade: our teacher loved this poem and every years assigned a student to memorize and recite it to the class at the end of the school year.
She always chose the class suck up.
"And the highwayman came riding-riding-riding."
Posted by: waepnedmann at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (CpK8/)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Never hurts to pray either.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Unless you're feeling lucky......
3) No. Running with sharp objects is not allowed.
4) Besides not being able to run with sharp objects have a Great Weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
8/20 Update – He has finished his radiation treatment, so all he has left are blood tests and waiting. Thanks for everything. 7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.
8/28 Update – Teresa’s bloodwork is back, and everything looks steady. She has a CT scan on 9/4. 7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.
8/16 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is at home, recovering, and down to just needing a little oxygen at night. One of the doctors told her that he didn’t think she was going to make it. Prayer works. 7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
9/4 Update – MrTea has finished his 10 days of radiation. He feels pretty good. He is still taking fenben and ivermectin. He is still shedding pieces of the tumor, which is a good sign. In 2 weeks they will meet with the oncologist again, and hopefully the dna and blood tests will be done and the doctor will have a plan. Many thanks for the prayers. 7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them. 8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before. 8/14 – RandomDave asked for renewed prayers for his job situation. He just found out that the position he was close to getting went to someone else, and doesn’t know where to turn. He hates to ask, but is getting desperate. He has a GiveSendGo set up; please contact Annie’s Stew for more info. Thanks to those who have already given and thank you for the prayers. They are keeping him from giving up. 8/15 – Donna V contacted Mis. Hum. to let the Horde know the following: “Please let the horde know I am doing fine in hospice”. She would appreciate your prayers. 8/15 – Buck requested prayers for his wife. She is diabetic, and had a bad day on 8/14, with weakness, vomiting, irregular pulse, high blood pressure. She has had sepsis 3 times. They went to ER, but they only gave her meds for nausea, and now she’s back home. Pray that she recovers quickly. Thanks to all. 8/15 – Intruder Driver asked for prayers for Tonya, who was burned over 90% of her body in a gas explosion in Cabo San Lucas. She is now in a hospital in Mexico City. She has a long road to recovery, if she survives.
8/22 Update – Tonya did not survive her burns. Prayers for her and her husband Rusty, who were/are active members of their local church in Mexico. 8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life. 8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind the house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant. 8/27 – “…” asked for prayers for healing (and sleep) for Brit Lass. She is having tests, and so far they are good, but she is worried. She has an imaging test coming up and then an appointment with a surgeon. 8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers. 9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life. 9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her. 9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery. 9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: qmark at September 12, 2026 07:40 AM (hzpDl)
My local coffee shop knows me now as the "dark roast, small" guy. There are worse nicknames to have, I guess.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (2Cry5)
{grammie}{Some Rat}{TiFW}
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:43 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026
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I flatter myself I don't look a day over 4228.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)
Just don’t let them call you John Smallberries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:45 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (7s9Qe)
The other 1% is fucking morons
How did the Top 3 Anti AI groups (CCP) find the X post of the Anthropic resignee that had about 3 followers in LESS than 15 minutes.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (/+uur)
I had always thought it was mostly congenital or developmental. But a lot of conditions can cause epilepsy as a secondary effect.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)
Prayers up for those who need them.
I swear when I got home last evening I thought I could get away with not having to mow the lawn this weekend. This morning? Nah, yeah I can't. The grass, it's messing with me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:50 AM (SgdqL)
All I see and hear are statements that metastasizing Islam is a cancer that America needs and should encourage.
I guess if the population also finds it acceptable that women can engage in mass murder on bad mood days, and that ensuring that the next generation has been sterilized or otherwise too stupid and lazy to care for its own survival, then exorcising the demons of Islam is an Ask too large.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (a6PrB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)
Who wants to Share-a-Key?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026
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Fleeing all those English settlers in search of a better life, no doubt.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)
AAA average price for Regular in Kalifornia: $5.9732
Welcome to the Hotel Kalifornia...you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026
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Fleeing all those English settlers in search of a better life, no doubt.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)
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While beating the shit out of the local tribes like the Miamis and Foxes when they got to Ohio.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)
Is that near a boat ramp? Usually E0 is near where people have boats as water and E mix quite well.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (/+uur)
https://gasprices.aaa.com/
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 07:59 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 07:59 AM (I9XXk)
AI will correct the books for errors...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)
What, use corn for food? That would reduce the price of corn!
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)
That should be the response to any retard that is whining about fuel prices and believes the remedy is elect Marxists.
California is a one party Communist "Utopia".
No mention that Climate Change, Inc. has closed off millions of acres of hydrocarbon producing federal land and offshore; no mention that Europe has destroyed its own ability to fuel itself; no mention that only the US seems interested in keeping the SoH open; the whiners can't even seem to grasp that daily destruction of refineries in Ukraine and Russia might have an effect on a fungible resources; that the Keystone XL pipeline wasn't a mere vanity project but had a purpose; blowing up Nord Stream pipelines doesn't help availability; and exporting 28% and more of US diesel puts a crimp on US stockpiles and prices.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (Fn+3X)
Then back to the job search
Some good leads but nothing's a lock yet.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (aJQbY)
And speaking of gas/diesel prices.... I'll have to go get some diesel for the tractor before I can start.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 08:05 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026
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It's within a few blocks of the river, but no boat ramps that I know of. I do see people hauling boats around here all the time. The Walmart (Murphy Oil) gas pumps nearby have it too, but for $4.39 or more.
The Exxon-branded place near my house still has the stuff at $3.69 and has for months, even when regular went down and now back up. It's *cheaper* there than the regular E10. The last time I used it my gas mileage was little better than it is on E10. I suspect that "E0" is old gas, or laced with ethanol and being labeled fraudulently as E0. In April a chain in Kansas was doing that but not labeling the premium as E10-E15.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:05 AM (wzUl9)
Doing well here - CT scan came back fine; there is a small spot on one of my lungs, but no idea if it is cancer related or not. Since it is the only one, they will be zapping it with radiation in the next month or so.
There is a possibility that the surgeon may want to attempt liver resection again - he told me I am one of his "rock star" patients, in that I am doing so well on treatment. I know that I am extremely fortunate. And apparently I am very hard to kill.... 😂😂😂
Thanks for the continued prayers! I may be absent a lot from commenting over the next few months, as we are getting ready to undertake a kitchen remodel. We have never "hired out" any projects before, so this will be interesting!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)
Trees are a crop.
If the trees aren't regularly harvested, drought, fire and disease eventually will do the job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026
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Mix some No-Doz into the wax and polish it up!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Cullen at September 12, 2026 08:09 AM (skR0U)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:09 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026 08:10 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)
Whose lands did the Mingo steal along their path and at the end of their migration?
Posted by: Gref at September 12, 2026 08:11 AM (5rh/l)
Willowed: Of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in Kentucky, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)
All that's known about Mingo is that he was born in Kentucky, and his religion.
He was a Chicken Friar.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:12 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)
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Hope they did Stolen Land Acknowledgements.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 08:12 AM (RNxyR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)
If the trees aren't regularly harvested, drought, fire and disease eventually will do the job Americans won't do.
_-_
Yup.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:14 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2026 08:14 AM (Q+gd/)
16 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)
Mingo only pawns in game of Life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:15 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)
The fan entered from the left-field seats and ran toward center field, briefly evading police officers and stadium security personnel before he was brought down on the outfield grass.
After officials escorted him beyond the center-field wall, spectators seated above the New York Mets bullpen threw beer cans in his direction and booed as he was removed from the stadium. Chants of “USA” then broke out among the crowd.
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These people are just the worst.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
Our Precious Democracy
Recycling
Terms that should be in the widely-circulated reference guide to contemporary lies.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:18 AM (ax0kX)
The memorial at California State University Stanislaus featured 2,977 American flags — one for each victim killed on Sept. 11, 2001 — as part of Young America’s Foundation’s annual “9/11: Never Forget Project.”
But several of the flags were spotted covered in protest slogans, including “Free Palestine,” “Blowback” and “161.”
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These people are the worst.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (7s9Qe)
The acceptance of Islam in our society is just one of the effects of zombie leftism.
Focus on stamping out all the zombie leftists we have, and the rest will take care of itself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:21 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:22 AM (MWfyi)
Thanks very much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 08:23 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Fn+3X
I'm sorry for your pain
And Skip don't be laughing and running at the same time!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 12, 2026 08:23 AM (CkDaS)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:22 AM (MWfyi)
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Not a double post. You know nothing of my work!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)
The idea that every culture is equal is corrosive.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)
youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
(Yeah, I know it's Mungo, not Mingo, but any excuse for a music link...)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (I9XXk)
The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949.
From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study its educational system, spending several months at Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)
And there's plenty of Indian (native American) names of various places too.
Interestingly, there is no "Obama Street" anywhere nearby. Robert Byrd, however...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (B7yLN)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (MWfyi)
54 A fan carrying a Palestinian flag ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium at 9:11 p.m. on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, before being tackled and detained by security, The Athletic reported.”
It would have been much more entertaining (and appropriate) to let an exploding drone track him down in center field.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:27 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:29 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (MWfyi)
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So what you're saying is you really need to spend more time studying my comments?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)
The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949.
From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study its educational system, spending several months at Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)
Looming Tower. I've read it..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho"
*reads. Reads again*
I don't get it.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)
I don't get it.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)
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Hey, I'm casting pearls over here! Plus, no one else is awake yet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
I should note because all of their cultures have failed without the petro dollars.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:35 AM (/+uur)
Should be a fun game.
Hook'Em Horns!
Posted by: naturalfake
Tonight the OSU Buckeyes play the Texas Shorthorns.
Looking forward to it.
Go Bucks!
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:36 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Ancient Mets Lore at September 12, 2026 08:37 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
An exciting day of loading the RV. Her Majesty leaves tomorrow morning for an AKC Delegate meeting in Newark, returns Tuesday evening, then leaves again on Thursday with The Big Dummy for shows in Belton. When she returns, we have to make a quick turnaround for her to head out to Tennessee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:41 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)
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While beating the shit out of the local tribes like the Miamis and Foxes when they got to Ohio.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)
All of the Red should have put aside their differences and banded together to stop the Europeans from taking over. But they didn't, and they lost it. It's ours, now, and we're making the same mistake with Islam.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: dantesed
It is kind of but it's worked out well for them. Do not mess with success..
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: They're Insufferable! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (Fn+3X)
I should note because all of their cultures have failed without the petro dollars
_-_
Bringing to 7th century to a town near you.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
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"dantesed" isn't so popular in Ohio
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 08:43 AM (V+sk9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)
This is so great! And we are so grateful!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
It means "Man With Large Checkbook" in the ancient Algonquin speech.
It's where our slang "bucks" come from for money.
Posted by: Zombie Woody Hayes, Pugilist at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (cCXR+)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (CjHsb)
Tecumseh almost pulled that off.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (Q+gd/)
$20, same as in town
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (t59Wi)
(ZZ Top's alternate take on Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ears Perk Up at September 12, 2026 08:47 AM (Fn+3X)
I am one of his "rock star" patients, in that I am doing so well on treatment. I know that I am extremely fortunate. And apparently I am very hard to kill....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)
Hard To Kill?
That makes you -
The Steven Seagal of the HQ!!!
Congratulations!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: They're Insufferable!
LOL. We are the Buckeye Nation.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:48 AM (lJ0H4)
CAUSE THEY GOTS NO BALLS
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: They're Insufferable!
Don't forget poisonous!
Go Bucks!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)
Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:41 AM (eRlcH)
I never seen the words Exciting and Newark used in the same sentence before. (Assuming this is Newark NJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 08:57 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
They're nuts...literally. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)
79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
You think it sounds bad, just wait til you see the mascot.
Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (P8wUf)
79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
You think it sounds bad, just wait til you see the mascot.
Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (P8wUf)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Could be Newark, OH. Now there's an exciting city.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Doom at September 12, 2026 09:01 AM (1GPuL)
Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Ahh. Brutus is kind of cute.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Kinda stopped up here. Re: Prunes, is two enough, is six too many?
Posted by: Need Help at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 08:57 AM (S41Gd)
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Don Pepe's!!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)
LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (lJ0H4)
He has a huge head.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:04 AM (pShax)
$20, same as in town
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (t59Wi)
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A small, hairless nut. Everyone in Michigan knows this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Kinda stopped up here. Re: Prunes, is two enough, is six too many?
_-_
Pretty sure I learned this in third grade:
"Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans at every meal."
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (I9XXk)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)
LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Almost as exciting as Zanesville.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (lJ0H4)
CAUSE THEY GOTS NO BALLS
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)
I laughed. This is such a man thing. Women and girly-men really don't get it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 09:07 AM (CjHsb)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Was watching the Mets - Yankees game last night when the idiot ran on the field.
I kept thinking of Mike Curtis of the Baltimore Colts absolutely crushing a man who ran on the field. Don't make em like that anymore
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:08 AM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:04 AM (pShax)
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The tickets are going cheap on the resale market, so some Spartans may show up to top off their glasses of schadenfreude.
I love that Jeff Sagarin has declared WMU the winner in his rankings. A lot of people missed the fact that the MAC asked the NCAA *and* the CFBP members to treat the game as a Western Michigan victory. At least some of them are.
Also: this is the fifth rules change caused by Michigan in the last decade.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Joseph Levitch-Newarks Finest at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
Three of the quarterly AKC meetings are held at the airport hotel in Newark. The AKC is headquartered in New York City, though most of the operations are in Raleigh, NC. It's just more convenient to have meetings so that travel into the city isn't necessary. The fourth quarterly meeting is in Orlando during the week of the AKC National Championship show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:10 AM (pShax)
What makes the situation really hard is that the port surgery pushed the recovery timeline back, so we're having to do more intensive care. If my wife could just have some grip strength and a little more range of motion, things would be a lot easier.
That will come, but it's still a slog.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
He was 62, had just visited his mother in a nursing home, and took a short walk in a nearby park. He sat down on a park bench and was stabbed to death for no reason by a man named Ogbodiegwu, which says it all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Joseph Levitch-Newarks Finest at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Fn+3X)
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People say good things about the ironbound district restaurants, but I've never been, so I do not personally know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (pShax)
What makes the situation really hard is that the port surgery pushed the recovery timeline back, so we're having to do more intensive care. If my wife could just have some grip strength and a little more range of motion, things would be a lot easier.
That will come, but it's still a slog.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Cancer treatments today are much better than when my wife started hers 18 years ago. That she lasted 16 years was a miracle; my youngest had turned 17 just two days before she passed, so she came close to her goal of not passing before the kids were grown up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)
$4.19 at Quick Check on Thursday.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
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You're a Soprano?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (pShax)
Did a bit of useless research recently. There are 205 breeds recognized by the AKC and some 3,200 conformation judges. Of the 3,200, about 12, less than 0.4%, are licensed to judge every breed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:10 AM (pShax)
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They have many names: Football Player Buggery Doctors, Scouting Cheaters, Rape Excusers and now Hockey Player Abusers.
A fun thing to do in front of Michigan fans is to ask someone else about "that scandal at Michigan," to which one must reply: "Which ones?"
Also funny: The B1G has said that they will now include a feed of the conversation between review officials and the field crew, because everyone knows that the review center was told "find a way to give Michigan another chance."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (pShax)
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They are awesome. Every Friday afternoon we would drink a pitcher of sangria with lunch. Or two.
Try the garlic soup with a raw egg yolk.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (RIvkX)
How would a DSA/Communist/Socialist answer the question:
"In the context you are using it, what is the definition of 'steal'"
Stealing implies ownership, an anathema to the Left.
What I believe the morality the Left has adopted is:
"I take from You ≡ Good"
"You take from Me ≡ Bad"
Which is how humanity has behaved since expulsion from The Garden
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (nCgQz)
How would a DSA/Communist/Socialist answer the question:
"In the context you are using it, what is the definition of 'steal'"
Stealing implies ownership, an anathema to the Left.
What I believe the morality the Left has adopted is:
"I take from You ≡ Good"
"You take from Me ≡ Bad"
Which is how humanity has behaved since expulsion from The Garden
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (nCgQz)
There's always someone upstream pissing in the river...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:16 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)
LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Almost as exciting as Zanesville.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (lJ0H4)
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You don't want to miss the Twins Festival in Twinsburg!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:17 AM (pShax)
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 09:17 AM (NmD3f)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:18 AM (pShax)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (pShax)
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Are they from Newark? I've never seen it.
He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (eRlcH)
I guess I know nothing about the World of Dog Shows.
You seem to spend a lot of bucks and time on it, but-
Is it kind of an exotic hobby like stamp collecting, but with ribbons and trophies and stamps that poop?
Or, is this a money making sport so to speak, with real money as the prize?
Or, just bragging rights?
What's the dealio?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (l3cgK)
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My mother-in-law died of cancer when she was 62 and the variety she had was one of the really tough ones no one lives through.
The oncology nurse said that it seems every month there's another breakthrough in identifying a type and developing a treatment and the kind my wife has is one of the ones where they have powerful drugs to target it. She only has 12 doses of chemo ahead of her (1 per week) and then it will be just the drug therapy which is pretty mild.
And of course if she can't tolerate it, they will stop, but the nurse seemed pretty confident because they rarely have to. It's quite the journey.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
That got me thinking about Israel, and whether it counts one way or another.
Israel has no mass-market car. From the 60s-80s , they gave it a feeble attempt, with cars like the Sussita and the Tzabra. To give them their due, these were better than the best Warsaw Pact mass market rides like the Trabant or Wartburg. But they were still horrid crap based on horrid British Reliant designs, and horrid, slovenly British manufacturing techniques. So, still socialist garbage that I would compare to the Serb Zastava cars in terms of quality.
That said, they build some of the world's finer armor, from trucks and troop-transports, to main battle tanks. Some of these are built by private companies, and some by the MoD, but i think it counts for something. They're of the best quality, and fearsome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
Yknow who else ate like that?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (r4LUb)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
That will come, but it's still a slog.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
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prayers up for her comfort, and yours too, as caregiver!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:22 AM (pShax)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
We had a TV in the conference room, and I'd heard about the first impact on the way to the office, and we were all standing around watching the footage when the second aircraft hit. I have to admit that my recollection is a bit hazy, but people recalled that I immediately said: "That's an act of war."
I then waked into the boss' office and said: "Turn on your TV. We're at war."
I didn't have much to add, other than to note than a few months later, I brought my newborn daughter into the office for a meet-and-greet (we were like that). We had no idea then that she would go on to earn a campaign ribbon for a war that started before she was born.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
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Maybe just count a main battle tank as a car, used mainly to travel north, or sometimes visit Egypt.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (pShax)
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Exquisite trolling right there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:25 AM (pShax)
Or, is this a money making sport so to speak, with real money as the prize?
Or, just bragging rights?
What's the dealio?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)
It's a very expensive hobby, but less expensive than horses. The money goes out, not in. In essence, it's a livestock show. The payout is the gratification of being recognized for doing a superior job of breeding.
We do a lot and have achieved a lot, but really we're just small potatoes next to the big boys, who may spend a couple of million dollars a year showing and promoting their dogs. We're pleased as punch for recently getting a Best in Show but the top dog in the country, a Gordon Setter, has 63 of them as of the end of July.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (5C90x)
At least Spartan fans support the Wolverines when playing the buckeyes. Mostly.
Columbus treats football like a holy war, desecrating their home field has been made a criminal act.
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
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It's to inflate the body count they can attribute to Evil White Men. They don't actually care.
In fact, research into pre-Columbian contact and evidence that contradicts theri narrative is immediately attacked.
Just like the complete absence of child graves in Canada that the Catholic Church was supposed to have produced. History must yield to their political desires. It has no value on its own.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)
He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (RIvkX)
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Yes, Newark. And environs. In the show their territory seemed to run from the river through Newark and Elizabeth, excluding (I believe) the Rahway State Prison.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:28 AM (pSl4u)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:30 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (Y8DZL)
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I hear Michigan fans say that, but in my experience, the Spartan Nation is all about the Scarlet and Gray in November.
When I was at MSU, Ohio State brought its band up for the game (which was not all that common in those days, I think we did one away game other than South Bend and Ann Arbor), and we immediately hit it off.
We actually traded merch catalogs (no internet, you needed the paper forms) and that is how I have two Ohio State Marching Band t-shirts, included the coveted Friday Gray, which they made a big deal out of letting us wear.
Of course other bands would swap shirts as well, and I have an Indiana one and Purdue one that was sadly lost.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
San Franpsycho you really must watch it. Tony Soprano as portrayed by the late James Gandolfini was awesome.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
We have a few Ohio fans joining us today at the game. I'll definitely share this definitely true story!
Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lCppi)
It's to inflate the body count they can attribute to Evil White Men. They don't actually care.
They call what happened "genocide". But most of those who died did so before they ever saw a European, who at the time had no conception of germs. The famous smallpox blankets are a single incidence and nothing happened to the natives who got them.
Peoples have been running into each other for time immemorial. Someone wins and someone loses. Why the European colonization of the Americas is some exception is never explained.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Nothing more than a glorified crew.
Posted by: Philly Leotardo at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (XvL8K)
Attending birthday party for my 5 yr old grandson at noon that is being held at their house on a day that is overcast and looking like rain which means total chaos forced indoors. Wish me luck.
I'll try and catch up later.
Have a Happy Saturday.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (kJmSS)
We do a lot and have achieved a lot, but really we're just small potatoes next to the big boys, who may spend a couple of million dollars a year showing and promoting their dogs. We're pleased as punch for recently getting a Best in Show but the top dog in the country, a Gordon Setter, has 63 of them as of the end of July.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (eRlcH)
Okay, thanks.
Basically, a labor of love or pride. Nice.
i just wondered because I've read that the dog's owners will often not go to shows at all, but farm the pooch out for someone else to show, which has got to be an expensive thing to do.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
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It's zombie Soviet agitprop, and I think the tide has turned on it's persistence. In the next decade, a ton of schools will be closing due to the baby bust, and that's going to crush the influence of teacher unions.
There's also huge growth in non-public education because it sucks, and childless people are not going to be willing to pay high taxes for other peoples' kids.
Higher ed will also be decimated. This is the long awaited turning of the tide, and it cannot be stopped.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
September 11 hit hard on the family, friends at Morgan Stanley who worked at WTC are not forgotten.
My son and nephew joined the armed services as a result.
Prayers to all the families who will always be changed by what evil was unleashed that day.
No negotiated settlements.
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026
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Yes, I have heard of him. He was the one who established the large calabash pipe as a feature of the character. The straight or bent briar pipe that Sidney Paget showed in the famous The Strand illustrations was too small, Gillette thought, to work well on stage. So he adopted the big "calabash." You saw the style used by Cmdr. Data when he did Holmes on the holodeck in TNG.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)
They call what happened "genocide". But most of those who died did so before they ever saw a European, who at the time had no conception of germs. The famous smallpox blankets are a single incidence and nothing happened to the natives who got them.
Peoples have been running into each other for time immemorial. Someone wins and someone loses. Why the European colonization of the Americas is some exception is never explained.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
It's all poisoned by their politics. It's frustrating.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (EGW4m)
I'll try and catch up later.
Have a Happy Saturday.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (kJmSS)
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a group of 5 year old boys, forced indoors by weather and fueled by cake and ice cream.
Now, there is some Big Fun.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (pSl4u)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)
Bosses don't wear shorts.
Posted by: Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr. at September 12, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)
Now, there is some Big Fun.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (pSl4u)
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If they smell even a whiff of fear, they will destroy you!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:38 AM (RIvkX)
i just wondered because I've read that the dog's owners will often not go to shows at all, but farm the pooch out for someone else to show, which has got to be an expensive thing to do.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
It is very expensive to do. Her Majesty used to show our dogs herself, but her knees had to be replaced and she could no longer run fast enough. She was very good at it, but most people have no idea how to show their dogs to the best effect, or how to best groom it. That's why they turn to professional handlers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:39 AM (eRlcH)
For a run-of-the-mill show, around $120 gets you a professional handler for the exhausting 5-10 minutes of work they put in.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:40 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:38 AM (RIvkX)
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Furniture too. Even wallboard is at risk, since soccer balls can dent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (pSl4u)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (LHPAg)
The Black Plague came from outside the continent and eliminated a quarter to a third of the European population, but that's not considered a genicide.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (kpS4V)
For a run-of-the-mill show, around $120 gets you a professional handler for the exhausting 5-10 minutes of work they put in.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:40 AM (J4Dwc)
I know how that sounds, but it's like the consultant who charges $10,000 for five minutes of work because he knows where to kick the machine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (eRlcH)
I didn't have much to add, other than to note than a few months later, I brought my newborn daughter into the office for a meet-and-greet (we were like that). We had no idea then that she would go on to earn a campaign ribbon for a war that started before she was born.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
One of my coworkers watching the events that day got in touch with his recruiter and jawboned him to let him reenlist. He was in his early 30's at that time. Spent a couple years in the sandbox. There's a book called Black Hearts that chronicles his experiences and those of his fellow warriors. Not an easy read. God bless your daughter and all who served...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (nbLIj)
The man is 80 years old. Has a super model wife, a young son and more money than Fort Knox and all he does is work for us for free.
Yea, it will be a real challenge to see if I can sacrifice 5 minutes to vote.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:43 AM (viF8m)
154 One thing I can't figure out is supposed population on the country before say 1700s. No way the native Indian population was as much as I read sometimes. Not like they had cities with thousands.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
On the other hand, we have a false and stereotypical view of what Native American societies were like in the pre-columbian era. They were not the Sioux or the Cherokee riding across the plains - no horses. From the eastern half of Texas over to Georgia and stretching up the Mississippi drainage area up to Illinois, there was an extensive mound building culture of thousands of small farming villages with a mostly dispersed population - whatever the land could carry.
LIDAR around here turns up new mounds every day now, and each mound was most likely a village center. Some contain burials, but most appear to have been platforms for some central structure. And while there were not many large cities, there were a few that are now forgotten. Etowah in NW Georgia was a large, well defended city with palisade walls and a population between 15,000 and 25,000 in the 1400’s.
All of this was wiped out by smallpox epidemics.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:44 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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That Buford's a sly one. Already knows his ABCs.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (XvL8K)
And as I predicted months ago, the left could not just pretend to be patriotic to win the election. They had to go full jihadi loving retard, and they're going to lose the normies completely.
We've all seen the polls that only a quarter of Dems are proud to be American. Guess who those people are going to vote for (assuming they vote at all)?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:45 AM (P8wUf)
Or Monkeyboy.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 09:47 AM (LHPAg)
I feel like I've personally funded Stephanie Hentschel's IRA
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:48 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 09:49 AM (noln+)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (nbLIj)
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I was in a recruiting office a week after the attack. It took time to untangle my paperwork from my Short Unsuccessful Army Career, and then I wanted to wait until the baby was born and things settled down at home, so I reenlisted in August, 2002, this time in the Air National Guard. I intended to do just one enlistment which I figured would be "the duration." Yeah.
As time wore on and the years piled up, getting a retirement seemed like a good idea, and those of us of a certain age jokingly said our contract was for "the duration." It kind of was, because after the Afghanistan debacle, a bunch of us got out. Those couldn't right away set a timer, and of course Covid also pushed people out. I retired on Dec. 31, 2022.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:51 AM (lJ0H4)
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I learned recently that $500/day plus travel, lodging and per diem X3 will get you three experienced archeological human remains detection dogs (AHRDD's) with handlers for a 3-day expedition. I'll even throw in a blue ribbon if they find something.
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Or Ass at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (pSl4u)
Demonstrations against SAVAK and the Shah were staged at MSU in the late 70's when I was attending.
Mostly standard commies but I'd imagine most of the exchange students participating either applied for U.S. citizenship or went back to die at the hands of the muslims.
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 09:54 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Or Ass at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)
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This is my favorite Skunk Bear cope.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Yknow who else ate like that?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (r4LUb)
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That's a Feast! Let's Polka!
Posted by: Yosh and Stan Shmenge at September 12, 2026 09:55 AM (XE5AP)
And as I predicted months ago, the left could not just pretend to be patriotic to win the election. They had to go full jihadi loving retard, and they're going to lose the normies completely.
We've all seen the polls that only a quarter of Dems are proud to be American. Guess who those people are going to vote for (assuming they vote at all)?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
I believe that maybe some of those on the Left are starting to understand that if we import millions or muslims, particularly given their religion and culture,
a lot of our customs and cozy assumptions and Judeo-Christian culture simply have to go out the window.
We are in a new Cold War brought on by poor, feckless leadership at the top[ especially. by GWB and worse going forward until Trump.
Is a culture that celebrates a mother who cruelly murders her three children worth saving from islam? Probably not.
The Left must change
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
Time Out!
The referees have put 1 second back on the clock to allow Michigan to whine longer.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)
In newark? Damn. I was born there, parents left the area when I was just under a year old when they saw the writing on the wall. They always tell me how nice it was when they were growing up in the late 1940s and 50s . Yeah, I still don't believe them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)
Sounds like Wyoming is having to deal with Coloradans.
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (N2HNb)
What no one knew was that many of these pathogens for both diseases we knew and those we had forgotten were incorporated into our biological structure so that we were carriers of many things without knowing it. When Old World man entered the New World, 10,000 years of plagues and diseases were dumped on the New World at once; no wonder 90% of the existing population died by 1600.
What our ancestors saw as “normal” Indian culture was the crazed remains of one of the most apocalyptic die-offs in history. It wasn’t anyone’s fault; it was always going to happen no matter what.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:59 AM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)
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I lived in Forest Hill which was a beautiful area, even though I was on the ghetto side. Beautiful park. A cute little light rail I would ride to work if I didn't feel like driving.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
When Daryl Rogers was MSU's football coach he came to town for a fundraising speech and gave birth to the phrase "Arrogant Assholes from Ann Arbor"
The room went wild, except for dad, who left telling me he'd meet me in the bar.
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 10:02 AM (Y8DZL)
Sounds like Wyoming is having to deal with Coloradans.
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (OlzlW)
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Poor Cheyenne. Too close to the border.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 10:03 AM (EqY/n)
Die.
Posted by: Heirloominati at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (erhDr)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026
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I drove up to visit Cheyenne on Memorial Day weekend in '98.
It was closed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)
Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7).
They need another Franco, but it might already be too late.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (P8wUf)
Thanks, Emmie!!! That was great!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (I9XXk)
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)
Hope the criminals turn over a new leaf.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (pSl4u)
semi related to dogooders quote by CSL
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)
Drug Cartels Caught Spying on U.S. Soil — and Then Military Lasers Obliterated Them
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026
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Just a garden-variety drug bust
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)
Hope the criminals turn over a new leaf.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (eRlcH)
Cartel lost some serious cabbage
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)
Tweaking Tooters!
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (wVcYX)
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026
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Clearly these drug runners were still in their salad days
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)
It was closed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
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Reminds me of a classic Candid Camera episode
https://tinyurl.com/6knb7nvp
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 10:15 AM (4V3F9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
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Considering North Africans preyed upon Europeans for centuries, I'd think THEY are the ones who owe reparations...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (FZ29D)
The new curriculum comes after 22 faculty members, who made up a “Core Curriculum Task Force,” found that the school offered “more than 1,000 disconnected courses of inconsistent quality.”
Bullshit Courses IOW
600 cut by Spring 27
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
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Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the song "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (XE5AP)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:18 AM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:18 AM (P8wUf)
garbage pail kids
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)
Newark was a real hot spot with large department stores, the Paramount theater where many stars appeared, including Frank Sinatra. It began going downhill in the late 50's when many, including my wife's parents, moved further south to locations where large housing developments were being constructed. The construction of the Garden State Parkway facilitied that movement. They could live 15 or 20 miles south of Newark, Irvington, Kearney, etc, but still keep their jobs in those cities, including Western Electric where most Bell Telephone equipment was manufactured. Sadly, cities, as does nature, abhor a vacuum. Guess who filled that vacuum? Many blacks from the South moved north and settled in the cities. It was always amusing to hear them speak with a southern accent even though they're from Newark and are three generations removed.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the song "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 12, 2026
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"Tie Me Cabbage Leaf Down, Sport"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:20 AM (wzUl9)
When I was a kid we moved from the NYC area to NJ. One day my mom took me and a friend to see a movie we were begging her to take us too. In Newark. It was a stupid horror movie called something like The Beast of Blood. Scared the shit out of us.
Leaving the theater after sunset in Newark in the early 70s was way scarier.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:20 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Emmie
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It's funny because it's true.
My dad grew up a few miles south of the CO-WY border. Grandparents stayed there until they died, and a cousin inherited the old farm. My uncle settled up north of Cheyenne, was an old country veterinarian. Good people. My brothers, save one, all live in CO. Fortunately not the Boulderite or Front Range sort.
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
Not to mention small arms/ammo.
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 10:24 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)
I grew up around the corner from you. Went to Essex Catholic HS on the corner of Broadway and 2nd Ave. My soccer team's practice field was in Branch Brook Park..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (nbLIj)
Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (3ImbR)
>>@JustTheNews
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Sabrina Messa, the Canadian visa holder who mocked Charlie Kirk following his assassination, says she has lost her job and will leave the United States on Monday after receiving a removal order.
>>“I am not fighting the removal order. Neither is my sister. We will be leaving this Monday,” Messa wrote.
>>Messa also said she had “lost” her job with cause.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (viF8m)
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Nothing but common scoffslaws!
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (qgHp7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
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My cabbages!
Posted by: That Cabbage Guy from The Last Airbender at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)
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They're just now figuring this out? It was unreasonable in the 90's. And probably before that... but I got to the area in 2000 and it was stupidly expensive then.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:28 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
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"Multi-millionaire demands politicians cater to his every whim."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
May be time to make your next two years the most miserable of YOUR life. Worthless POS. You'd walk awful funny with that guitar sticking out of your ass. But, then again, you might enjoy it.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:29 AM (hmYU4)
Prayers for the list, as always.
May I add Mary, the 14 year old daughter of an on-line acquaitance, who's making a good recovery from a TBI. She was hit by a car, but has already been upgraded to a rehab facility.
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:31 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 12, 2026 10:32 AM (s8FIw)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:32 AM (EGW4m)
🚨 I've spent weeks inside the Epstein files — not looking for names, but for infrastructure.
What I found: Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He was a switchboard — routing government secrets, Wall Street intelligence, and political power through one network.
The same network that built the censorship machine that targeted your speech during COVID.
Five parts. All sourced to DOJ documents. Here's the whole investigation 🧵👇
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Looks very interesting and comports with what JackStraw has suggested for years. Here's the link if you're interested:
https://tinyurl.com/599n82tx
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (3ImbR)
Reparations, is there anything they can't do?
Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
Europe is so strange.
Any weird pathology that bubbles up here in America, they instantly adopt.
Especially, any racial oriented pathology, which they really didn't have until and unless they imported it.
I suppose to prove how morally and evolutionarily superior they are to the average American meathead.
Welp, enjoy Europe! You literally voted for every single bit of this.
EUROPE
Stupid? You're Soaking In It!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
I'm tweakin' over here. Was counting on some of that "cabbage".
Posted by: Jumpy Jack at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)
Grew up in Austin during the '60s. The local rock station would play the fight song every hour on the hour before game weekends. Because they could, I guess, being locally owned.
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (f+FmA)
Yeah, that's how I feel about the old asshole.
Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 10:37 AM (noln+)
Posted by: Robert DeNiro at September 12, 2026 10:37 AM (wpRMV)
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:38 AM (f+FmA)
Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
I used to like Springsteen. His first...what? five or so albums is what he's been living on for decades.
And every time...every single time, I think that maybe I'll pick up something of his.
He comes out publicly with some stupid, lame, hateful garbage.
You know what?
Fuck that guy.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)
The male Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:39 AM (2Cry5)
NC candidate who is “running to restore human decency” says Trump voters belong in Nazi ovens
https://tinyurl.com/4ec3b9ma
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7)
And you thought I was just a dumb blonde with a hot body.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:42 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (hmYU4)
Newark died a death from a thousand cuts. Ballentine shut down its brewery in the early 70's, killing the Ironbound, whose residences famously turned away the '67 rioters from their streets. I lived in the North Ward, where Anthony Imperiale organized the citizen's committee against crime. The tide was relentless, however. We finally got out in '83, and it was a pretty close thing..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (nbLIj)
What a nasty old lesbian Springsteen has become.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:44 AM (XeO61)
Luckily, there are about a million versions of this pattern.
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:46 AM (f+FmA)
NC House Republicans
@NCHouseGOP
We finally got a comment from Shelly Headen.
“I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (f+FmA)
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Local radio will play MSU's fight song at various intervals on game day, though they no longer provide score updates since it's all over the place.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)
But Springsteen seems like a miserable and unhappy person. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 12, 2026 10:48 AM (M+uMR)
BRCC Gunship coffee this morning.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 10:49 AM (2WIwB)
266 "I'm a non-practicing white."
https://tinyurl.com/bddpa3uh
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM
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It she practiced she'd get better at it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:49 AM (XeO61)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:44 AM (XeO61)
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It is really funny how someone's beliefs seem to shape out they age. You look at traditional, not even conservative but just normal people and they always age better than liberals.
The men in particular take on a feminine appearance, so matter how rugged they looked when they were young. I'm guessing its the lack of testosterone.
Normal men, masculine men, gain more rugged features, sharper not rounded, lean rather than bloated. It's fascinating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Bitter old atheist searching for meaning.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)
Where did they import it from?
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 10:53 AM (OlzlW)
I was at MSU during the Darryl Rogers era, short as it was.
Many MBL fans of yesteryear would be surprised, I think, to learn that Kirk Gibson played only one year of baseball at MSU. He was a senior and already a starter on the football team. He was encouraged by Rogers to forgo spring football practice and go play baseball, instead.
Had Rogers not convinced Gibson to do that, the two most memorable moments in Gibson's MBL career -- his homer off Goose Gossage and his pinch-hit homer of Dennis Eckersley -- would've never occurred.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)
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It is really funny how someone's beliefs seem to shape out they age. You look at traditional, not even conservative but just normal people and they always age better than liberals.
The men in particular take on a feminine appearance, so matter how rugged they looked when they were young. I'm guessing its the lack of testosterone.
Normal men, masculine men, gain more rugged features, sharper not rounded, lean rather than bloated. It's fascinating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM
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Re: Springsteen. The earrings don't help. At all.
He must be surrounded by yes-men (yes-persyns?) who see no profit in pointing out the obvious to him.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:55 AM (XeO61)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)
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Everyone has a religion, even those who claim to be atheists. Those who say they are irreligious or "reason-based" just worship themselves, putting their will in the place of God.
That's how a mother can murder her children and be fine with it, and others can excuse it. They have no fixed morality, and most worship social media, finding both absolution and guidance from whatever the algorithm tells them.
Thus the necessary first step in restoring order and prosperity to this nation is restoring faith. Everything else flows downstream from that. It isn't just "culture," it is the basis of the culture.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (nbLIj)
I remember the riots very vividly. Took my physical for the draft with the NG still patrolling the streets. Three months later, I was drafted and back in Newark with my fellow draftees retaking the physical before the bus trip to Fort Dix. Fast forward to 1987 and I was working at a television station (where Uncle FLoyd did his show), about two blocks away from University Hospital. We closed that studio down in 2006.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:56 AM (hmYU4)
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Bill Gates figures prominently. That guy needs to hang.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:57 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:58 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)
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Rogers made the suggestion because he felt cross-training would help with his coordination since he was a wideout.
But yeah, he had a level of power beyond most, and of course the Roar of '84 is still remembered around here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
You mean the Bill Gates who had a top level security clearance and is a good pal of that hero Fauci? That Bill Gates?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (viF8m)
Seriously, you cannot satire the progressives - this appears to be real:
https://tinyurl.com/3xjkp626
And made by an American artist, no less.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Listen to the words, is all anti-Amercan apology
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:03 AM (Ia/+0)
You mean the Bill Gates who had a top level security clearance and is a good pal of that hero Fauci? That Bill Gates?
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Yeah.... Gates has some weird fixation with viruses too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)
Nonsense. He encouraged Gibson to play baseball because he knew he'd be a star and would give him leverage in contract negotiations with whatever team drafted him.
Gibson said so, himself.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 11:07 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)
NaturalFake, where did they import it from?
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 11:08 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:57 AM (2Cry5)
~~~~~
I wish Melinda would talk. In fact, I think it's almost her duty. I'm sure she's got lots of inside info but is probably afraid to get unalived.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)
Where did they import it from?
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 10:53 AM (OlzlW)
Maybe I wasn't clear, they are importing in pathologies that spring from the divisions in American society and apply those pathologies to their own societies.
Reparations? Really? That's an American social pathology that's spread like wildfire in Europe.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (iJfKG)
Crazy conspiracy theorist.
Next thing you'll tell me is that the China virus didn't come from a pangolin getting jiggy with a bat in a wet market.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:10 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)
She gave the game away. Also, she's retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 11:12 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)
She gave the game away. Also, she's retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)
All Democrats everywhere at all times agree with her but-
She broke the omerta and so must pay!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:14 AM (iJfKG)
She broke the omerta and so must pay!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:14 AM (iJfKG)
From the bits on Insty:
She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.”
She said: “I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,” she said. “If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it. MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right.”
“Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”
Me: she is like a caricature. A TikTok commie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:16 AM (Y/06r)
Do they even listen to themselves?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:18 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (aPO7X)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (N2HNb)
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If they'd done this on 9/11, we wouldn't have had even the short period of unity afterwards that we got from hitting NYC and DC.
She's smarter than the jihadis in that respect.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 11:21 AM (XvL8K)
Celtics lost, I was allowed to love.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2026 11:22 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (3ImbR)
She won't because she's a true believer. The kiddie diddling is too ick, but she's totally down with the rest of the Globo-Homo/Commie set...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 11:22 AM (nbLIj)
After 25 years I couldn't think of anything worth saying that has not already been said. It's just depressing to think about.
So I found other things to do and yesterday evening went and watched our local high school team play football. Had a good time, enjoyed the game (we won) and saw a ton of people I know. Seems like we all had the same idea, just get out and have some fun. Life is too short to brood about things you can't do anything about.
Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 11:27 AM (noln+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:27 AM (P8wUf)
I would have had the Yankees takes swings at his head with baseball bats. In their regular batting order, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
What's Oi! at the beginning and Ho! at the end?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)
https://tinyurl.com/3xjkp626
And made by an American artist, no less.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)
Straight from the pages of a Robert Crumb comic. No shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)
Daily Tech News 12 September 2026
Top Story
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-Fried says the company is open to slowing AI development. (Reuters)
Or going bankrupt. One or the other. Maybe both.
- Meanwhile it is reported that internal OpenAI agents were used to launch an attack against the RubyGems package ecosystem. (Rubyhack)
The packages - software modules - themselves were malicious, and the efforts to upload them to RubyGems were malicious. The attribution to OpenAI itself as opposed to OpenAI's users is unproven, but the pattern looks similar to the attack on a German wiki site that has been admitted by the company.
Get your shit together, Sam.
Tech News
- You can get a modified RTX 5090 with 96GB of RAM for the price of a regular 5090. (Tom's Harware)
Basically giving you the equivalent of an RTX Pro 6000 for a quarter the price Nvidia charges.
- Mad King Matt Mullenweg of WordPress company Automattic may no longer be CEO but he is madder than ever. (Tech Crunch)
What a dipshit.
- The UK government has rejected "kill switches" for AI on the grounds that it's a stupid idea that won't work. (BBC)
Has the UK government ever met the UK government?
- A design space exploration of async-await. (Brown)
It points out that the design space in question is a nine-dimension hypercube in which JavaScript of all languages is the one that got it right. Yes, there are tradeoffs that led other languages to decide differently, but those decisions are dumb.
- Which is of interest to me because I've spent the morning on async-await in my own programming language. Well, that and adding wildcard indexes to my database and doing an end run around multidatabase ORM design.
It's great when you control the compiler and the runtime and the database libraries and the primary database; you can just make decisions that simplify things everywhere and there's nobody to complain. Well, Claude said my proposal would need rewrites of ten existing client libraries, but that's a bit like the creator of the C makefile format protesting that he couldn't change the format because he already had twelve users.
Also, just found that something I'm planning to do tomorrow was a PhD thesis topic as recently as 2018.
- You can turn off that annoying thing Claude does when it hallucinates a harmful phrase and downgrades the model in use. Today it dropped from Opus 5 to the older Opus 4.8 in the middle of implementing a wire protocol to MessagePack translation layer, meaning that I need to recheck everything it's done for the past hour. Just go into /config and it's the third option.
Which to be fair I need to do anyway; time for the weekly adversarial testing round.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: My spoon is too big.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:36 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 12, 2026 04:40 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (EJ7WG)
haha
-->Mad King Matt Mullenweg of WordPress company Automattic may
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 05:05 AM (G1ktt)
mau-mau
verb
terrorize or threaten (someone): the group mau-maus the white coats of the medical establishment.
Mau Mau
a Kenyan secret society that in the 1950s fought to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya. The British eventually defeated the organization, though Kenya achieved independence shortly after, in 1963.
origin
1970s: from Mau Mau. Popularized by the 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by American writer Tom Wolfe (Wolfe, Tom).
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 12, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:12 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Miklos sold the last mule too at September 12, 2026 05:23 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:24 AM (odBC9)
Which does not exist until it does.
Posted by: Miklos sold the last mule too at September 12, 2026 05:23 AM (4RYRd)
Schrödinger's PixyCoin
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)
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I dont understand this at all, but it sure sounds bad.
Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (lCppi)
An "Our Daily Bread" devotional:
https://tinyurl.com/4n37vv5j
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (EJ7WG)
Melbin
Haha!
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)
1970s: from Mau Mau. Popularized by the 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by American writer Tom Wolfe (Wolfe, Tom).
Posted by: m
RONG
Posted by: Miklos notes that Bird is the Word at September 12, 2026 05:32 AM (4RYRd)
https://tinyurl.com/bd5ed2hs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:33 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Harold Melbin and the Blue Notes, feat. Teddy Pendergrass at September 12, 2026 05:36 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Harold Melbin and the Blue Notes, feat. Teddy Pendergrass at September 12, 2026 05:37 AM (4RYRd)
Are we eating ice cream?
It’s a little early for ice cream for breakfast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:45 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 12, 2026 05:46 AM (2Ez/1)
But if I was desperate enough to run a large parameter AI model on the cheap, I might give it a shot just to see how it runs.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:49 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 05:50 AM (NcvvS)
Seems like, since the beginning, that the only thing Sam is really interested in getting together is his salary, bonuses, and stock, into his bank account.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:52 AM (6ydKt)
I worked out three times, solidly, last week, and was considering a long walk this morning. "Considering" being the operative word. My consideration system requires coffee to engage, so we will see after cup two.
What're you up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:55 AM (JrHfD)
Posted by: early AM ice cream eating Morons who also miss JT at September 12, 2026 05:58 AM (4RYRd)
a Kenyan secret society that in the 1950s fought to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya. The British eventually defeated the organization, though Kenya achieved independence shortly after, in 1963.
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If Robert Ruark's novel Something of Value is an accurate depiction, it was "fought" by terrorism, betrayal, and slaughter on the Kenyans' part and By-Any-Means-Necessary-to-Survive on the whites' part. I need to get a copy of that book and his follow-up, Uhuru, before they get disappeared. Both utterly destroy the notion of the noble African suffering under the boot of the European, and needing only to be free to achieve great things.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Entirely law abiding Citizen Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:00 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 06:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)
It’s supposed to rain some more today, and tomorrow. So I am going to take a shower and then ponder the meaning of existence and eat something and then I may watch a college football game if I feel that urge, or I may do nothing all day and feel absolutely zero guilt about it because it’s Saturday and I have no commitments, schedule or bored people around me who cannot sit still and demand that something be done.
Daniel Boone is on and I am trying to figure out how Mingo speaks better english than I do.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:02 AM (6ydKt)
By the way, she is no Clancy supporter and believes the woman was either lying or nuts, and should be locked away in either case. For that I am thankful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)
kenya
Oh that
Barack Hussein Obama Sr.'s father was claimed to have a been a brave anti-colonialist Mau Mau fighter, which inculcated into his grandson a fierce dedication to Fweedom.
Actually, the grandad was a British Army cook, and was only pissed when he lost that job.
Posted by: Entirely factual Citizen Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026
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Well, in fairness, he did study at Oxford.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (E0Et6)
Arrrr, Mattey.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Uri Geller finds something behind your ear at September 12, 2026 06:05 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)
He keeps mentioning that but I’ve yet to see proof of this outlandish claim.
Prototype Jason Arday, I’m thinking.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:06 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Annoying Grammar Extreme Right Wing Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:06 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Never read the book but did see the movie with Rock Hudson And Sidney Poitier many years ago. Don't remember much about it other than Poitier's character falling into a spreed pit at the end.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 06:07 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Carlos Marcello, the Tomato King at September 12, 2026 06:09 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:09 AM (amcLV)
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Blue Note, to win, in the fourth race at Narragansett.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Not true
I have been in the Senate Dining room
Posted by: Miklos saw them supping with nice taxpayer funded cutlery at September 12, 2026 06:12 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:11 AM
His father was a mudder.
Posted by: Kramer at September 12, 2026 06:14 AM (2Ez/1)
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I dont understand this at all, but it sure sounds bad.
Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (lCppi)
The text you quoted lured me into reading the article! (Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development, Bloomberg News reports)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:15 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026
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Props to the filmmakers for not making Poitier's character into a good guy at the end. His character had grown up with Hudson's on the latter's plantation; they had been playmates and friends. Then the Kikuyu (native) boy begins to realize, and resent, the difference between white and black in the society. He commits a crime -- possibly not his fault; I don't recall -- and flees, only to be caught up in the Mau-Mau terrorism. Reluctant at first, he takes to it (because refusing to take to it is to be murdered) and discovers he's good at terrorism and slaughter. His character is understandable, in a way, but not simply misunderstood. He could have been, in modern terms, "a good boy," but chose not to be.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)
It's on your forehead.
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026
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First there is a spoon, then there is no spoon, then there is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
At one time there was a Mandingo Lounge almost under the bridge in Algiers.
Posted by: Miklos declined to patronize at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (4RYRd)
"OpenAI is open"
Way to write a headline, Reuters!
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)
Get rid of something.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
>>>THIS GUY GETS IT<<<<
Posted by: Congressional Budget Committee at September 12, 2026 06:21 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Miklos declined to patronize at September 12, 2026
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My father would take us kids out on Saturdays, and often would cross the river -- first by car ferry, then the bridge once the tolls came off. But we confined ourselves to Gretna shopping centers, not prowling hidden corners of the West Bank.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)
Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this week of racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly.
Jacob Coxon is the guy Pixy was mocking the other day.
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
Get rid of something.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026
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I want to get rid of a big ceramic cookie jar in the form of a fox, but Linda gave it to me some years ago and I can just imagine the tearful expressions if I did that. The same with some short-sleeved shirts she's given me that I never wear.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I was told if you got a traffic ticket on Charles de Gaulle Boulevard, the French would give you citizenship and a pension.
Posted by: Miklos was more of an Uptown kid at September 12, 2026 06:26 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:27 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I was told if you got a traffic ticket on Charles de Gaulle Boulevard, the French would give you citizenship and a pension.
Posted by: Miklos was more of an Uptown kid at September 12, 2026
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When we came off the bridge (the single bridge, then) onto the expressway, there was an exit sign for "Gen. Degaulle." Now I live off that avenue and traverse part of it every single damn day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:28 AM (Ia/+0)
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.
The New Yorker March 1, 2021
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:28 AM (odBC9)
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.
The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
I did!
Should I repeat the information on Emergency Care?
Posted by: Anthropigrok AI at September 12, 2026 06:30 AM (4RYRd)
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.
The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett
https://tinyurl.com/4z74nbdu
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:31 AM (2Ez/1)
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.
The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett
https://tinyurl.com/4z74nbdu
https://archive.is/bHTi2
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)
My all-time favorite legal case is about when Tulane did a Hostile Takeover of Newcomb College, and justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court had to pretend that they were fully conversant with the precise implications of Old French Law in Old French Legal French.
Posted by: Le Mikleuse does deny himself a modest guffaw at September 12, 2026 06:38 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:43 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:44 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Le Mikleuse does deny himself a modest guffaw at September 12, 2026
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As I recall it, Miklos, John McKeithen (an old Huey Long crony) promised to take the tolls off if he were elected governor in '64, and was, and did. The new bridge that turned the span into the superhighway it should always have been didn't get started until the late '70s and didn't open until 1988. No tolls on that for the first three months, then a reasonable dollar after that. Though if you got a toll tag on your car and charged it to your credit card, it was like .70.
A few years ago came the big squeal that "The bridge is paid for! Why do we need tolls?" The voters chose to say, "Remove the tolls." So the bridge maintenance is not being paid for, and the ferries, which used to be free for pedestrians, now cost $2 per person *each way*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
The fact that there are no round trip tickets should tell you something.
Posted by: East Bank (but it's never called that) Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:55 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 12, 2026 06:57 AM (l26NL)
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: EMiklos and Gravity have come to an arrangement at September 12, 2026 07:00 AM (4RYRd)
https://tinyurl.com/ycx72seu"
I like the one with the king saying "Yes, you are all wrong". That's me!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: m "
Bidi-bidi-bidi
Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)
But, but what if googling this could harm my computer.
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 07:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)
Well he gets scrambled with a guinea pig, and the guinea pig rematerializes with human hands and feet! It’s supposed to be terrifying but you can’t stop laughing when you see it, looks like it’s something Monty Python could have come up with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:07 AM (P8wUf)
What you really want Claude to do is understand how NET Orleans performs their binary serialization; import and use that implementation over MessagePack.
The code maintainer is a freak of nature and leverages advanced CPU instruction into the code—that is how much of an optimization geek the guy is. It just doesn't get any faster or have less memory pressure for GC languages.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)
Well he gets scrambled with a guinea pig, and the guinea pig rematerializes with human hands and feet! It’s supposed to be terrifying but you can’t stop laughing when you see it, looks like it’s something Monty Python could have come up with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026
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Yes, that's the inconsistency in the premise, that previous uses of the machine would affect the current one. Now, in the forty years since TNG, we could say, "Well, the pattern buffer got corrupted" or something. But there's nothing in Langelaan's story, or the movies as far as I know, about any kind of particle storage. So it all comes out of, not even left field, but the stadium's parking lot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)
Maybe I am actually off AI's / 17 Intel agencies / police data radar. I guess not having a TV that reports on you helps.
Now off to book a flight to the Texas MoMeet. And other stuff, which will reduce my social isolation.
Everyone have a great day!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 12, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:16 AM (RIvkX)
So basically we are now into the Regulatory Capture phase of the AI investor scam.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:17 AM (pUU4E)
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Lessee… sharpens pencil … scribbling … carry the 3 ..
Yep, at this rate you’ll be all cleaned up in about 20 years, provided you don’t acquire any more stuff
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:19 AM (6iQiX)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at September 12, 2026 07:19 AM (JreXo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026
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I read that the 1980s version was gory for the sake of gory and of grossing the audience out. I passed.
Goldblum will forever be Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park to me. That character, like Richard Dreyfuss's in Jaws, was some comic relief -- giving us funny if not witty commentary on the ongoing action -- and a stand-in for the audience.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)
>> But if I was desperate enough to run a large parameter AI model on the cheap, I might give it a shot just to see how it runs.
The best bang for the buck in the AI space are Macs.
You can get a 30 core m5 ultra, 96gb Mac Studio for 5k. The knockoff card is over 4k just for the card, once you build a system around it, you’re looking at around 7k.
With memory and storage prices through the roof, Macs are downright cheap now by comparison.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 07:22 AM (XV/Pl)
That movie gets no love from anybody, but i always liked it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:25 AM (P8wUf)
That movie gets no love from anybody, but i always liked it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026
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With young Geena Davis!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)
The Enemedia is blaming "Trump's War".
If it is impossible to assign blame for piracy on the actual pirates but must find the Nearest Republican White Man (similar to what they did with the Flint Michigan Water poisoning) to blame...
How do we know that it isn't Vance's War on the hundreds of millions of dollars being exported to Somalia from Learing Center fraud?
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:26 AM (BvPIe)
Posted by: Common Tater"
You forgot to carry the one. 120 years.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)
What kind of workload are you thinking of? In software, particularly large solution for significant architectural tasks, you need very large parameter models, and they do you little good if they are spitting out a few tokens per second.
The cheapest route I've found that doesn't involve Chinese knock-offs (which, sad to say, are going to eventually win the AI wars) is running GPT "Luna" for basic refactors, mappings and validations, "Terra" when wanting better answers to cross module refactors, and "Sol" when desiring solution wide consistency.
Local AI implementation solutions are far too expensive compared to what can be rented. There must be compelling reasons that ignore cost to go on-prem.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:34 AM (nAS9C)
By the way, of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in what we'd call the southeast now, KY and TN, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (skR0U)
The other 1% is fucking morons
How did the Top 3 Anti AI groups (CCP) find the X post of the Anthropic resignee that had about 3 followers in LESS than 15 minutes.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (/+uur)
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The Postpartum War
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Jerky gun
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(Jump to bottom of comments)What Western optimists failed to imagine was that their own societies would be reshaped in the image of the newcomers they sought to evangelize.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (OIyEB)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:02 PM (R0XxO)
I told my kids that day, this is your Pearl Harbor.
The war isn't over.
I think I'll just leave it at that.
Posted by: mindful webworker - remembers at September 11, 2026 10:02 PM (B4Z5E)
Posted by: Carolus
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Bitch you just gave your ass away
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 10:04 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:04 PM (wpRMV)
It was COLD!
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:05 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:05 PM (vTZFs)
One of the issues George Bush ran on in 2000 was subjecting Arabs to less scrutiny in airports.
In an October 11, 2000 debate with Al Gore, George W. Bush demanded less airport security scrutiny of Arab passengers.
Bush got what he wanted.
https://tinyurl.com/3dtjkk76
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (wpRMV)
A recycling bin
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)
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Are they made from velour? Asking for a friend...
Posted by: Captain Zapp Brannigan at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (FZ29D)
Aka, one of the few days in the year when the History Channel actually does history. Maybe the only day.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
And it fits in a mini-van?!? Sign me up!
/goes to find The Jackal and re-watch it/
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (kU0PQ)
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (VQ0bX)
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (wpRMV)
A recycling bin
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
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Looks like there is a plastic water bottle under the mailbox.
Everyone knows that should be in the recycling bin!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (FZ29D)
Happened today.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (OIyEB)
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
I'm not counting the kid with the briefcase (I had one) going the "wrong" way (he probably stood by where he thought the bus was going to stop, now has to retrace steps).
The newspaper deliverer might have swerved around the bus and now has to deliver to the parents from the other side.
That kid on the bike with no books - is the one I have questions about.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominos will fall like a house of cards -- checkmate." -- Zapp Brannigan.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: On Soft Diet, Thickened Liquids Here at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (vTZFs)
The IQ map? Yeah, NM having a mean IQ of 93 matches my experience of living there.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (iIyc0)
Except that one dweeb walking the wrong direction carrying a briefcase . . . . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)
I'm going to have go with the satellite mini dish. I think they might have still been using those gigantic ones with motor that turns them.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (dIske)
But there weren't people flying planes into buildings either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (sOtuf)
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The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: On Soft Diet, Thickened Liquids Here at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (Fn+3X)
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You brute you brute you brute you brute!!!
Posted by: Velcro Sneakers at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (wpRMV)
Posted by: Cicero
It's an AI version of a Futurama character, Zapp Brannigan.
Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (HeG1i)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (S41Gd)
I don't see a "modern van" but there's a satellite dish on the left-most roof.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (NxbVa)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 10:15 PM (NnhvP)
When Darleen and me first met there was not only beer, but bananas and golf balls involved
Posted by: Miklos has one good memory at September 11, 2026 10:16 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (rbvCR)
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The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)
My grandparents in the wilds of the southeast had one of those gigantic circular dishes on its own post in the backyard. Must have been at least 3' wide.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (+fdRY)
Aka, one of the few days in the year when the History Channel actually does history. Maybe the only day.
Posted by: Dr. T
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Don't trust and verify.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (ca8Qt)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (PE5pE)
Posted by: Wenda at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (uSgX5)
Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (yU1fv)
And it fits in a mini-van?!? Sign me up!
/goes to find The Jackal and re-watch it/
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (kU0PQ)
How do electric-powered drones crash in a ball of orange flame, as though they gas tanks in them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Hotties need sexy space uniforms. And space suits. Sci-fi gives us a lot of inspiration as it were, but making a proper form fitting space suit Sydney Sweeney could wear will be quite the engineering challenge.
Maybe Elon will be up to the task.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Musica Para Tu at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)
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The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)
It's the recycling trash can.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:20 PM (KC5Lt)
The only thing that disturbs it is the modern cars on the street. If I ever win Powerball, I'm going to buy 8 or 10 sick-ass midcentury rides and tell my neighbors they can have them for free so long as they park their modern buzzkill cars out of my eyeshot.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (BI5O2)
Hopefully not the Faro 2.0 beta test AI
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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In the yard about 10' in diameter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (VQ0bX)
Was that ugly pants exchange thing at the airport a frat activity or what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)
But not for men. Men don't look good in stuff like that.
Those released pix of the SF uniforms don't look good either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Miklos can adopt 19 chirren and create "income" but too old for the draft at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (mmrXZ)
Seemed more like a sports team .
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (G1ktt)
Blue recycle bin in the 1975 pic? I don't theeeenk so.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Miklos has one good memory at September 11, 2026 10:16 PM (4RYRd)
Our logo was two apples and a banana. We may sue!
Posted by: British Fruiterers Association, Ad by Reginald Perrin at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Looks good to us.
Posted by: NBC News at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (vSvIl)
Great minds, puddlegum! And adjacent!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (VQ0bX)
Hotties need sexy space uniforms. And space suits. Sci-fi gives us a lot of inspiration as it were, but making a proper form fitting space suit Sydney Sweeney could wear will be quite the engineering challenge.
Maybe Elon will be up to the task.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
T'Pol in Star Trek: EnterPrise.
Mission Accomplished.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (Sco7b)
You mean this?
https://t.ly/DgTtO
Don't worry, that's our Troll in Chief yanking some chains.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:26 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
And the kid with the briefcase walking against the flow?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
****
Lithium batteries, hydrocarbon plastics, high energy heat transfer from projectiles.
Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (yU1fv)
I can confirm that local Mosques have an unwritten requirement to have at least 5 children. The Male in that family will have a menial job. No one else in that family will work, and the Mosque actually has a full time employee who has the job of keeping track of welfare benefits available to each family.
So, they will have one...maybe 2 eligble voters based on tax contribution....but just barely. And, you want to give them a weighted vote? NOPE.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)
It's the recycling trash can.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:20 PM (KC5Lt)
Good catch on the satellite dish, and the Ford Transit van. Actually, all the wheelie bins are era-wrong. And I would say the paper boy on the bike was pretty much gone by the mid '70's, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
What an utterly depraved ideology.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)
Spay or neuter your muslims. It's the only way to stop the spread.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (G9llU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)
Made to order for Zapp Brannigan! Check out the velour!
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb)
I sorta figured that, publius. Jack boots!? I must admit, they looked Boss, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (Lzhdy)
So, they will have one...maybe 2 eligble voters based on tax contribution....but just barely. And, you want to give them a weighted vote? NOPE.
Posted by: Orson
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They have professional research then hold classes at the mosque on 'how to obtain the most benefits from fed gov'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
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Dunno about that.
They were pretty common in my neighborhood (Ft. Collins, CO) in the early-mid 1980s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Narvin
But only pronounced correctly by Polish Hungarians
Posted by: Miklos will need financial compensation and vocal therapy at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (4RYRd)
I thought they were from 'Futurama'.
Zapp Branigan.
But I'm very tired.
Made to order for Zapp Brannigan! Check out the velour!
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (rbvCR)
Good. I wasn't the only one.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
Just acting adult. I'd do that myself.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (Lzhdy)
Yeah, looks like a dish network dish...Satellite dishes even back in the 80's were large things...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (l3cgK)
He's drinking a Bud Light which suggests that the woman is his sister.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (+9wcF)
plastic water bottle under the nearest mailbox
blue recycle bin and maybe all the wheelie bins
satellite dish on the back / left roof of the second house bask
white delivery van coming down the street
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
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Dunno about that.
They were pretty common in my neighborhood (Ft. Collins, CO) in the early-mid 1980s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (FZ29D)
___________________________
You would be wrong, and I have the dog bite scars to prove it.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (yU1fv)
Not buying it. It's hard to make lithium batteries blow up. I have put enough of them in my burn barrel to know that. And plastics burn smoky with a dark orange flame. That bright yellow-orange fireball is a flammable vapor explosion. It's AI slop. The weapon may be real, but they animation is fake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Barker Era at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The newsprint he's holding out is a ruse... He's just trying to collect his "2 dollars!"
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: Carolus
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Bitch you just gave your ass away
Posted by: ...
But the poster declared he's an ultra MAGA Conservative!! I'm assuming this is just one of our usual suspects of trolls with a different nic.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
He may go down in History that way-
"The Donald, Yanker of Chains"
Posted by: Edward "miklos" Longshanks at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (G9llU)/i]
Or the giant blue recycle bin.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (+fdRY)
I didn't use a backpack until High School...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Miklos hopes Rush is laughing at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
I quit hard liquor at least a year ago, and cigarettes years before.
But on the odd day I get to do some time-traveling, I pour a shot of Wild Turkey and fire up a Marlboro.
On goes the Chi-Lites, and BAM! - it's 1972, bay-bee!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Loud Too at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: From about That Time at September 11, 2026 10:37 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Outlier at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)
Just acting adult. I'd do that myself.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
____________________
That's Pierre Delecto.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)
Idea: Forget about drones; mount it on cars driving the Beltway. It'll sell millions of units.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (6iQiX)
Posted by: Loud Too
Plastic garbage cans are more Environmentally Friendly
Posted by: like the plastic grocery bags that kill all the whales and stuff at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (+fdRY)
youtu.be/1DCdKvG9zO8
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (88C+u)
You didn't grow up in my small town.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (77rzZ)
Doing all right. Keeping my temper at all the muzzles talking about how 9-11 scarred them. Looking for things to laugh about.
How about you? Did you see the Tina Louise article in bitsandpieces.us today?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Loud Too at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)[/]i
Leads to the question - does Oscar the Grouch hang out in a plastic wheelie bin these days?
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (wBRco)
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (wBRco)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (dIske)
You didn't grow up in my small town.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)
Oh my gawsh, it's Aunt Betty!!!
Posted by: Jeff Foxworthy at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (+fdRY)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (+9wcF)
My parents had one in their semi-remote farm in rural Vermont in the 90's. If ET was sending messages, that thing could have heard them.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Basz meg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Stavros and Gus at September 11, 2026 10:43 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:45 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Miklos sings along with Roger Miller at September 11, 2026 10:45 PM (4RYRd)
But that dude is in grave danger. It would be *extremely* helpful for the Democrats if everyone understood that voting to convict one of the media's darling killers will only get *you* a death sentence.
They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/59z6uyw5
Still prefer Mary Ann.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)
I remember those well from my time in Iraq.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (PI7fX)
Naw, those rooms are doing what God made them for - holding all the junk that doesn't fit in the attic.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (aJQbY)
I bought a new recliner to replace my current one, which fits snuggly between two fully loaded book cases. I bought the new one sight unseen, online, picked it up in a big box (some assembly required) and wrestled the box onto my covered patio last week.
This evening I finally opened the box and brought the pieces inside. They looked a little bigger than my current chair. The new chair measures 40" across the back. The distance been the bookcases is 35".
I think I will break out the whiskey and ponder this for a while.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:49 PM (G9llU)
The best part was making them parade back through the terminal in them. Good sports.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
All day all night is Mary Ann,
Down by the seaside, sifting sand.
Even little children love Mary Ann,
Down by the seaside, sifting sand.
Posted by: Miklos is not nearly as gay as Ace, or Harry Belafonte at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (4RYRd)
She's Greek!
Posted by: Stavros and Gus
Well I can't go for that!
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)
Attack drones carrying some kind of explosive?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (syz1S)
They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)
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So you're saying the Democrats want to lynch a black man?
Some things never change.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
How about the photo itself. I know you guys will say the phtographer could have climbed a tree. But, to make me feel smart, let's say it would have had to have been taken by a drone, that doesn't yet exist.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
TOXIC MASCULINITY
Guilty, no appeal
Posted by: Alberta Court of Human and Extra Indigenous Rights at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 10:53 PM (X5Jzz)
https://tinyurl.com/59z6uyw5
Still prefer Mary Ann.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)
Tina Louise. Born in 1934, so she's 92 this year. Holding up well, she is.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji)
How about the photo itself. I know you guys will say the phtographer could have climbed a tree. But, to make me feel smart, let's say it would have had to have been taken by a drone, that doesn't yet exist.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
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It is obviously AI slop. You have a kid with a briefcase (?) walking away from the street to...what? Why would a kid be on a bike when the bus has arrived? The guy delivering the package is come *from* the house. It's all wrong. All of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (syz1S)
Then you would think the explosive would go off when the round strikes, and not when the drone crashes. Whoever made the video watched too many Hollywood movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:56 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw
For the Youngs, "semi-remote" was when the the parents told one child to go change the channel, who delegated to a younger sibling.
Posted by: Miklos is happy to clear that up at September 11, 2026 10:56 PM (4RYRd)
That's Pierre Delecto.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)
__________
Kid's happy because he's been added to the Cyclopedia of Young American Leaders. He'll go to Harvard, get an MBA and make partner a consulting firm, where he'll outsource American jobs to China.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Which is why I switched to Ginger in this age old question. Being that men equate beauty with great genes, and Tina has well outlived lovely Dawn Wells. Gotta go with Ginger now.
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (R0XxO)
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@Osint613
CNN is reporting that the Saudi East-West oil pipeline was attacked using “drones originating from Iraq”.(ruh roh)
Meaning that this attack was likely carried out by Iranian-aligned militias in Iraq, opening a new front in the war.
It’s not yet clear how long it would take to repair the damage,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Schoolbus should have a front licence plate, too. Even "one-plate" States often required two for commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)
Which is why I switched to Ginger in this age old question. Being that men equate beauty with great genes, and Tina has well outlived lovely Dawn Wells. Gotta go with Ginger now.
Burn the heretic!
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:00 PM (Riz8t)
She was really excited by it.
Cry cleaning is probably very boring.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)
Kid's happy because he's been added to the Cyclopedia of Young American Leaders. He'll go to Harvard, get an MBA and make partner a consulting firm, where he'll outsource American jobs to China.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Company then goes bankrupt because he paid more attention to spreadsheets than his customers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (R0XxO)
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It was always about aesthetics, and if you want to dig deeper, how many kids did they have? How many could they have had?
Purely about aesthetics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)
Maybe a day per break? Drain the line, cut out the damaged sections, truck in a new piece of pipe, and weld it in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
Company then goes bankrupt because he paid more attention to spreadsheets than his customers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VQ0bX)
__________
By then, he's gotten his fee and is off ruining the next company.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Archimed
The Skipper was right after all. Ginger (Season 2 episode 2)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (R0XxO)
I was the younger sibling, aka the remote control. Also the designated rabbit ear adjuster.
But when they moved to Vermont and bought that satellite dish I heard the sounds of Close Encounters in my head the first time I saw it rotate to the change of a channel. It was a spiritual moment. You wouldn't understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (viF8m)
It's time to ask: Is there any video footage of Zawahiri being Ginsu-ed?
Did he simply explode into a cloud of pink mist, or was he sliced into 3 sections that, in cartoon fashion, then slid apart?
Was he conscious long enough to feel his slices sliding apart?
Enquiring Minds Want To Know
Posted by: Arbalest at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (FlRtG)
Whether 9mm with 14 rounds or .45 ACP with 6 is for others to discuss.
Posted by: Miklos just throws that out there at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)
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There are three kids who are walking to...nowhere.
It's really bad AI slop.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:06 PM (2Ez/1)
I continue to be gob-smacked by the Schiehallion experiment. That was conducted by Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal, and mathematician Charles Hutton.
Charles Mason, of Mason-Dixon fame, was also involved in precisely measuring distances that needed to be measured.
Their result for the density of earth, and hence the mass was off by about 20%.
But most of that error was due to factors they couldn't account for -- the higher order gravitational deviations and a more accurate model of the earth mean ellipsoid.
In 2005, a group took the original astronomical and geodetic measurements, but using more accurate precision models of the above. The result was within 1% of the modern accepted value. That's how good their measurements were. In 1774.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (viF8m)
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Turn the knob to the designated direction...listen to the hum of the antenna rotating...watch the TV screen flicker and then come into sharper focus.
That was affluence. That was luxury. No fussing about with rabbit ears and aluminum foil.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (ZOv7s)
But that dude is in grave danger. It would be *extremely* helpful for the Democrats if everyone understood that voting to convict one of the media's darling killers will only get *you* a death sentence.
They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)
I get called up for jury duty pretty regularly. Most recent was late last year. I'll have some pointed questions for the judge and attorneys about how they safeguard jurist's anonymity. The Clancey fiasco is a huge threat to the jury system. What happens to this holdout jurist and those who dox him will determine how serious we are in keeping this Republic...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (U/Byj)
The vertical deflection of that mountain was about 5.8 arcseconds. They measured that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
If Testicles the Great had that kind of precision, no telling what he could have done.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw
My family were not rich enough for any fancy "satellite dish". They did get this rotateable antenna on top of a pole atop the house, which if carefully adjusted allowed us to get fuzzy TV transmissions from exotic locations like Augusta or Spartanburg. Sometimes even Charlotte, the Big City.
Posted by: undeprived child Miklos at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)
Maybe a day per break? Drain the line, cut out the damaged sections, truck in a new piece of pipe, and weld it in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (HeG1i)
I got called for jury duty twice in my first couple of years living here and not again for the next 15.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: The Ramones, 1977 at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (Fn+3X)
It was always about aesthetics, and if you want to dig deeper, how many kids did they have? How many could they have had?
Purely about aesthetics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Only recently, like within the last 5-6 months I had read that Dawn was pregnant during one of the seasons and delivered a healthy baby (girl?) but gave her up for adoption. I think she would later marry the father but eventually the marriage failed. At least those genes had continued on but for who knows how much longer.
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: Kindltot
FEG is Hungarian so I know that. Ammo is harder to come by though.
Posted by: Miklos once had an odd ATF license, in easier days at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (4RYRd)
Venezuela. There's mucho aceite en Benezuela.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)
Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.
Posted by: a.moron
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Contract with an American company. Get done right.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:15 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:15 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)
They probably have some American pipeline hands already in-country for that kind of work, and getting paid big $$$ for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Miklos
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Thinking east-German manufacture would make Chineseum look good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Miklos thinks somebody needs to talk less and get to work at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)
They probably have some American pipeline hands already in-country for that kind of work, and getting paid big $$$ for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)
Aren't they building another pipeline to the Red Sea? If construction is underway on that maybe they can divert material and manpower from that project to repair the old pipeline.
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:18 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM
Needs Lawn Darts.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (2Ez/1)
"FEG" is short for "Fegyvergyar", or Weapons Factory.
Not real good on the branding
Posted by: Miklos could maybe do something involving Palmetto something at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)
Nope. We had a 55 gallon burn barrel in the backyard.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)
Emergency exits, I think. In case the bus rolls onto it's side where the door is.
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (X5Jzz)
"FEG" is short for "Fegyvergyar", or Weapons Factory.
Not real good on the branding
Posted by: Miklos could maybe do something involving Palmetto something at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (4RYRd)
They make a fine Hi-Power
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)
Limpet mines. Bus rules were very strict back then.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Still do. Rural Canada, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM
Needs Lawn Darts.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Lawn darts?
Jarts
They were called Jarts
Posted by: Miklos thinks we got us a commie up in here at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)
Well spotted. And no, let alone a 1970's
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
So does Prvi Partisan. Good company.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:22 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)
I don't see a Vega, the brown car closest to the camera looks like a Chevy Nova or whatever the Pontiac clone was called.
Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:22 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (R0XxO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)
Looks like a Chevy Nova or Pontiac Ventura. Not a Vega, for sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
East German build quality is better. Wish I hadn't sold mine, though frankly I don't carry a Mak anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM
Chevy Nova.
And a Dodge Aspen slash Plymouth Volare station wagon in the next driveway. Needs more rust.
Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:24 PM (Y/06r)
And a Dodge Aspen slash Plymouth Volare station wagon in the next driveway. Needs more rust.
Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)
I am not good with the 70s vehicles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (R0XxO)
Did Tina Louise have any kids? She certainly would have been well-equipped to feed them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM
There wasn't very much good about them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (wBRco)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)
One kid, a daughter. She's kinda cute.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: MartynWW at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (KfIEy)
Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (oq9dX)
Vinyl roofs. What a fad.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (U/Byj)
Charlotte? Luxury. The big city near the farm was Burlington. The smallest biggest city in any state in the country.
Seriously, Vermont was a paradise back then before it got "discovered" by the Bernie Sanders of the world. To this day there are still more people in Charlotte than all of Vermont.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)
*draw line in sand*
The 70s Corvette (Mako? body style) was gorgeous. Kind of shitty 70s engine by comparison, but a beautiful shape.
I also like 70s Camaros.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (c9aR7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Somewhere around that time turning the engine off before filling gasoline became law. - Your govt looking out for you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (VQ0bX)
That angle they measured was around the 1/3 the width of a human hair held at arm's length.
It took over 4 months of raw measurements and field work, and then a few more months after that just to do the computations by hand.
To do it, first they had to measure the volume of the mountain precisely, the determine the center of mass. Then they established a N-S meridian through that center. Some distance on either side, they mounted two zenith sectors. This is very precise telescope that doesn't move one little bit. It points straight up, according to plumb (and getting that plumbed to precision required.....)
And then a few months and thousands of observations of stars passing directly overhead. And the timing had to be precise. They needed to know the exact GMT time the star hit the bullseye.
Now, there is all sorts of human bias in the "mark!" moment. It's not random, each individual will have some systematic error in calling "mark". So, you have many different people do it, and then average it out.
Then you had twinkling and all that to worry with. And mechanical error in some of the apparatus. So, it took a few months with thousands of observations.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (0aYVJ)
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You're a young man, son, and you have responsibilities.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (2Ez/1)
So did I. My Uncle Tim's. I miss him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:33 PM (Y/06r)
Those thousands of observations were enough to average out all those errors. And then you had to hand calculate those thousands of measurement averages.
Those two scopes on each side of the mountain were basically calculating the minute difference in latitude of the two points. But the vertical deflection introduced and error in that. So Charles Mason's job was to precisely measure the true geodetic distance between those two points, dead on the meridian. That then gave you the true difference in latitude. Compare that to the astronomical value, and you get the vertical deflection.
And that is how they weighed the earth in 1774.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (VQ0bX)
Heh. I was also the built-in babysitter when my younger siblings arrived (as were my brother and 2 sisters). Brother, 14 years younger, twin brother and sister 16 years younger. And no, not a step-family thing. Catholic. We all had the same mom and dad.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Dart Swinger at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (Fn+3X)
Later Fleetwood Mac would record a song entitled Second Hand News.
Not a joke.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Remember, they believe their own copy. They truly believe that we are viscerally racist.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Schwinn Collegiate at September 11, 2026 11:39 PM (Fn+3X)
Remember, they believe their own copy. They truly believe that we are viscerally racist.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (Y/06r)
This is very plausible. And it makes me chuckle.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:41 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (OIyEB)
My parents were at Pearl Harbor. I don't forget that one either.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 11:41 PM (2WIwB)
Put a match to it
If it burns clear blue, you can drink that
If you see any orange or yellow or the worst is green, that will make you blind or dead or both
Posted by: The Practical Knowledge Of Grandaddy Miklos at September 11, 2026 11:42 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:43 PM (CHHv1)
Ah, the '70s.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:45 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:43 PM (CHHv1)
What's going on, man?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (xcxpd)
The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger
It was the same with TV seasons.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (Cqx++)
My current white whale is the Colombian made Indumil Cordova "estandar" 9mm
The Estandar is a modified Browning tilting barrel action that was designed around the Galil trigger group that Indumil was already licensed to manufacture
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)
That's exactly what they believe. They also believe the KKK was us because they believe the parties switched and they believe the party of national socialism, also known as the Nazi Party was us.
We are up against weaponized stupid people. They are so stupid and lacking in historical knowledge and immune to facts it is almost their super power. Thanks government schools.
The only way is straight through.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (9FfUF)
My current white whale is the Colombian made Indumil Cordova "estandar" 9mm
The Estandar is a modified Browning tilting barrel action that was designed around the Galil trigger group that Indumil was already licensed to manufacture
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)
That 92-F safety location though...not a fan. I want to like it....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (xcxpd)
My parents were at Pearl Harbor. I don't forget that one either.
Posted by: Diogenes
I was on board a ship at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1971.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JackStraw
All of the people of the one should move to the other.
As they choose
Many people would be happier
Posted by: Miklos figues at least in Vermont they don;t just go stab people all that much yet at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Dart Swinger at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (Fn+3X)
The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
Posted by: Elwood Blues at September 11, 2026 11:51 PM (wBRco)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:54 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (xcxpd)
It is a de-cocker and safety on the Estandar.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: JackStraw
And always call "nazis" National Socialists
As well as any other "socialists"
Use it, own it
Posted by: Miklos calls for a Rectification of the Names at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (4RYRd)
For any of these interested in more in-depth investigation of Sydney Sweeney's behavior that Ace brought up earlier today:
https://t.ly/Ir4_I
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:58 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
This is not your father's old Newsmobile
Posted by: Miklos got off to a bad start in the ad biz, but I was only 6 at September 11, 2026 11:58 PM (4RYRd)
I'm stupidly stubborn. I will never move off a place I love because I'm told too. I'd rather fight.
Someday, there will be no place left to run. I'll stand here.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (rbvCR)
https://t.ly/Ir4_I
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
She's still shilling for a gambling site.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Kindltot
Which one you got a fancy fer?
Posted by: Mail Order "Brides" by Miklos at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Dart Swinger
It was the same with TV seasons.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (Cqx++)
FredFlix for your nostalgia viewing pleasure:
https://tinyurl.com/48h9ve6v
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (1Ff7Z)
Don't worry, I'm not going to kill him. I mean, I will probably die first. Which reminds me, need to make a doc with my passwords and stuff.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 12:01 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Shilling....shilling.....
Somehow doesn't seem like the right word....
Shilling....
Posted by: on the tip of Miklos' tongue at September 12, 2026 12:02 AM (4RYRd)
wtf, Markwayne Mullin? "Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother, and an ongoing investigation could lead to her deportation."
Also: "DHS doesn't talk about current or possible future investigations or actions."
Jeez, get it together, man.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:02 AM (mmrXZ)
The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger
It was the same with TV seasons.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
================
Also fashion.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Dart Swinger
Yeah
Eagerly awaited, even
Posted by: the Sears and JC Penney catalogues at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (4RYRd)
****
Go to the shelter and get a cat about the same age. Or a puppy, preferably a golden.
Posted by: clarence at September 12, 2026 12:05 AM (yU1fv)
it's clear he doesn't like me, and despite my welcoming nature, I don't think it's working.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
================
So, typical cat. Mine bites, despite my giving him more room in the middle of the bed than I take up myself.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:06 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JackStraw
The seacoast does allow for the Dunkirk Option.
Posted by: Miklos has a Plan B at September 12, 2026 12:07 AM (4RYRd)
https://t.ly/Ir4_I
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
I didn't catch ace's take on it all. Was he for it, or was he appalled by the fact that a woman who has made a career out of showing her tits was showing her tits?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 12:09 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (viF8m)
it's clear he doesn't like me, and despite my welcoming nature, I don't think it's working.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
How many years has it been?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot
Are those Disparate Impact lawsuits still a thing?
Posted by: Miklos even lacks defined man boobs at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (mmrXZ)
Is next: svim-vear. Very nice.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: the Sears and JC Penney catalogues
++++
Those were always a good way to learn about the cup sizes.
Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kindltot - trying out some Italian "lingo" at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)
I plan to win.
Posted by: JackStraw
*needs someone to smuggle supplies up North, under the guise of simple sailors following the Gulf Stream and prevailing winds*
Posted by: Simple and slow witted offshore fisherman Miklos at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (4RYRd)
That's the question, and we need tons of more data and evidence to decide. Months and months if not years of painstaking observations just like the above mountain vertical deflection experiment.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv80
Why am I picturing the adorable baby squid that was born in the back seat of a sedan, delivered by Will Smith, Agent J?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 12, 2026 12:15 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv80
According to Star Tracks, baby Gagas are larvae that Klingons eat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)
The satellite dish on the roof?
Newspaper boys hat seems anachronistic
The delivery can seems modern, rest of the cars seem correct
Kid with briefcase could be contemporary
Not sure about recycle bin
Banana seat bike might have been out of style by 1975
I think we were using backpacks in 1975
I was a junior in HS.
Now to read thru the comments....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:19 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
It all comes down to physics and geometry
And measurement, verifiable measurement
Posted by: Ancient Greek Miklosopoulos (no homo) at September 12, 2026 12:20 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
She'll hire Lindsey Clancy to be the nanny.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 12:21 AM (G1ktt)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: The Brain of Miklos attempts to grasp the expanse of it all at September 12, 2026 12:24 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)
When the flames get close he will put out to sea.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---
Watch out for the flying casters in your dreams.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:26 AM (VQ0bX)
===
That's not gay. It was the 70s. If you weren't there you won't understand.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:26 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The Klingons were eradicated by the Charminians
Posted by: Grand Commander Mr. Whipple at September 12, 2026 12:27 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
*tosses confetti with wild abandon*
Posted by: Rip somebody at September 12, 2026 12:28 AM (4RYRd)
You might be surprised how many of us not just live but thrive here. We aren't the majority, neither are people in North Carolina or you wouldn't have the government you do. Stupid people are legion and that is what government schools were designed to do.
But we also know how they work. We do know how the oceans work and know how to not just to survive waves but conquer them.
We aren't as dumb as we look. Ask Cthulhu.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:29 AM (viF8m)
The accent is on the 2nd half of the NAME though. Char-LOT.
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 12:30 AM (sOtuf)
And geodesy.
And that reminds, I heard some Brit pronounce that
"gee-oh-deesy". Please tell me that's not how they really pronounce it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:33 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
=====
Congratulations to you and Mrs. We are we going for dinner?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Only if made of al-u-min-i-um
Posted by: Miklos that they import all of it, whatever they call it at September 12, 2026 12:36 AM (4RYRd)
*insert picture of Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt here*
Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 12:38 AM (wBRco)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:40 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
For years, nothing said in good cheer, friendship, support, agreement, or in simple good humor gets anything but angry, defensively arrogant responses.
You do you
Posted by: Unconcerned Carolinian at September 12, 2026 12:41 AM (4RYRd)
The accent is on the 2nd half of the NAME though. Char-LOT.
Posted by: 496
Oh
Which half of the lake do Sen. and Ms? Sanders own?
Posted by: Miklos is under the impression that Bernie has all the prime lakeside acreage at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (RIvkX)
>>You do you
For years, been called stupid, living in a shit hole, too fucking dumb to leave, yada, yada, yada.
You do you as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:45 AM (viF8m)
Made the mistake of jkinh Truth Central on Facebook.
Sadly I found it was overrun with the most rabid leftists I'd seen in a while.
Left after seeing several posts mocking Chaie Kirk's murder.
The big controversy on there was AOC and Mamdami allegedly joking and laughing as the names of those murdered on 9/11 were read.
The left claimed it was BS and was livid over Trump allegedly falling asleep during the ceremony.
Cesspool
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (eKa4f)
Determining the geodesics of the surface of Sydney's body would be very useful. And that would change with various positions, as she's not a rigid shape. Know the shortest paths from point A to point B on her surface.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)
There is a big blue recycling bin there next to the house.
This grift was not yet in place in 1975.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:19 AM (QGaXH)
====
You called it
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
It is now.
Big money for the smart guys like me.
Nothing is really recycled....but recoverable, maybe
Check the website-
Whatthefuckdidmywifethrowoutandiwantitback.com
Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
=====
Congratulations to you and Mrs. We are we going for dinner?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:35 AM (RIvkX)
Thank you.
44 years? Wherever she tells me to take her....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)
=======
Mrs. F.'s favorite place is Idontknowwheredouwannago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Association of On-line Teachers of Welsh at September 12, 2026 12:57 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Thatplaceyouliked
Posted by: Miklos speaks wimmin jive at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (4RYRd)
Survived the nursing reunion with no Dims or yapping about anything other than memories. Only four of us out of 40, which was a bummer. I am sure some are in heaven and others disappeared. Plus other classes.
One of my apt roommates texted me today she was coming then texted she wasn't. It was from a number I did not recognized & asked who is this. Several numbers and emails & have accused her of being in witness protection. She claims she wants to have lunch with me & another friend who lives here soon.
Two other "girls" lived above me in an historic old house. I went to Kino Bay, Mexico with them one spring break & sometimes was in a fetal position in the back of her porshe for that trip. I'd go anywhere. I asked for photos of that trip (both live in another state). The porshe girl told me that I taught her how to squat to pee in the desert & she remembers a lot.
Both knew my bf/husband & find it hard to believe we are still married after our first year.
It was fun. Other classes in that decade, & I don't remember anyone but those in my class.
I seem to be holding up fairly well as people knew me without my name tag.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 01:01 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:01 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (RIvkX)
Shut up, Wesley.
Posted by: Zombie Data at September 12, 2026 01:02 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
We do thees for you, no charge
Posted by: Linguistically Vibrant at September 12, 2026 01:05 AM (4RYRd)
Miniskirt for men?
Thigh high boots?
Thick gauntlets?
Points and edges sticking out everywhere?
Most of all, no uniform for an earthworm "space force".
No "space force" until senior command staff serves in an orbital station. Senior staff expected to retire in free fall, having been so thoroughly adapted that they can't return to Earth. One way ticket.
Posted by: David Tx John at September 12, 2026 01:06 AM (IvWaO)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:11 AM (ibDUx)
I have to imagine those boots were probably made of New Space Age Vinylite or something, so sweaty.
But the girls do not appear unacceptably over-moist. I'm sure solutions were found and suitable arrangements made.
Posted by: If Miklos had been born when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor at September 12, 2026 01:14 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Miklos energetically attempts to correct earlier negligence at the bar at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (rcENI)
Someone did get a shot of the fireball from that small asteroid that hit over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sept. 6:
https://t.ly/NpE-O
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
I had a leather vest with fringes like Greg Brady. No vaseline needed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:18 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:19 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Miklos is under the impression that Bernie has all the prime lakeside acreage at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd)
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I'm pretty sure his lake home is up in the islands. North Hero/South Hero/Grand Isle area. It's a good bit north of Charlotte.
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 01:19 AM (sOtuf)
BBC: “There is so much hate on your platform”
Elon: “What hate?”
BBC: “There’s just a lot of hate”
Elon: “What kind of hate?”
BBC: “Well...I see a lot of hate”
Elon: “Can you give me an example?”
BBC: “There’s definitely hate”
Elon: “So your evidence is basically that you personally feel like there is hate?”
BBC: “ohhh....but there’s a lot of it”
Elon: “How much?”
BBC: “A lot”
Elon: “Compared to what?”
BBC: “Well...before”
Elon: “Before what?”
BBC: “Before there was this much hate”
Elon: “Do you have data?”
BBC: “I have concerns”
Elon: “Do you have examples?”
BBC: “I have observations”
Elon: “Do you have numbers?”
BBC: “People are worried”
Elon: “Which people?”
BBC: “People”
Elon: “So basically...you arrived with a headline and forgot to bring the evidence?”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:21 AM (VQ0bX)
Earlier this morning I had a great conversation about 9/11 and the history of Islam with the younger four. I was a bit afraid that my wife would object to something---she can have some of that suicidal empathy---but I think we were on the same page about everything. That felt good.
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 01:23 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
So tell us about Marsha
EVERYTHING
Posted by: Miklos has heard, like everyone at September 12, 2026 01:23 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: frammish
---
Me too.
Leather sport coat with fringe, here.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:24 AM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:21 AM (VQ0bX)
It's really not fair to put Elon up against a "news" actor.
To be accurate, it's really not fair to put an average 12-year-old up against a "news" actor.
Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (wBRco)
Elon: “Which people?”
BBC: “People”
Elon: “So basically...you arrived with a headline and forgot to bring the evidence?”
Posted by: Braenyard
This could easily be a verbatim exchange with any of the AI bots
Posted by: don't ask how Miklos knows at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Jan at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (F9nWj)
Where garbage people live.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 01:26 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:30 AM (VQ0bX)
It's always about Marsha.
Posted by: Jan
There are entire songs written about Little Sister
We wrote our song....together
Posted by: Greg, not really your brother, for certain purposes at September 12, 2026 01:31 AM (4RYRd)
Andrew McCarthy is getting damned good indeed. He just got a time lapse of Nancy Grace on her way to L2:
https://t.ly/u1wVi
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
The actor who portrayed Greg Brady later had a successful career doing voice training for call centers in India.
In his honor, all male Indian call center and tech support workers are named "Greg".
Posted by: Miklos bets you didn't know that at September 12, 2026 01:35 AM (4RYRd)
Posted by: ...
People are your best entertainment Value.
And no COVFEFE on what is putting a bunch in AOC's FREE GAZA hotpants?
Hunter Biden, he has been making headlines recently following the launch of his cryptocurrency token, $LAPTOP, which debuted just ahead of today's date. The memecoin faced massive volatility, shedding over 95% of its value shortly after launch. Hunter Biden promoted the token on social media by posting, "They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token," framing it as a symbol of resilience, though it quickly drew widespread market crashes and intense media scrutiny similar to other political digital tokens.
What could possibly go wrong?
is 50% mostly heteroHunter vs AOC/she-hulk is worth the PPV?
LET'S GO BRANDON!
YOU ARE THE STORM!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 12, 2026 01:37 AM (fPdOG)
You don't say.
https://tinyurl.com/f6xzh4h9
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 01:40 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:40 AM (VQ0bX)
Shut 'er down
The only cars in the parking lot are the two with "subject to lien-contact Sherriff" stickers
Posted by: Miklos throws in the bar towel at September 12, 2026 01:45 AM (4RYRd)
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Damn. I didn't even drink tonight, but that thought makes me want to puke... *runs for restroom*
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
Points to empty glass.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:51 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)
and AOC's got a lock on the crazy's.
How can they lose?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:53 AM (VQ0bX)
I do like how the dipshit retarded author of the wikipedia article smugly sneers that Isaac Newton. though he did think of the concept, didn't think it was possible to measure it with the tools at hand. The Funyuns-encrusted wikipedia auteur larfs that it was totally do-able with the technology of Newton's time, what a stupid stupid!
Go invent calculus before you type, write, or even think anything again, you stupid smug zero-IQ wiki retard.
Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 01:56 AM (wBRco)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:56 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)
Enjoy, g'night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:00 AM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
Usually, when something declines to 1/20th of its initial "value", you say it's fucking destroyed.
If you're in the Blueski media space, you say it's "experiencing volatility".
Imagine the crowing if SPCX was trading at 1/20th of its IPO today. Instead, it's at a tasty margin above. That's the difference between investing in someone who is ferociously intent on making the future happen, and a corrupt brain-dead politician's useless coked-out afterbirth.
Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 02:06 AM (wBRco)
Just raising a glass in memory of those souls who died.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx)
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*pours drink*
*Clinks glass with Debby*
*silent remembrance*
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)
I have to imagine those boots were probably made of New Space Age Vinylite or something, so sweaty.
But the girls do not appear unacceptably over-moist. I'm sure solutions were found and suitable arrangements made.
Posted by: If Miklos had been born when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor at September 12, 2026 01:14 AM (4RYRd)
I think I would have killed to get white go-go boots. They were the height of fashion at the time. Mini skirts and go-go boots. I would have been a legend.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 02:11 AM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx)
I think everyone knows someone. Hurts like hell, all this time later.
My niece's birthday is today. My nephew's birthday is December 7. Kinda gives me mixed messages, y'know?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 02:12 AM (Ntshk)
Sir Isaac MF'n Newton was probably the smartest man who has ever lived. Well, at least that we know about. The other greats were well up there in his six-sigma range, but he was probably -- well, there wasn't anybody smarter. Shakespeare was likely in that range as well, but he put his talents to non-physics uses, of which we should be equally grateful.
Newton, at the age of around 25 figured all this out. He didn't publish Principia until about 20 years later. I mean, just think, you trying to figure out "De Motu Corporum in Gyrum", and you realize the math you have is not adequate, so you have to invent the math to do what you want.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:14 AM (w6EFb)
368 Blinky, glad you had a good time at the reunion and everyone kept it level. You picked good friends.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:30 AM (VQ0bX)
******
Nursing school was a blast & many of us were very close & lost contact from being all over the country, marrying,etc.
I had a wild time but made good grades and somehow lived to be old. Lots of laughter tonight.
Told my former house mates about the first time my dude met my mother. She flew out for our graduation that December.
She stayed in a hotel downtown.
We picked her up for brunch. She met my boyfriend and we were driving on a little tour to see the college where my parent's money went for 2.5yrs.
We turn the corner to the college & in front of a boy's dorm was an anatomically correct & very detailed 10' snow sculpture of an erection.
I caught his eyes in the rearview mirror and had to bite my tongue & he struggled not to lol. It was a time i wanted to roll around laughing hysterically but we kept our cool.
Decades later she said she didn't recall. I don't see how she missed seeing it!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 02:15 AM (hzuYO)
Newton's secretary remarked that during that period when Newton was working all this out, he neglected much his sleep, his eating, and his clothing.... He was a totally obsessed with Figuring It Out.
He derived Kepler's Laws. And deduced the mechanism of precession of the equinoxes and the tides, all due to what we now call the tidal field of the Moon and Sun.
He didn't figure out that tidal friction would secularly slow the earth down and throw the Moon into a higher orbit. He used a perfect fluid type of model to deduce the tidal bulges. He did recognize the Moon was tidally locked, and realized the stability of that, though.
All that was just incredible. Einstein said he stood on the shoulders of giants, remarked that Newton was probably the smartest man who every lived, and said he stood on the shoulders of giants. Newton was the biggest giant he stood on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:20 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Your mother was a classy southern belle-- even if she *did* notice it then, probably didn't wish to discuss it later.
Ladies did not acknowledge such vulgarity, back in the day...
Once, in my grandmother's kitchen, I burned my finger while removing cookies from the oven. "Shit!" I cried...
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
Another famous quote of Newton is "Hypotheses non fingo". That was a mic-drop quote as the kids today say. It is translated as "I feign no hypotheses".
Critics argued his gravity was mystic and occult, some strange instantaneous inverse square force at a distance. Spooky action at a distance, as Einstein later called quantum entanglement."
That's a Feynman-like way of putting it. This works, and is verified by observation and experiment. I don't have a clue why it works, and will not even try. But it works. Shut up and calculate.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
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My dude & I were mortified. They'd maybe known each other 2hrs & dicey.
"Yes, Mama, this is where I've been going to school! Yes, it is the first time I have seen that, too!"
It was also hilarious at the same time I am surprised I was not making snorting noises from the backseat.
After graduation there was a big dance with a band. She was asked to dance by many men but refused, being there alone & looking grand for being 45yrs old.
Meanwhile, I was dancing and broke a heel. It was icy in the parking lot as we left, and my bf slung me over his shoulder to get to his car. I was talking to her from this position like it was a normal thing (yes, there was a lot of booze).
To make her wonder further, a friend of his, and I don't know who invited him, was in the backseat cussing like a sailor before we dropped him off then her.
Because I would say, "Hey, Mama" to talk to her some of my classmates started calling her Hey Mama and she took that in good humor.
She never asked what on earth went on during those years because I think she was afraid to find out.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 02:41 AM (hzuYO)
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
; )
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 02:46 AM (odBC9)
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."
There are much better things for a woman to have in her mouth.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 02:48 AM (Fv808)
Had a dream I was dead, and a Angie, really just a person, was telling me what caused it
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 02:57 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 03:04 AM (ibDUx)
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
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Looks like there is a plastic water bottle under the mailbox.
Everyone knows that should be in the recycling bin!
Grade-school kids with backpacks didn't happen until the '90s.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 03:14 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)
Headline from the local lefty rag. As if she were responsible for the child's illness, which is congenital, from her DNA donors. As if she were the reason the kid needs surgery, because she didn't MURDER him.
You can't hate the media enough.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:17 AM (Ntshk)
And it did Einstein to resolve that "spooky action at a distance" question. And it took much more math to be invented/discovered in the meantime. Gauss and Riemann were the big giants he stood on for that.
But gravity does indeed propagate at the speed of light. It just does a much better job of hiding that propagation delay the electromagnetic forces do.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 03:21 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:17 AM (Ntshk)
I think of them as being owned and operated by demons. I don't absolve them, far from it, but it conserves my hate supply. They are beneath my contempt.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 03:24 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 03:30 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:42 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: David Tx John at September 12, 2026 01:06 AM (IvWaO)
It's a Futurama reference. Look up Zapp Brannigan.
Posted by: Sjg at September 12, 2026 03:45 AM (i8HNq)
Posted by: frammish
Paperboy should've been done with his route long before daylight.
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:47 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 03:49 AM (Fv808)
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)
Just like Netanhayu allowed Oct. 7 hamas attack for his political election.Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 12, 2026 03:56 AM (umJvv)
Posted by: Nazdar
Not true
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 03:49 AM (Fv80
Don't remember seeing them at all until then. Had a little one that I used in college - and it was considered odd.
There was a guy in junior high who carried a briefcase, though.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 03:56 AM (NcvvS)
If you don't have weights, Larsson suggests using a resistance band instead.
Fix one end of the band under a table leg and hold the other end across your wrist so you're experiencing some resistance while carrying out the exercises.
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 03:57 AM (odBC9)
Says here you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Sjg at September 12, 2026 03:57 AM (i8HNq)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:59 AM (rcENI)
About half of all patients who develop rheumatoid arthritis first feel the effects the disease in their wrist before it progresses to other joints.
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 04:09 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 04:17 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)
Nice vid, but please leave the '?si' and everything after it off the URL, or use a shortener like tinyurl.com. For folks reading on their phones that blows the margins.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:29 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (NcvvS)
I would argue for widows having custody of the family vote, if they fit the net tax requirements.
Income from EARNED Social Security doesn't count as government support.
As many woman COULDN'T have qualified for the draft due to restrictions - pregnancy, minor children, sex, that provision should only be applied going forward.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (7Rs+y)
A few driveways the width of sidewalks is the biggest giveaway to me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:37 AM (6ydKt)
Omnibus Cafe
A horse-drawn bus from the 1890s
BuffaloRonWhen I read Sherlock Holmes or history books (usually Jack the Ripper books), they refer to this kind of bus, usually calling it an "omnibus." "Omnibus" meaning in Latin, the internet tells me, "for all," in other words public, not private. The word "bus" is just a clipped version of that. The term originated in Paris, where it began as "voiture omnibus," or "carriage for all" or "public carriage." They lopped off the "voiture." In London, the term was quickly shorted to the modern word "bus," by the 1830s. But I swear I see "omnibus" when I read a history or period book in the 1890s. I couldn't visualize what this "omnibus" looked like. I couldn't figure out if it was short-ish like a Wild West coach or long-ish like a modern bus. So, of course, it's short-ish like a Wild West coach. Duh. Here's one from 1895, packed top to bottom with advertising.
@BuffaloRon Jul 14, 2025 There is no way a horse drew this. its a photograph.
People keep brining their dogs to weddings for some reason. Puppy's first howl. Pupper's keeping his head on a swivel. Happy puppy puts on a show for air travelers stuck in delays. Kind of like "Raygun" the retarded Australian breakdancer except actually awesome.
Cute neighborhood watch..they look so happy..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/lPotTNKA6T
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) September 10, 2026
Nothing special to see, just an army of piglets queuing up to dive. pic.twitter.com/GW3zCS8aQu
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 10, 2026
In case you missed it:
This Red Bull ramp drops straight off a mountain. 😳pic.twitter.com/IUMnqsIEtH
— Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) July 6, 2026
God, I love watching these people do this. They have to know that the odds are they will be eating pavement or hey. I'm guessing that they're mixing something with that Red Bull so that they don't care or feel the impact. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/AhrzHhYciS
— Johnny B. Good (@Cat5SMASHICANE) September 5, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (NcvvS)
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Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (nL/22)
192 The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.
It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Good tidings
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (viF8m)
Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (P8wUf)
Now the women have found out that there is clout to be farmed - once a black man gave them cover - saying Clancy is a murderer. - TGP (some Oprah audience member)
I anticipate a shift, soon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)
its a photograph.
_________________________
Ace just ruined my reputation with that unexpected twist. I was standing in line at the grocery check-out reading the Cafe on my phone and it caught me off guard and made me laugh. Exactly at the same time, a woman in front of me accidentally spilled her purse on the floor while bending down for gum. My laugh was misinterpreted, and got the side eye from four people I do not know.
Thanks Ace.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)
Houston, we have achieved a 100% week in the Café, thanks to Ace! Praise be to Ace! May he have a wonderful and restful weekend!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (88C+u)
The term "coach" for a horse-drawn carriage or more recently a railway car or bus comes from the Hungarian village of Kocs, famous in the 18th and 19th centuries for the quality and craftmanship of vehicles made there.
Posted by: Fun Fact Pal Miklos at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 07:29 PM (ca8Qt)
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (nL/22)
Sri Lanka.
Names like that get you colonized again.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (lJ0H4)
Kittens that age do that to everyone at more or less random. Heads of fluff.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (uhVAy)
Just a bit more from Google Lens:
Two or three horses usually pulled the heavy carriage, and transit companies rotated the animals at stables across the city.
Even so, it still seems cruel.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fun Fact Pal Miklos at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (4RYRd)
It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Good tidings
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (vC80E)
Yup, there are ways to deal with baddies walking about in the open.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)
Even so, it still seems cruel.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (NFX2v)
They aren't that heavy, and not always large. A pair or even one horse carriages were a thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:34 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at September 11, 2026 07:35 PM (TbWk/)
Now that's funny.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (MWfyi)
Names like that get you colonized again.
Posted by: Oldcat
I met the Sri Lankan ambassador to Hungary a few times in the 90s.
Very pleasant, friendly, etc. but boring.
Always had wonderful Diplomat-level tea
And only one topic of conversation
Tea
Posted by: Miklos liked the diplomats from proud booze producing countries better at September 11, 2026 07:37 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)
Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (dK+Kv)
>It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
The Media retards who have been claiming the Houthi Victory all day never even considered that consolidation of forces could be a tactic.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)
Are the Saudis party to any treaties forbidding the use of chemical or biological weapons? If not, provide them with the means and the supplies, and let them gas the Houthis.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (rbvCR)
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
'Cause I drive my baby every way
Magic bus (magic bus)
Magic bus (magic bus)
Magic bus (whoa)
Magic bus (whoa)
Magic bus..
Posted by: The Who at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (cCXR+)
I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (NcvvS)
Tea
Posted by: Miklos liked the diplomats from proud booze producing countries better at September 11, 2026 07:37 PM (4RYRd)
If he spoke of rattan, people would think him Bangladeshi.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)
Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM
Walk it off.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (nL/22)
Possibly but so was Peru
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM
Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)
Or any Eastern European country, almost.
Kind of makes you want to invade Poland.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)
Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM
Walk it off.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)
Slap hot iron on it.
Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:42 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)
That German Shepherd that got pounced showed great restraint. He/she looks like a sweetie.
Posted by: Tuna
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Kittens that age do that to everyone at more or less random. Heads of fluff.
Posted by: Oldcat
Baby kitty is at that awkward stage where it transitions from Smol Kitten -to- Velociraptor. Give it 24 months and it'll transition from Velociraptor -to- Staid Lion.
or as I call it...Nap Waiting. For. A. Lap. To. Happen.
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM (guBc2)
Posted by: Kindltot
It is such of Most Kindness, all order FOB 120 days of pre-payment
Posted by: The Bangladeshi Embassy at September 11, 2026 07:45 PM (4RYRd)
The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.
It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
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Advisors, huh? Sounds like their advice sucks. Possible source of friction?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 07:47 PM (AnW6a)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)
Or any Eastern European country, almost.
Kind of makes you want to invade Poland.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
depends
Posted by: Miklos suggests noting paring knife or larger, so spicy is the paprika at September 11, 2026 07:48 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Orson
Reputation 🤪
Obviously, there were no pop-up ads & that's what counts.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:49 PM (NFX2v)
It never ceases to amaze me that assclowns who went to journalism school think they know shit that professionals who do this shit for a living don't.
In a shocking development, the leading sponsor of terror in the world that is currently in a death rattle after having their shit completely pushed in in their home country by trying to bomb international trade in the strait bordering their shit hole country and are searching for some way to inflict pain on their enemy sent some of their precious remaining resources to a partner terrorist organization that tried to fuck up international trade by bombing the narrow strait next to their shit hole country all during the Biden administration.
I mean who could have seen this coming other than the crack journalists of MSNBC?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)
There are a couple good youtube video about the history and people restoring old ones.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (53GQo)
Posted by: Miklos sang that to all in a Christopher Cross voice just to piss everybody off (except Yacht-rock g at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (4RYRd)
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Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (ndZc7)
Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)
Post-purrtum psychosis. Not guilty.
Posted by: No convictions for pussies at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: L - No nic
But we like when pops up
Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln already at September 11, 2026 07:53 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM
By the World's Greatest Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzC-3UPKbk
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)
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Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (ndZc7)
That tells me that she was the instigator of violence, and did not want that to come out in court.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 07:56 PM (1z8ji)
Only way she would lose her daughter in the absence of anything else would be to commit perjury. Hmm .
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 07:56 PM (KC5Lt)
Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM
This, *this* is why it's so important to maintain a penguin-free Café environment!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: A disgruntled patron at September 11, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:58 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:58 PM (eRlcH)
RIP Marvin
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: A disgruntled patron at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Oldcat
Thanks
In Philly, animal welfare groups got horse drawn commercial rides, noncommercial wagons, sleighs, and sleds banned through a recent ordinance. (It had been a war for years.)
Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (NFX2v)
At least there used to be, before "Cancel Culture" did an end run around such silly notions.
"These are credible accusations from anonymous accusers from 35 years ago! He must step down!"
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:00 PM (nL/22)
Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Your winnings, Sir
Posted by: Miklos' Cafe Americain at September 11, 2026 08:00 PM (4RYRd)
Because often as not, they aren't really all that. Perhaps they mean well, but.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:01 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln
🤨 To the corner with you.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (NFX2v)
Israeli troops went in with TONS of TNT, and blew them all up.... reports are that it measured 4.7 on the Richter scale...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: L - No nic
But we like when pops up
Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln already at September 11, 2026 07:53 PM (4RYRd)
We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop. STOP! You must not hop on Pop.
Posted by: Dr. Seuss, philanderer at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (cCXR+)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (Ys5TR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)
*Café door bangs open*
Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)
/Points to the barrel..
Feel free to check that out... if you brought yer hazmat suit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Because often as not, they aren't really all that. Perhaps they mean well, but.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:01 PM (nL/22)
PETA puts more dogs and cats to death than all Korean and Chinese restaurants combined.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (KC5Lt)
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Rosh Hashanah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, September 11, and ends at nightfall on Sunday, September 13, 2026.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (NFX2v)
Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (NFX2v)
Maybe alligators could be trained to pull carriages.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Common Tater
Also tea.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)
Nah, famous for Big Robot looking dudes with weird voices!
Just can't figure out where they keep their BaseStars.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Believe them!
Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Ys5TR)
Posted by: Dr. Seuss, philanderer
This has an element of Truthiness
Posted by: Theodore Geisel as a Geezer at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (4RYRd)
Thank you, ace.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (Ys5TR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I know what Horry County requires for golf carts.
Posted by: Here Endeth the Knowledge of Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:07 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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What? You're from Canada.
https://permies.com/t/2829/a/752/moose.jpg
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (XeU6L)
Something about the sound. I wonder what it could be.
https://tinyurl.com/3jy4z2fw
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Common Tater
Also tea.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)
Nah, famous for Big Robot looking dudes with weird voices!
Just can't figure out where they keep their BaseStars.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (mP0Kj)
It's where you go to Ceylon Chaney Junior dancing with the Queen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Twiki at September 11, 2026 08:11 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (iN6fC)
Posted by: Ben Had
A million drivers say-
Iran out of gas!
Posted by: Miklos some decent former Iranians at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)
Truly, we live in a time of miracles and wonder.
Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (6zIXI)
Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (iN6fC)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:15 PM (xlvhb)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 08:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Scranton's Finest at September 11, 2026 08:16 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:17 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Since 1852 at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (iN6fC)
Omnibuses were futuristic, but Penthousebuses had boobies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (2GVsD)
"Why are you trying to oppress a black man?"
They're the same people who think blacks are too dumb to get a driver's license or state ID, after all.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:19 PM (xlvhb)
It would appear that being picked for a jury in a prominent trial now opens you up to have all the skeletons in your closet discovered.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:20 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Miklos would say that and sue at September 11, 2026 08:21 PM (4RYRd)
Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)
Wait. We can get food here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (m4Pfq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Fall season discounts available!
*Halloween is fully booked*
Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Elvis-themed Wedding Chapel and Tiki Lounge at September 11, 2026 08:23 PM (4RYRd)
Wait. We can get food here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)
___________
We're pulling the liquor license.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:24 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Tonypete
Philadelphia is better?
Posted by: Staying Home at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (Fn+3X)
AI just told me my spatial reasoning and intuition was "most impressive" for a human.
So, there.
Of course, I think it may be trying to lull me into a false sense of security before it Kills All Humans.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (w6EFb)
Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic..
My sister owns a farm in Western PA. The local Amish do the actual farming though, they just lease the field from my sister, more or less. Anyway, they use horses in the fields. Really big horses. I've never seen mules.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: L - No nic.
And carbide tacked to the rims for added grip. Of course it tears up the roadways but what the hell.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (m4Pfq)
Kinda like the bar in Star Wars.
Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (cCXR+)
Pour encourager les autres. If they can make voting against the left's chosen ideas so intimidating, they can even control jury trials.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (K32Fz)
The horror of Hillary Clinton vs the Bollard, collapsing and being hurled into a van
__________
Like a sack of manure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (eRlcH)
Something about the sound. I wonder what it could be.
https://tinyurl.com/3jy4z2fw
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)
Smells like hippie.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)
___________
We're pulling the liquor license.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:24 PM (eRlcH)
Get the tar and feathers!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tonypete
I remember South Carey Street
S. Carey on the street signs
So Scary Street, and it was.
But did it because there was a great Irish bar called the Gandy Dancer
Posted by: Miklos was crazy enough to live in Bawlamer for a while (free rent) at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)
You know the rumors about all the stray cats disappearing once a Chinese restaurant moves into the neighborhood?
Well, I have't seen too many hobos around since the Cafe opened for business.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Ys5TR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)
Yeah, I posted that earlier. Whatever Trump's faults, he did us a solid here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)
A 24 minute version of the flu. Four years later this was a jailable offense.
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (dpXJq)
Posted by: Wenda at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (uSgX5)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:15 PM (xlvhb)
A/K/A Lazy, layabout, no-load. Probably proudly dumb as a stump, too.
Congratulations. You zeroed out your value to society for internet cred.
Dumbass.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:32 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 08:32 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (dpXJq)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 08:36 PM (wwYkK)
You knew the Houthi would get involved at some point. How would they get supplied and why would Yemen protect them? It would work as a diversion or one bridge too far but if KSA, Israel and the US are serious, they would get crushed.
Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 08:36 PM (GbONR)
Or we can say, "Kids these days" and let evil win.
I know which I'm picking.
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (aVf49)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Skip
Or any month with a 5 in it
Posted by: AARP insured Aunt Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz)
There are some neurodegenerative diseases that are treated with infusions (treatments vary as the disease varies), that make the patient almost instantly better than a complete soup sandwich.
Our tile guy had an issue with something of the sort, and it was night and day the difference.
I suspect she had something like that, and they had not gotten the thing under control or got the infusion dialed in, which, first, made her avoid campaigning, but then resulted in the bollard fight for survival, followed by the 24 minute recovery.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)
I noticed there was never any weed or booze at Rush concerts.
Just ask Geddy Lee.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 08:39 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Who was the mysterious large black fellow by Hellary's side? Secret Service, maybe? Dunno.
Posted by: I Don't Envy Him at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (Fn+3X)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Fun scientific fact: that online Karen has an odd condition in which her continued ability to breathe depends on not getting a lead slug ripping through her head at one third of a mile per second.
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (aVf49)
I think if I'm ever called for jury duty again I will tell the judge that I can not promise to render a fair verdict because I'm afraid of my fellow jurors. Judges didn't necessarily create this problem but they have to be the ones to fix it by cracking down hard on people like Clancy's lawyer and jury foreman.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 08:41 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The sack of shit has more of a moral compass, smells better, and has better taste in clothing than that Beyotch.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:41 PM (m4Pfq)
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:43 PM (aVf49)
"We are all New Yorkers now"
It was true and sincere
As Americans, including my fellow flyover rednecks
But
Is New York American any more?
Why did we care, and readily go fight?
Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us
Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 08:49 PM (KC5Lt)
And her hair magically became perfectly coiffed with flawless makeup and clothing because of this magic shot?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (K32Fz)
Obviously, you weren't sitting in my section.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (zRd05)
"We are all New Yorkers now"
It was true and sincere
As Americans, including my fellow flyover rednecks
We collected money and sent them firetrucks.
They spat upon us and said they didn't like the color.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 08:51 PM (Cqx++)
******
The ironic thing is… you can drop that card on the bar to impress your friends… no harm, no foul and all around will think highly of you.
But… If you pull that card out when you actually need it to save your ass…all that will matter is that you are *white*.
Kinda like how some of those secular Jews in Nazi Germany tried to save themselves when the Gestapo came ‘a calling…. “Hey, you don’t want me! I’m a patriotic non-practicing Jew…”
“Sorry, it’s not the whole ‘practicing/non-practicing’ thing, it’s the Jude/Jüdin thing. Get on the train.”
Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (kUgMs)
Kinda like the bar in Star Wars.
Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (cCXR+)
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And just like the Mos Eisley Cantina, the Furry has a death sentence in twelve countries...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:53 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (S41Gd)
I've told this before but my favorite jury experience was on a federal trial in Providence. For the voir dire one guy showed up looking like he came off a 3 day bender dressed in a wife beater, camo shorts and Doc Martins. Don't remember his first name but his last name was Cash.
Right out of the gate during his questioning he was belligerent said he hated cops because they raided his apartment when he was having a party looking for drugs. Said he named his daughter Stolen and his son Cold, Stolen and Cold Cash. And it went downhill from there.
I have no idea if anything he said was true but he had all of us waiting to be questioned laughing our asses off. He got dismissed in a heartbeat. He was either one twisted dude or an evil genius.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)
Think of all the jobs that provided for street sweepers!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (TlKpx)
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Old school British currency requires advanced degrees in mathematics...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:55 PM (FZ29D)
No more soloists singing the National Anthem or God Bless America. I'm sick of hearing them being used as vehicles as a vehicle for someone's "creative" interpretation.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:56 PM (eRlcH)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 08:56 PM (G1ktt)
Why did we care, and readily go fight?
Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us
Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)
its a reverse cursed earth from the original judge Dredd movie. Instead of the hellscape being outside the city its pretty much inside and the normal life is outside.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (S41Gd)
@Cat5SMASHICANE
God, I love watching these people do this. They have to know that the odds are they will be eating pavement or hey. I'm guessing that they're mixing something with that Red Bull so that they don't care or feel the impact.
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ADHD plus massive amounts of caffeine and creatine
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (RIvkX)
164 In 1900, there was 2.5 to 3 million pounds of horseshit dumped the streets of NYC every day from 100,000 to 150,000 working horses per day.
Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)
Think of all the jobs that provided for street sweepers!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
A buffet!
Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (ydoWy)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (S41Gd)
Or got lost, because the upper deck had no driver.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:55 PM (FZ29D)
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'Yeah. What's a "quid?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:58 PM (RIvkX)
You would have noticed me. I was the hippie sitting among all you Fortune 500 types.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:58 PM (RIvkX)
All together now:
Twenty dollars, same as in town.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:00 PM (1z8ji)
“Sorry, it’s not the whole ‘practicing/non-practicing’ thing, it’s the Jude/Jüdin thing. Get on the train.”
Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (kUgMs)
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Not just secular Jews. Christians and Catholics who had the wrong grandparents.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (ydoWy)
Posted by: The Bollard at September 11, 2026 09:02 PM (Q+gd/)
Epileptics, Slavs, blacks, Rom... the list was long and inclusive. They took their Eugenics seriously
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:03 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz
I have been solemnly told that it is not unusual for an 80 year old man to temporarily grow five inches, anyway I was paranoid to not recognize a trick of perspective due to a telephoto lens
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)
Why did we care, and readily go fight?
Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us
Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)
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Nate Friedman just posted a great video about NY.
All the traffic brownies are Pakis and Bengalis who will ticket all the double-parked cars except the cabs driven by Pakis and Bengalis.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (RIvkX)
Useless eaters = the disabled, communists, patriotic Poles, anyone who opposed the Nazi state including people who sheltered anyone else, the list goes on. You just had to oppose them or be a scapegoat. Romani were scapegoats as well as Jews.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (TlKpx)
Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)
Post-purrtum psychosis. Not guilty.
Posted by: No convictions for pussies
Omg. Comment of the werk.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (K639x)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:03 PM (K32Fz)
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Also Jehovah's Witnesses.
I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)
I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)
The only ones I have known were two girls in elementary school. They were lovely. But it was elementary school. What's the beef?
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 09:11 PM (ca8Qt)
My mind is blown by the Schiehallion experiment, done in Scotland in 1774. This was how they "weighed the Erf". The precision which they achieved 252 years ago was amazing. Amazing what those hated Dead White Men of Western persuasion could do.
To weigh the earth, they needed to measure the tiny vertical deflection of a plumb bob due the mass of a lone mountain, Mt. Scheihallion. Doing this is not easy. You need to know the true normal to the surface, not just what a plumb bob tells you. You're trying to measure the error in the plumb bob from this true normal.
ANd, in 1774, mind you, they had to know the earth was an oblate ellipsoid, not a true sphere.
And, as a side effect, they invented the notion of contour lines in figuring out how to do this. Oh, and they had to measure distances to incredible precision as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (iIyc0)
Well, duh?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (viF8m)
Heh. I halfway expected Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley to show up in the pavement eating classic.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
I was waiting for the cave men.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (Cqx++)
Isaac Newton, in Principia, deduced the earth must be oblate due to rotation.
Now, the stupid French, based on Descartes and the Cassini's, and this stupid vortex theory of planetary motion, thought the Erf had to be prolate.
That was just so French of them. They had settled that a few decades earlier. Newton (pbuh) was correct. Of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:15 PM (w6EFb)
Prolate is a combination medicine used to relieve moderate to severe pain.
Prolate contains an opioide medicine and may be habit-forming.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:18 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
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Being Scots they applied their mathematical knowledge of penny pinching to the problem and voilà.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (RIvkX)
Creatine doesn't make you amped, it just makes you burn energy more efficiently. It also has been shown to some good for older heart patients with stiffened arteries and atherosclerosis.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Horses in the pic look healthy and stout.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:20 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (K639x)
I hope Lucy is well.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
Bob Dole knows what you need to stiffen up the old artery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (1z8ji)
And in the 1920s and 30s the New York Times ran glowing articles about how eugenics was going to scientifically improve humanity.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:22 PM (RIvkX)
Prolate contains an opioide medicine and may be habit-forming.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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Is it as good as percodan?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:23 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:43 PM
May we suggest following up with a fart in their general direction?
Posted by: French Castle Guards at September 11, 2026 09:23 PM (0sNs1)
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Just guessing the "active ingredients" in Red Bull
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (RIvkX)
I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)
What's the beef?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (VQ0bX)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)
The State of Oregon has entered the room, but is trying to hide Fairview State Institution for the Feeble-Minded for some reason
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)
It was (and remains) a popular notion among the Left. Tommy Douglas, one of the founders of Canada's socialist New Democratic Party wrote his university thesis on the subject. He and Bernie Sanders could be twin sons of different mothers. Dead now, but not dead enough.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (RIvkX)
I believe it has Taurine.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:26 PM (rbvCR)
Yeah those are hard to find these days, even on the internet. They ran a lot of pro-Phrenology stuff too. At the time, Fascism was praised for being so forward-looking and scientific. Academics loved it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (K32Fz)
1. Do you still talk to your family?
2. Who do you believe will go to heaven?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:22 PM (RIvkX)
I put them in the "annoying but mostly harmless" category. Most of the harm they do befalls their own children, some of whom die because they are denied proper medical care.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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It is coming to and end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-zuAONrcc
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:26 PM (rbvCR)
And steer-oids!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (1z8ji)
Every religion looks weird and wrong from the outside. I don't have a beef with any of them as long as they don't bother me or my way of life.
Believe a random starfish is the great oracle of the universe if you want as long as you don't want to force me to agree.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (VQ0bX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:33 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:34 PM (VQ0bX)
"Oh sure but could they build a kiln?"
-- Tucker's sh*thead friend
I've been thinking about why that pissed me off so much and I think it's because it's another periodic resurgence of the stupid failed "Back to the Land" movement. Every couple of decades some bored, rich college kids rediscover Thoreau and think they've found Nirvana. I've got my little garden to grow cabbage and tomatoes and I've got my kiln to make ugly pottery to sell to the townies. Who could possibly need more than that? Until they run out of veggies in the winter or electricity to drive their Cybertruck to the farmers' market. Even Thoreau had to borrow his neighbor's ax and then f*cked it up by ruining the handle. But they are incapable of seeing anything beyond their own arms' reach.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (RIvkX)
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I've watched a couple of videos on YouTube explaining how the JW "religion" works. It's very corporatized. Services are run like company meetings.
Everything comes down from a council of elders (eight of them, I think).
Very cult-like in many aspects.
They like to set up a stand outside the front of the campus library where I used to work (but never worked for), hoping to attract interested college students. To their credit, they aren't pushy or aggressive. They just stand there waiting for students to approach them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 09:36 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 09:38 PM (8jVAy)
You know, if I believed that only 144,000 people could get into heaven, I'd be keeping that a pretty big secret.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 09:38 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)
Bow down before my chocolate starfish, heathen.
Posted by: Hope Solo at September 11, 2026 09:41 PM (dK+Kv)
The stupidity of that just blew my mind. That is known-nothing-ism manifest. And proud of it, arrogant ignorance. The less you know, the more you think you know, which is some Dunning-Kruger adjacent principle.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs)
It really depends on the individual and what they see as success as well. Homesteading works best if you have a side income because it is hard to knit your own alternator or hand-craft a mortgage payment.
I do think it comes down to a perception of dignity and self reliance.
I have a joke that if a Mexican buys 8 acres of farm land with a house he puts in a garden, some chickens and a horse or two, because he can show he is a gentleman that way. A redneck buys 8 acres and puts in a garden, some chickens and a couple of steers because he knows he is already a gentleman and wants to feed his family too.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:47 PM (rbvCR)
1. Do you still talk to your family?
2. Who do you believe will go to heaven?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (RIvkX)
I always ask them how you know if you are in the 144,000 who get to heaven, and if not, why the hell bother.
That's when they start crab-talking to change the subject.
I also ask Mormon missionaries who Jesus' brother is.
They crab-talk too at that point.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 09:49 PM (SRWHM)
Worked out great in Cambodia didn't it?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:50 PM (vTZFs)
That would be the problem. A pretty large percentage of war and death throughout history has been a fight over religion. Not an opinion, just a fact. We seem to mostly be beyond that now.
Islam isn't a religion. It's a social order of conquest with a religion tacked on. The rest of us get along pretty well these days as long as we stay in our lanes.
I've never met a Jew, a Protestant, a Catholic, a Mormon or even a Jehovahs Witness who didn't just take no for an answer. Still can along with them. muslims not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)
In my experience, Muslims need a "hell no" followed up with a show of force. Even then they won't behave.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 09:55 PM (SRWHM)
Formerly they wanted people that knew the defendant, or knew about him. “Hell yeah, I think he did it. SOB has always been crazy”
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (6iQiX)
I mean, they've come at me sometimes, but I'm part Jewish by ancestry. Also I'm philosemitic and have Israeli relatives. So.. there's that. John Chang from Szechuan? Probably less of a target.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (88C+u)
I have no quarrel with homesteading or self-sufficiency for those who are able to do so. But it's the sneering at the very people who do things like manufacturing so that you can grow your veggies and enrich the world with your art is what I find beyond the pale.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (vTZFs)
There's a reason muslims and Nazis were allies.
Neither believes in coexistence or tolerance. They believe in submission or death.
I'm not a fan of either.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:03 PM (R0XxO)
Of Course: Garbage Tier Network NBC Is Now Doxxing the Lone "Rogue" Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Case
The media exists solely for purposes of blackmail and incitement to murder.
Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
Fusilli SpockHow much do you want to bet the Angry Alpha Karens doxxed his name to NBC? It could also be the disgusting defense lawyer, who has filed a motion asking the judge to set aside the jury's non-verdict and declare Lindsay Clancy innocent on his own authority. The leak may be part of a public pressure campaign.
@awstar11 It's just a matter of time before this guy is doxed and assaulted, if not murdered. Meanwhile Massachusetts has done nothing to stem the leaks or punish the leakers.
AG
@AGHamilton29 I was talking to someone who doesn't follow the news much and she had a convo where 3 mid 30's regular women were telling her about the case and they were all completely convinced that the husband killed the kids despite there being no evidence of that and even Lindsay Clancy's reps aren't claiming that. It's a serious problem that so much of society now views news as a form of entertainment to the point where reality and facts become optional. They just go with the story they think sounds better to them. It's why people, for example, listen to Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others who are consistently saying things that are provably false and insane. Conspiracies are now the norm and regularly people are consistently buying into them without evidence. It's a serious threat to a functioning society.
Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now. She's claiming she suffers from "grief psychosis" so I assume a jury made up mostly of Angry Karen Nurses and Teachers with TikTok Brain will acquit her too.
Killing the kid, attempting a kinda-fake "self-harm," doing it when the husband is away -- she's following the Lindsay Clancy playbook.
An Illinois mother allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son that she described as the "anti-Christ" -- hours after discussing the Lindsay Clancy case with friends, authorities said. Corie Walsh, 38, is facing first-degree murder charges after one of her neighbors found Walsh's son, Barrett, hanging from the rafters in the family's basement, FOX 32 reported. Walsh allegedly told investigators she killed her young son because he's the "anti-Christ" and "devil," according to prosecutors. Little Barrett was found with his feet off the ground, and a ligature around his neck. ... Walsh was reportedly found lying in a bathtub, fully clothed and drenched in bloody water. She was hospitalized after police determined she had attempted to self-harm, according to a court proffer viewed by FOX 32. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening. Three other children were found unharmed inside the home. ... Prosecutors say that Walsh was infatuated with the Clancy trial, having texted friends about the case at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, just three hours before Barrett was found dead. ... At the the time of Barrett's tragic death, the jury was still deliberating Clancy's case, a parallel prosecutors have noted to FOX 32. ... Walsh's husband was out of town at the time of the alleged murder and flew home Tuesday evening.
And now her lawyer announces she was just "psychotic" so she gets to kill one kid for free. After all, Lindsay Clancy got to kill three. Fair is fair.
Corie Walsh's defense will argue that the Illinois mother was psychotic and that the charges do not amount to first-degree murder after she was accused of killing her 2-year-old son.
— Fox True Crime (@FoxTrueCrime) September 8, 2026
"She was psychotic. And this is not a first-degree murder," Andrea Lyon told reporters.
Lyon,… pic.twitter.com/aWNUUma10B
Streamer gets in a heated fight with his wife who says there is no evidence that Lindsey Clancy is guilty pic.twitter.com/MPqNtaMwDi
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) September 5, 2026
Lindsay Clancy murdered her three young children,
While her husband was out, she took the children to the basement and used exercise bands to…
Eyes pic.twitter.com/HMaDP2jjne
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) September 9, 2026
Catholic priest Fr. Dan Reehil denounces the strong support for “demonic killer” Lindsay Clancy:
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 10, 2026
“If you’re dating a woman right now who is a supporter of this woman who killed her children— cut bait and run for your life.” pic.twitter.com/htkLswQA3a
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (QovLg)
Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (rje/a)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (TdwZW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 11, 2026 06:25 PM (q2Q7i)
Revealing any identifying information about a juror is illegal, isn't it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (AnW6a)
And then uses the State's actions to make his case (tampons in the men's bathroom).
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Brometheus at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (DM8vH)
Ah-ha! In the last post, I speculated that the lone juror is totally made up to feed into commie Karen’s fever dreams. Yes, I know there was a lone holdout, but we know nothing about him other that what was told to us by stark raving lunatics.
That lone juror could be anyone.
This is an op. The courts surely know his name and address. I have no doubt someone could have leaked it. But they didn’t. I speculate that’s because he (or she) bears little resemblance to the op.
I could be wrong. We’ll see. But I don’t think I’m wrong.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (Luoab)
This thing is a cancer to our culture and the Chinese know it. I dont care who owns it. He should have let the US ban stand.
Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (q3RLF)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Iris at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (286+n)
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (QFchU)
Posted by: The pinnacle of creation at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (QovLg)
Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)
Don't question our superiors.
Posted by: Vagina transcends all, including murder at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: The pinnacle of creation"
Yeah right. But first...
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (0aYVJ)
And not just doxxing, but smearing him for past bad behavior. He chose not to speak to the press, one should be able to retain anonymity as a juror, Ffs!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (viF8m)
Citizen journalist, rightie influencer and all-round cutie-pie Angela Rose is on the scene:
https://tinyurl.com/2ezw78eb
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (2Drhq)
He didn't follow his instructions and refused to acknowledge a suffering mother's mental illness. Why are we rooting fir him because he's Black?
why do yall see this as a good thing? yall are falling for the culture war, hook line and sinker.
i’m a card carrying member of the DSA, and a black woman with bipolar who has experienced psychosis. maybe research what post partum psychosis actually looks like and see if you still agree with this juror.
this from her attorney is definitely a dog whistle, especially since we know that he knows that juror was Black when he made this statement, "Clancy was robbed by this man." And the old white Karen saying he was "very arrogant"? Of course the Black person that you guys can't control is arrogant.
That brotha was probably making his decision based on how the justice system treats us. Other jurors were basing it on how it treats them.
Would a black woman or especially a black man get off with the psychosis excuse? Only a young white, reasonably attractive white women would ever get this amount of attention
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (AnW6a)
Forget it man, it's Massachusetts-town!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw
I'd rather be in jail than in love.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (QFchU)
If the dude is a chad, he was laughing internally as he admits having psychotic family members but gets a second date, then ghosts her.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (uhVAy)
She will be going to prison most likely if she tries to emulate Clancy as you have to admit guilt before being able to mount the insanity offense. Dunno if that is the rule in MA but it is in IL.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (2WIwB)
Well, they always do that so its no shock.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)
99% fake or staged. You really think that THOTy whore really went on a date and the guy mouthed verbatim Murder Cult talking points that you’d only know if youre following these lunatics? Nah. This is fake.
The “she asked for help” meme is the dumbest shit ever and nobody really believes it. Pure Murder Cult talking point. So if someone ‘asks for help’ (whatever that means), but doesn’t get help sufficiently helpful to satisfy whatever impossible standard of helpfulness these lunatics invent, then you are free to … murder your kids?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Luoab)
Me: "Judge, I was psychotic at the time. Voices told me, commanded me, to run that stop sign!"
Judge: "You are fined the maximum, $250. And you are sentenced to 50 years in the county jail for contempt of court! Deputies, get him out of my courtroom!
Me: "But Your Honor, you let the woman tried before me off with no penalty or punishment for the same violation, and she used the same excuse!"
Judge: Now you are sentenced to 100 years in the count jail for contempt of court, white male!!!
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly "
How about a Prisoner Of Love?
Posted by: Leo at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Chef at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: pookysgirl has innovative solutions at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (KC5Lt)
The right thing to get some press you mean. I don't believe she was crazy for a second.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)
Wonder what's the next Shop Of Horrors to get splashed all over the internet and the media.
Posted by: That's Entertainment! at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (cCXR+)
I just spent my life savings on a business. Sight unseen, but I feel pretty good about it.
I am now the owner of the largest oyster farm in Eromanga. Wish me luck.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (53GQo)
Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)
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She was probably thinking she'd break a leg or an arm--something that would elicit sympathy, but not permanent maiming.
Just her luck (or karma) that she broke her back instead, leading to permanent paralysis.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.
Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (4aEAd)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (2Drhq)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)
I saw a pic as well. Tore me up. Such cute li'l kids. I am heartbroken.
We're surrounded by monsters.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (Cqx++)
Senator Harry Reid once upon a time made "allegations" against Mitt Romney. "It worked, didn't it?"
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (88C+u)
Used to be the biggest concern was something that penicillin might not fix. Now you have to worry about waking up with Glen Close straddling you with a butcher knife in her hand screaming I won't be ignored!
I've had my turn in the circus. I'll just sit here with Elvis and drink rum.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax /
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire /
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
Posted by: Earworm incoming at September 11, 2026 06:39 PM (nHXB4)
However, out of my residual sense of self-preservation, I think it Prudent to flee while passions are high. also plausible deniability
I more than suspect that these ladies of my acquaintance are inclined to break into the jail and strangle the MurderMommy with all their bare hands.
Them girls was raised right.
Posted by: Miklos needs even more lawyers guns and money at September 11, 2026 06:39 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Massachusetts Karens channeling Master Blaster at September 11, 2026 06:40 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)
Her plan was almost perfect. Almost. She failed to realize she needed to learn how to do a parachute landing fall.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (5rh/l)
And by the way, you're an idiot
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes
Mass apparently has both a different rule than most states on burden of proof. But it also has a two prong test. State has to prove she could control her urges to commit murder AND know was wrong. The control of urges (volition) is the old irresistible urge defense that has been debunked years ago by psychology and expunged from law in most places but still present in a few places like MA (see Anatomy of a Murder which was based on a real trial on how that works. )
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)
Just her luck (or karma) that she broke her back instead, leading to permanent paralysis.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)
1) she landed head first.
2) the ground was frozen. Was there snow? She probably figured it'd cushion the fall.
She's evil. And stupid. But mostly evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Laughing at the superior intellect at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (TbWk/)
People in mental health spirals are found guilty all the time. They feel terrible so they murder. To be not guilty by reason of mental defect you have to show you did not understand what you were doing is wrong. Just planning the errands for the husband to create opportunity is enough to show she understood what she was doing was wrong.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (/OKHJ)
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That's fine--they should have adjourned the trial and buried her behind the courthouse just the same. She killed 3 kids, period.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: bob
You know about the hampster situation, right?
Posted by: Miklos thinks Pixy has some 'splainin' to do at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (4RYRd)
This is the living embodiment of feminism -- pure violent irrationality, complete disregard for the law.
I wouldn't want to be a young woman going forward. Men are gonna start putting bounties on them. And the new browner demographics aren't gonna put up with their shit.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (2Drhq)
Media's dying as fast as we can, man!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (ndZc7)
what do they suck by choice?
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (TN0g+)
This is also kind of my point about insanity please in general. Ok, they're crazy. But they still killed three kids. We do not need them here. Shoot, shovel, shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Pamazon at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (b5MGU)
*how many have or know someone who has done a college level report on a movie for either a lit or history class?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.
She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)
what do they suck by choice?
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (88C+u)
Average Joe.
Cock.
Keeping the lore alive, Boss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)
Case in point, Susan Smith. The southern belle who strapped her kids in a car and sent the car into a lake drowning both of them. She initially blamed an unknown black man cause that's what To Kill a Mockingbird told her to do. Then plead a temporary mental break.
Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)
Get the Hell's Angels to surround his home for protection, and everyone donate $5 to his Permanent Beer Fund. Let's make these doxxing bastards eat their own shit.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:47 PM (nL/22)
Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)
Did he bust up a chifferobe for her?
Posted by: His DNA was on the wood! at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (MWfyi)
@shellshockkk
Eyes
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I hope that guy was just trying to get laid.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (ndZc7)
Probably.
1) most decent dudes are out of the game from most reports, which leaves the operator type.
2) what are the odds that your random first date first, has a psychotic relative and second, would tell you if he did?
The 'making it all up' alternative is still a strong one, since this new person basically repeats just what she believes. He has no agency or new angle, he's a sock puppet by her story.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (uhVAy)
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.
Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus
She had psychiatrists on speed dial and more drugs than Walgreens.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (ndZc7)
Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus
I don't completely buy it. I believe she had mental health issues, but she deliberately concealed them, didn't get them treated properly through her deliberately actions, plotted the murder of her children well in advance, and put together a detailed plan to avoid anyone interrupting her in the execution of the killings. That's not a sudden snap, and it's not an irresistible compulsion. The fake suicide attempt was just part of her coverup to gain sympathy and strengthen her pre-determined legal defense, along with her statements immediately after being found (asking for attorney and status of her legs, not of her children). She knew it was wrong, planned it over time, and avoided multiple off ramps for assistance. I don't know if it was some kind of thing to hurt her husband, or some kind of relief from mental issues, but I don't buy it being an irresistible compulsion.
Austin Harrouff in Florida murdering a stranger and eating his face as cops kicked him is a psychosis snap I can believe.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (lCppi)
I wish the bitch ------ until circumstances make her so.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (8jVAy)
In case ya'll missed this....
Trump immigration investigation confirms IIhan Omar did marry her brother. She faces deportation.
Posted by: four seasons at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.
She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)
I don't know how she could prove she answered doctors' questions truthfully and fully. But if it will be trial by jury, the malpractice insurance companies will settle out of court. If they are smart, especially after seeing how the jury in her criminal trial behaved.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Miklos
Oh boy, I get to sell hamsters too!
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (53GQo)
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What's the difference between a "cultural" Marxist and a Marxist? Aren't they just Marxists?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (nL/22)
Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw
It was...some Puerto Rican guy.
Posted by: Linda Stotch at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: fd
There you go again. Not being able to get over three vicious murders.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Miklos needs even more lawyers guns and money
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You are treble blessed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.
She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)
I was referring to the Illinois copycat, but I will confirm that I think the Mass. Murderer is also completely sane.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (uhVAy)
To my understanding, there is no disputing that Lindsey viciously strangled her three children, the only question was that she was so mentally impaired that she could not tell right from wrong, not that she was somehow not guilty of the crime?
The way these lunatic nurses are framing it is that they were determining whether she did it or not.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (MWfyi)
Season of the Witch:
https://youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Also.... youtu.be/wavKzXX-Vek
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: fd
There you go again. Not being able to get over three vicious murders.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ndZc7)
Were they Republican, or wore the same cute outfit as you to a party but looked better in it?
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)
But people claiming she didn't do it at all?!?!? That's just nuts.
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Boo Radley at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (53GQo)
What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (XV/Pl)
The lunatic nurses are lunatics
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)
And she took them to a different room separately, because she knew that one child watching their mother murder their siblings would terrify them, possibly interfering with her will to murder.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (CjHsb)
Posted by: Miklos thinks South Carolina has some advantages at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Soviet Ministry of Demoralization at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (53GQo)
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That's why she's crazy.
This is an under-reported phenomenon. The U.S.A. consumes the lion's share of mind bending pharmaceuticals, tranquilizers and mood elevators and so-called anti-depressants, you name it. And it isn't even close.
And guess what particular demographics are prescribed the lion's share of mind bending pharmaceuticals in this country? Just guess. Wonder how it further breaks down into liberal progressive whack job versus everyone else.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: four seasons
Oh, no, you
Posted by: Hakeem Jeffries wet dream if he becomes Speaker at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)
Hey! I was hungry! Burger King just was not open so it was face or nothing.
Posted by: Austin Harrouff, In The Nuthouse at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (cCXR+)
I'm going to guess that you are more than ten miles away* from me and just say to your comment...
"Sure Jan!
Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (rje/a)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (CjHsb)
if she was unable to tell right from wrong, why the suicide attempt?
why does she look like she wants to strangle everyone in the courtroom in every picture I see of her? Presumably she is out of the psychosis for the trial, right?
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (viF8m)
There needs to be a law against publicizing, interviewing publicly, promoting, or doxxing jurors.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (N2HNb)
Ah. but by definition it wasn't what she needed, because she went and killed those kids. Something else was what she needed.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
The conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Hell, they're getting just plumb stooopid. We used to have much better conspiracy theories. Sort of like the intelligence and cunning of a Columbo murderer vs real world criminals.
And speaking of Tuq'r, I just saw that "hey, what's up with all these stupid letters they put in the math thing".
He's going to go full Flat Earth, and I'll put money on that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.
Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus
Except the jurors are currently nuking themselves by running to the camera and revealing there own depravity. The only thing clear cut was she ruthlessly murdered her 3 kids. She planned it. She is of sound mind, IMO. She is just evil. There is an entire world view that has spent decades trying to erase good and evil and make everything relative. Clancy is just the fruit of that labor.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: whig
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Her toxicology exam showed that she had no effective levels of any medication. Therefore, she was not taking her medication as prescribed.
They are a bitch family possessed. Massachusetts should know that by it's heritage but being a state possessed it cannot see.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
Someone needed to open a .45 inch window in her forehead.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)
Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)
This person has a very flexible definition of attractive
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (K32Fz)
The conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Hell, they're getting just plumb stooopid. We used to have much better conspiracy theories. Sort of like the intelligence and cunning of a Columbo murderer vs real world criminals.
And speaking of Tuq'r, I just saw that "hey, what's up with all these stupid letters they put in the math thing".
He's going to go full Flat Earth, and I'll put money on that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)
Or -
The Jooos have a secret base on the dark side of the moon!
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (5rh/l)
I mean three dots it could very well be bullcrap
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (j+aD2)
So, not her fault she strangled her kids.
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)
The insanity defense in Massachussets provides that they're not guilty if the person is lacking in criminal responsibility -- which means they suffer from a mental disease or defect, AND as a result, either is substantially unable to appreciate the criminality or wrongfulness of the conduct OR is substantially unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.
So she could know the murders are wrong but be unable -due to psychosis -to stop herself from doing it. Not saying that happened. But the law is just a little different from some other states.
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)
Hey! I was hungry! Burger King just was not open so it was face or nothing.
Posted by: Austin Harrouff
"Harrouff’s mother, Mina Harrouff, stopped him from drinking vegetable oil straight from the bottle; he subsequently poured it into a bowl with parmesan cheese and ate it."
Hunter Biden- at least he didn't try to smoke it.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)
"I've voted republican all my life but..."
"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)
This is probably not the case. I once read the original source book for the Hollow Earth theory, written in the 19th century. When going over the evidence he wrote "Scientists claim the mass of the earth is 5.972 × 10²⁴ kg....this is much too high"
Well, OK then!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (vE0+H)
I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.
And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)
This person has a very flexible definition of attractive
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Has Elric weighed in on her level of attractiveness?
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)
"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)
Its not complete without the tearful embrace with the wise 6 year old child. That always sells me.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (uhVAy)
Even if this is accurate (and the mental health experts disagreed), she still murdered her children and is guilty. This idea that if you go crazy, you somehow didn't do it just baffles me. Did you do it? Then you're guilty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Austin Harrouff
Sir, this is a Wendy
Posted by: The actual Wendy used to live near here at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (4RYRd)
I'm going to guess that you are more than ten miles away* from me and just say to your comment...
"Sure Jan!
Posted by: Will Robinson
======
Isn't Jan married to that nice guy George Glass? Everyone thought George didn't exist but she sure showed everybody.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (j+aD2)
Fuck. This bitch needs to burn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (j+aD2)
I am aware. I have "allegations" (not domestic) in my past too. They were bullshit and found to be so. The media would still ruin me with them.
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:03 PM (vE0+H)
>>>Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now.
Stay vigilante, folks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:03 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)
She must have been hiding her state of mind for a time, maybe a long time, from her husband and her mother, who was living with the Clancy's to give the future murderess help around the house and a shoulder to cry on.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (5rh/l)
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Doxxing anybody for any reason is a credible threat. Jury intimidation is unlawful already. I mean, I'm guessing but it has to be.
And the only reason for doxxing is "Hey one of you psychos out there should kill this person who lives here, at 79 Wistful Vista, and their kids get on the bus every school day at 0800. Here's their picture.."
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)
"I've voted republican all my life but..."
"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
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*golf clap*
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (TN0g+)
So, not her fault she strangled her kids.
Posted by: fd
As I said earlier, that is the debunked idea of suddenly snapped crap. Real insanity cases under a sane M'Naughten rule followed by almost all states means that it is not enough to be mentally ill, you have to be to the point where you are literally delusional. And you have to prove it unlike Mass where the prosecution has to prove you are sane.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)
You just can't get over the 3 dead kids can you? The prosecutor wasn't very sympathetic to Lindsay at all...she was a big meanie, while Kevin was so sweet and charming, and really showed what a great mother Lindsay was. No one had a bad word to say about her, so she must have snapped.
Posted by: Female Jurors in Interviews at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (t19vo)
Nothing would make me laugh more than if they just doxed the wrong guy with the same name.
Seriously one of the unwritten rules in our society is that you leave jurors the hell aloe no matter how retarded their decision. Like the subnormal IQ losers who found OJ not guilty of what he blatantly did. Nobody doxed them and put them on blast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (K32Fz)
She planned murder
She methodically murdered her children
She is a murderer.
We now have two generations of mush brained adults loosely tethered to reality who are watching and believing this shit show as presented by the media and tik tok then proceeding to copy cat kill their children.
As long as judges, lawyers and the media are allowed to present shit shows as reality this will continue.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (5rh/l)
Or, she is a full on psychopath. That is kind of what she strikes me as. Her kids, her husband, everything and everyone are toys.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (Q+gd/)
https://tinyurl.com/bdh8vuzv
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (3ImbR)
I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.
And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)
At this rate, Trump will have to send in the Marines to end the deal with the Houthi menace to that waterway.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I thought it a law.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (nL/22)
Not bad in cheese steaks- but NO green peppers!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (zZu0s)
I decided it was best to just not give her any serious work to do.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (cI94r)
Its okay to have pretty, even hawt girls without them holding footballs in front of their naughty bits. She's in an ad 30 feet tall in NYC, naked as a bee hiding behind sports equipment.
This is not a sign of a healthy, virtuous society.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (Q+gd/)
While the boobs are high, so to speak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (zZu0s)
Fuck. This bitch needs to burn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)
Did she, though? Probably garroted them from behind so she didn't have to look them in the eyes.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (CjHsb)
No better privileges than prison. No day passes or field trips. No early release for Sudden-Onset Post-Sentencing Clarity. And, importantly, no major benefit for common criminal scum to pretend insanity, so it will probably mostly just be people that really need psychiatric treatment that go there.
Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (ke3zm)
Posted by: davidt
There is iron in my pants for all to see.
Posted by: Ten Bears at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (t19vo)
Yeah she's not a very good actress and is getting her money while she can.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (K32Fz)
I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.
And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)
There's a lot of dirt between where the Houthis are and anything really vital. It would be good practice for these Gulf States to collect a few brigades, shake out some good troops out of them and just wipe out the issue covered by air support.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (uhVAy)
Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.
Posted by: Tuna
Pretty much announcing that you're NOT a 'hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative'. A moby.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (G1ktt)
Apparently the oldest fled and she had to chase him down (her?). I wouldn't be shocked if she did stare them down with those SSRI-cranked loony eyes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (K32Fz)
I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.
And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I like the scenario except the we don't need the Suez part.
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)
Ted Torgerson—The experts, including experts for the prosecution, disagree with you.
Anonosaurus Wrecks—Congratulations, you just argued for the defense.
Moron Analyst—You clearly did not watch the trial.
Will Robinson—Always had a crush on Marcia, and still do.
Puddleglum—You clearly did not watch the trial.
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (4aEAd)
Posted by: davidt
Or before the boobs start to droop.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Quint at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Gref
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Her husband looks like a gimp.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (5rh/l)
Them dancing about capturing a town here or there threatens nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Longtime Caller First Time listener at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: LASue
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MA's law is called McHoul rule from the Commonwealth v. McHoul case in 1967. Supreme Court of Mass decided to use the hot new take on insanity that the Model Penal Code used. Which itself was based on the since debunked irresistible impulse research at the time by some fruitcake psychologists.
And Clancy will end up causing multiple murders of children across the US and that is to be laid at the jurors and Massachusetts lawmakers, voters, and their courts. And most of them will find out that society still views murder of children as evil and will go to prison but the children of the copycat killers will still be dead.
Frankly exchange Massachussets and Vermont with Canada--they can become lesser South Ontario, we get whatever sane provinces are out west that want to join the US.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)
I kinda wish the Joel Schumacker who had made "Falling Down" had done a Batman film.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (gHSfI)
"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)
Its not complete without the tearful embrace with the wise 6 year old child. That always sells me.
Posted by: Oldcat
Little 'che che' should be all grown up now!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (G1ktt)
I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.
And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)
There's a lot of dirt between where the Houthis are and anything really vital. It would be good practice for these Gulf States to collect a few brigades, shake out some good troops out of them and just wipe out the issue covered by air support.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (uhVAy)
Never happen. The officers don't want to get their tailored uniforms mussed-up.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (5rh/l)
OK, I didn't watch the trial. But when I read that one of the nurse Karen complain that the Prosecution didn't put on evidence the defendant was a bad mother I lost it. My Gawd what makes you think that is relevant evidence. Oh my we are a nation of idiots.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)
At least one has happened and as ACE noted, previous ones are trying to pile on his case and claim the same thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (K32Fz)
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)
Us, no. The EU, yes.
We get virtually nothing from the Persian Gulf.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (uhVAy)
Karens are lucky he only throttled the water bottle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (dK+Kv)
That's the dreaded "Nuh-uh" response to evidence presented. They don't understand it or like it, it's just "Nuh-uh!". Of course, I think their grammar and stuff was much better back in the day.
As far as the mass of duh Erf, I'm ashamed to admit I'd never heard of the Schiehallion Experiment in 1774.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Court showed she was inconsistent taking meds and at the time was not really influenced by her prescription meds. Dosage in blood was too low for any therapeutic remedy. Another thing showing that she is probably faking and just wanted her children dead as a nuisance.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (G1ktt)
A lifelong rock-ribbed Republican, a deeply concerned Christian conservative
Posted by: Severely conservative, even at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Reports are saying Houthis on the coast close to Bab Al-Mandab.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vC80E)
I notice you didn't say any of the facts I based my analysis on were incorrect.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)
Always has been.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (5rh/l)
tell them they get more medals when they do, it worked for the Brit Aristocracy all those years.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (uhVAy)
It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m)
What exactly do you mean by "mental-health spiral" ?
Because where you are going means that all women should be treated as animals or children since they have no Agency.
If a vague pseudo-scientific "diagnosis" of "mental-health" going into a clinical "spiral" is sufficient to declare a person non compus mentis, and it is impossible to tell what part of a "mental-health spiral" a person is in, then any lawyer can get any person off under the premise of a "mental-health spiral".
You just gave excuse to any depressed person to going on a murder spree and get pity, not judgement.
You too are a person who doesn't see the judicial system as a way to protect society, but as a game of emotional manipulation.
I don't think you are compatible with civilized ordered society.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (pawvM)
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)
Militarily? yes... it really shortens supply lines to both Ships and Troops stationed in the Mid East.
Economically? No...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: davidt
There is iron in my pants for all to see.
Posted by: Ten Bears
LoL!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (vE0+H)
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Following the mistrial declared on September 4, 2026 due to a hung jury in her criminal case, her civil legal team—which includes Scapicchio and medical malpractice experts Andrew Meyer and Bill Thompson—vowed to continue pursuing a major lawsuit.
Lindsay Clancy's civil defense attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio, “We plan on holding each and every doctor and each and every hospital responsible for how they failed Lindsay, time and time and time again.”
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You want a really strange reaction from an involved man? How about Patrick Clancy a week after his wife viscously killed the three kids? Tell me it's reasonable & normal.
>Patrick Clancy, husband of woman accused of strangling three kids, speaks out, By Caitlin O'Kane, January 30, 2023 CBS News
>GoFundMe page for the father of the Clancy children, Patrick Clancy, was created on January 27, 2023, and was organized by Matthew Glaser of Wakefield, Massachusetts. To help Patrick Clancy cover medical bills, funeral services, and legal help, as well as living expenses while unable to work.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vC80E)
they've always been close to the coast, that's how they attack shipping in little boats. As long as they aren't doing that, or launching missiles somewhere its nothing alarming.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Mallamutt
The reason is character evidence is a very tricky thing on its effect on juries and what is and is not permissible in court. Rules of evidence frown upon trying to show the person is bad so they must have done the bad thing. You can get around it but that also allows the other side to bring in character witnesses who always say they were a fantastic person.
Sometimes the issue is hashed out in pretrial over character evidence (and you have to inform the other side that you are going to use it) and the jury never hears that.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Nomad at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)
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YOU LEAVE GARRETT ALONE!!!
Posted by: Tik-Tok Influencer at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (nHXB4)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (4aEAd)
If things go sideways for this guy, I will have some very pointed questions for the attorneys about protecting our identities upon my next call up. I may even demand a written statement from the DA outlining the criminal charges that violators will face from his office should any juror's identity be leaked to the press...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Grace at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (hyQrc)
Posted by: James '86' Comey at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (dIske)
Economically? No...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Houthis in bum-boats is what you call 'target practice' to a military fleet or convoy.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (uhVAy)
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)
Everything that goes through Suez must go through that chokepoint, so it is important. But it’s far easier for America to use the pacific route to get ships to the region than it is for the Euros (obviously)
And the Saudis have the worst trillion dollar army in the world. By far. Fancy uniforms, expensive equipment, and thru still run away as son as any shooting starts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (P8wUf)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:18 PM (G1ktt)
The proper format from the old days (The Lace Wig era) requires that you also identify the first Republican Presidential candidate you ever voted for, preferably someone from the late 1800s to early 1900s like James Garfield or William McKinley.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:18 PM (cI94r)
Posted by: Longtime Caller First Time listener at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (nL/22)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JackStraw
Takes out a lot of the guesswork.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (y+Apl)
Posted by: Mallamutt
But doesn't that mean you voted for a Democrat? The parties flipped!!!!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Carolus
First time caller, long time listener right?
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Tik-Tok Influencer at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (nHXB4)
But regardless 1. The mass insanity rule is insane. 'Unable to follow social mores' is way too open. 2. Call 911 and tell the operator, the cop, and ems that you are hearing voices telling you to kill yourself and kids. You're getting a psych hold. She was competent enough to get cucky out of the house and answer his phone call. She was competent enough to follow social mores.
Posted by: Aacid at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (+g/0n)
??
15 years ago, Ace would be chiding us about stroking our gun dicks.
Now?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (dK+Kv)
Let's suppose they are finally right about these things. Why should we ever elect a woman or appoint one in the private sector to a position of power if they can't control their hormonal urges?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mallamutt
Besides, the nurses said they hated the prosecution for being 'mean' anyway. If they'd spent a week thrashing her, that would just make them more mean and they'd hate them more.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (NFX2v)
real courage to chase down a little girl to strangle her. boudicca would have been proud.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (P8wUf)
Well this is how you shake that dust off. Sack some bad officers, hire some mercs to train them up and critique them, the usual. If the Saudis want to keep all that gold trim, they are gonna have to have some security forces to hold the bad folks off.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)
Experts don't carry much weight with me. Did you know that more people have been killed by Experts than penguins? And that Experts once predicted that NYC would be under a mile of ice by now.
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)
real courage to chase down a little girl to strangle her. boudicca would have been proud.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (88C+u)
Weren't 2 of them girls? So much for feminist soldiarity.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy)
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Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (ndZc7)
Now is there anyone here who can live without an ad hominem?
Speaking of which, now you’re defending wife beaters who voted to convict and ad homing Army vets who voted “not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.”
And everyone who disagrees with the groupthink is a Karen or an AWFL—can’t be a conservative.
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (4aEAd)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)
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So you're more a chain them to a wall inside their cage at the looney bin kind of guy?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (ndZc7)
I loosely paraphrased Patrick Clancy (the ex-husband), who said Lindsay entered a “big spiral” after she began taking Seroquel. BTW: Patrick Clancy disagrees with everyone on this thread.
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (4aEAd)
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One could say the same of Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (fLhzo)
Fully agree and this is my problem with the law. Specifically, should the law make a cutout for mentally-ill people? I honestly struggle with this for the reason you suggest. If Lindsay Clancy can dodge execution, then why shouldn’t Decarlos Brown Jr. (who was ruled incompetent to stand trial)? Either way, in this case the law does provide a cutout and the defense successfully used it, which is absolutely her right.
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Xj0wS)
Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (Xj0wS)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (ksbjf)
Yeah, that and being a Catholic priest.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (/OKHJ)
It’s also his job to counsel couples who want to be married.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Carolus
Btw, he had a GoFundMe account in a handful of days, divorced Lindsay in months, and he stands to get a huge payoff from BS - imo btw - lawsuits AND not share a cent with ex-wife.
I think that's enough to support his disagreements with everyone, as you say.
Do you get a cut if it tilts his way??
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Oldcat
Oldest a 5 year old girl, in daycare 4 days a week. The next a 3 year old boy, strangled & left in his father's office. He had also been in daycare, though not as frequent as his sister. The 3rd an 8 month old boy, strangled back down in the basement near his sister. He was transported to a hospital for care, and then to evaluate if brain dead.
A small pool of blood was found on the carpeting near the baby which seemed to mean his mother returned to the basement and stood there after slashing herself up with a kitchen knife.
I doubt it was from regret.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 09:44 PM (ydoWy)
Posted by: Fritz at September 11, 2026 10:00 PM (J7jo9)
Struggling to fight back tears after reading.
WHY?!? What did any of these children ever do to deserve such a fate?
Posted by: Tracy at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (bNPPm)
Posted by: Carolus at September 12, 2026 10:59 AM (kdaZS)
The Week In Woke
Nike has been kicked out of the S&P 100 -- which is supposed to be an index of market leaders -- after its share price fell 79% due to incompetence and the handmaiden of incompetence, woke marketing.
Nike stock has fallen roughly 78% from its 2021 peak, traded this summer around levels investors had not seen in more than a decade, and is now about to suffer another symbolic blow. S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove Nike from the S&P 100, an index intended to represent some of America's largest and most established blue-chip companies. It will remain in the S&P 500, so I would not overstate the mechanical significance of the change, but after everything that has happened to Nike over the last several years, the timing is difficult to ignore.As a wise man said in the future of 1997, "Killian, here is Subzero, now, plain zero!" Someone finally did a paper about the costs of DEI policies -- specifically, about the reduction in performance when you stop prioritizing performance and instead prioritize "diversity." It does have a major cost.
The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program
The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities. September 1, 2026
By Eric Kaufmann, Leif Rasmussen, and Jonah Davids
September 1, 2026 Is diversity truly our strength? Does equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) improve excellence? Since 2017, the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which sets the agenda for Canadian academic research, has moved dramatically in the direction of implementing EDI ideology and quotas. Regrettably, prioritizing EDI results in an "equity-excellence trade-off": Canadian taxpayers are funding cultural socialist activism among elite professionals at the expense of the disinterested pursuit of truth. And, Canadian research is paying a high cost for its unfettered embrace of EDI, both through the non-meritorious appointment of less qualified Black, Indigenous, and female chairs, and by diverting millions of dollars to left-wing scholar-activist research. According to our analysis -- the first of its kind -- EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year, equivalent to a 12 per cent "tax" on the CRC's $300 million annual budget.
While previous studies have examined demographic differences and the effects of EDI on organizational and team performance, none has examined its organizational-level consequences in academic research. This study fills that gap by testing EDI's impact on research output in the CRC holders program from 2016 to 2025. It turns out, diversity is not merely neutral -- it can actually lower performance. To determine the scope of the EDI problem, we measured all award holders listed on the CRC site using the industry standard publication metric, the h-index, which combines both the number of articles a scholar has written or co-written with the number of times those articles have been cited by other researchers. Our analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities. Specifically, we find that: * The average h-index of publication impact for Black or Indigenous chairs is 18, for female chairs is 28, and for White or Asian males is 38. * The proportion of chairs who are White males declined from approximately 80 per cent in 2000 to around 25 per cent in 2025. * EDI hiring resulted in lost productivity equivalent to 10 to 15 per cent per "equity-deserving" (female, Black, Indigenous) Canada Research Chair between 2016 to 2025.
... EDI in American federal grants peaked in 2021 and collapsed after 2024, but kept on rising in Canada, reaching record-setting levels by 2025.
Collin ClearyTrump Administration launches probe of California and New York Schools for allowing minorities to repeatedly bully and hit Jewish students without consequence.
@collin_cleary I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching "Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile. Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears -- or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all. I'll share more observations later. More observations about my students: Many could not follow a simple chain of reasoning. Often it seemed like my class was the first occasion they had ever been challenged to think. It was common for them to visit me in my office hours and to ask me to tell them exactly what I wanted them to say on tests or in papers. When I said that I wanted to see evidence that they had done their own thinking, they would look panic stricken. Some more observations about my students: It was extremely difficult to get a class discussion going, because they were often unwilling to make judgments of any kind. Partly, this was because they had an intense fear of offending anyone. In addition, most believed that everything is "relative" and that therefore it's wrong to judge (completely blanking out the fact that this itself is a judgment).
Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine. Also in NYC: A Gentle Giant "Teen" whips out a knife and chases a soccer player around. The soccer player must be thanking God for his superior speed and endurance, or he'd be dead now. No arrests for this in Zohran Mamdani's NYC. Arresting Gentle Giant "Teens" would be racist. Young woman beats up a Soyboy Beta Cuck until she hits the Soyboy in his Okay Now I'm Pissed Off Button, and she gets a quick lesson in why men shouldn't be allowed to compete with women in sports. I wish he knew how to actually throw a punch because I fear this "lesson" was too lightly applied to stick. This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.
The Trump administration on Thursday launched two separate federal civil rights investigations into antisemitic persecution of Jewish students inside California's Etiwanda School District and the American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, according to the advocacy groups that prompted the action. The probe of Etiwanda schools--a 14,000-student district in California's Inland Empire--stems from a March 6 complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that a 12-year-old girl "was subjected to repeated anti-Semitic bullying, harassment, and discrimination that continued to escalate due to inaction from the school." At New York's AMDA, one of the top schools for developing Broadway stars, a Jewish student allegedly "faced retaliation after she reported anti-Semitic harassment shortly after beginning studies at the performing arts college." Both complaints--filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League--were deemed credible enough by federal officials to initiate a probe, which will determine whether the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by permitting discrimination against Jews. They are the latest federal actions aimed at stemming Jew hatred in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, which fueled a massive rise in antisemitism across American college campuses and even primary schools. The Etiwanda school district, which is 16 percent white, is in a county where the Jewish population is estimated to be at less than 1 percent. At the Etiwanda Intermediate School, which teaches sixth through eighth grade students, a Jewish girl was struck repeatedly with a stick and told to "Shut [her] stupid Jewish ass up" when yelling for help, according to the complaint. "She was then pinned against a table and choked for several seconds, until she escaped." The student also faced harassment inside the classroom, including in one case where the student was publicly "humiliated" and told, "This wouldn't be an issue if you weren't Jewish." The Brandeis Center, ADL, and pro-Israel organization StandWithUs subsequently notified the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights of more disturbing behavior in the school district that allegedly included "students giving Nazi salutes in the hallways, the drawing of swastikas, praise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Holocaust taunts and anti-Jewish slurs." The original complaint documents instances in which "a student allegedly said, 'I love making Jews uncomfortable, especially with Hitler jokes'" and another where a student was called a "stupid Jew." "The continuing harassment is significant because the Brandeis Center, ADL and StandWithUs allege that the district's inadequate response to the original incidents left the hostile environment in place, allowing anti-Semitic conduct targeting the same victim to continue incident after incident," the organization said in a press release.
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AMDA reportedly investigated the incident and found that "several students had intentionally targeted the Jewish student." However, the performing arts school ultimately imposed a "mutual no-contact directive" on both the Jewish student and her abusers, a decision that the complaint alleges penalized the Jewish student for reporting to law enforcement what would likely constitute a hate crime. "Rather than protecting the student from retaliation after she reported the anti-Semitic harassment, the complaint alleges that AMDA allowed the retaliation to continue and failed to punish the students for violating the directive," the organizations said.
If a cop is driving behind you with their sirens blaring, you don't have to get out of the way. In fact, stand your ground.
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) September 9, 2026
They are probably just out to harass some innocent illegal immigrant committing a crime, and the only thing between them and jail is you. Stand your… pic.twitter.com/TfCvWUiDN1
WATCH: Today, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran away from my questions about a deadly shooting in downtown Manassas. pic.twitter.com/2MA2uXreDe
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) September 9, 2026
Tom HennessyMore: No indication yet that he's an illegal alien, but he has been repeatedly arrested and repeatedly let go. Can't be a "carceral" nation, after all. It's racist unless remorseless criminals are permitted to roam free and cut your head off.
@Tomhennessey69 🚨 attempted beheading 🚨 Let's check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt. Andrew liked to sit at the park and take photos that he shared on his IG. Around 11am, Wimsatt was sitting on a park bench when Ogbodiegwu began attacking him with a knife. Ogbodiegwu wrapped his left arm around Wimsatt and started viciously stabbing him. Wimsatt tried to push him off but failed. Ogbodiegwu continued stabbing Wimsatt several times before Wimsatt fell to the ground. Ogbodiegwu then got on top of the victim and started visibly sawing Wimsatt's neck with the knife before running away toward the park’s pool area. The attack happened at Chandler Creek Park and was captured on a nearby security camera. That video will never be released to the public and will stay hidden forever so as not to alarm White people.
Austin JusticeApparently theft isn't a real crime any longer.
@AustinJustice
NEW DETAILS on the murder and attempted beheading of a man at a Round Rock park. Andrew James Wimsatt sat down on a bench that Monday morning in a plaid blue button-up and shorts. Three minutes later he was dead. A neighbor's camera had already caught Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. leaving his house that morning, walking toward the park with something in his left pocket that detectives say looked like a large knife sticking out. He stopped for a drink at the water fountain by the basketball court. Then he found Wimsatt. He came from behind, wrapped his left arm around the man, and started driving the knife into his neck. Wimsatt tried to push him off. He couldn't. He was stabbed several more times before he hit the ground. Then Ogbodiegwu walked around to his left side, knelt down, put his knee on the dying man's chest, and kept going -- sawing the blade back and forth while it was inside his neck. He wiped the blade on his shirt and jogged off toward the pool. Four minutes after he left the park, that same neighbor's camera caught him walking back home, two houses away. That afternoon he turned up at a McDonald's in a different outfit and left as a passenger in a red SUV. The plate traced back to his father's house, nine-tenths of a mile from the bench. When detectives showed him a still from the crime scene video, he admitted it was him. Then said he was never at the park. Then said he has a twin. Asked for his twin's name, he had nothing. Deputies found a trash bag by the garage. Inside: the Honda shirt he was wearing at the murder scene, grey sweatpants with red stains, size 12 Jordans, and a 5.5-inch knife with a wooden handle. The red substance on the blade tested presumptive positive for human blood. The two men had never met. He apparently decided to just stab a stranger. In January, Ogbodiegwu was arrested for theft, which was dismissed. In May, arrested for giving police a fake name - also dismissed. Years earlier, he was arrested for theft.
The victim, Andrew Wimsatt, was 62 years old, and an accomplished civil engineer in Texas. He was also an avid nature and wildlife photography enthusiast. Fox News host @greggutfeld called him "supremely gentle. Willing to do just about anything for another person." Before his murder, Andrew had just returned from visiting his mother a nearby nursing home.
🚨 attempted beheading 🚨
— Tom Hennessy (@Tomhennessey69) September 10, 2026
Let’s check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.
Andrew liked to sit at the park and take photos that he shared on… pic.twitter.com/kHaRH3GXxK
unther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
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🚨 JUST IN: Fairfax High was ready to welcome him back into the hallways. ICE put him on a plane instead. Israel Flores-Ortiz, an illegal alien from El Salvador released into the country under Biden in 2024, enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School in Virginia. He was convicted of assaulting nine girls by grabbing them between the legs in crowded corridors. Some victims were as young as 13. Local court gave him months, not years. An immigration judge ordered him removed on Aug. 10. On Aug. 31, the day Fairfax County let him out of jail, ICE arrested him. On Sept. 8, he was deported to El Salvador. Nine girls got a predator in their school. America finally gave him a one-way ticket home. Secure the border. Keep ICE funded. Protect our daughters. THANK YOU, ICE.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (hG5L0)
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Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (zRd05)
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...you start practicing Marxism.
See how that works?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)
Of course he does,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (lNdj6)
So it's 1970's New York City again?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (Ia/+0)
So it's 1970's New York City again?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM
As our extinguished governor has said (of raped juveniles), it's just the price you pay for living in a vibrant and diverse urban environment.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:29 PM (lNdj6)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 05:29 PM (NnhvP)
Pretty sure Scott Adams did a Dilbert cartoon, not on prioritizing racism over performance specifically, but on management refusing to believe that you can’t prioritize everything.
It was far too realistic to be funny.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 05:30 PM (olroh)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 05:31 PM (ATFmn)
You'd get like 24 pair of socks for like $15.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (zRd05)
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (I43vL)
I've never run well. So I carry.
So, in the immortal gangland words of Pumped Up Kicks:
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (kU0PQ)
no general education at all - check
lack the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history - check
immature and emotionally fragile - check
can't handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated - check
very little to reduce them to tears - check
shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity - check
no internal life at all - check
can't follow a simple chain of reasoning - check
unwilling to make judgments of any kind - check
an intense fear of offending anyone - check
=====
Communist Youth League checklist
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (RIvkX)
So it's 1970's New York City again?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM
What's she complaining about? That she can't micturate anywhere she wants?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (xcxpd)
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)
Better than viagra?? I would say home baked cookies.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)
I’m glad a study finally found that out.
I think the next study should find out whether The Blade would get more hot girls cruising SoBe in his Lambo than that pebble-shit troll guy in his 1985 Yugo spewing black exhaust down the dirt path in his trailer park.
I anxiously await the results!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (Luoab)
This does not sound like a U.S. state. Time to kick it loose.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (l26NL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM
You should not be watching those ads, FenelonSpoke. My ads are sufficient.
Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (0sNs1)
They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)
And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar8)
Well, I'll guess I'll have
to leave my world in the Gothless place it is. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:37 PM (rHgXV)
https://x.com/MassDailyNews/status/2098522625509044317
Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston
·
1h
EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
Watch at 4p, 5p, and 6p and on our digital platforms.
Btw, Sue O'Connell looks like the love child of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Janet Reno.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (wzUl9)
So, in the immortal gangland words of Pumped Up Kicks:
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM
*fistbump*
Like the .45, sometimes fat and slow gets the job done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (lNdj6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)
Welcome to the third world, honey.
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:39 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM
Let's not denigrate fat and fast.
Posted by: .41 and .44 Magnum at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (Luoab)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (E0Et6)
Watch at 4p, 5p, and 6p and on our digital platforms.
Btw, Sue O'Connell looks like the love child of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Janet Reno.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (oPFtC)
"allegations"
Still more moral than a good chunk of women in the blue states.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)
They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)
And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar
I don't know, but I've been told
A big-legged woman ain't got no soul
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)
Ahahaha.
But she's perfect for a jury, amiright?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)
They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)
And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar
I don't know, but I've been told
A big-legged woman ain't got no soul
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)
Is she a redhead?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (l3cgK)
Canada also had some drone deal with Ukraine for 100 years. Good luck with that.
And 'Reacher' which I've never seen. Somewhere pointed out in the books the enemies were SUPPOSED TO BE Islamic terrorists but are now asian women.
And probably not college in schoolgirl outfits so screw that.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM
Particularly when it comes to picante sauce. They made their jar, and now they can sup from it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (0sNs1)
Still more moral than a good chunk of women in the blue states.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)
He can just claim he was having a moment due to his massive testosterone. Hormones are now a valid excuse for vile actions and behaviors, right?
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:42 PM (oPFtC)
Well, news flash, bunky, but if you admit all, you're not going to get the best of the best....
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (pfXMo)
Sure, both companies had to sign off on the campaigns, but that why you hire an advertising agency instead of doing it internally. The Ad agency is supposed to understand the culture, demographics and what will/ won't play with the public.
Personally, that's exactly what I would expect to come out a company that chooses Portland as its HQ.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM
What are we, chopped liverwurst?
Posted by: Drindls at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (YwEeS)
Well, if you execute criminals, you don't have to incarcerate them...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (RIvkX)
Real News: White Man killed during attempted beheading
Fake News:
@RepPressley
Sep 10
Black folks are being found hanged in America.
This is a national crisis and we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country.
We're demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (Dv3i1)
So what you're saying is that those views are the culture of Portland?
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (pfXMo)
@SueOC_NBCBoston
·
36m
Domestic violence allegations raise questions about the holdout juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial.
@nbc10boston
exclusive!
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Drindls at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM
Next month. Wait your turn.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (lNdj6)
Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)
Allegations. The guy who endured a week or so of condescending women, and two emasculated soy creatures, bitching at him that he should free a woman who had "viciously murdered her children" without, even once, beating the shit out of any of them as is his right as a black man - or so I'm told. I'm inclined to disbelieve the allegations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026
***
Once upon a time, men used to micturate around the pool hall . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (NtVYv)
Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)
The KKK were democrats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (OkYzo)
Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)
The KKK were democrats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (l3cgK)
Now they're employed by the SPLC...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (l3cgK)
Can't say i'm surprised though; Austin is an open sewer of a city. Figures that a few turds got washed up the highway. God bless that poor guy and his family.
Saying it for the umpteenth time; i truly despise this timeline.
Posted by: Nelly at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (6+ehB)
@SueOC_NBCBoston
·
36m
Domestic violence allegations raise questions about the holdout juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial.
@nbc10boston
exclusive!
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (ZxPkt)
These MFers
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (MWfyi)
And, I'd not necessarily say "they" voted for it.
Someone(s) did.
Nobody's naive enough to think there wasn't horseshit behind the Islamist being mayor of NYC.
Find out who was. And go after them. It probably wasn't "just" the public. But, if you do... make an example of them. So others think twice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (YwEeS)
Sure, there was one holdout. But all we know about him is from hysterical brain-damaged Karens and that soy beta cucklet. Hardly reliable sources.
It takes a week to learn the guy is black. Then he has domestic violence charges (which if is true, he never woulda been put on the jury).
It’s all so …convenient. Dude is basically a caricature of what commie Karens despite most.
I smell an op.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (Luoab)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (Cqx++)
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)
You can't get aids like that
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)
----
many people and institutions have this fault: they can't imagine that people will disagree with them
Like those assholes who launched that faggoty Jaguar campaign
to them, the concept was gold! How could anybody not like this?!
easily
but you couldn't possible imagine that, because you are so creative and special
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (ZxPkt)
That teen-vs-soccer-player chase in NYC looked like black on brown action. It also looked like a fairly nice area of town. Oh well. (Mamdani grin) : There is a place for all New Yorkers!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:50 PM (mmrXZ)
ace is just trying to get back some straight cred after saying earlier that he was so tired of seeing Sydney Sweeney's breasts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal
Farmer Wants a Wife (reality show etc.) came down to two gals, both had special dates, one did skimpy outfit couples yoga, the other baked cookies. Cookie-girl hands down winner.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (2Drhq)
A based big tiddy Goth girl...it's a dream come true.
Posted by: Need more of this in my life at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)
Stay out of my lane, pal. -- Tony "Love Machine" Fauci
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)
---
That's an MBA spreadsheet analysis which consistently under represents a problem. The multi area erosion of quality is difficult if possible to quantify on a spreadsheet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (YwEeS)
And we all know that Women would never, ever abuse the system by reporting abuse that never happened.
The Sisterhood would never tolerate such things.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zRd05)
It’s all so …convenient. Dude is basically a caricature of what commie Karens despite most.
I smell an op.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (Luoab
Actual charges or allegations.
Everything is fake and ace.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)
The messenger bag never lies.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (zRd05)
That chick got her ears boxed
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
===============
I wonder where it was. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Oh, so Louisiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
They are probably just out to harass some innocent illegal immigrant committing a crime, and the only thing between them and jail is you.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Posted by: It's MA'AM!!!! at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (tg5bM)
*puts on "SUCKER" hat*
Anybody else feel this way?
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Put him together in a meme with Based Stick Man (remember him?) and Daniel Penny, with Epic Beard Man in the lead.
"The Men We Need Today"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)
Would not a true Disinformation Expert have picked up on this?
#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (0sNs1)
Or when referring to the well endowed, but we won't go there.
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vxSYT)
----
If you can't trust NBC Boston who can you trust.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vC80E)
The doxxing and othering has commenced. Next up - FJB crawls out of his crypt and tells Gayle King of CBS, "If he beats his wife, he ain't black!"
If a black man is lynched by a Koven of Karens, is it really a lynching? Or is it Restorative Justice or something?
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (AKptf)
"allegations"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Lili Von Shtupp at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (MWfyi)
Find out who was. And go after them. It probably wasn't "just" the public. But, if you do... make an example of them. So others think twice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (2Cry5)
its pretty simple. Normal Dems are as popular as cancer so they wanted another 'unknown' Clinton, Obama to sell to the credulous liberals. So they arranged for him to win in NYC.
Trouble is he's dumb enough to believe what the professors told him about communism he's running their city into the dirt in record time.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM
Cake Girl is from 10 minutes up the road from me.
I never met her.
Not cool, Life...not cool.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (lNdj6)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026
*
Oh, so Louisiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026
***
Too many white people for LA. The language label on the video looked Slavic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Oh, so Louisiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
-------------
Woes... slwoujh, uyui taskwewop bout?
Posted by: LA Cajun at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (2Cry5)
"allegations"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (NtVYv)
---
The guy "allegedly" committed domestic violence, so he must be executed by the state.
Meanwhile a woman ADMITS to strangling her own young children to death and she gets a slap on the wrist.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)
*puts on "SUCKER" hat*
Anybody else feel this way?
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi
We never gave the somali's much credit aside from pack animal behaviour.
But their criminal work ethic is putting the Nigerians to shame. The Somalis scammed a Nigerian prince out of millions!!
Separately, I just weighed Snowflake. It's afternoon but she was 9.8 pounds. I've been feeding her and her Mom Starry. I'm trying to keep Snowflake inner Trigglypuff from busting out.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (Sco7b)
-----
This twerp should be pulled from his car and beaten with nightsticks. Since cops aren't allowed to carry nightsticks any longer, the local police department should issue 2 by 4s instead and then send officers to find him.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (TN0g+)
Put him together in a meme with Based Stick Man (remember him?)
I remember a picture of a matchstick man.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (60d+e)
to them, the concept was gold! How could anybody not like this?!
easily
but you couldn't possible imagine that, because you are so creative and special
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (ZxPkt)
_____________________________
The advertising agency that concocted that nonsense is a company called "Accenture Song". They got fired...deservedly. BUT, one of their other clients is the British Army. Take a look at their recruiting commercial for them.
https://tinyurl.com/4pc6vxd9
Someone actually came up with that nonsense. Sold it, and produced it. Does that make YOU want to join the British Army? I think it does a better job talking you out of it.
I think the advertising agencies are infested with Woke idiots. And, corporations are headed by a generation of self-important know nothings that are all too happy to delegate their own responsibilities to others...like woke advertising agencies. That's my opinion anyway.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
Right. When he's on trial, I'll have an opinion on it. Until then, not relevant.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (CjHsb)
"Babylon Bee" cuts like a knife. Good for them!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (JrHfD)
——
That’s a Chick. I think. The point still stands, but.
Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:02 PM (60d+e)
Also the left: We need a 12% DEI tax on everything. This is more important then your stupid rent or food or stuff like that
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 06:02 PM (sKqQm)
Obviously, the media jackals now know the Lone Holdout's identity. It will be released, if not already.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:03 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)
And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM
————-
Dance Party blocks Waco.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (+vgD6)
https://tinyurl.com/mryd8bct
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (AKptf)
Thanks.
I wonder how many muslims are partying today.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)
*puts on "SUCKER" hat*
Anybody else feel this way?
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi)
For about the last 30 years or so.
Posted by: Integrity and industry are for chumps at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (TbWk/)
*shrugs*
I just don't understand the rules, I guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (2Cry5)
What a dilemma for the bolsheviks
Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (60d+e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
Right. When he's on trial, I'll have an opinion on it. Until then, not relevant.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (CjHsb)
Besides, it was all pre-jury insanity. He couldn't help it.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026
***
I'm doing the same with big black Stirling here, who weighed in at 15.5 lbs. two weeks ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)
And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.
------
We've all become India...in the 80s we were told that businesses overseas ran differently than ours, that it was part of the culture to include bribes as part of almost every negotiation and business deal. Now we're pretty much the same. And the stockholders never seem to seek retribution for their losses due to such terrible decision-making.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (TN0g+)
*shrugs*
I just don't understand the rules, I guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (2Cry5)
Child murderers are well above black men on the disability totem pole.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (uhVAy)
I wonder how many muslims are partying today.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)
We shall have the last word.
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (AKptf)
___
Virginia mom placed on child abuse registry for 7 years after letting 5-year-old walk alone to collect feathers in their gated community.
https://tinyurl.com/39e33x8m
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)
--
... be hanged by the neck until dead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (vC80E)
All the world seems in tune on a summer afternoon
When I'm beheading crackers in the park
Every Sunday you'll see my sweatshirt, knife and me
As we behead crackers in the park...
Posted by: Benny Ogbodiegwu Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (cCXR+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)
Snowflake was waddling after a winter with Mom and I and she was 12 pounds.
She's good now. Slightly zoftig.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (Sco7b)
Many years and fifths of bourbon later, I discovered what the dream was all about. When I was egressing on 9-11 I cut down one of the side streets, when I came around the corner there was debris. But in that debris was the face of a person and what was left of them after being on an airplane that crashed into the tower, and plummeted 80 stories. Even given all the heinous things I saw that day, I suppose that was the breaking point for my mind. I buried that so deep, and it hurt so much, my mind just would not recollect what I really saw. I’m not an emotional guy, but I wept like a small child when that came out.
Just thought I would share that.
Never forget.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026
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Is that the language in the label on the screen? The alphabet did not look Roman, but more Cyrillic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)
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Not as many as should be deported today.
Why are those C-17s sitting idle?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:08 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (AKptf
I believe that too. The population may be down to about 30%, but it'll be the 30% we want around.
And for 250 years after, we beat to death any asshole showing any remorse or sympathy.
Look at me all glass half full.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)
Snowflake was waddling after a winter with Mom and I and she was 12 pounds.
She's good now. Slightly zoftig.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026
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Stirling does have a big frame -- 14 lbs. would be about right for him -- and he's not waddling. Yet. I want him to live a long time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)
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Yes, but it's hard to overlook the Seriousness of the allegations.
-'News' Media
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (kpS4V)
tinyurl.com/49cwkhca
Arab-Americans are [racially] profiled in what’s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that! My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republic Senator from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that . . . Arab-Americans are treated with real respect.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (88C+u)
Which is gangster, and explains why those three women jurors were so pissed.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (E0Et6)
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The high-waisted jeans on the doomed chick look circa early 1990s
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:11 PM (Dv3i1)
And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I know a civil engineer who explained the whole crooked process. There is a whole industry -- firms, millionaires -- that have formed on DEI requirements, which are satisfied through cut-outs. The middlemen get rich, the hiring firms lose on every contract.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 06:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)
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Penny and Hexie (my cats) both have a hefty frame as well. They are around 14 pounds each. On Penny it's all solid muscle. Hexie is a bit more flabby.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (FZ29D)
Nowadays, yikes. Gen Z are feral.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (36x1j)
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Park this fucker in an Islamic stronghold in MI without a cell phone and no money. And make sure he sits there for a month. Without help.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (E0Et6
Thanks. Many of us don't have words.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)
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The high-waisted jeans on the doomed chick look circa early 1990s
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026
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Both of them were slim. Little chance of this being modern American kids.
Hard to tell about the other kids in the gym, as they were all wearing coats, but they didn't look like water buffaloes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)
Indeed. Prayers aloft. I was in Colorado, so I had that buffer. What y'all experienced at ground zero is beyond my comprehension.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:15 PM (0aYVJ)
What Western optimists failed to imagine was that their own societies would be reshaped in the image of the newcomers they sought to evangelize.
https://tinyurl.com/pv7t5xe3
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:16 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:16 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Miklos arrived at the Golden Corral just in time for the Early Bird Special at September 11, 2026 06:18 PM (4RYRd)
Someone said "Never forget. Never forgive." That is what every soul in hell says.
Every soul in Heaven says "I forgive everybody of everything."
Choose wisely.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:18 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:19 PM (E0Et6)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026
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Skip, you have the Movies! channel?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:20 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: Braenyard
Posted by: Miklos reads Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" while outside having a smoke at September 11, 2026 06:20 PM (4RYRd)
How do I know? They’re still doing it, only now they are living in our country.
“ Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.”
Matthew 12:25
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:21 PM (dhhKu)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)
That's a lot of weight to carry, man. Bless you. I was just out of country in Nova Scotia that day; couldn't leave for about a week or so while they cleared out the diverted flights. Can't imagine what you went through on the ground.
Posted by: Nelly at September 11, 2026 06:21 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (QovLg)
They are not going to change they are committed, they are faithful and content, to the death, in their beliefs. This reality should be made self-evident to the masses. It's time for them to go.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (vC80E)
These random stabbings make me Hulk angry.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (KC5Lt)
'hanged' is also the future and present tense of the verb 'hang', referring to a human isn't it?
He will be hanged.
He is being hanged.
He is hanged.
???
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:25 PM (5rh/l)
Maybe because I am old, but I am tired of this sick world where jurours mostly want a woman to be acquited of killing her children. Please Lord, take me home.
But we are here. Fight the hate.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j)
Which is gangster, and explains why those three women jurors were so pissed.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)
I'm more than a little suspicious that the women are not reliably narrating what went on in there.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (KC5Lt)
Democrats hate America.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)
Choose wisely.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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What are we to do with that sword Jesus told us to buy?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (vC80E)
I'm more than a little suspicious that the women are not reliably narrating what went on in there.
Posted by: Oldcat
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It is said that the confrontations could be heard in other rooms.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (vC80E)
The morons were ready to marry cake girl...
I seem to remember a pirate girl...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)
Tri-Corner Hat Girl. Hubba hubba.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (7lxe6)
“we” have to get a democrat in the WH
lives in washington state and diesel is over $7 a gallon, food is too expensive too! everything was better with the last administration.
Posted by: cherries in season at September 11, 2026 06:40 PM (HCJqL)
Every soul in Heaven says "I forgive everybody of everything."
Choose wisely.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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What are we to do with that sword Jesus told us to buy?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (vC80E)
I take solace in the 23rd Psalm as something to aspire to. Especially "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me". Because it says to me "I will not die alone. If I die, I'm taking all of you heathen motherfuckers with me."
I just hope that I'm up to the task, physically and most importantly morally.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (7lxe6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (W2Pud)
And is that thing a trannie in the don't pull over cops video??
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (kX27y)
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Eh, not really. I mean, it isn’t as if they hate the Dirt or whatever.
No. They hate *you*
Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (6iQiX)
Hispanic
43.3%
Asian
23%
White
16.3%
Multiracial
9.1%
African American
7.8%
Posted by: The Dog at September 11, 2026 09:12 PM (Le2re)
Twenty Five Years After 9/11, Most Have Forgotten -- and the Children Who Were Born After the Terrorist Attack are Being Taught That Muslims Were the Victims and Americans the Racist Aggressors
How on earth was this allowed to happen?
Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9/11 lessons focused on 'Islamophobia' -- not 2,977 innocents killedNever forget, the hijackers were the First Victims on 9/11.
Only two US states legally require that 9/11 be taught in public schools -- and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy. The hijacked history of America's darkest day has created a lost generation. According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 200,1 or why. New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept. 11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks. Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9/11 attacks be taught in schools. Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks -- which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, according to an August University of Wisconsin Study. "We made a promise to 'Never Forget', but today, only a handful of states require 9/11 to be taught in their schools," Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post. In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists -- some backed by billionaire George Soros -- are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog. "Teaching Beyond September 11th" -- a radical retelling of 9/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists -- focuses lessons on "Right-Wing Extremism" and "Islamophobia and the Oval Office."
The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: "On the 11th of September 2001, 19 hijackers flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one airplane into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers."
The Real Victims. Oh, and I enjoy Muslim Youth and Resistance -- in other words, justifying Muslim violence on college campuses as heroic "resistance" against Jews trying to get to class without being spat on or punched.
Education departments in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Oregon all recommend "Teaching Beyond September 11th" in public schools. The lesson does not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the terrorists, and appears to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks.
"The US accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks," the lesson states, without mentioning bin Laden's multiple confessions or his broader campaign of terrorism and declaration of Jihad against the US -- which he labeled the "worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind." Other topics in "Teaching Beyond September 11th" include "Surveillance of Muslims," "The Muslim and African Ban," and "Muslim Youth and Resistance."
A lesson on the 2005 riots over a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad -- which caused the deaths of 250 people globally -- asks students to discuss how the media "presented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist." Zineb Riboua, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Post that the attempts to rewrite 9/11 history was part of a broader leftist project. ....
The NEA, the national teachers labor union, provides resources for teaching 9/11 that quotes radical anti-Israel professor Edward Said calling the US "cruel and inhumane" and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America's support for the Jewish state. The Voices Ethnic Studies curriculum used in Pittsburgh public schools teaches that the attacks led to "increased experiences with racism and Islamophobia," with no mention of how many people were killed or by whom. A California ethnic studies curriculum reportedly stated that "9/11 served as a catalyst to bring about more blatant discrimination" and referred to America as a "colonizer." The Council on American-Islamic Relations pushes 9/11 curriculum that accuses the US of "state-sanctioned Islamophobia" after the 9/11 attacks. The woke propaganda appears to be having its desired affect, according to a damning new poll. An overwhelming majority (66%) of American Middle East Studies professors believe that college students cannot correctly identify who the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were or what its causes were, according to a poll released by the academic research nonprofit the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. The poll also finds that the historical hijacking is not limited to America's public schools. Two-thirds of Middle East Studies professors said that scholarly academic work actively runs cover for regimes, groups and ideologies that hate America, according to the survey of 470 respondents. Not to be outdone, a woke NYC teacher has taken it upon himself to assign his students Osama Bin Laden's infamous "Letter to America." Adam Feinberg, who teaches at Brooklyn's City Polytechnic High School, then has them answer questions based on the propaganda text, such as, "Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?" Other questions include, "For what reasons does he believe that America is the 'worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind?'" He also asks, "Find the word 'usury'. It means lending money with high interest rates. Why do you think Osama bin Laden disagrees with this?" ...
Feinberg, who made $113,394 in 2025, routinely disseminates his leftist ideology on social media, such as sharing a meme mocking assassinated conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk shortly after his death. Feinberg did not deny the worksheet belonged to him but declined further comment. ... The goal of the curriculum is to "relate anti-Muslim racism/violence with other forms of racism and violence (e.g. Black Lives Matter; xenophobia, anti-Semitism etc.) in the United States and abroad," per its website.
750,000 NYC voters have no memory of 9/11 because they weren't even born when it happened.
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 4, 2026
Zohran Mamdani won his primary by only 129,940 votes.
Just 17% of post-9/11 voters, 1.7% of NYC, put the "globalize the intifada" guy in control of New York City. https://t.co/MLnOzwBoP7
Only 6 days after 9/11, Bush, accompanied by CAIR and other Islamic leaders, visited a mosque and said, “Islam is peace.”
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) September 7, 2026
Since then, America has imported 4 million Muslims. 80% of all Muslims in America are the result of the post-9/11 decision to increase Islamic immigration. pic.twitter.com/x4CvzNr79V
George Bush has always been sold as a man who met the moment. Even some of his haters describe him that way. “I didn’t like him, but he was great after 9/11.”
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) September 10, 2026
You can’t handle that moment worse than George Bush handled it. 20 years of war and Muslim calls to prayer in America. https://t.co/xQmgm9vyF3
TERRIFYING: The Shia Muslim mosque of Dearborn, Michigan, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic Regime in Iran, calling the U.S. a nation of ‘Devil-worshipers.’
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) September 1, 2026
“America was built by Devil-worshipers. The Statue of Liberty represents Lucifer.
Ayatollah Khamenei was the… pic.twitter.com/Cd8b9ecBht
🚨 Abdul El-Sayed in unearthed audio:
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) September 8, 2026
"9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people."
"When we talk about 9/11, we often fail to center them." pic.twitter.com/Xa8XOY2Tdb
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (Pu/zx)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (Pu/zx)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (xcxpd)
...Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM
I describe him as a spy. I think we have punishments for spying.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (Dv3i1)
George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.
The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (dK+Kv)
So many glass parking lots.
Cue 'Imagine' song....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (Sco7b)
Because heritage America lost the WoT thanks to Shrub, Obarky and the GOPe
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Diogenes
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Simultaneously, every mosque in America should be raided and searched.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (N2HNb)
There’s only one answer. They hate us and want to conquer us from the inside.
Fuck you.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (Pu/zx)
One of the most revealing things we did was that the jailers at Guantanamo put on gloves before handling Korans, because Muslims consider infidels unclean.
As Mark Steyn noted, it's one thing for Muslims to think that infidels are unclean, and quite another thing for the infidels to agree with them.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Piper
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More damning, the whole family was and still are tools.
_Skull n Bones is only the beginning
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (vC80E)
Bets that they all have an armory in the mosque?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (sCxmP)
With the later we went to a war footing immediately and devastated Japan the source of "radical Bushido" as a full on punitive response. We didn't import millions of Japs, and in fact interned the ones already here.
After killing 8% of their male population and nuking a few of their cities they were ready to stop being assholes, but if we fought WWII like we fought the WoT they would have won...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (YwEeS)
We responded to 9/11 with weakness. Instead of immediately nuking Kabul and Kandahar and anyone else who complained about it, we set off on a couple of campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq with no particular goal (talking about DC here) beyond making those countries better places to live for their women, for some reason.
And as mentioned in the post we imported the savages by the millions to prove how much we weren't actually resisting islam, so as not to piss off the regimes' buddies in Riyadh and similar hell holes.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (YwEeS)
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I wonder if (finally) dealing with the Islamic republic brought it all back.
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (2WIwB)
Hey Muhammed, I'm guessing in about another day those porkers are going to be hungry enough to try a taste of you. I know gross! But hey any chance you they you might remember where Osama is hiding before then? Because I do have another room with no pigs we could move you to instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
I think it's in part because Gen Z, the first generation born after 9/11, is now the dominant voice in pop culture, and it feels to most people 30+ that "never forget" has become either "forgotten" or "trivialized".
Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (sCxmP)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (4KUe5)
And who back then could have foreseen that she would earn a campaign medal for a war that started before she was born?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (ZOv7s)
There have been cases where the Russians have taken the corpses of Islamic terrorists, and buried them sewn up in pigskin shrouds, and recorded it as proof that they had done so.
Any bets which approach is more effective at deterring future terrorism?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (Cqx++)
My mother was a young woman in 1941. She told me years later she was positive FDR knew about the impending attack, and didn't warn America because he *wanted* us to get into the European/Asian war. I hadn't been taught that in school or read it in any histories . . . but the evidence has been coming out in the decades since.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (3iDiL)
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (kX27y)
I'd also like to know a lot of things we taxpayers paid for without our knowledge and consent.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (YwEeS)
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I (unironically) blame the Democrats. They could have picked a wartime nominee who understood what was at stake, but instead we got Swift Boat Lurch, John F'in Kerry who actually made Dubya look eloquent.
Dubya's colossal incompetence opened the window for Obama. Dubya is definitely in the bottom quarter of presidents.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (ZOv7s)
it feels to most people 30+ that "never forget" has become either "forgotten" or "trivialized".
Never heard of it
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (Cqx++)
The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.
https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (qBdHI)
One of the things that 9/11 put the (temporary) kibosh on was comprehensive immigration reform. GWB and the Republicans were all in on it; the only reason we didn’t get was that Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Democrats didn’t want to give Bush the win.
During President Fox’s September 7 visit, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) said that they’d had “an excellent week to really bring this topic to the forefront of the thinking across America”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (olroh)
It was also complicated by bungling diplomacy, a formal declaration of war was intended to be presented before the attack itself. This didn't happen, and pissed off a lot of people.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (2dVdu)
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Yep, flashing her mule teeth adorned with red lipstick.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (qBdHI)
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We have bills to pay, politicians to feed.
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Lost two wars
Budget from $1.8T -> $2.9T
And did NOTHING domestically because "we have to focus on winning the war first"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar8)
A proper burial. Then backfill with pig shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (tg5bM)
Dr Henry David Abraham, who shared the 1985 Nobel with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, told a radio show this week that the 80-year-old commander-in-chief now poses a heightened risk, particularly given his sole authority over the US nuclear arsenal.
… where in the wild wild world of sports were this clown when President AutoPen ruled the country ?
Posted by: SMOD at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (g57eb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
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The failures of Army/Navy command and intelligence have been exhaustively mapped.
The people who think "FDR knew" don't understand naval tactics. Moving the Pacific Fleet to Pearl was indeed an aggressive act, like forward-deploying ground troops long a disputed border.
But if they had even thought Japanese aircraft carriers could have done what they did, it would not have happened. The Battleship School still held a lot of sway, and the raid on Taranto was waved off as Italian incompetence. Americans were too smart to fall for that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Hey Muhammed, I'm guessing in about another day those porkers are going to be hungry enough to try a taste of you. I know gross! But hey any chance you they you might remember where Osama is hiding before then? Because I do have another room with no pigs we could move you to instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026
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Pig fat on our bullets. And be sure to let them know about it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (wzUl9)
Budget from $1.8T -> $2.9T
And did NOTHING domestically because "we have to focus on winning the war first"
Hey he had some big domestic accomplishments..
No Child Left Behind
the TSA...
Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (sCxmP)
—INS Commissioner James Ziglar, October 11, 2001.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (olroh)
That was done by Black Jack Pershing dealing with murderous Moro muslims in the Philippines...
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (YwEeS)
Kimmel and others were hung out to dry, of course. Politically speaking it was a disaster for FDR, for re-election purposes but he was able to quash any investigative reportage for the most part, and somehow kept the Republicans from even deigning to make it a campaign issue. Had a more accurate and complete picture of the timeline and events been revealed at the time it is arguable whether he could have been re-elected.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (2dVdu)
The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.
https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO
My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar8)
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The only reason I would be inclined to believe this is because we got it from the French.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (XvL8K)
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X is poison. Musk has his head in the clouds and his is full of lofty ideas, but this so called freedom of speech enterprise is hijacked, and has become an epicenter of waste, fraud and abuse.
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (GMWTj)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (2dVdu)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (ATFmn)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (Gqar8)
Kimmel and others were hung out to dry, of course. Politically speaking it was a disaster for FDR, for re-election purposes but he was able to quash any investigative reportage for the most part, and somehow kept the Republicans from even deigning to make it a campaign issue. Had a more accurate and complete picture of the timeline and events been revealed at the time it is arguable whether he could have been re-elected.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026
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Was the fleet moved in 1940 or earlier? FDR was re-elected in '40, before the attack, and then again in '44, when the war was winding down.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (CRErM)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (YwEeS)
It was also complicated by bungling diplomacy, a formal declaration of war was intended to be presented before the attack itself. This didn't happen, and pissed off a lot of people.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (2dVdu)
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The peacetime US military was a shitshow, with countless examples. It was one thing for the British to strike Italy, but the notion that Japan could move four carriers across the Pacific and dare to strike our battleships protected by land-based fighters was regarded as insane.
I mean, it's been explored ad nauseum and so many times we were thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances, but the dice always went the other way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Modern "radical" islam comes from Sayyid Qutb. But as you note all he did is say we show go back to the original Islam.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)
WSJ:
Iran used American-developed artificial-intelligence models to try to target U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East, according to an Anthropic report warning of emerging national-security dangers.
An Iranian-linked group compiled information from ship and aircraft transponders, military photographs and commercial satellite photos to track American warships and look for vulnerabilities in their ship-born communications, the report found.
Posted by: WisRich at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026
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How about the terms "Moslem" or "Mohammedans"? I see nothing wrong with those.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)
House leader Hastert ....pedo
We couldn't win with a team like that.
Posted by: torabora at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (thxmR)
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That sounds pretty gay
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (2dVdu)
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He does share it with a bunch of other poofters, so that tracks.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (0U5gm)
https://tinyurl.com/muyjpk3w
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)
How would you define an observant Muslim?
Posted by: tubal
Looks both ways before crossing the street.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (YwEeS)
The crazies realized it decades ago and exploit it.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (ca8Qt)
Posted by: Jeb! at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (sCxmP)
The verbiage used to describe everything is horked. They mangle the language. By using vague euphemisms then reality is blurred. "Gender Affirming Surgery" sounds a lot nicer than Child Genital Mutilation, don't it?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (2dVdu)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (YwEeS)
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No, it wasn't. The Pacific is BIG, and so forward deploying ships was a way of sending a message that the US was serious. Remember, the Philippines were ours, and if we were going to have any hope of defending them, moving the fleet to Pearl was the smart play.
What we did not expect was that Japan would be crazy enough to do what the did, or that they even had that capability.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026
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One who keeps his eyes open as to how foolish Americans are to trust him and his kind, and passes on reports of our weaknesses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)
The problem isn't the Constitution at all. The problem is we allow the left's pretend version of it to guide our laws and actions.
Trump could have every illegal rounded up and shot and the Constitution is fine with it. Or he could put most of the GOPe and Dems on trial for treason. And on and on.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)
"How on earth was this allowed to happen?"
Surely you jest.
The Long March Through the Institutions, that's how.
Leftists targeted the teaching profession and education as the FIRST and most important institution to "capture." And they were 100% successful, with almost zero pushback until the last couple years (which is still mild and futile).
The entire education infrastructure is 100% under the total control of absolute communists whose sole intent is to brainwash all children until they all hate America.
They're incredibly successful at this. (See: DSA.)
Of course the 9/11 curriculum is corrupted, a ludicrous stew of lies, disinformation, distractions and propaganda.
But 9/11 is just the tip of the iceberg. ALL curricula are similarly corrupted.
The "educators" don't even hide their agenda anymore -- at conferences, they brag how school is now nothing but a "revolution pipeline" to "train the next generation of organizers," etc. etc. They used to only whisper this, but then they realized" Why are we whispering? There's no one here but us!
Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (Av6i5)
Seriously. Look it up
Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026
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". . . That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)
I suspect after 9/11 he would have been forced to resign and perhaps we would have gotten a reformer in 2004 (perhaps Fred Thompson?)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.
https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO
My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar
Did Mamdani give a speech today? I'm guessing no, because I haven't heard about one.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (2dVdu)
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I like Kissinger defining a "Moderate Iranian" as one who has run out of ammo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (YwEeS)
OT - sane black woman reacts to the news that holdout juror was a black man:
https://tinyurl.com/t2dw32jn
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (kX27y)
I mean, it's been explored ad nauseum and so many times we were thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances, but the dice always went the other way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Nobody mentions that the odds against it were about the same as the results in the battle of Midway.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (GMWTj)
Yes, in retrospect, GWB was a feckless tool who mishandled the war, and helped bring about what you can call a muslim victory in New York and elsewhere in America by importing muslims and giving them a strong foothold in our heartland.
I definitely would like to have the ability to see an alternate timeline where:
1) All of the Saudi and Emirate Royalty involved in 9/11 are shot and/or tried and hung.
2) All muslims deported from the US and restricted from further entry.
3)And possibly nuking Mecca and Medina just to make sure, their phony-baloney "god" has no power on Earth.
I know, I know...
I denounce myself.
But, like Carter's mishandling of Iran brought further American death and problems, so Shrub's mishandling of the aftermath of 9/11 did the same within our country
Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
hmmm...imagine that.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (iJfKG)
And tonight the judgement of the New Year begins. May the Holy One forgive both my rage and my timing....
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
That's just silly!
Posted by: Queers for Palestine at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/muyjpk3w
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)
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Yeah, I posted that earlier and agree, first time I've heard that one.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (kX27y)
if only the USS Nimitz hadn't drifted back into that time vortex storm
Posted by: It's the final countdown.....do do do do do do do at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (sCxmP)
attorney, Episcopal priest, father of business magnate
_Samuel P. Bush, (October 3, 1863 – February 8, 194
was an American steel industry executive
_ U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972
banker and Republican Party politician. Connecticut senator 1952 to 1963
_U.S. President George H. W. Bush, June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018
--Barbara Pierce Bush (1925–201
, wife of George H. W.; daughter of publisher Marvin Pierce, distant cousin of 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce, Second Lady and later First Lady of the U.S.
_George W Bush and fat little brother, banker Jeb Bush.
They’ve got a history. Don’t count them out but remember their flouncy ways and their associations. It’s a big flock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (GMWTj)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (YwEeS)
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When you are wargaming it, you can make decisions like "this is untenable, we should just pull the troops out," but politically that would have been suicidal.
So, given you have to keep them there, you have to make a plan that gives them some chance of holding out. If the raid had been detected, things might have gone very differently.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Seriously. Look it up
Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (CRErM)
Pffffft.
Posted by: Thermopylae at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (B0NCh)
The jihadis believe after they get rid of us they'll be banging leftist boys in NYC within a decade.
I tend to think the jihadis are more likely to be correct but I could be wrong
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (2dVdu)
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 04:51 PM (c1gcm)
So many memories. I was close enough for my apartment to be inside the military cordon area and we had to show ID to get on to our block, as the perimeter was kept by the National Guard with their M16s. Fighter jets screaming overhead. Missing friends who lived in Battery Park City. It just went on and on.
We wore gas masks out in the street the first few days. The smoke from Mordor would blow over our neighborhood whenever the wind was out of the South. Islam is a satanic death cult and it does not surprise me although it enrages me that momdani did his b******* commemoration at the Islamic Center. Afterwards he probably went to a toilet to jerk himself off. They really are masturbating over our grief.
Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026 04:51 PM (reMys)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
If I recall correctly, the men in Fort Drum held out for a few months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (reMys)
The Cultural Marxist Seminaries teach nothing but Marxist Propaganda,
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 04:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Problem is, what is written in the Q'uran and the Suras.is
-- Slaughter all infidels
-- Islam is and alway will be supreme and the only acceptable mode of existence, and everything else must be destroyed.
-- Behead anyone who challenges or criticizes Islam.
etc. etc. etc., down to the "triviial" stuff like "It's OK to jack off by rubbing your cock on a a six-year-old's thigh and ejaculate on her vulva, but you must wait until she is 9 to actually insert your penis into her vagina," and "It'k not only OK but mandatory to beat your wife -- but only with a stick no bigger around than your thumb" so the bruises don't show.so much, and so on.
The trivial stuff gets all the attention, but the main message -- world domination, by force -- is the real problematic part.
Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)
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Have a sweet New Year. Do some Tashlich since it sounds like you're near the ocean.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026
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First step on 9/12 should have been, every Moslem -- out of the country. No more to come in. We'll apologize to some of you later -- if necessary. Right now, OUT.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (iJfKG)
1) Having driven the Taliban from power, we found a local strong man who agreed to keep kicking their ass and we agreed to supply him with infinite guns and a mercenary air force so long as he kept the drug trade within tolerable limits and
2) Having overthrown Saddam, we found a local strong man who agreed to know who butters his bread and we would supply him with guns and he would pump oil for us. Basically Venezuela -1.0.
I actually thought that was what would happen, but instead we got all gay and retarded and starting trying to push literal gay - as if the Afghans didn't already do it!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Hanged. The word you are looking for is hanged.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (2dVdu)
Nah.
Hung is defined as suspended by hanging.
Hung, hanged let's call the whole thing off.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
The problem with this scenario is that we didn't have to *LOSE* for FDR to get into the war. Any attack and any damage would have done to get into the war. The base was under high alert for a few weeks before Dec 7 and it was lifted that weekend. We had some intelligence the fleet was on the move but when nothing happened we figured it was bad intelligence. They had been delayed just long enough to hit us when we were recovering from the weeks of alert status.
The other problem is that we were essentially already at war in the Atlantic and incrementally extending our aid and coverage to England, fighting U boats over half the distance to England. Pearl Harbor eliminated our quasi neutral protection and in the next months our merchant marine and tankers were sunk in massive numbers.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)
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They pushed that slop on to America after the first WTC bombing in 93 or whenever it was.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (2dVdu)
This isn't that some real world Muslims failing to live up to the ideals of Islam this is what Islam calls GOOD.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)
Instead, she says, "Never Forgive".
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (8O9+I)
Leftists on social media are now claiming that it was an edited video.
It was a live broadcast, guys.
This is devastating for AOC's rumored Presidential campaign.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (aD4fx)
It's well past sundown in Israel, so the Jewish New Year, and Rosh Hashanah begins. Somebody call up Tuq'r and wish him happy Rosh Hashanah.
This will the the year 5787, Anno Mundi, the Year of the World. Tradition holds that Adam was created on Rosh Hashanah, which fell of the 6th day of the first week. Year 2 began the day Adam was created.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (w6EFb)
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They don't need lesson plans, or any organized disinformation campaign. They just need shallow, self-important, malcontents who need a cause to assemble some self-worth to their dreary lives.
Case in point....hours after a bunch of mouth breating savages from Hamas raped, pillaged, murdered, maimed and kidnapped innocent parties, large groups sided with them. Championed them. And, took it a step further by blaming those they attacked.
This is what you get when the media shapes the message, and those who receive it are not capable of critical thought or even considering the substance of the action(s).
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
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US troops held out until April. If we had an intact fleet, Japan's options there would have been very limited, especially if we could fly in additional aircraft.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)
My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?
Posted by: tubal
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They have landed, stormed the beach and taken the Jewel of the North without firing a shot.
Before Mamdani's gone, call to prayer will be emitted from the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the new Towers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (vC80E)
The problem isn't the Constitution at all. The problem is we allow the left's pretend version of it to guide our laws and actions.
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The problem is that the Constitution was written for a different people than the evil bunch that inhabit the land today. There's no point trying to reapply it until all the foreign religions (islam, progressivism, etc) have been driven out.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (vSvIl)
I saw a video we made of the US government teaching art to Afghan women. The afghans were there mostly wrapped up in hijabs and we had American women in t-shirts presenting modern art like Duchamp's urinal to them.
And the afghan women looked so confused and disappointed..."this is what freedom and human rights look like? Piss pots as art?!?"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (2dVdu)
They’ve got a history. Don’t count them out
Jeb saw what was in the envelopes. I count him out. With the cartels being brought down, the money laundering being mapped, I count him out.
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (c1gcm)
It's frightening.
Posted by: Random PJ at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (+jscL)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO)
Can't recall a single history course in public school that 'caught up' to modern history before the course ran out.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)
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*shifty eyes*
Posted by: 11 Massachusetts jurors at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Only because Hitler made his worst mistake of all (including invading Russia) and declared war on us. And then got no help from Japan with Russia.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)
if only the USS Nimitz hadn't drifted back into that time vortex storm
Posted by: It's the final countdown.....do do do do do do do at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (sCxmP)
I kinda hate that movie. Great concept and then they pussy out and decide not to wipe out the Pearl Harbor attackers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)
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Correct. The notion was that if the US fleet was attacked, it would savage the Japanese, giving us a victory as well as a justified declaration of war.
The fact that the declaration of war was bungled ultimately cost Japan everything, because against honorable opponents, we could show restraint, but against backstabbers, there could be no mercy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Had to be a photograph, I'm thinking, based upon the speed of his reaction.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (2dVdu)
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I'll put money on "the American-developed AI" being from Anthropic itself. They hate Trump. Trump should seize their assets. Enemy of the state. They supplied the intel. Bet on it. This was a CYA move.
Not kidding. Leftist assholes running the joint.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (2Cry5)
It's well past sundown in Israel, so the Jewish New Year, and Rosh Hashanah begins. Somebody call up Tuq'r and wish him happy Rosh Hashanah.
This will the the year 5787, Anno Mundi, the Year of the World. Tradition holds that Adam was created on Rosh Hashanah, which fell of the 6th day of the first week. Year 2 began the day Adam was created.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
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Happy New Year to all our Hebrew friends.
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and the Sabbat
you have much work Monday.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
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US troops held out until April. If we had an intact fleet, Japan's options there would have been very limited, especially if we could fly in additional aircraft.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Japan had bases surrounding the Philippines on all sides, having a few more battleships would not have changed the fact that our war plans in 1940 or so had written off those areas until our fleet under construction came on line in 1943.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)
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*shifty eyes*
Posted by: 11 Massachusetts jurors at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
Yeah. Our form of Republican government is only fitting for an overwhelmingly moral people, as stated before by far better men than me. In the hands of a degenerate population, sooner or later disaster must occur.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (8O9+I)
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Now do Hillary Clinton.
What I mean by that is that we've already witnessed that there is practically *zero* "baggage" attached to any liberals actions. Its the same old "they could abort a baby and kill a puppy on live tv and their supporters would still vote for them" adage.
"Yes" the footage will be valuable, but only because it will remind the *normal* people to go out and actually vote. it won't affect the behavior of the leftists.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:03 PM (AKptf)
The fact that the declaration of war was bungled ultimately cost Japan everything, because against honorable opponents, we could show restraint, but against backstabbers, there could be no mercy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)
That had no real effect. The normal Japanese atrocities in combat would have soured any good feeling from declaring war 10 minutes before attacking Pearl or the Philippines.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)
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Peter Jennings and other talking heads were doing their "let's not jump to conclusions" thingy within hours of the towers being hit. Clinton's supporters normalizing sexual harrassment and adultry and 9/11 are the two reasons I switched parties.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)
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Arguing that invading the USSR was a mistake is based entirely on after-the-fact information. In June 1941, the Soviet Union looked like a paper tiger. It had taken inordinate losses just to move the border a few miles west against Finland. It has purged its army leadership. According to its own propaganda, it was shot through with traitors.
In 1918, the Bolsheviks got completely rolled and made a separate peace, even to the point of offering tribute. Stalin did so again.
Knowing what he did, Hitler was not insane to attack the Soviets, and came close enough to scoring a knockout blow that people still argue about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)
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Have a sweet New Year. Do some Tashlich since it sounds like you're near the ocean.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM
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Thank you, beckster, for the good wishes, and the very same to you and yours. My pack will be dumping a cr*p-load of sins into the canal next to our condo, and I hope the ducks and otters find them tasty.
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (5ayY3)
Indeed. If there was one flaw in the Founder's Plan it was that the Republic was to serve a Dutiful and Honorable Population.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (zRd05)
It's frightening.
Posted by: Random PJ
My neighbor related that his daughter was in an argument with an indian fellow student, who was insisting that the US was the most racist country in the world. Not only are we one of the least racist, this argument is coming from someone from a country that has thousands of castes, of which none are allowed to intermingle. It is maddening the disconnect.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)
Had to be a photograph, I'm thinking, based upon the speed of his reaction.
Posted by: Common Tater
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I forgot about that.
Very significant.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (vC80E)
"Yes" the footage will be valuable, but only because it will remind the *normal* people to go out and actually vote. it won't affect the behavior of the leftists.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)
yet despite all that, they have gone from being a majority party to a minority, to being locked out of 40 or so states, to only being able to win using massive corruption and fraud, to now not even being able to raise money for a campaign.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)
Reminds me of John 8 -- "They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."
Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (vbXSk)
"What else have they been lying about" is the default position at some point. And someone can start thinking for themselves, gauging the veracity of information. Seeking out primary documents instead of listening to some paid clown with an agenda.
On the other hand it is a huge mistake to sleep soundly in the knowledge that a majority of people will mature as they age, or have an epiphany, or anything of the sort. I think people tend to become more conservative as they age, but this isn't necessarily the way to bet considering the huge mind-fvckery operation that has been deployed in recent years. But I suspect the insanity has been so outrageous that it might have sown the seeds of its own destruction. Too fucking weird, and always fucking weird, on any given issue. It drives people away. This causes the left to become even more un-hinged. Are you hinged?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (2dVdu)
One would hope the assembled former presidents felt shame, but it’s not bloody likely.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (4KUe5)
I hope they tell us someday.
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (c1gcm)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (bX16E)
Funny how I saw zero hijabs in Kansas. When I mentioned to Salty how there seemed to be few Moslems of any stripe around, he nodded. "They keep a low profile. Too many possible gun owners."
I don't recall any in SW Indiana a year ago, either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (wzUl9)
If he doesn't DOW us FDR would have a hard time getting us into the war and sending massive aid to the Soviets...which means the USSR loses the war in '43.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
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Now do Hillary Clinton.
What I mean by that is that we've already witnessed that there is practically *zero* "baggage" attached to any liberals actions. Its the same old "they could abort a baby and kill a puppy on live tv and their supporters would still vote for them" adage.
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It's all double standards all the time. If Bill Clinton had had the foresight to close the border, the eneMedia would have said he was a visionary, protecting American jobs. But Donald Trump closed the border only because he's a racist.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:10 PM (5ayY3)
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Also during orientation she mentioned, Have you heard about the Richest man who ever lived that was from Africa and from Mali, that we only learn about NOW because racism. I started laughing when she mentioned that.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:12 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Yes, the whole world of college grads appears to be brainwashed. As for all immigrants coming to the US and whining about their lot here, how we just have not been nice enough to them to come here and get rich and cheat and steal, I am so not interested. I'm with B. Phetasy, I will never forgive. They meant to kill thousands more that day, even their fellow Muslims inside.
Posted by: Random PJ at September 11, 2026 05:13 PM (+jscL)
Funny how I saw zero hijabs in Kansas.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I advise against taking your next vacation in London or Paris.
In many parts of London," hijab" is the most revealing level of garment. You're more likely to see full burkas, which in some neighborhoods are more common than western clothes.
(I say this through personal observation, not simply reading about it j the Internet.)
Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)
Even in WWI, though, it took Germany and AH years to reach the point where the government collapsed and gave them the win. With all the issues in 1916 the Brusilov Offensive advanced hundreds of miles and nearly knocked Austria Hungary out of the war. All the things that cost them in WWI - poor roads and rails, inability to force Russia out quickly and having to man a huge front absorbing many troops were still there in WWII.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (uhVAy)
Bulg.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)
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It would be interesting to pull up the list of taxed secondary residences in NYC to see if those particular properties were left off the list.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske)
That was back in the 90s.
Now, it's pretty much the entire University.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:16 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (xcxpd)
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Sums it up quite well. What the leftie idiots don't know is that you always have to defeat Muslims militarily and deport the rest to be able to have a civilization and progress. This has to be done now and not in four hundred years.
Posted by: Decaf at September 11, 2026 05:17 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:17 PM (0U5gm)
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Makes you wonder why they'd "gift" the US President with a multi-million dollar jumbo jet.
It does need to be examined. At length.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (2Cry5)
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Jeb's was a Dear John letter from his midget wife.
Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (zRd05)
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (5ayY3)
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And use pumpernickel if you've got it on hand for the dark sins! Old joke......
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (kX27y)
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One of the meeting rooms in the university center at my former employer is called the Qatar Room. I don't know if it was called that before 2001. If so, it should have been renamed immediately on 9/12/01. If not, it should never have been named that afterward.
The fact it's still called that is one more reason I have lost all respect for the place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: DaveA at September 11, 2026 05:20 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (aH/pT)
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)
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Same here.
At some point after eating a lot of crap I realized "I am not like them."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ATFmn)
500,000 people in 9hrs...
https://tinyurl.com/47vcfa5k
Posted by: cmeat at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ncRE1)
Of course he does,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (hG5L0)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (AKptf)
"9/11 scarred our country in profound ways [which pleases me but I can't say it aloud], but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people [who are the real victims you haters!]."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)
I never understood how that works, listened to podcast's about it and they state that's why Garbage isn't picked up because you have to be of a certain caste to touch it,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:25 PM (ubCxQ)
Why? IDK, but the failure and closing of so many of the old churches and places of gathering and prayer seem to be involved, especially when they were largely white &/or biracial. There's almost no "old time Baptist," etc. learn scriptures (both Old and New Testament), the Ten Commandants, participation from the time kids are toddlers, the "age of reason," brotherhood & sisterhood, Do Unto Others, and so on. Catholic schools are few; the churches combined.
Younger residents have often quit more formal religion all together, some moved to Quakerism, and many to Universal Unitarianism. (Local churches are often being held together by Serbians and Croatians (more western PA) or Eritrean, Ethiopian and other African diaspora in Southwest and West Philadelphia and adjacent counties.
Urban (often Black) Baptist churches are diminishing as elders pass. There has been big growth in Islam as a prominent religion.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (V87Oy)
Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) are rooted in Protestant Christianity, but they are often open to and blended with other faiths like Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Paganism/nature religions.
Universal Unitarians are believers in personal experience, reason, and conscience as the best guides for spiritual truth. Like Quakers, congregations may include atheists, agnostics, Christians, Buddhists, Pagans, Humanists, and Jews who learn from one another.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 05:31 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:25 PM (ubCxQ)
Some areas group by race, some by imaginary class difference, the US pretty much tries to avoid both of these.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)
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Makes you wonder why they'd "gift" the US President with a multi-million dollar jumbo jet.
It does need to be examined. At length.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (2Cry5)
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Load it up with explosives and send it to the mullahs in Iran.
Posted by: Decaf at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (ZNpJk)
Nobody has forgotten 9/11.
I mean that.
Nobody has forgotten:
Not the people who thought it was abominable act of terrorism.
More importantly, not the people who thought it was a great victory for a certain group.
And, perhaps most importantly, not the people who thought it was something the US deserved on political grounds.
**NONE** of them have forgotten.
The problem is that the people in the first group persistently overlook the number of people in the other two groups and glossed or dismissed their existence from the beginning.
Worse, are the ones who made excuses for all the Truthers who might have otherwise been condemning certain factions because of that condemnation, giving them a place for years while handwaving their subversion.
Now they are shocked, shocked to discover Fifth Columnists and Infiltrators everywhere, usurping positions of power, subverting elections, corrupting education, driving the media, and more.
Nobody has forgotten.
Especially not the enemies who attacked us and the enemies within us.
Posted by: Sam at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (7jMef)
You misspelled “razed and scorched”.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (UWN7z)
Because his girlfriend dumped him for Gene Simmons
Posted by: hurricane567 at September 11, 2026 08:59 PM (+ayKE)
Where the hell is the Curtis LeMay we need?
Posted by: Hockey IS a major sport at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (wOBAx)
Hollywood: Shit or Garbage
I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.
Yes I know that makes me partially gay. But still. Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide.She's supposed to be a major movie star -- but she's acting like the most rancid, desperate OnlyFans e-girl. I know many of your are naturally skeptical and demand evidence for everything I say, so here is your precious evidence, offered solely to appease the people saying "Cite?"
The heartthrob and "Euphoria" star was looking to get everyone excited for the NFL season when she posed in her birthday suit with a variety of props that cover just enough to be legally distributed on airwaves. "Think you know sports?" Sweeney said in the ad for Novig, a prediction market company also partnered with the New York Mets. "Prove it." The camera then pans out to show that Sweeney appears to be fully nude, with only two footballs covering her chest. "Novig is just sports," Sweeney says. Among the riskiest shots, Sweeney sits atop a basketball hoop with a basketball on her finger tips and her hair falling over her breasts. "You can trade this sport," Sweeney says. "This sport too," she says while wearing soccer gear and a soccer ball held up by her feet. She then lies on a felt billiards table and quips: "You can't trade this. I just look good here." Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads; she's previously sold soap for Dr. Sasquatch, where the soap was infused with her bathwater.
While the UK legal system did not offer any information on the nature of the investigation, rumors of the actor's behavior had been rampant for years already. In 2021, Clarke even sued the Guardian for libel for its story on the rumors of his history of sexual assault, based on claims from more than 20 women. The actor sued, but during the trial, more than a dozen women testified against him and alleged that he sexually abused them, charges that he adamantly denied. Clarke lost the legal challenge and was ordered to pay the newspaper around $4 million in court costs.Next item: Inde Navarette exploded to the A list, or at least the B+ list, for her turn in Obsession. Jeff Sneider, meanwhile, is an internet "scooper." What's a scooper? It's someone who passes around rumors about upcoming movies, like who's being looked at for a role or what a plot points might be in it. In other words, it's a job for idiots. 80% of true tips are just planted leaks by the studio, which wants free advertising, so the "scooper" can take no credit for that. Meanwhile, most "scoops" are false, usually just some bullshit the "scooper" saw on Reddit (Doomcock gets accused of this) or, when there aren't any rumors to drive traffic, simply something the "scooper" made up entirely for clicks. Anyway, this oxygen thief wrote to Inde Navarette demanding her attention and demanding she give him content for his fake job, and she, or more likely her PR team, didn't respond. He was outraged that someone would blow-off an internet nobody dickbag and threatened her, telling her that he would begin reporting every nasty and sham rumor he heard about her unless she gives him the attention he deserves:
jeff sneider is such a loser man what the fuck am i watching pic.twitter.com/l94fVE8NQ3
— juan (@JuanEditzs) September 5, 2026
Jeff SneiderBut most of us aren't blackmailers.
@TheInSneider Sep 5 Tired of the noise so I'll delete and apologize, as per protocol. That way we can all move on. I am sorry to Ms. Navarrette, who was and will continue to be treated fairly, despite previous comments suggesting otherwise. She got swept up in a long-running feud. I will continue to battle Hollywood's gatekeepers and publish the truth about this industry, as I always strive to. But my ego got the best of me and I went overboard with my victory celebration. Having said that, the things I’ve seen written about me on this app over the past 24 hours from people who have never met me, spoken to me, subscribed to my newsletter, or watched my podcast, are absolutely crazy and I suggest some of you take a long, hard look in the mirror, because you're way worse than I could ever be.
I don't send execs death threats or anti-Semitic comments or any of the crazy shit I’ve been sent. This app is nuts, but I’ll never leave, because we deserve each other. You're stuck with me. And so is Hollywood. Have a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend. I'll use the holiday to reflect and maybe I'll return kinder and gentler. Let's hope you do the same…I've never before been scolded so much in what purports to be a "per protocol" (in other words, offered only under pressure to relieve the pressure) apology. Hollywood has made a movie about "To Catch a Predator" and its host Chris Hanson. It's called Primetime. They never contacted Hanson, ever. The only plausible explanation: The film is a hit piece against the guy catching predators to protect the poor, embarrassed child sex predators. No, really. One of the gay child sex predators the show exposed killed himself, and this new movie, featuring Robert Pattinson, attacks the entire mission of exposing predators based on one predator's cowardly decision to off himself.
Isn't it very odd how Hollywood both protects child sex predators and even attacks anyone exposing them? Hollywood is just Hell with good restaurants. And I'm done with Robert Pattinson, who I never cared for anyway. Speaking of Hollywood predictability: It's always when there's a Republican president when Hollywood puts out movies glorifying assassinations, civil wars, and uprisings. When there's a Democrat president, it's a scandal to even consider such material for theatrical exploitation. Well, Trump is on office, the left is gunning down executives and celebrating their assassins as folk heroes, and Hollywood decides now is the perfect time to celebrate the so-called Peasants' Revolt from around, I dunno, 1340? (Nope, 1381.) I'm assuming that's what this. Wat Tyler's rebelling over... well, taxation. But I doubt they'll make it about government taxation. They'll claim it was over forgiving student loans and child care.
The film apparently centers on the death of William Conrandt, who got caught up in a sting operated by Hansen's team. Conrandt never showed up for his meeting in the sting, however, and Hansen never confronted him, on camera or off. Police got warrants for Conrandt, a former assistant DA, who shot himself when police showed up, THR notes in a lengthy parenthetical added to the transcript of their interview with Hansen. That makes this framing for Primetime even more suspect, since (a) law enforcement conducts similar stings, and (b) Texas had been conducting a parallel operation at the time as well. When asked by THR whether Hansen regrets what happened with Conrandt, Hansen wonders what exactly he's supposed to regret:
We were completely transparent about what happened from the moments after it happened. This was no secret. It was unfortunate that somebody chose to take his life rather than face criminal consequences. You can draw your own conclusions as to why. They found child pornography on his computer. He had sexually explicit conversations with two different decoys posing as 13-year-old boys. I can't speak for the police, but they decided to arrest him, apparently concerned about the possible destruction of evidence. He chose to take his life rather than face the consequences. We reported what we knew the next day on the Today show and continued to be transparent throughout the story. There are certain things you can't control. Obviously, you don't want anybody taking their own life, but that was a decision made by that individual. They'll ramp it up in the film, I'm sure, and make it more dramatic than it really was. It was based upon an Esquire article that came out years ago that was a bit of a hit piece then, and apparently it's part of the narrative in the film.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman discuss ‘Practical Magic’ having a ‘queer’ legacy.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) September 10, 2026
“We’re representing a community of like-minded souls and it looks very different in the human body. But I love that there is an open door with this family. No judgement.” pic.twitter.com/XZma5w9CuE
* Actually, watching that video, I see that part of the problem was "duties" owed to the king and the lords. So it wasn't just a matter of money taxation, but required labor for the lords. Will the movie make the point, then, that it is evil to force one man to work for the profit of another? You know, like in socialism or communism? Doubt it!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (4KUe5)
Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
Partially?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 11, 2026 03:22 PM (t19vo)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:23 PM (4KUe5)
>>>Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
The part that ain't down with Garrett all the time.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (dK+Kv)
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He should have blamed it all on his alternate universe counterpart "Rickey."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)
meanwhile Pattison will just do any film at all apparently? he's a good actor with zero standards
and yes I just finally saw The Drama.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (j+aD2)
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Things I never in a gazillion years thought I'd read on AOS!!
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (AKptf)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (lNdj6)
On the other hand.... (hat tip ONT)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at September 11, 2026 03:25 PM (P9Ea3)
Same. But I can't blame her. She's what, 27 or 28? She's only got so much time, so she might as well bank as much bank as she can. It won't last forever.
The most surprising thing about her isn't that she's over-exposing herself. That's par for the course.
What's surprising is that she's at the height of her fame and draw power, and she chooses as a boyfriend a ... notorious casting-couch womanizer with a taste for barely legal women. And he's almost old enough to be her father.
But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:25 PM (iFTx/)
Hey, Jennifer! Deny your Oscar from Weinstein! That would get her attention. She also is very dependent on make up as, wow, girl, you homely without it.
I cannot stand plastic Kidman.
I now have to put myself together to swan into the reunion of women who have not taken care of themselves. I could arrive now and still look better than Lawrence.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (hzuYO)
see I kinda like him
but he's Nick Cage apparently, will do any role, and sometimes really chews the scenery up
good or bad actor ace? GOOD OR BAD?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (YZ0Fo)
But not so much that you wouldn't feature the pix in your post, I notice.👀
Posted by: mindful webworker - admiringly at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (B4Z5E)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (guGkK)
And who will be the lone black voice in the wilderness, to stand firm, and cry out, "Enough of this horseshit, all of you are gay incels".
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (ftCfU)
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I'm definitely in the wrong timeline
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Guys everywhere at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (2Ez/1)
And Sydney Sweeney is a gift to humanity.
Don't care if she's going overboard in her Miley Cyrus act.
She could bad mouth tacos, and I'd still do unnatural things to her.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (2dVdu)
I clicked on that video of her and thought it was Lindsay Lohan from her strung-out junkie days.
Jeez.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
*shrugs*
There'll never be a time when tits and ass can't move product.
Expect to see more risqué photos of Sweeney in the near future.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (JrHfD)
Over the top hilarious.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (dK+Kv)
so I want to cancel anyway and THAT really really pissed me off. but ok, maybe it was one asshat Irish dude? did Netflix make any statement after?
bc I would really like an excuse to cancel
but they have football so my husband doesn't wanna
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (ftCfU)
None of this gothy angsty punk shit. No mary sue tough girl nonsense. No "wahhh i have daddy issues so i'm gonna blow everybody" sad sacks larping at being a slut and then bitching about how every man she's ever blown betwixt a 7-11 and its dumpster isn't Clark tittyfucking Kent.
Just a hot chick being a bit slutty without any angle or irony.
It's downright refreshing, it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (Ot/FD)
Hollywood has no good restaurants except for Musso & Frank's Grill, which is really just coasting on a 100-year old reputation for being a Hollywood Restaurant.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (guGkK)
However, Pattinson is always reliably gonzo in his roles, so it’s probably entertaining. He seemed to enjoy his part in the Oddessey.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:29 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (pfXMo)
Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
Depends on which half I s'pose.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (viF8m)
But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
https://tinyurl.com/3n34959p
Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)
But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
https://tinyurl.com/3n34959p
Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)
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[Nodding sagaciously]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)
It is also antithetical to Christianity, Judaism, the family, the American way of life. It is one of the most corrupting agencies to America that exists.
You can thank libertine SCOTUS for the rectal detritus it constantly spews from its fetid mouth.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:32 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 03:32 PM (0U5gm)
This is the least worst of the discarded superhero alter-ego names, believe it or not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)
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I canceled Netflix over their support for that "Cuties" show and have never regretted my decision.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: Betty Crock Her at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)
I think we do need to get back to open rebellions over taxation.
If politicians were forced to ask themselves, "if I raise taxes will I have a full fledged war on my hands that puts my personal safety at risk?" I suspect we'd have far fewer taxes...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (ftCfU)
And superior genes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)
Nothing says "love" like a man with peso-nality!
Posted by: Boswell at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (j10i6)
Posted by: Tames Jalarico at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (mAj5s)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)
________________________
They announced the first four hosts for the new season of Saturday Night Live. It was two women I never heard of. Shane Gillis and then Inde Navarette...who I wouldn't have known, except they mentioned "Obesssion" (which I didn't see, and have no ambitition to do so). The musical guests...didn't recognize a single one.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Weasel at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Mama Cass's Ham Sandwich at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (cCXR+)
Also the media: We want male attention to a product? Here is a hot nekkid woman in our advertising.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)
Anyway, if i were a sexy gorgeous woman, I would probably pose naked for money, too.
Posted by: Ralph at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (8WZD4)
Ooops 53....one woman I never heard of, and a NY Knicks player. I'm sure that skit acting will be stellar.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
It's not easy to balance a spinning basketball like that.
Posted by: Wait, wut? at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ralph at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (8WZD4)
Don't get Ace all hot and bothered. Not that half. The OTHER gay half.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (dK+Kv)
If she was dressed like Ilsa I would not argue that point with her.
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (J4Dwc)
Its a pretty good movie too
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)
Still, gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)
But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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She's just another bitch who was initially presented as a thoughtful, maybe conservative woman.
_caveat emptor
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)
Its a pretty good movie too
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)
Sean Penn did that in all his movies.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)
Seriously. Ace has two wolves inside him. One is gay. The other one is also gay.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (ca8Qt)
The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.
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He should have blamed it all on his alternate universe counterpart "Rickey."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)
It's rather gratifying to note that one of Clarke's early roles was as a Roman soldier being chased by wolves in Neil Marshall's flick "Centurion". He's the fastest of the Romans on the run and he gets eaten by feral canines because one of the other Romans slices his Achilles tendon and leaves him to his fate.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (7lxe6)
Posted by: Azjaeger at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)
My caveats would definitely be emptor
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (ftCfU)
Its a pretty good movie too
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)
Sean Penn did that in all his movies.
But Pattinson was acting
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)
_caveat emptor
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)
I don't give a shit if she loves Walter Mondale and donates to PBS with a little letter saying "no, really, you can keep the tote bag, I have enough already".
The mob came for her. She told the mob to fuck of. The mob fucked off.
For that, she can stay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (Ot/FD)
New hotness: I want to dunk my [censored] in that net
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
I mean, just look at those elbows.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)
Seriously. Ace has two wolves inside him. One is gay. The other one is also gay.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (ca8Qt)
Lol. Damn. *golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)
Now did they get any of the actual b-ball players to pose in a similar fashion? Uh...because I love sports unlike you people. I've never seen a better football player then LeBron, that guy gets a homerun like every team he gets the puck.
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Whores have their place in society, so do actors.
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)
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No Street Fighter? I'm getting mildly pumped for that. Maybe cuz nothing else interesting seems to be on the horizon. If certain people say Doomsday is good, maybe. But pretty over all that...
Posted by: bearski at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (Bhsk7)
Super Big Sweaterpuppies
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)
Around here SBS is Spenard Builder's Supply. But YMMV.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
I watched Batman Forever last night. First time I've seen it in yeeeeeeeaaaaars!
Pretty gay, but not overly gay. Ace would love it.
Seriously though, as retarded as it is it's pretty fun. Jim Carrey just plays The Riddler as Ace Ventura. Tommy Lee Jones gabs it up. Zero chemistry between Val Kilmer and Nicole Kidman. And the movie is super colorful. I remember when it came out in theaters, man, it looked great on the big screen. Garish colors all over the place, goofy action...was pretty entertaining. The Blu-ray isn't *quite* as good, sadly.
Just to show the kind of thick headed dope I was...am...I was surprised to learn Joel Schumacher was gay. Many years later. Heh...who knew?
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (dpXJq)
During a presser Garfield stated that he wanted billionaires to be scared shitless by his movie or something to that effect. Another case of lefty multimillionaires calling out billionaires for more lefty creds.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:45 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)
Should probably send out a few wellness checks, just in case.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: one hour sober at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (J4Dwc)
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)
Please, we prefer the term Registered Companion.
Posted by: Inara Serra at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Made all sorts of promises and then broke them. Yes, he was a sneaky bastard.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)
I'm a morning guy, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (dpXJq)
The mob came for her. She told the mob to fuck of. The mob fucked off.
Yeah, I'm a little tired of this whole "if you ever said something positive about someone it means you worship them and derive your entire value system from what they say". It wasn't true for Milo or Tucker or the Bulwark guys and it sure as fuck isn't for Sydney Sweeney.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)
That boy needs a beer and another look at that Sweeney lady.
Posted by: Miklos finds beer an effective prophylactic against gayness at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (4RYRd)
During the middle ages you didn't have "the rich" because if you generated enough money the nobles would steal it from you.
Which is the same power our government elites want to have
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (Ntshk)
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)
Please, we prefer the term Registered Companion.
Posted by: Inara Serra at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (wVcYX)
Service animal is also acceptable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)
Are you really a star if your major credit is from an HBO series?
Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (rJ48h)
As much as I like Syd, let's face facts. She became A Thing because of her tits practically falling out of a red dress that she wore to some Hollywood event. Not saying I disapprove, just being honest.
Plus, she restores old cars for fun. Not "pays someone to restore her Bronco", she likes to get her hands dirty herself.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (7lxe6)
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As we live it, I have to say "First they came for" was a lie from jump. I always felt it was "off" somehow but didn't know how.
Seeing how it's going, they didn't say "nothing". On the contrary. They said... GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)
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That's one reason why they went to income withholding 85 years ago. Temporarily, of course.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (2dVdu)
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (dpXJq)
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My go-to is that they are all gay. It's gotten to the point where I'm surprised if they're not gay.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
Hard to blame her.
I just wish she would stop texting me begging for sex. I'm married and it's unseemly.
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (oqH4h)
For that, she can stay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Crackers in bed Rule-
APPLIED
Posted by: Justice of the Piece Miklos at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)
If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Hatemonger - "Boobies...are EVIL! You mustn't look at boobies!".
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Fuck off.
Posted by: Mike Piazza at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (ftCfU)
Got it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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How much daylight do you get up there in September?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)
Seeing how it's going, they didn't say "nothing". On the contrary. They said... GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (ftCfU)
First they came for the communists but I said nothing because I'm not a communist.
Then they can for the socialists but I said nothing because I'm not a socialist.
Then things got a lot better. Now everyone is happy. Fuck the communists. Fuck the socialists.
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (dpXJq)
Politics, Politics, Politics
Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera wasn’t exaggerating when he called this year’s lineup “the most political ever.” The 83rd edition was packed with films about hot-button issues like right-wing media barons (“Ink”
, right-wing trolls (“Musk”, conflict in the Middle East (“NAZA” and ICE (“They’re Here”.
Offscreen, it’s become de rigueur to probe actors and directors at film festivals about the state of the world — a conversation that escalated at Berlin after jury president Wim Wenders said filmmakers should “stay out of politics.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is presiding over the Venice jury, disagrees. At the jury press conference, she called movies “fundamentally, unavoidably political” and challenged people to “hear stories about the most corrupt, most perverse people.” Her reasoning? “It opens up the opportunity to find empathy.”
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (Sco7b)
Reminded me of something...Are you still Rollerblading?
Posted by: Gunslinger at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (D2d9O)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)
Gee, that's a real shame, innit?
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (pfXMo)
Record-Breaking Embrace
Audiences, for their part, seem just fine with politics at the forefront. “Naza,” a devastating exposé about the systems behind the Israeli military’s remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, elicited the longest standing ovation in film festival history. (Or, at least since journalists began reporting on the trend.)
The documentary was met with 24.5 minutes of applause, surpassing the ovation for last year’s Gaza-set drama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and that of Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” at Cannes in 2006, both of which clocked in at 22 minutes. Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are two of the four filmmakers behind 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land.” Given the warm reception for and timeliness of “NAZA,” will the duo find themselves back in the awards conversation?
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
I look upon your words and see that they are most wise.
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (dpXJq)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (Ntshk)
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Dolly Parton capitalized on her rack until her dying day and I've never seen anyone talk shit about her.
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (dK+Kv)
For the Jewish new year, a Portland Torah study group asks ‘queer’ questions of ancient texts
At congregation Shir Tikvah, participants reexamine the Torah through a queer lens — exploring gender, love, and belonging.
These are the only kinds of Jews acceptable to Oregon "progressives" these days.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Fuck off.
Posted by: Mike Piazza
Next they'll come after the y people
Posted by: Coach Myklos Krzyzewski-bearer of a pesky congenital Y at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (4RYRd)
I have no idea what Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are talking about.
And I repeat: I eagerly look forward to the day when this is all AI. No more zillionaire celebrities lecturing us on our consumerism while they flaunt their bling, no more schoolmarm creative execs plotting to make us trans-tolerant, and sorry to say, but no more unionized drivers, grips, cameramen, the whole bit, perpetuating the notion that workers are entitled to some guaranteed income level.
Actors and set designers and photographers who are truly talented should start figuring out NOW how to use AI to their advantage instead of fighting it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (mmrXZ)
If we are going to eat the rich let's start with him
Posted by: 18-1
After Garfield made the comment about billionaires being scared shitless by his movie Spencer Pratt asked which billionaires he was referring to. The ones who green light his movies and sign his paychecks? I doubt he got an answer.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (lJ0H4)
Audiences, for their part, seem just fine with politics at the forefront. “Naza,” a devastating exposé about the systems behind the Israeli military’s remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, elicited the longest standing ovation in film festival history. (Or, at least since journalists began reporting on the trend.)... Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are two of the four filmmakers behind 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land.” Given the warm reception for and timeliness of “NAZA,
Presuming their is a future one of the things people will be very confused by is how it became normal for people to make movies about their country fighting a war and presenting it as a war crime
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)
Currently sun's up at 7:00 am, sets around 9:00. Changes about six minutes a day.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (Sco7b)
The loser whiny bitch whose big breakout movie that she directed cost 90 million to make and made only 24 million worldwide. THAT Maggie Gyllenhaal? Got it.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (ZgwKJ)
then complain about how she was sexualized and no one respected her for her mind once she's post wall
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (pfXMo)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)
That's the most predictable thing I've ever heard about Portland. They'll need to step it up to match the socialist conference where the woman said "the more dysgenic, the better".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)
Other than Garfield, who is about as appealing as the hotel sheets after Andrew Gillum and his junkie rentboy got done with them, I never heard of any of these people.
The movie itself looks like those same sheets.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)
You want a challenge, try making the koran not gay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ot/FD)
Yes she got her start because of her looks, but unlike a lot of her peers she can pretend to be someone other then herself on screen...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (oqH4h)
She was seriously sassy about it. But then, it's not like anyone could just ignore them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)
Have you met Ace and Garrett? You guys should get along great.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
I'll bet you wanna see LeBron hanging a ball or two in that hoop.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)
Grandma, wheels, etc
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (ftCfU)
Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
But still.
- ace
Garrett knows you're oogling females, right?
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (hvU9X)
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She stands out more in a world that is determined to make Wolverine look like a pussified butt fucked soy boy and women like square jawed butched up linebackers
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:58 PM (fapp/)
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:58 PM (pfXMo)
then complain about how she was sexualized and no one respected her for her mind once she's post wall
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)
I think Syd is a bit more intelligent than that. She is in on the joke.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: 18-1
They got better
Posted by: Will Geer lookalike at table 7 at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (4RYRd)
1h
George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.
The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (vC80E)
Paul Greengrass also wrote United 93 and persuaded Universal to make it. I might like him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (MWfyi)
I know what the difference is between shit and garbage IRL. What do the two terms mean in respect to Hollywood?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 04:00 PM (JrHfD)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)
A ScarJo - who pulled the boobies up behind her.
I don't see Sweeney going that direction. Too subversive.
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:00 PM (ftCfU)
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Leave it to ZH to put a bad spin on a good thing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (Ntshk)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
1h
George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.
The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (vC80E)
In retrospect, that seems pretty damning.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Sandra Bullock who is decent looking and an ok comedic actress
Nicole Kidman who was beautiful and can act
Maisie Williams who looks like a slightly retard teenaged boy and has the acting skills of one.
It is no wonder someone like Sweeney stands out if you want to cast a role that is under 40...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)
The Dark Knight, like most of Nolan's fare, hasn't really aged well. But a scene in that movie that sticks out for all the wrong reason is when Joker crashes Harvey Dent's party and comes on to Gyllenhaal's character, even empathizing that "and you (her) are *beautiful*".
Uh, yeah, my dood. *sure*.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: that guy at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (4RYRd)
I know what the difference is between shit and garbage IRL. What do the two terms mean in respect to Hollywood?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's a way to take a turd apart, then analyze the various parts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
No. That's icky.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (w6EFb)
Looks like someone needs Big Ben to explain the joke to them.
Posted by: The Joker at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: Payday Miklos at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ntshk)
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For sure. You gotta respect the game. I think it's actually endearing when a good-looking woman with some obvious assets is in on the joke and doesn't try to act indignant and say say MY EYES ARE UP HERE for decades while obviously cashing in on her physical attributes.
Dolly, Kate Upton, Sydney, Paige Spiranac, etc. They all get it, men are what we are lol. Might as well have fun with it.
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (oqH4h)
There's a long queue.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)
Sechs? That's what happens when a man and a woman *really* love each other...and it involves falling off a bed?
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: Meanwhile... at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (2Ez/1)
No. That's icky.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Joking aside, she may as capitalize now while she can. But Ace makes a point, it stops being shocking, therefor talked about, when ever other ad is your boobs.
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (w6EFb)
Here's a true scientist.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (dK+Kv)
Apparently, Naza's great expose is that prior to October 7th, the Israelis would not target anyone if any nearby bystanders would be hurt, which is why Sinwar always surrounded himself with little kids when he went out in public.
After October 7th, Israel understandably relaxed the ROE, so taking out family members was deemed to be acceptable collateral damage when killing a high-value target.
A couple of days ago, pro-Pali social media was screaming that the Israelis had killed a cute young girl, while failing to mention that she was the daughter of Sinwar's chief bodyguard.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (aD4fx)
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Ill never forgive this chimpy bitch fucknut for making me defend his worthless chimpy bitch ass for years, only to finally realize at the end what a petulant little chimpy bitch ass this wanna be texan pissbag really was
get off my lawn
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (fapp/)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)
Mammoth? Well-developed, yes, but hardly mammoth-sized. Your scale needs recalibrating.
Posted by: Persephanii, HoneyBeeBby, Morgan Lanexo at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:05 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
Yeah, but Ace is gay, so what does he know.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (dK+Kv)
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Yeah if her sex appeal got her riches its a bit gay to suddenly turn around and complain about it. STFU and enjoy your blessings, you insufferable twat twinkie
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (fapp/)
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Yesterday it was the Iranians, today it's the rest of our enemies.
It seems that the co-conspirator with all our enemies is Sam Altman's, Claude.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
Again, this is like saying Jordan's dunks are getting old. Where are you people coming up with this stuff!?
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: Persephanii, HoneyBeeBby, Morgan Lanexo at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM
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Yeah, mammoth sized ones usually have a country's flag posted on the summit, and there are usually frozen dead people all around the areola.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone
Pics
Posted by: Miklos notes that phones have cameras at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (oqH4h)
But here cosmicbook dot news
Star Trek’s Robert Picardo Blames Elon Musk, Trump For Starfleet Academy Cancellation
I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)
I might even go see Practical Magic II if it's not too man-hating. Remember, in the first film, the "welcoming" family bumped off a man -- I forget the motivation, but he was certainly painted as a monster.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ftCfU)
Sure, the U.S. landed on the moon, invented nuclear weapons and energy, made transistors cheap and ubiquitous, and helped with two world wars and contained and defeated communism. But what else has it accomplished?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (dK+Kv)
Brokeback Mountain is being remade this time starring Margot Robbie and Emma Watson.
On one hand I'm angry that Hollywood can't come up with anything original except swapping sexes.
On the other hand: lotion
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (Gqar8)
I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.
Most of the women I talk to either like to watch:
1) Explicitly Christian media
2) Serial killer true crime stories
Note, no Sci Fi, no superheros,none of the other stuff Hollywood is now trying to sell to women
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)
......
Sure, if by 'child care' you mean strangulation.
Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026
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NOW? They've been doing it for decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (wzUl9)
Teh Ewok figured out how to keep the Horde happy, and occupied while he went out to see "Rent" for the 12th time.
Write a post about Syd Sweeney and grab some salacious photos of her.
Put it up on AoS
Sing along with "Everyone Has AIDS!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (7lxe6)
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I used to like this guy and his portrayal as the abrasive EMH doctor in Voyager, I remember him from the 80s move Explorers
Why must all my childhood icons grow up to be rancid old leftist shitbags or retconned into being homos or troons
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (fapp/)
US Officials Confirm Saudi East-West Pipeline Attacked By Drones, Badly Damaged
-- An early analysis found that pump stations, which are located next to the pipeline itself, were hit, one of the US officials said. A satellite image taken Friday appears to show extensive fire damage at one pumping station, and an image of a different pumping station, taken Thursday, showed a small fire sending up plumes of thick, black smoke._CNN
There was much chatter last night concerning Houthis aided by IRGC attacking Bab Al-Mandab area.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (vC80E)
On one hand I'm angry that Hollywood can't come up with anything original except swapping sexes.
On the other hand: lotion
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026
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Two girls, one hot and one cute? Winnah
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
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First and last name together, or just last name?
Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)
Posted by: SMOD at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (g57eb)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Lt. Cdr. Spock at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Most of the women I talk to either like to watch:
1) Explicitly Christian media
2) Serial killer true crime stories
Note, no Sci Fi, no superheros,none of the other stuff Hollywood is now trying to sell to women
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)
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A surprising number of girls like horror. Like real gory horror. Odd but true.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
You might want to read the review in the NY Post first. Gave it one star.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (lJ0H4)
If we are going to eat the rich let's start with him
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)
$16M???
That's pretty puny.
That sort makes Andrew Garfield a lame appetizer.
Like Coconut Shrimp on a toothpick.
One Coconut Shrimp on a toothpick.
For a real Eat the Rich Cannibal Feast, you'd need someone, at least, like Steven Spielberg just to get a decent soup course.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
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First and last name together, or just last name?
Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)
Don't push it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Post-woke: Sydney Sweeney.
This isn't woke turning everything to sh*t. But def not better...
Posted by: bearski at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (vC80E)
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Trump's top immigration official claims an internal investigation found that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'married her brother' and could be facing deportation.
'We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. 'We know he lives now in London.'
He was speaking about the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi. Both are originally from Somalia.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (kX27y)
Now you know
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (N2HNb)
A surprising number of girls like horror. Like real gory horror. Odd but true.
Watching horror movies with your wife/gf is all fun and games until she wakes you up at 4 AM because she had a nightmare...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Now see?
Sometimes people do ask the right questions
Posted by: The Romans (and them Greek Homos) at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (4RYRd)
Posted by: Zardoz at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)
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He was good in China Beach. But no one remembers because Dana Delaney.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)
First and last.
Posted by: Moon Unit at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Well, we invented the pay to win style of video game, internet pron, and Karen Gillian using a sexy dance fighting style in a video game movie so...mixed bag you know?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM
And YOU were the villian...
Posted by: Ask Me How I Know at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (2Ez/1)
I will look, however.
Posted by: Unkaren at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (wBxGS)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Oh I remember him. He played the abrasive surgeon.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (tg5bM)
Posted by: And SpongeBob at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1)
Pre-woke: Kelly Brook.
Post-woke: Sydney Sweeney.
This isn't woke turning everything to sh*t. But def not better...
Posted by: bearski
Kelly LeBrock > Kelly Brook > Sydney Sweeny
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (hvU9X)
Jennifer Lawrence' best - Winter's Bone when she was 18. What was remarkable about the movie, too, was casting local Ozark residents alongside a small core of professional actors like the talented John Hawkes.
Can't stand Nicole Kidman before or now. Her possible best, To Die For Back in 1995. She's looking for another man or something. (Clarifying she marries the odd. Birds of a feather.)
Sandra Bullock cute as America's Darling years ago. Her children (adopted, adorable) are growing up & her partner has died. I guess if Jamie Lee Curtis can keep reappearing as an unbalanced motherly figure, there's room for Bullock...just not with Kidman. That's just way too much nowadays.
Yeah, will watch another Godzilla again. And that's about it that's current.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Now see?
Sometimes people do ask the right questions
Posted by: The Romans (and them Greek Homos) at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (4RYRd)
But what have the Romans ever done for us?
Posted by: Reggie, People's Front of Judea at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (wVcYX)
Roberta Wohlstetter addressed this in 1962 because there were similar conspiracy theories that the United States had deliberately allowed the Pearl Harbor attack, based on the fact that there were some indications that the Japanese were interested in Pearl Harbor prior to the attack.
The problem is that intelligence agencies have to cope with a flood of information of varying degrees of reliability and try to make sense of it all, and so pulling out a document or two out of that flood and say that this was a smoking gun that the agency should have acted on ignores the fundamental problems with intelligence work.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (aD4fx)
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Very pretty = out of my league
Sidney = it could happen
Posted by: Young Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: M. Gaga at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (3tlbi)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)
That's because she isn't. If you want pretty, I suggest Alexa Davalos, and, of course, Sophie Marceau.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)
...
Mamdani Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Hijacker
buff.ly/Fqnok61
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (vC80E)
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Wow so he was already typecast as an insufferable twatty medical professional by the time he played the EMH on Voyager
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (fapp/)
The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.
https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (gMz7B)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (YwEeS)
I think her best movie, by far, is To Die For.
Great cast and acting. Creepy but funny.
Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (ZdaMQ
The surprising twist......
It's each girl and her horse!
Go Hollywood!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (Sco7b)
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (NtVYv)
The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.
https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (gMz7B)
Of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be. Was candy passed out? Was their ululating?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (Gqar8)
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She's just pretty enough that you dont have to avert your eyes while looking at the shiny wagshambas
for me pretty is Zooey Deschanel in her prime (though even today she looks good)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (fapp/)
(I admit to some bias in her favor, having testosterone in my veins)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (oPFtC)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026
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Absolutely.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)
Terry Liu, the Chinese national arrested this week in Maine, has been charged with illegally modifying the hardware of Customs and Border Patrol computers at the Maine-Canada border.
Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (vC80E)
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (ftCfU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (N2HNb)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (NtVYv)
There will be a time when hers doesn't. Make bank now.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)
TBH I don't get it.
Sure Sweeney's pictures catch my eye but why would I buy a service or product because they have a pretty girl in their ads?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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You might want to read the review in the NY Post first. Gave it one star.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026
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Oh, I'll do my research first.
Did the NYPost like the original film?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)
Speaking of the Jewish New Year, this will be the year 5787. That's Anno Mundi, the Year of the World.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (w6EFb)
They'll all be old hags warbling out protest songs for decrepit AWFL millennial women at a #NoBarrons 2056 rally, in practically the blink of an eye.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (BI5O2)
Plus, she restores old cars for fun. Not "pays someone to restore her Bronco", she likes to get her hands dirty herself.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (7lxe6)
After being muffled up in shapeless clothes in a terrible movie she decided to take some steps in career salvation other than 'attack the audience'. This shows more brains than 90 percent of the hollywood crowd.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)
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Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026
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Going by the way she's been portrayed in classical art and since, she could use a diet and some gym time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)
Avoid while operating heavy machinery.
Posted by: LateforNaptime at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (sg4Q3)
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Posted by: Bob at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (8fcNE)
get off my lawn
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP
I miss Hugo the Chavez.
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Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)